(1899 - 1988) Hollywood columnist and radio broadcaster from the 1920s to the early 1980s.
(1899-1988) a well-known
Hollywood gossip columnist and radio
personality who wrote his first
column in the early 1920s. Fidler became popular through his Jimmy Fidler in
Hollywood radio show and
news column of the same name, which appeared in more than 300 newspapers. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s he was listened to by an estimated 45 million people per week on radio and in
special news presentations called newsreels, common in movie theaters at the
time. Fidler, known as "
Mr.
Hollywood," became one of the most prominent columnists in
Hollywood.