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Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American journalist and television game show panelist. She started her career early as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's ''New York Evening Journal'' after spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle. In 1938, she began her newspaper column, ''The Voice of Broadway'', which eventually was syndicated to more than 146 papers.〔〔 She became a regular panelist on the television game show ''What's My Line?'' in 1950. Kilgallen's columns featured mostly show business news and gossip, but also ventured into other topics such as politics and organized crime. She wrote front-page articles on the Sam Sheppard trial and later the John F. Kennedy assassination. ==Early life and career== Kilgallen, born in Chicago, was the daughter of newspaper reporter James Lawrence Kilgallen (1888–1982) and his wife, Mae Ahern. Dorothy Kilgallen's sister Eleanor, six years her junior, became a casting agent for movies and television shows. After completing two semesters at The College of New Rochelle, Kilgallen dropped out to take a job as a reporter for the ''New York Evening Journal'', which was owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation. She was Roman Catholic. In 1936, Kilgallen competed with two other New York newspaper reporters in a race around the world using only means of transportation available to the general public. She was the only woman to compete in the contest and she came in second. She described the event in her book ''Girl Around The World'', which is credited as the story idea for the 1937 movie ''Fly-Away Baby'' starring Glenda Farrell as a character partly inspired by Kilgallen. During a stint living in Hollywood in 1936 and 1937, Kilgallen wrote a daily column primarily read in New York, which provoked a libel suit from Constance Bennett, "who in the early thirties had been the highest paid performer in motion pictures", according to a Kilgallen biography, "but who was (1937 ) experiencing a temporary decline in popular appeal." Back in New York in 1938, Kilgallen began writing a daily column, the ''Voice of Broadway'', for Hearst's ''New York Journal American'', which the corporation created by merging the ''Evening Journal'' with the ''American''. The column, which she wrote until her death in 1965, featured mostly New York show business news and gossip, but also ventured into other topics such as politics and organized crime. The column eventually was syndicated to 146 papers via King Features Syndicate.〔〔 She had a radio program, ''Voice of Broadway'', which was broadcast on CBS during World War II. On April 6, 1940, Kilgallen married Richard Kollmar (1910–1971) who had starred in the musicals ''Knickerbocker Holiday'' and ''Too Many Girls''.〔(IMDB entry )〕 Beginning in April 1945, Kilgallen and Kollmar co-hosted a WOR-AM radio talk show, ''Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick'', from their 16-room apartment at 640 Park Avenue. The show followed them when they bought a Neo-Georgian brownstone at 45 East 68th Street in 1952.〔Kilgallen, Dorothy. "The Voice of Broadway", ''New York Journal American'' (May 30, 1952)〕 The radio program, which like Kilgallen's newspaper column mixed entertainment with serious issues, remained on the air until 1963. She was among the notables on the guest list of those who attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. Kilgallen's articles won her a Pulitzer Prize nomination during this era. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Kilgallen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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