As per our current Database, Jimmy Fidler has been died on 9 August, 1988 at 1988.
When Jimmy Fidler die, Jimmy Fidler was 88 years old.
| Popular As | Jimmy Fidler |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 88 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
| Born | August 24, 1900 (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) |
| Birthday | August 24 |
| Town/City | St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Jimmy Fidler’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.
Jimmy Fidler was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.
Jimmie Fidler began his Hollywood career as an extra in silent films. But when speaking roles did not seem likely he turned to publicity and later parlayed his connections into a career as a gossip columnistHe spent about 14 years working as a free-lance press agent, setting up an office at Sunset and Cahuenga boulevards and established a roster actors who paid his salary ranging from from $10 a week to $150 a week.
His first job came from Edmund Lowe, who offered him offered him $25 a week. Fidler later signed on with Cecil B. DeMille at Famous Players-Lasky to write press releases..He eventually moved his offices to Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street and set up his operation like a newsroom, which included "city desk," four reporters and nine studio contacts to feed him information.
In 1931, he married Dorothy Lee, but they divorced less than a year later. Fidler closed his offices, and in 1934 became a press agent for a Los Angeles radio station. Josephine Dillon, the first wife of Clark Gable, worked at the station and urged Fidler to use his knowledge of the film industry to become a gossip commentator for local radio.
Fidler partnered with singer and sometime actor Russ Columbo on early programs, but Columbo died before their shows gained widespread attention.His audience grew rapidly 1936 and 1940. He syndicated his "Jimmie Fidler's Hollywood" column, which appeared in 150 newspapers.
His signature sign-off after each radio broadcast was "Good night to you, and you, and I do mean you!" He also established a four-bell rating system with four bells as a superb movie to one bell for a box-office bomb.
To set himself apart from other gossip columnists he wrote and broadcast "open letters" to film stars, often scolding them for perceived bad behavior.He lectured Alice Faye for her failure to show up at promotional events in Pittsburgh and George Brent toying with Ann Sheridan in their relationship.
He even ordered Martha Raye to stay out of nightclubs.His acid tongue soon alienated movie stars and studio execs alike. In 1941 Fidler's relationship with the Hollywood elite was further strained when he was called to testify before the U.
S. Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Motion Picture and Radio Propaganda.The subcommittee was investigating whether films like "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" (1939) and "Sergeant York" (1941) manipulated moviegoers with anti-Nazi messages.
Testifying as an expert witness, Fidler testified that Hollywood produced "hate-breeding" movies that were anti-Nazi.He also alleged that filmmakers attempted to bribe him to write favorable reviews. Sensitive to charges of anti-Americanism, film industry executives felt betrayed by Fidler.
When Fidler returned to Hollywood, actor Errol Flynn attacked Fidler at the Macambo nightclub by punching him in the face. Flynn later described Fidler to reporters as a "contemptible liar."Yet Fidler remained popular with moviegoers.
At his peak in 1950, he broadcast on 486 radio stations and his gossip columns appeared in 360 newspapers.Fidler died in Toluca Lake in 1988.
