GOSSIP! GOSSIP! GOSSIP! HOLLYWOOD! BEVERLY HILLS! NEWS! SCANDALS! COMPLICATED LIVES! RADIO! MOTION PICTURES! CELEBRITIES! TELEVISION! BROADCASTING! "ALL THE STARS IN HEAVEN & IN HELL!" WASHINGTON! ENGLAND! FRANCE! ITALY! SPAIN! GENEVA/SWITZERLAND! THE WORLD! ROYALTY! THE RICH & FAMOUS!MOVIE STARS! TELEVISION DINOS & DIVAS! MOGULS! TRILLIONAIRES! SOCIALITES! DEBUTANTES! EMPIRES! CURRENT & X-LOVERS! CELEBRITY SONS & DAUGHTERS! REAL EVIDENCE! PHOTOGRAPHS! SIGNED LETTERS! DNA! HOLLYWOOD HAUNTINGS! MARTINIS & TEA,.... GALLA OPENINGS!! PREMIERES! INDUSTRY EVENTS!! "TABLE HOPPER-ING!" FASHION! THE THEATRE, BROADWAY, ACTING, WRITING, PERFORMING, THE CREATIVE ARTS, REPORTING THE TRUTH, POLITICS, HATS, HATS, & MORE HATS,... "GORGEOUS MEN & WOMEN!" - LIKE GEORGE RAFT! & THE BARRYMORES"WHO SLEPT WITH WHO?""WHO'S DRUNK & WHO'S NOT!" "THE DISH, THE DIRT, THE WHOLE TRUTH & NOTHING BUT!!!"
I'VE MET EVERYONE WHO'S ANYONE!ONLY INTERESTED NOW IN MEETING:ANYONE WHO'S GOT SOMETHING NEWSWOTHY TO TELL ME & ME ONLY!ANY TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY!SCORNED LOVERS!TELL-ALL CONFESSORS!PEOPLE WHO WANT PAYBACK!BRIBERS!IF YOU'LL SCRATCH MY BACK, ... I'LL SCRATCH YOURS!I'D LIKE TO MEET: EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT ANYONE! HEDDA'S HALL OF FAME HAT COLLECTION WORN BY MY FAVORITE FRIENDS: IF YOU'VE GOT A GREAT HAT PICTURE SEND IT MY WAY--YOUR INFAMY & PUBLIC AWAITS!!!
"ANY GOOD GOSSIP WHISPERED TO ME IS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TO MY EARS." Hedda Hopper (1890-1966)was born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She was active on the stage before her marriage in 1913 to matinee idol DeWolf Hopper, whose name she took as her own and whom she divorced in 1921. The actress made her screen debut in 1916 with Battle of Hearts and appeared in supporting roles in dozens of films through the early 1930s, usually portraying distinguished-looking society women. As her film career petered out in the mid-1930s, Hopper looked for other sources of income, and in 1937 embarked on a new career as a gossip columnist. She remained active as a columnist and fan magazine writer until her death, producing six daily columns and a Sunday column—for the Chicago Tribune syndicate—as well as countless articles for popular and fan magazines.The Hedda Hopper Collection spans the years 1901-1966 (bulk late 1940s to mid-1960s) and encompasses 32 linear feet. The collection consists of Hopper's personal files related almost exclusively to her work as a columnist and to her social life. The major portion consists of the general files kept by Hopper on various personalities not only from the world of film, but also from the political arena (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and others). Hundreds of people, from Bud Abbott to Darryl F. Zanuck, are represented. Included are transcripts of interviews conducted either in person or by telephone (it is not always clear which), as well as some correspondence. Interviews generally cover whatever film or television project the subject was involved with at the time of the interview. Some files only contain thank-you letters or notes with no interesting content and relate only to the subject's mention in one of Hopper's columns or articles. Letters, often handwritten, with interesting content include those from Tallulah Bankhead, Theda Bara, Candice Bergen, Clara Bow, Frank Capra, Maurice Chevalier, Constance Collier, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Deanna Durbin, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Garfield, Greer Garson, Jackie Gleason, D. W. Griffith, Katharine Hepburn, Jeanette MacDonald, Mary Martin, the Marx Brothers, Steve McQueen, Clifford Odets, Sir Laurence Olivier, Mary Pickford, Luise Rainer, Edward G. Robinson, Mickey Rooney, Mack Sennett, Pete Smith, Shirley Temple, and Orson Welles. Among the hundreds of interviews are those with Lauren Bacall, Samuel Bronston, Gary Cooper, George Cukor, Walt Disney, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Buster Keaton, Ernie Kovacs, Roddy McDowall, Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier, Ginger Rogers, David O. Selznick, Shirley Temple, King Vidor, and Mae West. In addition to the general files, there is correspondence with magazines and newspapers; daily columns from January 1962 to December 1966; typescripts of special stories; other documentation of Hopper's activities, travels, and attendance at various events; documentation of television and radio appearances; awards; and scrapbooks. The thirty-four scrapbooks contain Hopper's columns from 1938 through 1966. Gift of the Hedda Hopper estate and William Hopper, May 1966.
