Early one bright Hollywood day that dawned on rumors of a romance between Joan Crawford and Don Barry, the cowboy actor, Miss Crawford’s telephone tinkled. From the other end swooshed a Niagara of ...
Hopper knew the industry from the performer’s point of view, and quickly became well known for the reach and accuracy of her networks. “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood” debuted on Valentine’s Day, 1938. It ...
“The Queen is dead, long live the Queen!” whooped Hollywood’s Daily Variety. While Variety whooped, the movie pressagents trooped to lunch with Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper. New “Queen” Hedda had ...
Celebrity columnist Elda Furry, of Hollidaysburg and Altoona, is back in the national spotlight in a new movie. Older readers might recognize Elda by her more familiar stage name of Hedda Hopper. Here ...
“In the early ’90s, gossip became very hot.” These are the first words you hear in the new docuseries “Gossip,” coming to Showtime next week. That raised an eyebrow for me. Gossip columns didn’t ...
The best news about Hedda Hopper is that few remember her. Hedda was a journalist (of sorts), who famously wore exotic hats and devoted herself to destroying the careers of anyone she identified as ...
ELYRIA, Ohio -- The Lorain County Historical Society held a Valentine’s tea party entitled “Glamour and Grudges” Saturday (Feb. 12) at the Hickories Museum, a beloved historical home in Elyria now ...
Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as a judge on the TV game show, "What's My Line." (via Facebook fan page) “You do know, don’t you, that even well-meaning people are pawns for the powerful, and ...
I cede my column this week to Hedda Hopper, a Hollywood gossip columnist. Hopper died in 1966, but she agreed to come back again to review the Indianapolis Civic Theater benefit performance. HEDDA ...
Hedda Hopper (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966) was an American actress and gossip columnist, notorious for feuding with her arch-rival Louella Parsons. She had been a moderately successful actress of ...