Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopperwas an American actress and one of America's best-known gossip columnists, notorious for feuding with her arch-rival Louella Parsons. She had been a moderately successful actress of stage and screen for years before being offered the chance to write the column Hedda Hopper's Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times in 1938. In the McCarthy era she named suspected Communists. Hopper continued to write gossip to the end, her work appearing in many magazines and later on radio...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 May 1885
CityHollidaysburg, PA
CountryUnited States of America
No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.
And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.
Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
In anger, you look ten years older.
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.