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18 de may. de 2020 · There, terrified actors were plied with alcohol, spilling secrets—often their friends’—while Hopper “shrewdly sipped tonic water.” But not every movie star took Hopper’s abuse lying down.
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Hedda Hopper was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, but she was not that city’s most famous export. Hollidaysburg just happens to be the birthplace of that stair-crawling super-toy, the Slinky. As the song goes, everyone loves a Slinky. Due to Hedda’s notoriety, it’s safe to say that more than a few people in Hollywood would rather push Hopper do...
Born to Pennsylvania Dutch parents, Hedda Hopper was originally christened Elda Furry. Not only would she change her name but the year on her birth certificate, as well. Hopper moved the date up just a smidge, to 1895 from 1890. The revision literally took years off her life, but, hey you’re only as old as you feel, right? Shutterstock
The erstwhile Elda Furry wasn’t content to stay in Hollidaysburg, and as soon as she got the chance, she hightailed it to the Big Apple. Sadly, Hopper had Broadway dreams but budget talent. An audition for the famed Ziegfeld Follies led to Florenz Ziegfeld himself calling Hopper a “clumsy cow” and shouting her offstage. Wikimedia Commons
One person who did show interest in the aspiring actress was DeWolf Hopper. The Broadway star was famous for his recitations of poetry—he was actually the one who popularized the baseball poem “Casey at the Bat.” DeWolf invited Hedda to join his theater troupe as an understudy. But that wasn’t all that he was interested in. By 1913, DeWolf and Hedd...
DeWolf Hopper was 37 years older than Hedda and had already been through four marriages. In fact, he had already divorced his first wife and married his second before Hedda was even born! DeWolf’s marriage habit earned him an especially unflattering nickname: “the Husband of the Country.” Wikimedia Commons
DeWolf taste’s in women was extremely, extremelyniche: his previous wives were named Ella, Ida, and Edna, respectively. Add “Elda” to the mix, and you could understand if DeWolf got a little confused sometimes and called her Edna or Ida. These little accidents annoyed the newest Mrs. Hopper to no end, but DeWolf just could not seem to help it. Fina...
The name Hedda came from an unlikely place. It was chosen by a fortune teller, and the newly minted Hedda Hopper paid $10 for the consultation. Sadly, the name change did little to ease the marital tensions, and the Hoppers were divorced by 1922. You’d think that fortune teller would have warned her. Shutterstock
Hedda and DeWolf had a son named William whom Hedda pushed into the family business. William began acting as a teenager and even landed a contract with Paramount Studios, but he did not much like it. World War II gave William the perfect opportunity to escape show business altogether. He spent the war serving as a frogman in the Navy and took a job...
William Hopper did eventually return to acting. In 1956, he landed the role that would define his career, that of detective Paul Drake in the long-running crime drama Perry Mason. It was a plum gig, but Hopper was disappointed—he had auditioned for the title role. Wikimedia Commons
With her marriage to DeWolf on the rocks, Hopper abandoned the stage for the exciting new world of motion pictures. Though still occasionally billed as “Mrs. DeWitt Hopper,” Hedda Hopper appeared in dozens of silent films through the 1920s. Most of Hopper’s films are now lost, but a few interesting specimens remain. Among Hopper’s credits are an ea...
10 de jun. de 2023 · Hedda Hopper's columns could be malicious and personal, revealing the most intimate details of a star's private life to the public, but there were some lines that she did not cross, and those lines were mostly drawn by the studios.
Elda Furry (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Hedda Hopper, was an American gossip columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, over 35 million people read her columns.
YearTitleRoleNotes1916Maida RhodesLost film Credited as Elda Furry1917Sylvia MarloweLost film Credited as Elda Milar1917June JusticeLost film1917Myra ThornhillCredited as Elda Furry1 de abr. de 1997 · Hopper weakened women’s wills “with his voice,” Hedda recalled. “It was like some great church organ”—an apparatus sonorous enough to persuade her to become his fifth wife, in 1913.
24 de oct. de 2023 · Hedda Hopper was one of the founders of the right-wing motion picture group that fomented the House Un-American Activities Committee. And she had also been abandoned by an older roue husband ...
3 de sept. de 2015 · The decision to credit Trumbo spurred threats of boycotts and demonstrations from self-styled patriotic groups, and Hopper kept hammering at the studios in her columns and on radio and TV.
