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Movie Mavens: US Newspaper Women Take on the Movies, 1914–1923, edited by Richard Abel

2023; University College Cork; Issue: 25 Linguagem: Inglês

10.33178/alpha.25.16

2009-4078

Gabrielle Stecher,

Cinema and Media Studies

Before Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper became Hollywood’s most notorious gossip girls, there was the Louella Parsons of the Chicago Record-Herald. In the mid-1910s, Parsons had yet to pivot towards gossipy star profiles and had begun penning a daily film review column, covering films such as Carmen (Cecil B. DeMille, 1915) and A Fool There Was (William Fox, 1915). Today, Parsons is one of the best-remembered women writing in and about Hollywood in its early decades. As Richard Abel reveals, however, she was by no means alone.