"In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One."
Hedda Hopper 
She was one of the most influential and powerful women in Hollywood, in the days when women were regarded as beings Class II. She feared, despised and hated. His mansion in Beverly Hills she called "House built by fear." Unlucky actress, who became a secular obozrevatelnitsey and "Queen of gossip." Her column is entitled "Hedda Hopper, Hollywood" in the newspaper «Los Angeles Times» Hopper has brought great success and popularity, What she had not succeeded, until she tried to becoming as an actress.
"If you wear a crazy hat, no one notices the tired face beneath it."
"Our town worships success, the bitch goddess whose smile hides a taste for blood."
Hedda Hopper (English Hedda Hopper, May 2, 1890 - February 1, 1966) - American actress and gossip columnist.
Hedda Hopper, born Elda Ferri (born Elda Furry), was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania in the family of the German Anabaptists. When she was three years old, her family, where in addition she had seven more children, moved in the nearby town of Altoona, where his father Elda Ferri owned meat shop.
matured, Ferry left home and moved to New York where started working as chorus girl on Broadway. Such work has not brought her absolutely no success, and further its attempts to settle down on Broadway have not been success. For instance, Florenz Ziegfeld called it "a clumsy cow" and denied her request to get a role in his popular show. After several years of wandering Ferry managed to get into the troupe Theatre Company DeVolfa Hopper, with whom she later toured the U.S. as a chorus girl and understudy. Eventually she realized that her career did not make her famous, and out of the situation could become only the work mainly cast of troupe. Soon she was able to scrounge himself a starring role in the play "Country Boy", with which it has successfully performed over the next few months in many states.
Myrna Loy, Edwina Booth, Marion Shilling front May Carlisle, Marjorie Gateson, Anita Louise, Hedda Hopper, and Minna Gombell. further growth in a theatrical troupe and helped began an affair with her director DeVolfom Hopper, for whom in 1913 she married and became Elda Hopper. The previous four wives Hopper named Ella, Ida, Edna and Nellie, which was consonant with the name of Elda and thus it is not suited. Hopper decided to change his name, and after consultation with numerology, stopped choice on behalf of Hedda. In 1915 the couple had a son, William Hopper, who later became an actor. Hedda with her son William
William Hopper
Career In 1916, the debut of Hedda Hopper in the film in the silent film "The Battle of Hearts." In the next twelve years she has appeared in more than 120 films, performing primarily the role of secular women. After the mid 1930's her movie career began to decline, Hopper decided to seek to discover new sources of income, as had already split from her husband. In 1937 she was asked to start a career as a journalist gossip and engage in business which She always served ably - to collect gossip. Her column is titled «
Hollywood Hedda Hopper » in the newspaper «Los Angeles Times» first appeared on Feb. 14, 1938. New Hopper has brought the profession a great success and popularity of what she had not succeeded, until she tried to becoming as an actress.
Hedda in the film "The Battle of Hearts" 
scene from the movie "The Holiday" (1938)
Hedda Hopper - "fashionista" 
Parish Hopper in the world of Hollywood gossip was the beginning of its multi-year feud with another obozrevatelnitsey secular life
Luella Parsons 
Luella Parsons
Luella Parsons and Marilyn Monroe 
Luella Parsons and Mary Pickford
Hedda Hopper, Mary Pickford, Luella Parsons and Gloria Swanson 
Gina Lollobrigida, Luella Parsons, Hedda Hopper 
Gary Cooper, Luella Parsons 
Hollywood Breakfast
», where the song sounded" hat for Hedda Hopper "(English« A Hat for Hedda Hopper »). 
Lucille Ball and Hedda Hopper
Sir Charles Mendl, Hedda Hopper, Elizabeth and Tony Dyukett
Mary Pickford and Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper, Errol Flynn, and Faye Emerson
Criticism and scandals 
In its activities, Hedda Hopper, often criticized for a particularly aggressive attack on movie stars, especially in the era of McCarthyism. In the 1940's Special harassment on her part was subjected to Charlie Chaplin for his leftist political views, which largely influenced his exile in Switzerland. In its Column Hopper also repeatedly tried to expose gays in Hollywood: she wrote about love affairs Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, but Grant was at that time so popular that the punch gay to him and not glued, as well as the relationship Stewart Granger and Michael Wilding, in that the latter filed a lawsuit for libel Hopper and won the case. Hopper has also been criticized actress Seis Pitts. Hopper felt her look like a ferret, and also wrote that with such a face should not would be surprised that her film career never took place.
