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.
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.
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.
I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
Dancing came easy to me.
About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.