The First Lady of Hollywood
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38. Steele, Ingrid Bergman, 2,62-63-
39. TL, 6r.
40. TL, 59-60.
41- "Hollywood Sees Hoax in Reports of Bergman Baby," LAT, Dec. 13, 1949, 2-
42. TL, 6o.
43. Hedda Hopper, From under My Hat (Garden City: Doubleday, 1952), 242.
44. Max Lerner, New York Post, Dec. 15, 1949, LOP Scrapbook #48, Louella Parsons Collection, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California (hereafter AMPAS).
45. Editorial, LAT, Dec. 15, 1949-
46. "Act of God," Time, Dec. 26, 1949, 51-
47. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Feb. 6, 1950, 2-
48- "Rambling Reporter," HR, Feb. 10, 1950, 2-
49. Anita Loos, The Gay Illiterate, manuscript, in author's possession.
50. TL, 62.
51. "Many Exhibs Defer," Variety (hereafter V), Feb. 8, 1950, 1.
52. Feeley, "Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 287.
53. Herb Stinson, "Louella Parsons," The Mirror, May 7, 1953, Louella Parsons Clipping File, AMPAS.
54. Kobal, People Will Talk, 472.
55• "LOP's Big Take on Clark Gable Book," HR, Feb. 27,1950, 4.
56. "Hollywood Inside," Daily Variety (hereafter DV), Dec. 25, 1949, 2-
57. DV, Dec. 21, 1949, 2.
58. LAE, Mar. 14,
59. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Apr. 11, 1950, 2-
6o. Isabella Taves, "Louella Parsons," Look, Oct. 10, 195o, 6o.
61. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Feb. 5, 1950, 2-
6z. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Dec. i9, 1950, 2-
63- "Rambling Reporter," HR, Dec. z8, 1950, 2-
64- "Rambling Reporter," HR, Mar. 5, 1951, 2.
65. Ester Williams with Digby Diehl, The Million Dollar Mermaid (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999), ,8o.
66. Kobal, People Will Talk, 6o6.
67. Note, July 11, 1951, Louella Parsons File, Warner Brothers Collection, University of Southern California; "Hollywood Inside," DV, June 19, 1951, 2; Rudy Behlmer, Hollywood's Hollywood.- The Movies about the Movies (Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1976), 307.
68. Shirley Temple Black, Child Star (New York: McGraw Hill, 1988), 469.
69. "Dr. Martin Is Dead, Fox Film Official," NYT, June 25, 1951,19•
70. Ehrlich, interview by George Eells, n.d., George Eells Collection, Arizona State University (hereafter Eells Collection, ASU).
71. Hoover to LOP, June 25, 1951, Louella Parsons File, U.S. Department of justice (hereafter LOP File, DOJ).
72. LOP to Hoover, July 4, 1951, LOP File, DOJ.
73. "Dr. Harry Martin Claimed by Death," June 25, 1951, Louella Parsons Clipping File, AMPAS.
74. "5oo at Last Rites of Harry Martin," Louella Parsons Clipping File, AMPAS.
75. "Dr. Martin Leaves Estate to Widow Louella Parsons," LAE, July 17, 1951, Louella Parsons Clipping File, AMPAS.
76. "Hollywood Inside," DV, July 3, 1951, 2-
77. Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, Life with the Lyons (London: Odhams,1953),178.
78. "Just for Variety," DV, July 17, 1951, 2-
79. "Just for Variety," DV, Aug. 7, 1951, 2-
8o. W. A. Swanberg, Citizen Hearst (New York: Scribner's 1961), 520-
81. "Just for Variety," DV, Aug. 15, 1951, 2-
82,. Lawrence Davies, "150o at Cathedral for Hearst Service," NYT, Aug. 18, 1951, II.
83. David Nasaw, The Chief The Life of William Randolph Hearst (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, zooo), boo.
84. Fred Lawrence Guiles, Marion Davies (New York: Bantam, 1973), 423-
85. Lindsay Chaney and Michael Cieply, The Hearsts: Family and Empire-the Later Years (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), 136.
86. Hoover to Louella, March 25, 1960, LOP File, DOJ; Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, z93o z96o (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 376.
87. Ceplair and England, Inquisition in Hollywood, 372.
88. Teletype, Apr. 21, 1951, LOP File, DOJ.
89. LAE, May 6,1951; Daniel Leab, I Was a Communist for the FBI.- The Unhappy Life and Times ofMatt Cvetic (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, zooo).
9o. Nichols to Tolson, Nov. 20, 1950-
91. Jones to Nicholson, Sept. 15, 1951, LOP File, DOJ.
92. SAC Hood to Hoover, Jan. 27, 1949.
93, Cynthia Baron, "As Red as a Burlesque Queen's Garters: Cold War Politics and the Actors' Lab in Hollywood," in Headline Hollywood, ed. Adrienne McLean and David Cook (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, zoos), 143-6o.
