Word: sheilah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outdone, modish, sexy Columnist Sheilah Graham wrote: "Both parties were 'bored right to the ears' with each other . . . Marilyn confided to friends: 'Joe's idea of a good time is to stay home night after night looking at television.' [He] objected heatedly to the fanfare of sexy photos." Many another reporter wrote that Joe was particularly miffed by the publicity photos taken on a New York street a month ago, showing Marilyn's skirt billowing up over her backside. At the time, Joe was reported to have said angrily: "What the hell...
Kreis is now trying to lure Hollywood columnists to his drugstore. Gossipist Sheilah Graham is a regular (from Chatter: "Sheilah Graham quietly dining with friends, never missing a trick"). Though Columnist Skolsky shows up occasionally (seductive Chatter item: "Sid Skolsky in again, and what a sweet guy that is"), he remains loyal to Schwab's. Meanwhile, Leon Schwab is taking his competition calmly. Says he: "They're just an imitation. They're getting our overflow. We wish them the best of luck...
Marriage Revealed. Sheilah Graham, fortyish, onetime London chorus girl turned Hollywood gossip columnist; and Wojciechowicz S. Wojtkiewicz, 35, a director of prison recreation programs for the California department of corrections; she for the third time, he for the first: in Ventura County, Calif...
...Greeting to Connie. Three men, two of them husbands, have had considerable influence on Sheilah's life. Her first husband, a British war hero 25 years her senior, spotted her in the London chorus. Sheilah left him in 1933 to move to the U.S., where she got a job on Hearst's New York Journal. Three years later N.A.N.A. sent her to Hollywood. After her divorce, she was the great & good friend in his last years of life-weary Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (and claims that she was the inspiration for the Hollywood girl in The Last Tycoon...
With all the new power and prestige her Variety column gives her, ambitious Columnist Graham can probably hold her own. Hollywood has not forgotten how Constance Bennett, indiscreetly baring her fangs, once greeted Sheilah with: "It's hard to believe that a girl as pretty as you could be the biggest bitch in Hollywood." "Not the biggest, Connie," purred Sheilah. "The second biggest...