Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queer, Female Film Producer You’ve Never Heard Of, Episode 5)
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Karina Longworth
4.6 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Louella’s daughter, Harriet Parsons, became a groundbreaking female film producer at a moment in history in which virtually all mainstream filmmakers were male. She was also a lesbian, at a time when being openly gay was unacceptable in Hollywood -- and, in much of America, illegal.
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| 0:29.0 | Welcome to another episode of Vonage Voice API. |
| 0:59.0 | Of you must remember this, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm your host, Karina Longworth. |
| 1:16.0 | And this is another installment in our ongoing series, Gossip Girls. |
| 1:24.0 | The desire of people to tell a story that is the dream of which my cow was built. |
| 1:30.0 | What was fun to be in there were two of them in town. |
| 1:33.0 | It isn't the way I'm parsing. |
| 1:35.0 | It must be the shadow of them. |
| 1:36.0 | What about public insult? Did you ever suffer at the hands of the old Crocs Lully and Eddon? |
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| 1:47.0 | We've been dreaming for many, forever. |
| 1:54.0 | We've mentioned before that both Luella Parsons and head a hopper built their careers as single mothers. |
| 2:02.0 | Today, we're going to talk about what they were like as mothers. |
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