Tell It to Louella

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FOR YEARS the people with the front page names in the world of motion pictures have been telling their secrets to Louella Parsons. Being 'the first to know' is quite a responsibility for an alert reporter, but Louella has also been the first to know when to hold back a story. As a result the stars, producers, directors and the studios have learned to call her first when there is news. During World War II Louella's first book, The Gay Illiterate, was a big best seller. This perceptive and entertaining book, written some eighteen years after the other, is not so much an autobiography as it is an affectionate and revealing review of the past two decades in Hollywood. It includes long profiles of Clark Gable, Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth, Joan Crawford, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Marion Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and Judy Garland. Now many stories can be told without betraying confidences or revealing sources. Only Louella could write about Howard Hughes, for example, so critically and yet with such objectivity. More than any other Hollywood columnist, Louella has had a vital interest in the young people of Hollywood and the new frontiers of Hollywood at home and abroad. Because Louella has never stopped being a movie fan herself, this book carries all the excitement of tomorrow's news. LOUELLA PARSONS was born Louella Oettinger in Freeport, Illinois. At sixteen she became a reporter and at eighteen she married John D. Parsons. A year later her daughter Harriet was born. Parsons was wounded in World War I and died on board ship. She married her second husband. Dr. Harry W. Martin, in 1930, and he died in 1951. For nearly forty years Louella Parsons has reported the greatest stories to come out of Hollywood. Her widely syndicated column leads the field in newspapers all over the world. She has had many honors, but none that pleased her more than a Doctor of Letters degree from Quincy College, Illinois. In July 1961, Miss Parsons received Italy's Star of Solidarity, first class, the highest honor the Italian government can bestow upon a woman. It was given to 'the most brilliant columnist of movieland-for contributions to the success of the motion picture industry all over the world.' All orders shipped protected in a box. N° de ref. del artículo 000909

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