Harrison Carroll

Harrison Carroll. Self: Screen Snapshots Series 26, No. 5: Hollywood Movie Columnists. Harrison Carroll (1901-1972) was a Hollywood gossip columnist whom John Wayne credited with mentoring him as a young actor and helping him come up with a moniker to replace his birth name Marion Morrison. Carroll was born in Waco, Texas and attended the Rice University in Houston before moving on to Columbia University, where he earned a bachelor...