The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New ...

There's no place like home---sometimes. A young woman (Maureen Leeds) is held hostage in her apartment by a hunted killer. Tom: Manning Ross. Keeley: Alan Dexter. Jablonski: Barron Hall. Shaw: Brad ...

In a weak moment Gossipist Walter Winchell confided to his readers: “The reason I talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it ...

Walter Winchell, the gossip-columnist star of newspapers and radio whose career was derailed in the television era, gets the “American Masters” treatment this week on PBS. Titled “Walter Winchell: The ...

On this day, Aug. 24, in 1939, the leader of the mob hit squad, “Murder Inc.” surrendered to columnist Walter Winchell, who then turned him over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In 1937, Louis “Lepke” ...