HEDDA HOPPER(real name Elda Furry) was an American actress. She was born in 1890 and died in 1966.HEDDA HOPPER'S: Actress - filmography (1960s) (1950s) (1940s) (1930s) (1920s) (1910s)Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966) (TV) .... Hedda, the Mad Hatter ... aka Alice in Wonderland (USA: short title) Pepe (1960) .... Cameo appearance "Playhouse 90" - For I Have Loved Strangers (1957) TV Episode .... Hostess - The Hostess with the Mostess (1957) TV Episode .... Maizie Weldon - The Last Tycoon (1957) TV Episode .... Host "Goodyear Television Playhouse" ... aka Goodyear Playhouse (new title) - A. Fadeout (1953) TV Episode .... Hostess Reap the Wild Wind (1942) .... Aunt Henrietta Beresford ... aka Cecil B. DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind (USA: complete title) I Wanted Wings (1941) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Young Life with Henry (1941) .... Mrs. Aldrich Cross-Country Romance (1940) .... Mrs. North Queen of the Mob (1940) .... Mrs. Emily Sturgis Laugh It Off (1939) .... Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Rockingham ... aka Lady Be Gay (USA) What a Life (1939) .... Mrs. Aldrich The Women (1939) .... Dolly Dupuyster (columnist) Midnight (1939) .... Stephanie Thanks for the Memory (1938/II) .... Polly Griscom Dangerous to Know (1938) .... Mrs. Carson Maid's Night Out (1938) .... Mrs. Harrison Tarzan's Revenge (1938) .... Penny Reed, Eleanor's Mother Nothing Sacred (1937) (uncredited) .... Dowager Vogues of 1938 (1937) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Van Klettering ... aka All This and Glamour Too ... aka Vogues (USA: TV title) ... aka Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (USA: complete title) Artists & Models (1937) .... Mrs. Townsend Topper (1937) .... Mrs. Grace Stuyvesant Dangerous Holiday (1937) .... Lottie Courtney You Can't Buy Luck (1937) .... Mrs. Agnes White ... aka Borrowed Time Bunker Bean (1936) .... Mrs. Dorothy Kent ... aka His Majesty Bunker Bean (UK) Dracula's Daughter (1936) .... Lady Esme Hammond ... aka Daughter of Dracula Doughnuts and Society (1936) .... Mrs. Murray Hill ... aka Stepping Into Society (UK) The Dark Hour (1936) .... Mrs. Tallman Ship Cafe (1935) .... Tutor Three Kids and a Queen (1935) .... Mrs. Cummings ... aka The Baxter Millions (UK) I Live My Life (1935) .... Alvin's Mother Alice Adams (1935) .... Mrs. Palmer ... aka Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams (USA: complete title) Society Fever (1935) .... Mrs. Vandergriff ... aka Love Fever (USA) Lady Tubbs (1935) .... Mrs. Ash-Orcutt ... aka The Gay Lady (UK) One Frightened Night (1935) .... Laura Proctor No Ransom (1934) .... Mrs. John Winfield ... aka