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    Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter...
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    in many magazines and later on radio. She had an extended feud with Louella Parsons, an arch-rival and fellow gossip columnist. Hopper was born Elda Furry...
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    famed gossip columnist Louella Parsons. Harriet Oettinger Parsons was born in 1906 in Burlington, Iowa, the daughter of Louella Parsons and Harry Martin. She...
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  • "Hollywood Legend". The Louella Parsons Award was introduced in 1970. This "Lifetime Achievement" award was named for columnist Louella Parsons, founder of the...
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    (January 16, 1890 – June 24, 1951) was a urologist and third husband of Louella Parsons. Harry Martin was the son of Watson Jesse Martin, a dentist, and Annie...
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    stripper and part-time dominatrix. She portrayed gossip columnist Louella Parsons in the Peter Bogdanovich historical drama The Cat's Meow (2001). She...
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  • biographical film based on the 1972 novel Hedda and Louella: A Dual Biography of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons by George Eells. Starring Elizabeth Taylor and...
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    befriended Louella Parsons, who interviewed her for The New York Morning Telegraph. In 1931, when Bow came under tabloid scrutiny, Parsons defended her...
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  • best-known Hollywood gossip columnists were the competing Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. In Hollywood's "Golden Age" in the 1930s and 1940s, gossip columnists...
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    Harry Crocker. Crocker photographed the event for gossip columnist Louella Parsons, to whom Chaplin had given exclusive rights to publicize news of the...
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