By Samantha Barbas
Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst loved her. among 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was once America's ideal 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 throughout the studio period, her lifelong alliance together with her agency, 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 by means of enthusiasts for her "just folks," small-town snapshot, Parsons turned infamous in the movie for her involvement within the suppression of the 1941 movie Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail within the carrier of Hearst's political and private agendas. As she lines Parsons's existence and profession, Samantha Barbas situates Parsons's stories within the broader trajectory of Hollywood background, charting the increase of the superstar approach and the advanced interactions of exposure, journalism, and movie-making. Engagingly written and punctiliously researched, The First girl of Hollywood is either an engrossing chronicle of 1 of the main robust girls in American journalism and movie and a penetrating research of megastar tradition and Hollywood strength politics.
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He asked. “Married! ” Helen screamed over the line before hanging up. 64 Helen then called the Telegraph editor and demanded a retraction of the story, which eventually appeared in early February 1915. “Some weeks ago the Chicago papers carried stories of the marriage of Miss Louella O. Parsons to Jack Murray McCaffrey. The articles were copied in the Dixon papers and from their tone led one to believe the wedding had been rather an elopement, but such was not the case,” the Telegraph lied. “The fact that Mrs.
Louella “made a lot more money than he did,” recalled a friend from Chicago. ”66 There were also disputes about Louella’s friends. ” But McCaffrey felt uncomfortable around Louella’s movie star friends and thought them a bunch of pretentious snobs. ” As winter turned to spring and spring to summer, the truth about Jack McCaffrey became clear. Though he was good-hearted and genuinely in love with Louella, and though he grew to care deeply for Harriet and even warmed up to Helen over time, he was slow, relaxed, quiet, and unambitious.
18 The job turned out to be a godsend. The generous income of twenty dollars a week enabled Louella and Harriet to move to an apartment on Magnolia Street, not far from the Argyle Street studio. Before long, Louella was saving a little each week and building a bank account; she was also reestablishing the emotional confidence she had lost in Burlington. She found her work creative and engaging, was thrilled by her position of authority, and for the first time in years, felt part of an intimate community.