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Once upon a time there were two confused freshmen named Lemnel Q. Fresh and Louella Q. Fresh. They were twin brother and sister, and often forgot which was which. One day, when they were looking for Mallinckrodt, they both wandered into a little brick building at 14 Plympton St. They never got mixed up again...
...alerted, he is to be told nothing of the gimmick but, when he receives the phone call, and not before, he will be given the story of Desi's thinking concerning the Ricardo baby. Of course, the news of the Arnaz baby will be given out simultaneously to Louella, Hedda, Johnson, Graham, all the wire services and all the local dailies. But the story of the gimmick as released to the other outlets will be a follow-up . . . to give Walter an edge...
Hollywood missed a fast little cloak & courier mystery in its own backyard, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. Had Oona O'Neill Chaplin and husband Charlie Chaplin decided to live in Europe rather than face the Immigration Department's recent threat that Charlie might have trouble getting back into the U.S.? Wrote Louella: "Without a word of publicity and with only three people knowing it," Oona slipped into Los Angeles for four days to lock up the Chaplin home and close out the bank account. "There is a strong rumor that Oona took back to Europe with...
MANY people have tried to explain the extraordinary success of Louella Parsons. The story has gone the rounds for years that, as she puts it in her autobiography, she was "supposed to know 'something' "-presumably about her boss, William Randolph Hearst, whom she steadfastly revered through the 29 years she worked for him. Careful research has still to uncover any evidence to support this legend...
...break came when she fell ill of tuberculosis and Hearst shipped her to recuperate, on full salary, to an unknown California town called Palm Springs. When she went back to work a year later, Hearst ordered her to stay on in Hollywood, and his paper began syndicating her column. Louella...