#hedda hopper

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A birthday party for Ingrid Bergman on April 5, 1959. She had just returned back to Hollywood (after her affair with Roberto Rossellini and almost decade long self-exile in Italy). These photos show Hedda Hopper, Gary Cooper, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and Rosalind Russell at the party. The man in glasses is Lars Schmidt, Ingrid's second husband. The party was given my Buddy Adler and his wife Anita Louise. Some of the other guests were Cary Grant, William Wyler, Jennifer Jones, David O'Selznick and Billy Wilder.

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David O. Selznick and Hedda Hopper deep in conversation in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1945.

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Audrey Hepburn and Hedda Hopper at the "My Fair Lady" premiere in Hollywood. Photography by Chester Maydole October 1964

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Anthony Perkins and Sophia Loren being photographed by the press with fierce and feared Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper at the "Welcome to Hollywood" party for Loren held by Paramount Pictures at Romanoff's restaurant in Beverly Hills on April 12th, 1957, and Sophia shaking veteran film star George Raft's hand while Tony feeds her pasta at the party. Sophia and Tony remained good friends for the rest of Perkins' life and starred in two movies together, Desire Under the Elms in 1958 and Five Miles to Midnight in 1962.

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Hedda Hopper

All Glammed Up

By James Abbe (1921)

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Hedda Hopper began acting in silent movies in 1915. Her motion picture debut was in The Battle of Hearts (1916) with William Farnum, but she made a major splash in Virtuous Wives (1918), in which she established her pattern of playing society women.

While she had a brief acting career in the 1920s and early 1930s, she is more famously known for her syndicated newspaper column, which began in 1936, and her role in Hollywood's blacklist era. 

(Blacklisting): Film studios compiled lists of individuals deemed unfit for employment based on their political beliefs or refusal to cooperate with investigations. 

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Hedda Hopper chats with Joan Crawford in between takes in The Women, 1939

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LOS ANGELES - OCTOBER 1: CBS Radio personality and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and son, William DeWolf Hopper, Jr. (William Hopper). Hollywood, CA. Image dated October 1, 1940. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)