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- Elsa Maxwell was born on May 24, 1881 in Keokuk, Iowa, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Hotel for Women (1939), Riding Into Society (1940) and Stage Door Canteen (1943). She died on November 1, 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Probably the only gossip columnist who could ever boast of an eponymously-titled movie: [link=tt0031447, otherwise known as "Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women", (in which she also appeared).
- Introduced Maria Callas to Aristotle Onassis.
- Credited with introducing Rita Hayworth to Prince Aly Khan in the summer of 1948.
- Famed as hostess of lavish parties for royalty and high society and credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games.
- Short, stout American hostess and celebrity tattle-tale columnist.
- [describing herself] A short, fat, homely piano player from Keokuk, Iowa, with no money, no background . . . who decided to become a legend, and did just that!
- Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
- I make enemies deliberately. They are my sauce piquante to my dish of life.
- Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
- Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
- Our Betters (1933) - $500 /week
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