{"id":1212,"date":"2016-09-23T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wichitafilms.com\/?post_type=vod-dvd&p=1212"},"modified":"2022-09-23T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:01:00","slug":"hollywood-gossip","status":"publish","type":"vod-dvd","link":"https:\/\/www.wichitafilms.com\/en\/vod-dvd\/hollywood-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nowadays we are used to the most compromising selfies and Facebook and there is very little privacy for so called public persons. This was not the case when Hollywood was set up. One assumed that tinsel town was a sort of Sodom & Gomorrah but one did not know too much detail. All of this changed when Louella Parsons was hired by Hearst because she allegedly supported Hearst\u2019s mistress and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Marion Davies. Parsons\u2019 syndicated column for the Los Angeles Examiner and later her Radio Shows reached Millions. No wonder she was instrumental in destroying Orson Welles\u2019\u00a0Citizen Kane<\/em>, which was a thinly veiled take on Hearst and Davies. Louella Parsons reigned supreme until 1937, when Louis B. Mayer of MGM and some colleagues decided to have their own provider of gossip in the person of Hedda Hopper who had been a modest actress in silent films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In 1938 she started her own column in the Los Angeles Times under the title of Hedda Hopper\u2019s Hollywood.
These columnists could make or break the career of an actor, writer or director. Edda Hopper, a staunch conservative, was one of the prime movers in making Charlie Chaplin leave for Europe in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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