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Sidney Skolsky (May 2, 1905 [citation needed] – May 3, 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.
May 5, 1983 · Sidney Skolsky, the Broadway and Hollywood reporter whose column of vignettes called ''Tintypes'' appeared in New York and national newspapers for more than 50 years, died after a long illness at...
The famous columnist Sidney Skolsky, who perhaps has the best claim to having invented the term "Oscar" for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Award of Merit (the official name of the Academy Award, which bore the inscription "First Award for Merit" up until the 1950s), was born in New York City in 1903.
- Actor, Writer, Producer
- May 2, 1905
- Sidney Skolsky
- May 3, 1983
Mar 9, 2023 · Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky, pictured here with model and socialite Vikki Dougan in 1955, claims he invented the Oscar nickname while writing about the Academy Awards.
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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.
When longtime Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky died on May 3, 1983, Daily Variety ran a feature obituary on its front page -- a rare homage by that publication -- to honor the man who had been a respected entertainment reporter for over 50 years.
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Sidney Skolsky is known as an Actor, Producer, Story, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Sunset Boulevard, Tom, Dick and Harry, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, The Sport Parade, Hi, Nellie!, The Corpse Came C.O.D., Legends, and Tonight Starring Jack Paar.
