By Samantha Barbas
ISBN-10: 0520242130
ISBN-13: 9780520242135
ISBN-10: 1423717325
ISBN-13: 9781423717324
Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst loved her. among 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons used to be America's optimal motion picture gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of greater than 40 million readers. this primary full-length biography of Parsons tells the tale of her reign over Hollywood in the course of the studio period, her lifelong alliance together with her corporation, William Randolph Hearst, and her complicated and turbulent relationships with such famous stars, administrators, and studio executives as Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Louis B. Mayer, Ronald Reagan, and Frank Sinatra—as good as her rival columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell. enjoyed via lovers for her "just folks," small-town photograph, Parsons grew to become infamous in the movie for her involvement within the suppression of the 1941 movie Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail within the provider of Hearst's political and private agendas. As she lines Parsons's existence and profession, Samantha Barbas situates Parsons's reports within the broader trajectory of Hollywood background, charting the increase of the superstar method and the complicated interactions of exposure, journalism, and movie-making. Engagingly written and punctiliously researched, The First woman of Hollywood is either an engrossing chronicle of 1 of the main robust ladies in American journalism and picture and a penetrating research of megastar tradition and Hollywood strength politics.
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She bought and read the fan magazines, developed crushes on popular stars, and went to the movies almost nightly. Reviving her long-dormant interest in e s s a n ay 31 writing, she also tried her hand at scenarios. She wrote dozens of short scripts, which she sent to a few Chicago film studios, and received dozens of rejections. But she enjoyed the work and was intrigued by the cash prizes, so she persisted. She was determined to see her work on the screen, even if it took years. Little did she know that her encounter with the film industry would come much sooner.
41 During lunch hours, members of the company, many still in costume— “queerly garbed figures, some of them old and wrinkled and grey-haired, some of them young and gay and vigorous,” wrote the film trade journal Motography—trouped down to the corner of Broadway and Winona for a working lunch at the Witt Food Emporium. “Jokes and gags are bandied about, this player is joshed and that one praised . . 43 Life and work were one as Louella and her Essanay colleagues immersed themselves in each others’ lives and in the movies.
4 In response, the New York Daily News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson set down a rule that would be adopted by most major metropolitan newspapers: “no private scandal or private love affairs” were to be reported unless they came to trial in a divorce action, thus becoming part of the public record. Yet sensationalistic pieces, particularly about theater stars, often made the press. the column 45 Georgia Cayvan, one of America’s popular leading ladies of the 1890s, was named by a New York paper as the other woman in an 1896 divorce case.
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