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This was the deadly sin, punishable by Hollywood's defender of the faith, Louella O. Parsons. Wrote Louella last week in her Hearst gossip column: "This is the first time I have ever publicly spanked Judy, but I can't understand her attitude after all that has been done...
...Other Way." Shirley told the news according to the strict pressagent-approved code of prominent film personalities: she telephoned Hearst's Louella Parsons, in whose syndicated column Hollywood's private lives pass regularly into the public domain. "Oh, it's not sudden," said Shirley (as related by Louella). "I've been in Palm Springs for six days trying to think out the best thing to do. I didn't want to break up my home and my marriage, but there's no other way. I don't want to hurt John. I want...
Shirley wanted no alimony but she wanted full custody of 20-month-old Linda Susan Agar ("The worst thing about all this," she said, "is what it will do to the baby"). To Louella's colleague, Columnist Sheilah Graham, Shirley unburdened a little more: "The trouble with my marriage started two and a half years ago, when Johnny started to drink My suit doesn't mention the drinking,'but it has become unbearable...
...until he met her at the plane in Rome that she "realized it was Roberto, the man, who had inspired her . . ." Now she did not intend to return to the U.S. until she could come back as Mrs. Rossellini. To Hearst's Hollywood Gossipist Louella Parsons, McDonald confided that Ingrid was ready to give Husband Peter half their community property in exchange for a divorce, and to put the other half in a trust for Pia, their eleven-year-old daughter. "She has no hard feelings toward him," McDonald reported. "She feels as a daughter would toward a father...
...sheet read as a duty by only about 10,000 of the faithful. A man whose sense of morality is easily outraged, Father McCarthy promptly declared war on the mores of the Los Angeles area, later waged personal feuds with Columnists Drew Pearson ("Vicious slander and irresponsible smearing") and Louella Parsons ("Cheap, meretricious twaddle"). He also hired some topnotch reporters and sharpened the style. ("Get rid of stodgy stories," he ordered. "The essence of journalism is sensation on the wing.") The Tidings' circulation rose...