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
She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
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.
At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.
About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.
Dancing came easy to me.
I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
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.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
In anger, you look ten years older.
Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.
I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four!
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.
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.
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.