You Must Remember This: Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper (The First Lady, Episode 2)

May 11, 2021

Karina Longworth’s award winning and acclaimed podcast series about Hollywood

In 1923, Louella Parsons signed a contract with William Randolph Hearst for nationwide syndication of the first major Hollywood gossip column. Parsons quickly built a brand based on protecting (and whitewashing) Hollywood’s interests, as well as Hearst’s, relentlessly promoting — and spying on — Hearst’s mistress, Marion Davies