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Jimmie Fidler, (Redirected from Jimmy Fidler) Jimmie Fidler in a scene from Personality Parade (1938).Jimmie Fidler (August 24, 1900 - August 9, 1988) was an American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality. He wrote a Hollywood gossip column and was sometimes billed as Jimmy Fidler.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Fidler was a former Hollywood publicist who became a syndicated columnist with his Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood column in 187 outlets, including the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times. In 1933-34 his 15-minute NBC radio show, Hollywood on the Air, sponsored by Tangee lipstick, was broadcast from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. He was regarded in Hollywood as a genuine threat to gossip queen Louella Parsons, especially after he scooped her in November 1935 on a major story about Clark Gable, an incident so embarrassing to Parsons that she lied about it in her autobiography.