You Must Remember This: Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper (The Queens Are Dead, Episode 9)

June 29 2021

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

The Hollywood studio system begins to crumble, and Louella and Hedda decline and fall, too. But just as a new generation of filmmakers rises from the ashes and reinvents the movie business, so too does gossip find new life in a new look. We’ll end our season by talking about a woman who was the antithesis of Louella and Hedda — liberal, Jewish, sexually forward, and so unwilling to play the industry’s games that she may have ensured the death of the gossip columnist as star