Sidney Skolsky [SEP] occupation
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
" in the Alice Faye-Don Ameche film "Hollywood Cavalcade". Guest appearances in two more Fox films followed that same year, but Jolson never starred in a full-length feature film again.
Movies "The Jolson Story".
After the George M. Cohan film biography, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky believed that a similar film could be made about Al Jolson. Skolsky pitched the idea of an Al Jolson biopic and Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures agreed. It