Bonds of Honor (UK) Let's Be Ritzy (1934) .... Mrs. Burton ... aka Millionaire for a Day (UK) Little Man, What Now? (1934) .... Nurse Bombay Mail (1934) .... Lady Daniels Beauty for Sale (1933) .... Madame Sonia Barton ... aka Beauty Pilgrimage (1933) .... Mrs. Worth (Gary Worth's mother) The Barbarian (1933) .... Mrs. Loway, American Tourist ... aka A Night in Cairo (UK) ... aka Man of the Nile ... aka The Arab Men Must Fight (1933) .... Mrs. Chase The Unwritten Law (1932) .... Jean Speak Easily (1932) .... Mrs. Peets Downstairs (1932) .... Countess De Marnac Skyscraper Souls (1932) .... Ella Dwight ... aka Skyscraper (USA) As You Desire Me (1932) .... Madame Montari Night World (1932) .... Mrs. Rand The Man Who Played God (1932) .... Alice Chittendon ... aka The Silent Voice (UK) Good Sport (1931) .... Mrs. Atherton West of Broadway (1931) .... Mrs. Edith Trent Flying High (1931) .... Mrs. Smith ... aka George White's Flying High ... aka Happy Landing (UK) Rebound (1931) .... Liz Crawford The Mystery Train (1931) .... Mrs. Marian Radcliffe The Common Law (1931) .... Mrs. Claire Collis Shipmates (1931) .... Auntie A Tailor Made Man (1931) .... Mrs. Stanlaw Men Call It Love (1931) .... Callie The Prodigal (1931) .... Christine ... aka The Southerner (USA) ... aka Wandering Son (USA: TV title) The Easiest Way (1931) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Clara Williams War Nurse (1930) .... Mrs. Townsend, Matron Our Blushing Brides (1930) .... Mrs. Lansing Ross-Weaver Let Us Be Gay (1930) .... Madge Livingston Holiday (1930) .... Susan Potter Murder Will Out (1930) .... Aunt Pat High Society Blues (1930) .... Mrs. Divine Such Men Are Dangerous (1930) .... Muriel Wyndham A Song of Kentucky (1929) .... Mrs. Coleman The Racketeer (1929) .... Karen Lee ... aka Love's Conquest (UK) Half Marriage (1929) .... Mrs. Page His Glorious Night (1929) .... Mrs. Collingswood Stratton ... aka Breath of Scandal Cat, Dog & Co. (1929) .... President of the Be Kind to Animals Society The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) .... Lady Maria Girls Gone Wild (1929) .... Mrs. Holworthy Runaway Girls (1928) .... Mrs. Hartley Undressed (1928) .... Mrs. Stanley Green Grass Widows (1928) .... Mrs. Worthing Harold Teen (1928) .... Mrs. Hazzit The Chorus Kid (1928) .... Mrs. Garrett ... aka Her Great Ambition The Port of Missing Girls (1928) .... Mrs. C. King The Whip Woman (1928) .... Countess Ferenzi Love and Learn (1928) .... Mrs. Ann Blair Companionate Marriage (1928) .... Mrs. Moore ... aka The Jazz Bride French Dressing (1927) (uncredited) .... Bit Part ... aka Lessons for Wives (UK) A Reno Divorce (1927) .... Hedda Frane The Drop Kick (1927) .... Mrs. Hamill ... aka