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    Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville...
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  • Columnist Walter Winchell had been a mainstay on the early years of ABC television with a simulcast of his 15-minute weekly time radio show until he left...
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  • gained national notoriety by taking on the powerful newspaper columnist Walter Winchell in a series of scathing magazine articles, collected in book form in...
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  • His Life and Times by Herman Klurfeld. It stars Stanley Tucci as Walter Winchell, with Glenne Headly, Paul Giamatti, Xander Berkeley, Kevin Tighe, and...
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    friend, the entertainment and gossip columnist Walter Winchell, in 1930. In September 1930, Winchell called the Stork Club "New York's New Yorkiest place...
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  • The Walter Winchell File is a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department...
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  • include: Rhyming slang for nix. Part of the jargon used by soda jerks. Walter Winchell wrote about this in 1933, in his syndicated On Broadway column. In...
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  • ramifications or consequences. The terse narration by gossip columnist Walter Winchell, in his distinctive New York accent, was a stylistic hallmark of the...
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    and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). For his portrayal of Walter Winchell in the HBO film Winchell (1998) he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding...
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  • the club. He contended that Boyar's bongo drummer kept him awake. Walter Winchell, a gossip columnist, said that she was the finest Latin talent in the...
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    newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (portrayed by Lancaster and based on Walter Winchell) who uses his connections to ruin his sister's relationship with a...
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    her right to a place in the big-time spotlight." In 1934, columnist Walter Winchell wrote about her performance in a night club: "Una Villon's torso shifting...
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    read, "The Song Is Ended." Newspaper columnist and radio reporter Walter Winchell said: He was the first to entertain troops in World War Two, contracted...
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  • in the war Caroline Kaplan as Anne Morrow Lindbergh Billy Carter as Walter Winchell Ed Moran as Henry Ford Daniel O'Shea as Burton K. Wheeler Orest Ludwig...
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  • shortly before the film opened. The film was recut by the studio and Walter Winchell-esque narration was added. The film received negative reviews. Six...
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    dance, two nightclubs in the city used "Big Apple" in their names. Walter Winchell and other writers continued to use the term in the 1940s and early...
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    Sydney Pollack, John Cameron Swayze, Mike Wallace, Earl Wilson, and Walter Winchell in cameo appearances as themselves The film was produced under the...
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    Red Thompson Flight (1957, TV Series) The Walter Winchell File (1957, TV Series) - Lawton The Walter Winchell File "The Boy From Mason City" (1957, TV...
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    Mirelli 3 episodes 1995–1996 Murder One Richard Cross Main role 1998 Winchell Walter Winchell Television film 2000 Bull Hunter Lasky 5 episodes 2001 Conspiracy...
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  • relocation. In protest against the new act, the radio personality Walter Winchell openly criticizes the Lindbergh administration on his nationwide Sunday...
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    "the King of the One-Liners", a title conferred to him by columnist Walter Winchell, a stage performance by Youngman lasted only 15 to 20 minutes but contained...
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    Extreme Close-Up Philip Television film 1991 The Josephine Baker Story Walter Winchell 1993 The Switch Russ Fine The Fire Next Time Drew Morgan Television...
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  • highest earning reality stars. The term has been traced back to a 1939 Walter Winchell society column in which he used the word to describe prominent society...
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    absence during premieres of her films. During Scott's recovery period, Walter Winchell, in his "On Broadway" column for June 9, 1949, repeated a rumor of...
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  • Steve Winchell, character in The OA Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts Walter Winchell, journalist Winchell (film) Winchell, Texas Winchell's Donuts...
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  • Frank Sinatra and Walter Winchell) Walter Winchell: A Novel (1990) ISBN 0-679-73393-0 (biographical novel about the newsman Walter Winchell) Kubrick (Grove...
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    Gun – Will Travel (1957, 1958) - Nancy Warren / Helen Abajinian The Walter Winchell File (1958) - Doris Carter Tombstone Territory (1958, 1959) - Nancy...
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    Kill" 1958 The Big Story Vera Episode: "The Small of Death" 1958 The Walter Winchell File Lois Episode: "A Thing of Beauty: File #29" 1958–1959 Naked City...
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  • ideas". The organization was founded in 1946 by media personality Walter Winchell in New York City, New York, under the name Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial...
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    Barbara Linden 1956 Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado Nita Riordan 1957 The Walter Winchell File Louise Melk Episode: "Where Is Louise Milk?" 1957 Slim Carter...
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