Highest-Rated Movies about 'Gossip Columnist', Sort by Popularity
Winchell (1998), The Cat's Meow (2001), The Murder Man (1935), Wake Up and Live (1937), S.O.B. (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gossip Columnist movies.
#1. Winchell (1998)
Storyline: This docudrama chronicles the life of gossip columnist Walter Winchell (Stanley Tucci). Rising to fame in the mid-1930s, Winchell helps usher in the age of tabloid journalism with his talent for digging up dirt about the rich and powerful. By the 1950s, Winchell has secured his place as America's leader in controversy -- even if his prose comes courtesy of ghostwriter Herman Klurfeld (Paul Giamatti). But the tables turn when Winchell finds himself at the center of a high-profile scandal.
Plot Keywords: gossip columnist, jew, journalist, franklin delano roosevelt, lover, ghostwriter, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. The Cat's Meow (2001)
Storyline: Movie producer Thomas Ince (Cary Elwes) dies after yachting with William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst).
Plot Keywords: producer, starlet, gossip columnist, millionaire, actor, dark, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. The Murder Man (1935)
Storyline: Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: newspaper reporter, gossip columnist, police officer, business partner, father, editor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. Wake Up and Live (1937)
Storyline: Built around the publicity "feud" between newspaper-radio-gossip spreader Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie, a radio star, Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who does an advice-and-inspiration program, helps a mike-shy singer, Eddie Kane (Jack Haley) to success by tricking him into singing with Bernie's orchestra. Winchell uses it to expose Bernie as the trickster. But Kane becomes a great hit with the radio public, and falls in love with Alice. And Bernie and Winchell shake hands to show there's no business like show business and fabricated feuds.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: bandleader, gossip columnist, starlet, vaudevillian, singer, playful, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!#5. S.O.B. (1981)
Storyline: Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is an extremely successful Hollywood producer, whose movies for Capitol Pictures have never lost money, until now, with his latest, most expensive movie to date, "Night Wind", ending up being a major flop. The movie, starring his popular Academy Award winning actress wife, Sally Miles (Dame Julie Andrews), who has a G-rated screen image, almost bankrupts the studio. As such, the studio executives turn on Felix, who want to take over creative control of the movie and re-edit it to lessen the damage. It also turns Felix suicidal, his mental state, which in turn, leads to Sally leaving him and taking their two children with her. As Felix tries and tries again unsuccessfully to kill himself, he finally stumbles upon an idea which gets him out of his depression. He plans to use his and Sally's money to purchase the movie back from the studio, and re-imagine it by adding a few new scenes, to drastically altar it from the G-rated fantasy movie it is, to an R-rated sex romp, complete with Sally baring her naked breasts on-screen. In doing so, Felix believes it has the potential to become the most popular movie to date. A major obstacle in being able to carry out his idea is Sally, who has long protected her good girl screen image. What ends up happening is largely dictated by those around them, from the major players to those on the periphery of their lives, each who is working on his or her own self interest, with even those at the far edge of the periphery having a profound effect on the proceedings.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: actress, wife, director, gossip columnist, filmmaker, friend, madcap ...
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