Gossip columnist, author, songwriter, hostess, screenwriter, radio personality
Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day.
Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games in the modern era.[1] Her radio program, Elsa Maxwell's Party Line, began in 1942; she also wrote a syndicated gossip column. She appeared as herself in the films Stage Door Canteen (1943) and Rhapsody in Blue (1945), as well as co-starring in the film Hotel for Women (1939), for which she wrote the screenplay and a song.
^"The Press: Elsa at War". Time. November 7, 1944. Archived from the original on March 10, 2007.
ElsaMaxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional...
Montola, scavenger hunts evolved from ancient folk games. Gossip columnist ElsaMaxwell popularized scavenger hunts in the United States with a series of exclusive...
including as a stenographer in Bloomfield, New Jersey; personal secretary to ElsaMaxwell; secretary to the ambassador from Ghana to the United Nations; and at...
both married. They met in 1957 during a party in Venice promoted by ElsaMaxwell. After this first encounter, Onassis commented to Spyros Skouras: "There...
committed to a previous engagement, a party thrown for her by her friend ElsaMaxwell in Venice. Despite this, La Scala announced a fifth performance, with...
the idea of Claude Philippe, the hotel's banquet manager, who enlisted ElsaMaxwell to help organize it. The first event was a celebration of the 2,000th...
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Michael Malloy (1873–1933), murder victim Hugh Marlowe (1911–1982), actor ElsaMaxwell (1883–1963), columnist, society figure Jeffrey Miller (1950–1970), victim...
Hotel for Women (or ElsaMaxwell's Hotel for Women) is a 1939 American drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, and...
the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Huntington was a good friend of ElsaMaxwell, Cole Porter, and Maury Henry Biddle Paul (aka Cholly Knickerbocker)...
subsequent cocktail party, many of which were at the Waldorf-Astoria suite of ElsaMaxwell, to whom Porter dedicated the song. The "smart set" that attended these...
Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey Blythe Danner ElsaMaxwell Viola Davis Hortense Johnson Jesse Eisenberg Lt. Fiske Hanley / Sgt....
success was on the radio. He and Charlie were seen at a New York party by ElsaMaxwell for Noël Coward, who recommended them for an engagement at the famous...
Television film 1987 Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story ElsaMaxwell Television film 1988 Blackadder's Christmas Carol Queen Victoria Television...
Night Hal Block, Bob Musel Paramount Music 1944 Maxwell, Elsa (June 4, 1943). "Now Listen to ElsaMaxwell: Hams across the Sea". Toledo Blade. p. Peach...
Stripes newspaper called it "the Japanese occupation theme song." In 1946, ElsaMaxwell referred to Kaner as "the breath of home to unknown thousands of our...
Stripes newspaper called it "the Japanese occupation theme song." In 1946, ElsaMaxwell referred to Kaner as "the breath of home to unknown thousands of our...
'Little Old New York,' 'Brigham Young' Scheduled Edmonds's Story in Color ElsaMaxwell Featured"". New York Times. 4 April 1939. p. 29. Moudarres, Andrea; Moudarres...
with the Porters, including: Noël Coward, Jack Wilson, Monty Woolley, ElsaMaxwell, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe and Elisabeth Marbury. In the 1920s Sturges...
April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf Astoria in 1951, which he ran with ElsaMaxwell until his sacking from the hotel in 1959. The balls were major events...
12, 2010. Archived September 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine ElsaMaxwell,"ElsaMaxwell's Column," St. Louis Star-Times, December 15, 1942, 18. Quoted...
invitations and publicity, other details were coordinated by socialites. ElsaMaxwell was given the primary responsibility in organizing it. It was initially...
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