Harrison Carroll industry for 43 years, writing his last column in 1969, after which he retired. His column was syndicated by the Central Press Association to 48 newspapers. He had feuds with the leading gossip columnists of the day, including Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons and his fellow Herald columnist Jimmy Starr: all of them appeared as themselves in the 1947 crime movie "The Corpse Came C.O.D.". Beginning in 1967 until he retired, Carroll's main place of business was the private, members-only Beverly Hills discotheque-"cum"-restaurant Daisy, a hang-out for the younger, hipper stars like Paul Newman when he was in L.A. He created
Her Excellency, the Governor Her Excellency, the Governor Her Excellency, the Governor is a 1917 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation. Directed by Albert Parker, the film stars Elda Milar, who later became well known as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. The film is loosely based the play "His Excellency, the Governor", by Robert Marshall. Like many American films of the time, "Her Excellency, the Governor" was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required the cutting of an intertitle that stated, "You're around her quite often - why don't you