94. "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," LAT, July 19,1948.
95. Stefan Kanfer, A journal ofthe Plague Years (New York: Atheneum, 1983), 126.
96. Agenda for MPA General Membership Meeting, Mar. 22, 1951, American Legion File, Hedda Hopper Collection, AMPAS.
97. Kanfer, A Journal ofthe Plague Years, 130.
98. "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," LAT, Mar. z6, 1951.
99. David McClure, interview by George Eells, n.d. Eells Collection, ASU.
100. Nichols to Tolson, Apr. 17, 1952, Hedda Hopper file, U.S. Department of Justice.
ioi. Anthony Slide, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 2, Hedda Hopper Clipping File, AMPAS.
102. Hopper to McCarthy, Dec. 7, 1953, McCarthy Files, Hedda Hopper Collection, AMPAS.
103. "Hedda Hopper," LAT, May 21, 1951, 8.
104. Slide, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 2.
105. "A Valiant Fighter," Hollywood Citizen News, Apr. 26, 1951, Hedda Hopper Clipping File, AMPAS.
106. "Hollywood Inside," DV, Apr. 25, 1951, z; Hedda Hopper, with James Brough, The Whole Truth and Nothing But (New York: Doubleday, 1962), z8o.
107. "Hedda Won't Testify at Commie Hearings," V, Sept. 24, 1951, Hedda Hopper Clipping File, AMPAS.
108. "Hedda Hissed at ANTA Antics," V, May 9, 1951, 2.
io9. V, Nov. 8, 1953•
110. Slide, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 3.
111. Letter to the editor, American Legion Magazine, July 1960, American Legion File, Hedda Hopper Clipping file, AMPAS.
SIXTEEN. THE END OF AN ERA
i. Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV Television and the Family Ideal in the Postwar Period (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 32-
z. Los Angeles Examiner (hereafter LAE), Sept. 9, 1951-
3. Ronald Davis, The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood's Big Studio System (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press), 372.
4- "ABC Going into TV Film Production on Coast, Lolly Parsons to Tee Off," Variety (hereafter V), Mar. 7, 1951, 1.
5. "Louella Parsons TV Yen Prompts Split with Jergens," V, Oct. 4,1951,1•
6. "Louella Parsons Concludes 21 Years in Radio, Turns to TV," LAE Dec. 23, 1951.
7. "Rambling Reporter," Hollywood Reporter (hereafter HR), Mar. 25, 1952, 2.
8. "The Truth about My Feuds," Modern Screen, May 1951, in The Best ofModern Screen, ed. Mark Bego (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986),184.
9. LOP to Cosmopolitan editors, Sept. 24, 1952, Box 2, Louella Parsons Collection, Cinema Television Library, University of Southern California (hereafter USC).
io. "Personality," Time, Aug. 25, 1952, 36.
ii. Herb Stinson, "Louella Parsons," New York Mirror, May 7, 1953, Louella Parsons Clipping File, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California (hereafter AMPAS).
iz. Stinson, "Louella Parsons"; Columbus (GA) Ledger, Nov. 15, 1954, LOP Scrapbook #58, Louella Parsons Collection, AMPAS.
13. Ezra Goodman, "Accentuating the Curves and the Muscles," New York Times (hereafter NYT), Feb. 6, 1949, sec. 10, p. 5-
14. Gordon Sinclair, clipping, n.d., LOP Scrapbook #58, AMPAS.
15. "Rambling Reporter," HR, July 25, 1952, 2-
i6. "Hollywood Inside," Daily Variety (hereafter DV), Aug. 18, 1952, 2.
17. "Jimmy McHugh, 75, Prolific Cleffer of Legit, Pix Standards, Dies on Coast," V, May z8, 1969, 6o; "Hollywood's Top Tunesmith," Toronto Star Week
ly, Oct. 14, 1944, 5; Myrtle Gebhart, "Hub's Famed Song Composer Gives Mother Credit for Success," Boston Sunday Post, Sept. 2, 1945, 4; George W. Clarke, "The Story behind a Song Hit," Green Magazine, Apr. z8, 1940, 4, McHugh Clipping File, AMPAS.
18. "Rambling Reporter," HR, July 1, 1952, 2-
19. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Nov. 6, 1952, 2-
zo. "Hollywood Inside," DV, Jan. 6, 1953-
2,1. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Dec. 1, 1953, 2-
22. George Eells, Hedda and Louella (New York: Putnam, 1972), 302-
23. "Hedda Hopper," LosAngeles Times, Jan. 2, 1953•
24. Ezra Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon and Schuster), 22.
25- Ibid., z8.
