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The first lady of Hollywood, a biography of Louella Parsons, Samantha Barbas

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The first lady of Hollywood, a biography of Louella Parsons, Samantha Barbas
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-408) and index
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individual biography
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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illustrationsportraits
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The first lady of Hollywood
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Samantha Barbas
Review
"Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era, her lifelong alliance with her employer, William Randolph Hearst, and her complex and turbulent relationships with such noted stars, directors, and studio executives as Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Louis B. Mayer, Ronald Reagan, and Frank Sinatra - as well as her rival columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell. Loved by fans for her "just folks," small-town image, Parsons became notorious within the film industry for her involvement in the suppression of the 1941 film Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail in service of Hearst's political and personal agendas
Sub title
a biography of Louella Parsons
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