Glitter (UK) One Woman to Another (1927) .... Olive Gresham Wings (1927) (uncredited) .... Mrs. Powell Adam and Evil (1927) .... Eleanor Leighton The Cruel Truth (1927) .... Grace Sturdevant Black Tears (1927) Children of Divorce (1927) .... Katherine Flanders Matinee Ladies (1927) .... Mrs. Aldrich Venus of Venice (1927) .... Jean's Mother Orchids and Ermine (1927) .... The Modiste Obey the Law (1926) Fools of Fashion (1926) .... Countess de Fragni Don Juan (1926) .... Marchesia Rinaldo The Silver Treasure (1926) .... Mrs. Gould Lew Tyler's Wives (1926) .... Virginia Philips Skinner's Dress Suit (1926) .... Mrs. Colby Pleasures of the Rich (1926) .... Mona Vincent The Caveman (1926) .... Mrs. Van Dream Dance Madness (1926) Borrowed Finery (1925) .... Mrs. Bordon The Teaser (1925) .... Margaret Wyndham Raffles (1925) .... Mrs. Clarice Vidal ... aka Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman ... aka The Amateur Cracksman Zander the Great (1925) .... Mrs. Caldwell Dangerous Innocence (1925) .... Muriel Church Declassée (1925) .... Lady Wildering ... aka The Social Exile Her Market Value (1925) .... Mrs. Bernice Hamilton The Snob (1924) .... Mrs. Leiter Sinners in Silk (1924) .... Mrs. Stevens Miami (1924) .... Mary Tate Happiness (1924) .... Mrs. Chrystal Pole Why Men Leave Home (1924) .... Nina Neilson Gambling Wives (1924) .... Madame Zoe Another Scandal (1924) .... Cousin Elizabeth MacKenzie Reno (1923) .... Mrs. Kate Norton Tappan Has the World Gone Mad! (1923) .... Mrs. Adams Women Men Marry (1922) .... Eleanor Carter What's Wrong with the Women? (1922) .... Mrs. Neer Sherlock Holmes (1922) .... Madge Larrabee ... aka Moriarty (UK) Conceit (1921) .... Mrs. Crombie The Inner Chamber (1921) (as Mrs. De Wolf Hopper) .... Mrs. Candor Heedless Moths (1921) .... His Wife The New York Idea (1920) .... Vida Phillimore The Man Who Lost Himself (1920) .... Countess of Rochester The Isle of Conquest (1919) .... Mrs. Harmon Sadie Love (1919) .... Mrs. James Wakeley The Third Degree (1919) .... Mrs. Howard Jeffries Sr Virtuous Wives (1918) (as Mrs. DeWolf Hopper) .... Irma Delabarre By Right of Purchase (1918) (uncredited) .... Society Woman The Beloved Traitor (1918) .... Myrna Bliss Nearly Married (1917) .... Hattie King Her Excellency, the Governor (1917) (as Elda Millar) .... SylviaMarlowe Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917) (as Elda Furry) .... Myra Thornhill The Battle of Hearts (1916) (as Elda Furry) .... Maida Rhodes ... aka A Battle of Hearts (copyright title) THERE ARE SO MANY STARS I HAVE CHAMPIONED! LUCILLE BALL & I!!! Robert Walker with Hedda Hopper and Miss Photoflash 1946 - Shirley Molohon JOAN CRAWFORD WILLINGLY POSING FOR THE PRESS!!!
