Oral history interview with Louella Oettinger Parsons, 1959

Biographical Note

Gossip columnist; interviewee married John Parsons

Scope and Contents

Hollywood in the 1920s; opinions on directors, stars, mothers of stars; reflections on her career; William S. Hart; William Randolph Hearst. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Journalism and motion pictures.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Parsons, Louella O. (Louella Oettinger), 1881-1972--Interviews.