Winchell

Winchell

🎞️ Movie 105 min US
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1998

He didn't report the news ... he made it.

Biopic of the controversial muckraking journalist Walter Winchell. After spending 12 years in vaudeville, Winchell began writing a column in the New York Mirror. Part gossip, part half-truths, the reporting focused on well-known or prominent individuals and their dalliances. Winchell grew in popularity, particularly when he started his weekly Sunday night radio show. His reporting became more political in the late 1930s when he railed against Hitler. His star began to fall in the 1950s when Josephine Baker was refused service at the Stork Club and Winchell allegedly refused to do anything about it. The end came with his support of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his own rabid anti-communism. Following McCarthy's style, Winchell accused anyone who stood in his way of being a communist. Soon, he found himself facing lawsuits, a failed attempt at a television show and eventually, the cancellation of his radio show.

Cast

Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci
Walter Winchell
Glenne Headly
Glenne Headly
Dallas Wayne
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti
Herman Klurfeld
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Xander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley
Gavreau
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe
William Randolph Hearst
Frank Medrano
Frank Medrano
Melvin Diamond
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Vic Polizos
Sam Hague
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John F. O'Donohue
Harry the Doorman
Michael Greene
Michael Greene
Bellamy
Bill Conti
Bill Conti
Composer
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Robbie Greenberg
Cinematographer