Word: fidler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. James Marion ("Jimmie") Fidler, 48, radio and newspaper cinemagpie; and ex-Airline Stewardess Adeline Cox McKnight, 25; he for the third time, she for the second; in Upland, Calif...
...Jimmie Fidler, hot-water specialist among Hollywood gossips (TIME, Nov. 30), announced that his wife, Roberta, had moved to Mexico, would soon sue for divorce...
Twentieth Century-Fox could not take it. Scores of disillusioned cinemaddicts had written letters to express their horror at the idea that 20th Century's beglamored Gene Tierney smoked cigars. The studio told NBC to fire the man who said so (Hollywood Gossip Columnist Jimmie Fidler) or no 20th Century star could ever appear on the network again...
Patiently NBC pointed out that Fidler worked for its recently severed affiliate, the Blue Network. "Red, white or blue," roared Studio Head William Goetz, "it's all NBC to us." The Blue Network stuck by Fidler, so Goetz removed stogied Guest Tierney from Abbott & Costello's show, bountiful Betty Grable from Jack Benny...
...Gossip Fidler stuck by his popguns: what he had said was that blue-eyed Gene Tierney had been observed sickly smoking a cigar in hope of acclimatizing herself to her husband's stogies. Miss Tierney denied the charge...