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Winchell is a film of genre Drama directed by Paul Mazursky released in USA on 21 november 1998 with Stanley Tucci
Winchell (1998)
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Add to a movie listWinchell is an HBO television film which dramatizes the life of columnist Walter Winchell. It is based on the book Walter Winchell: His Life and Times by Herman Klurfeld.
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The film follows Walter Winchell from his early days as a tabloid gossip columnist to his rise as he takes on the United State's most powerful propagandist.Actors
Stanley Tucci
(Walter Winchell)
Paul Giamatti
(Herman Klurfeld)
Christopher Plummer
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Glenne Headly
(Dallas Wayne)
Xander Berkeley
(Gavreau)
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