Hedda Hopper

Journalist

Birthday May 2, 1885

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Hollidaysburg, PA

DEATH DATE Feb 1, 1966 (80)

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Numerology: 2

About

Hollywood gossip columnist and rival of film critic and fellow gossip writer Louella Parsons. Her "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" column, which eventually fed the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era by naming alleged communists, first appeared in the Los Angeles Times in the late 1930s.

Before Fame

Before becoming a journalist, she had a career as a Broadway chorus girl.

Trivia

She and her siblings grew up in a German Baptist Brethren family in Pennsylvania.

Family Life

She married actor DeWolf Hopper in 1913; together, they raised an actor son, William Hopper.

Associated With

She once interviewed Lucille Ball on a television special.

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