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Hedda Hopper
Elda Furry, known professionally as Hedda Hopper, was an American gossip columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, more than 35 million people read her columns. A strong supporter of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings, Hopper named suspected Communists and was a major proponent of the Hollywood blacklist. Hopper continued to write her gossip column…
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culture · American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966) · journalist · stage actor · film actor · television actor · radio personality · film critic · writer · columnist · actor · also Hedda Hopper, Elda Furry, Hedda DeWolf Hopper, Hopper
Born 2 May 1885 · Died 1 February 1966 · Q271324
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2025· 2 entries
Moviefone: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941)
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2017· 1 entry
Hopper was played by Judy Davis, who received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination
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2013· 1 entry
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Gossip Girl: Hedda Hopper’s Conservative Empire
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2009· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Hedda Hopper News
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1966· 2 entries
Of double pneumonia at the age of 80 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
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Died 1966-02-01.
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1963· 1 entry
Hopper complained in her column that three out of five Best Actor Oscar nominees were British and only two were American: "The weather's so foul on that tight little isle that, to get in out of the rain, they all gather
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1960· 1 entry
A television special, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood, aired on NBC
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1948· 1 entry
And later the Chief Justice of the United States
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1946· 1 entry
With a weekly 15-minute program, This Is Hollywood, sponsored by Procter & Gamble
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1945· 2 entries
Moved to ABC, still sponsored by Armour, for a weekly program that continued until June 3, 1946
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Hopper reprinted a press release for Mildred Pierce in her column, which described Crawford as a leading contender for the Best Actress Oscar
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1944· 1 entry
And devoted to rooting out suspected Communists in Hollywood
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1943· 1 entry
Denied that he was the father of 22-year old actress Joan Barry’s child, Hopper assisted Barry in filing a paternity suit against Chaplin, launching a campaign of attrition against him through her column, and calling
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1939· 1 entry
Hopper printed that President Franklin Roosevelt's son James Roosevelt was divorcing his wife Betsey after being caught in an affair with a nurse at the Mayo Clinic
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1937· 1 entry
Hopper was offered another gossip column opportunity, this time with the Los Angeles Times
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1935· 1 entry
Agreed to write a weekly Hollywood gossip column for The Washington Herald at $50 a week (equivalent to $1,174 in 2025), which was cancelled after four months when she refused to take a $15 pay cut
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1923· 1 entry
Moved to Hollywood and became a contract player for Louis B
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1913· 2 entries
Hopper married actor and singer DeWolf Hopper in New Jersey
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Became the fifth wife of DeWolf Hopper, whose previous wives were named Ella, Ida, Edna and Nella
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-05-02.
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