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Forgotten Hollywood: Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons
When in the 1920s Hollywood studios created the star system which lasted till the 1960s, young men and women were plucked from obscurity, buffed and polished and transformed into movie stars with invented names and backgrounds to glamorize them. Every aspect of their lives was controlled by the movie studios with morals clauses inserted into their contracts, and ‘fixers’ hired to cover up scandals.
