Gossip columnist 1930s through the 1950s, the two best-known - and competing - Hollywood gossip columnists were Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. Well-timed leaks about a star's purported romantic adventures helped the studios to create and sustain the public's interest in the studios' star actors. As well, the movie studios' publicity agents acted as unnamed "well-informed inside sources" who provided misinformation and rumors to counteract whispers about celebrity secrets — such as homosexuality or an out-of-wedlock child — that could have severely damaged not only the reputation of the movie star in question, but the movie star's box office viability. Having fallen
Lost film film called "Boo!" (1932). However, UCLA still has a copy of the soundtrack. The James Cagney film "Winner Take All" (1932) used scenes from the early talkie "Queen of the Night Clubs" (1929) starring Texas Guinan. While "Queen of the Night Clubs" was not a lost film in 1932, no prints of the film have survived through the decades, and only that footage included in "Winner Take All" remains. Actress turned gossip columnist Hedda Hopper made her screen debut in a Fox Film called "The Battle of Hearts" (1916). The star of the film was William Farnum, then at the