26. Louella Parsons tribute, Louella Parsons Collection, University of Southern California.
27. Lindsay Chaney and Michael Cieply, The Hearsts: Family and Empire-the Later Years (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), 143•
28. Newsweek, Feb. 22, 1954, 62-63-
29. Hedda Hopper, From under My Hat (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952), 244-
30. "The Voice and the Kids," New Republic, Nov. 6, 1944, 593; E. J. Kahn, "The Slaves of Sinatra," New Yorker, Nov. 1946; "The Curious Craze for `Confidential' Magazines," Newsweek, July 11, 1955, 50-51-
31. "Hollywood Profiled," Newsweek, June 9, 1952, 54-
32 . Sam Kashner and Jennifer McNair, The Bad and the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties (New York: Norton, 2002), 297.
33. Jack Gould, "Programs in Review," NYT, Oct. 2, 1949, sec. 1o, p. 9.
34. "Jimmie Fidler, 89, Hollywood Columnist," NYT, Aug. 12, 1988, sec. D, p. 18.
35. Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood, 53.
36. Kashner and McNair, The Bad and the Beautiful, 283-
37. Val Holley, Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2oo3), 98-
38. Graham, The Rest of the Story, 149-50.
39. Ibid.,133-35•
40. LAE, Oct. 19, 1952, III, I.
41. Louella Parsons, Tell It to Louella (New York: Putnam, 1961), (hereafter TL), 170.
42. Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 236.
43. TL, 185-
44. Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, 275.
45. Pat Newcombe, interview by George Eells, n.d., George Eells Collection, University of Southern California.
46. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Oct. 6, 1954, 2.
47. LAE, June 3, 1953-
48. TL, 94-
49. Peter Manso, Brando: The Biography (New York: Hyperion, 1994), 383-84-
50. LAE, Sept. 2,1952.
51. LAE, Oct. 31, 1953, 1, 11.
52. Paul O'Neil, "The Little Queen That Hollywood Deserved," Life, June 4, 1965.
53. LAE, Mar. 24, 1954, II, 7.
54. LAE, Apr. 9, 1955, I, 13-
55. LAE, Apr. 7, 1949, II, 5-
56. LAE, Feb. 1, 1950, I, 17.
57. "Rambling Reporter," HR, July z6, 1950, 2-
58. "Rambling Reporter," HR, July z8, 1950, 2-
59. Charles Maland, Chaplin and American Culture (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), 280.
6o. Anthony Slide, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," 2, Hedda Hopper Clipping File AMPAS.
61. Maland, Chaplin andAmerican Culture, z8o.
62. "Comedian Labeled Genius Was Law unto Himself," LAE, Sept. 23, 1952-
63. "Country That Made Chaplin Famous Is One He Refused," LAE, Sept. 24, 1952-
64. Maland, Chaplin and American Culture, 301-2.
65. Unknown to HH, Sept. 22, 1952; Raymond Accorsi to HH, Sept. 23, 1952; Anna Doran to HH, Sept. 21, 1952, Chaplin Files, Hedda Hopper Collection, AMPAS.
66. "The New Hollywood Battle of Censorship."
67. LAE, Apr. zo, 1954•
68. LAE, Dec. 30, 1955,11, 7.
69. LAE, July 7, 1954,111, 7.
70. "Louella Parsons, Gossip Columnist, Dies," NYT, Dec. 10, 1972, 85:1.
71. LAE, Jan. 1, 1953-
72. "Louella at Inauguration," LAE, Dec. 17, 1952, Louella Parsons File, Regional History Collection, University of Southern California.
73. LAE, Jan. 21, 1953, II, 7.
74. LOP to Hoover, Jan. 17, 1953, Louella Parsons File, U.S. Department of justice (hereafter LOP File, DOJ).
75. LOP to Hoover, June 4, 1953, LOP File, DOJ.
76. Untitled, July 15, 1953, LOP File, DOJ.
77. Untitled, July 15, 1953, LOP File, DOJ.
78. In April the guild passed a resolution forbidding its members to make guest appearances on film TV shows unless paid for their services. "Guild's TV Terms May Be Accepted," NYT, Aug. 12, 1955, 37.
79. LAE, Nov. 4,1953.
8o. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Nov. 27, Dec. 6, Dec 17, 1953, 2-
81. Liz Smith, Natural Blonder AMemoir (New York: Random House, 2000),104.
8z. Harriett Gustason, Looking Back, vol. i (Freeport, IL: Stephenson County Historical Society, 1994), 61.
83- Untitled, n.d., LOP File, DOJ.
84. Van Doren claimed that later, after she had been a minor star for a while at Universal, she received a call from a reporter for the Hollywood scandal magazine Confidential who claimed to have heard a rumor that she and her mother had been prostitutes. Her attorney, Jerry Geisler, called Confidential and found out that the source for the rumor had been Louella. Van Doren believed that Louella was influential in getting the Catholic organization the Legion of Decency to blacklist her films, and that Louella prevented her from attaining stardom. Mamie Van Doren, telephone interview by author, February 15, 2004. Also Mamie Van Doren, Playing the Field (New York: Putnam, 1987), chap. 6.
85. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Jan. 26, 1954, Jan. 28, 1955, 2.
86. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Oct. 28, Nov. 5, Dec. 31, 1954, 2.
87. "Louella Parsons Seeks $,o,ooo for Bus Crash," LAT, Oct. 12, 1956, 5-
88. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Dec. 31,1954; "Louella Calls OffTV Show," Aug. 26, 1955, Los Angeles Mirror News, Louella Parsons Clipping File, AMPAS.
89. Stinson, "Rambling Reporter," HR, Sept. 22, 1954; Aug. 12, 1955•
90. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Jan. 8, 1957, 2.
91. New York office to Hoover, Apr. 23, 1955, Hedda Hopper File, DOJ.
92. LAE, June 5, 13, 20, 1955-
93. King Kennedy, interview by George Eells, n.d., Eells Collection, ASU.
94. LAE, June 22, 26, July 20, 1955-
95. "American Women at Work," Newsweek, Feb. 27, 1956, 77.
96. "Loquacious Louella," V, Jan. 29, 1954•
97. "Rambling Reporter," HR, Feb. 9, 1956, 2.
98. "The Hatchet Woman Hollywood Fears," Confidential, Apr. 1959, Louella Parsons File, Regional History Collection, University of Southern California.
99. Climax! The Louella Parsons Story, Mar. 8, 1956, Film and Television Archive, University of California, Los Angeles.
100. Toledo Blade, Mar. 10, 1956, LOP Scrapbook #58, AMPAS.
101. Jay Nelson Tuck, New York Post, Mar. 9, 1956, LOP Scrapbook #58, AMPAS.
102. Cleveland News, Mar. 23, 1956, LOP Scrapbook #58, AMPAS.
103. Time, Mar. 19, 1956, LOP Scrapbook #58, AMPAS.
104. "Just for Variety," DV, Mar. 12, 1956, 2.
105. Untitled document, Louella Parsons File, Hedda Hopper Collection, AMPAS.
io6. LAE, Nov. 7, 1957.
107. TL, 63-64-
1o8. LAE, July 4, 1957•
109. Davis, The Glamour Factory, 375.
110. Louella Parsons Oral History, Popular Arts Collection, Butler Library, Columbia University, 105.
iii. LAE, Feb. 4, 1959-
112. TL, 220.
113. "Good News," Modern Screen, 1955, Box 2, Folder 3, LOP Collection, USC.
114. TL, 223-
115. "Just for Variety," DV, Feb. 7, 1957, 2.
116. "Just for Variety," DV, July 12, Aug. 6, 1957, 2.
117. Kashner and McNair, The Bad and the Beautiful, 17.
118.
Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood, 51; "Putting the Papers to Bed," Time, Aug. z6,1957, 61; Mary Desjardins, "Systematizing Scandal: Confidential Magazine, Stardom, and the State of California," in Headline Hollywood, ed. Adrienne McLean and David Cook (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, zoos), 2o6-31.
119. Jeanette Walls, Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip (New York: HarperCollins, zooo),14.
120. "The Hatchet Woman Hollywood Fears," 6o-6i.
12,1. Walls, Dish, 45.
122. "The Curious Craze for `Confidential' Magazines," 50-51-
123. Desjardins, "Systematizing Scandal," 216; Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood, 79.
124. LAE, Jan. 30, 1955-
125. Person to Person, Nov. 7,1958, Film and Television Archive, University of California, Los Angeles.
126. TL, 48.
SEVENTEEN. ECLIPSE
i. Anita Loos, manuscript, in author's possession.
2. Murray Illson, "Hollywood Her World," New York Times (hereafter NYT), Dec. 10, 1972, 85-
3. Rob Wagner, Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall ofLos Angeles Newspapers, 1920-1962 (Upland, CA: Dragonflyer Press, zooo), 231-
4. Ezra Goodman, The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961), 83-
5. Hedda Hopper, with James Brough, The Whole Truth and Nothing But (New York: Doubleday, 1962), 21.
6. Los Angeles Examiner (hereafter LAE), Mar. 10,1961.
7. "Joan Crawford Admits She's Broke," LAE, June 1,1959,1.
8. Bob Thomas, Joan Crawford (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), 215-16.
9. Person to Person, Nov. 7, 1958, Film and Television Archive, University of California, Los Angeles.
10. "Quincy College Will Honor Ex-Dixonite LOP," Dixon Evening Telegraph, May z8, 1959, I.
ii. LAE, June 9, 1959.
12. GS to LOP, June 16, 1959, Gloria Swanson Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
13. LAE, June 13, 1959-