Florabel Muir was an American reporter, newspaper columnist and author.
12 Facts About Florabel Muir
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Florabel Muir became known for covering both Hollywood celebrities and underworld gangsters from the 1920s through the 1960s.
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Florabel Muir attended the University of Washington in Seattle, where she worked as the assistant editor of a student paper.
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Florabel Muir studied at the University of Nebraska and University of Wyoming.
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Florabel Muir began her professional newspaper career at The Salt Lake Herald after convincing the city editor to break with tradition and hire their first female reporter.
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Florabel Muir worked the night shift covering the police beat.
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Florabel Muir is credited with one screenplay, Fighting Youth, produced by Universal Studios.
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Florabel Muir went back to the Daily News as their Los Angeles correspondent when her former editor was having trouble covering a story in Hollywood.
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Florabel Muir was struck in the backside when a slug ricocheted and left a large bruise.
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Florabel Muir was a confidant of Cohen and enlisted her husband to improve Cohen's reading and vocabulary skills.
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Florabel Muir died in Los Angeles on April 27,1970, at the age of 80.
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Florabel Muir was interred next to her husband at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.