Graham, Sheila (1904–1988)

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Graham, Sheila (1904–1988)

English-born gossip columnist. Born Lily Sheil, Sept 15, 1904, in London, England; died Nov 17, 1988, in Palm Beach, Florida; m. Trevor Westbrook (div. 1946); m. John Graham Gillam (div.); m. Stanley Wojtkiewkz, 1953 (div. 1956).

Brought up in an orphanage; became a London showgirl and model; moved to US (1933); launched a Hollywood gossip column (1935); wrote The Real Scott Fitzgerald, The Rest of the Story, College for One, The Garden of Allah, How to Marry Super Rich, Confessions of a Gossip Columnist and Hollywood Revisited; served as the model for the heroine of Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon.

See also autobiography A Stage of Heat (1972) and memoir Beloved Infidel (1958), recounting the four years she lived with F. Scott Fitzgerald (1936–40), later filmed with Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr (1959).

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