Sidney Skolsky Sidney Skolsky Sidney Skolsky (2 May 1905 – 3 May 1983) was an American writer best known as a Hollywood gossip columnist. He ranked with Hedda Hopper (with whom he shared a birthday) and Louella Parsons as the premier Hollywood gossip columnists of the first three decades of the sound picture era. A radio personality in addition to having his own syndicated newspaper column, Skolsky also was a screenwriter and movie producer who occasionally acted in the radio and in the movies. Skolsky claimed to be the person who gave the nickname "Oscar" to the Academy Award and was credited
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