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  • Title The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons
  • Author Samantha Barbas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 417
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 2005-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520242135 / 0520242130
  • Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 6.38 x 1.27 in (23.27 x 16.21 x 3.23 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Parsons, Louella O, Gossip columnists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005008449
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Samantha Barbas has a Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity (2001).
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. vii, 417 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in 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… Read More
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