Jimmy Starr, 86; Movie Columnist for L.A. Herald-Express
James (Jimmy) Starr, a film columnist for the old Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, has died in Phoenix.
Starr worked in an era when each of the several newspapers in Los Angeles boasted many Hollywood columnists. He wrote of movie personalities and productions from 1930 until 1962, when the Herald-Express merged with the Examiner.
Starr died Monday at 86.
The Texas native moved to California as a youth and began working in newspapers while still in high school in Oakland.
In the 1920s he began a gossip and film column for the old Los Angeles Record before moving to the Herald.
After the demise of the Herald, he and his wife, Cherie, moved to Phoenix where he became vice president for publicity for the Arizona Ramada Inns. A son also survives.
Donations in his name are suggested to the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills.
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