Hedda with producer David O. Selznick
Hedda and Samuel Goldwyn 
Gary Cooper and Hedda Hopper 
Janet Leigh and Hedda Hopper 
Clark Gable and Hedda
Lester Cowan, Rosalind Russell, Hedda Hopper, Alexander Hall and John Farrow in the movie "My Sister Eileen" (1942)
Hedda Hopper U.S. President Richard Nixon
Gene Kelly, Hedda Hopper and?
Such gossip sometimes crossed all boundaries and many Stars often with rigidity to answer them. After the publication of gossip about the relationship Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy Hopper was the last kick in the back when they met in a club in Los Angeles. After Hopper printed in his column about the extramarital affair between Joseph Cottenham and Dina Durbin, Cotten waylaid a journalist at one of the social events and pulled out from under her chair, on which she had to sit down. Joan Fontaine sent Hopper a gift for Valentine's Day skunk with a note "I smelled like you."
In 1939, Hopper appeared in his own show on the radio which has migrated to several radio stations, with success lasted until 1947. Later, she was show on television, aired on the channel CBS. At the same time Hedda Hopper periodically appear on screen as an actress. She had roles in "The Women" (1939), "Inherit the Wind" (1942), as well as she played itself at the famous Billy Wilder's noir "Sunset Boulevard", where he covered the murder in a house standards Desmond. Hedda Hopper wrote two autobiographies: "From under his hat" in 1952 and "The whole truth and nothing but" in 1962. 
Hedda Hopper
remained active as a obozrevatelnitsy gossip columnist until his death from pneumonia on Feb. 1, 1966 at age 75 was let.Ona buried in the town of Altoona, Pennsylvania, where she spent her childhood. Its contribution to the film industry marked by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1985 he was made a TV film "The intrigues in Wonderland", telling about the complicated relationships of Hedda Hopper and Luella Parsons. The role of Hopper in the film performed by Jane Alexander, which earned her a nomination for an Emmy Award. Hedda Hopper, the character played by Katherine Helmond also appears in TV movie "Liz: The Story of Elizabeth Taylor" (1995). 
Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper 
Elizabeth Taylor in the role of Luella Parsons 
*And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
*Dancing came easy to me.
*[On her acerbic writing style] Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
*(on Hollywood) Our town worships success, the bitch goddess whose smile hides a taste for blood. 
*(on Hollywood) 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.
*I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece. 
*In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
*[on Claudette Colbert] The smartest, canniest, smoothest eighteen-carat lady I've ever seen cross the Hollywood pike. She knows her own mind, knows what's right for her, has a marvelous self-discipline and a deep-rooted Gallic desire to be in shape, efficient and under control. Her career comes before anything, save possibly her marriage. 
*Joan Crawford wouldn't venture out of her Fifth Avenue apartment to buy an egg unless she is dressed to the teeth.
*[on Joan Crawford] Whenever she came to the realization that the men she loved simply didn't come back, she compensated by adopting children.
*Another dirty shirttail actor from New York. (on James Dean)
# "Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in." -Hedda Hopper (on the set of Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour)
# "About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating." -Hedda Hopper
# "I consider Frank the most superb entertainer of this age. When he's in a good mood, he's ahead of his field, and no one can equal him." -Hedda on Frank Sinatra 
# "You had to stand in line to hate him." -Hedda on Harry Cohn
# "..a national institution. Hers is the greatest talent ever developed in this town, and I've known them all. So much talent, so much pressure, so much bad advice." -Hedda on Judy Garland (1950) 
# "There's a new star in town. When the perfect gal meets the perfect part, you can expect the best. In "Born Yesterday" you get it. Judy's great, and every time she speaks, you scream with laughter." -Hedda Hopper on Judy Holladay (1950?)
# "Jack Lemmon reckons himself the luckiest boy who ever hit Hollywood." -Hedda Hopper, 1958 
# "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!" -Hedda Hopper on actress
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