Hedda Hopper As Herself - Television Credits Include: (1960s) (1950s) (1940s) (1930s)The Oscar (1966) .... Herself "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" ... aka The Best of Carson (USA: rerun title) - Episode dated 15 March 1965 (1965) TV Episode .... Herself "The Beverly Hillbillies" - Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (1964) TV Episode .... Herself The Patsy (1964) .... Herself "What's My Line?" - Episode dated 10 March 1963 (1963) TV Episode .... Mystery Guest - Episode dated 22 April 1962 (1962) TV Episode .... Mystery Guest - Episode dated 11 October 1959 (1959) TV Episode .... Herself - Mystery Guest - Episode dated 27 May 1956 (1956) TV Episode .... Guest Panelist - Episode dated 20 May 1956 (1956) TV Episode .... Guest Panelist (1 more) "The Merv Griffin Show" - Episode dated 1 March 1963 (1963) TV Episode .... Herself"Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse" ... aka Desilu Playhouse - The Desilu Revue (1959) TV Episode .... Herself Disneyland '59 (1959) (TV) .... Herself ... aka Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" ... aka The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ... aka We Love Lucy (USA: syndication title) - Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana (1957) TV Episode .... Herself "I Love Lucy" ... aka Lucy in Connecticut (USA: rerun title) ... aka The Lucy Show (USA: rerun title) ... aka The Sunday Lucy Show (USA: rerun title) ... aka The Top Ten Lucy Show (USA: rerun title) - The Hedda Hopper Story (1955) TV Episode .... Herself "This Is Your Life" - William Wellman (1954) TV Episode .... Herself A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954) (TV) .... Herself Cancer Fund Film Notables Attend Glittering Benefits (1951) .... Herself Sunset Blvd. (1950) .... Herself ... aka Sunset Boulevard (UK) (USA: alternative spelling)Screen Snapshots No. 5 (1947) .... Herself Breakfast in Hollywood (1946) .... Herself, Hedda Hopper ... aka The Mad Hatter (UK) Unusual Occupations (1946/II) (uncredited) .... Herself Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 6 (1942) .... Herself/narrator Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 5 (1942) .... Herself/narrator Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4 (1942) .... Herself/Host Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (1942) .... Herself/narrator Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941) .... Herself/narrator Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941) .... Herself/narratorThat's Right - You're Wrong (1939) (uncredited) .... Herself The Slippery Pearls (1931) .... Herself ... aka The Stolen JoolsFilmography as: Actress, Herself, Archive FootageArchive FootageJunket Whore (1998) .... Herself Great Romances of the 20th Century: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (1997) (TV) .... Herself Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980) (TV) .... Herself Hollywood Without Make-Up (1963) .... Herself
MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS CALLED, "FROM UNDER MY HAT" - PUBLISHED IN 1952/DOUBLEDAY.MY NEXT HOT READ IS CALLED, "THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT" -1963/DOUBLEDAY."Hedda and Louella" by George Eells (1973)."Nobody's interested in sweetness and light! -Hedda Hopper DROP ME A LINE SOMETIME!!! HOW LUCKY YOU ARE NOT TO HAVE TO USE POSTAGE!!! Fifties copy of Photoplay featuring an article on Hedda Hopper.Photoplay was one of the first celebritymagazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded a similar magazine entitled Motion Picture Story.Photoplay began as a short-fiction magazine concerned mostly with the plots and characters of films at the time and was used as a promotional tool for those films. In 1915, Julian Johnson and James Quirk became the editors (though Quirk had been vice-president of the magazine since its inception), and together they created a format which would set a precedent for almost all celebrity magazines that followed. By 1918 the editors could boast a circulation figure of 204,434, the popularity of the magazine fueled by the public's ever increasing interest in the private lives of celebrities. It is because of this that the magazine is credited with inventing celebrity media.From 1920-1939 and 1944-1968, Photoplay gave out awards. First called Medals of Honor and later, Gold Medals, they were given out for the best movie, most popular male star and most popular female star. Photoplay readers, not critics, voted on the awards which pre-dated the Academy Awards. During the 1940's, the Gallup Poll company ran polls that determined the winners.Photoplay published the writings of Hedda Hopper, Walter Winchell, Cal York, Sidney Skolsky, Adela Rogers St. John, Sheilah Graham, Dorothy Kigallen, and Louella Parsons, among others.Photoplay merged with another fan magazine, Movie Mirror, in 1941; and changed again in 1977, when the name became Photoplay and TV Mirror.
WALT DISNEY! GLORIA SWANSON! LUCILLE BALL! NORMA SHEARER! ROSALIND RUSSELL! ELEANOR ROOSEVELT! CHARLES CHAPLIN LOUIS B. MAYER! The Paramount Braintrust: Portrait of the Famous Players-Lasky team shortly after their takeover of Paramount in 1916. Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Sam Goldfish (Goldwyn), Cecil B. DeMille, and Al Kaufman.Thomas Edison /The Edison Movie Monopoly