Jennifer Frost, Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism. New York University Press, 2011. 281 pp. Index. B & W illustrations. Hardcover $31.50; Kindle $15.12. Hedda Hopper ...

Early one bright Hollywood day that dawned on rumors of a romance between Joan Crawford and Don Barry, the cowboy actor, Miss Crawford’s telephone tinkled. From the other end swooshed a Niagara of ...

Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as a judge on the TV game show, "What's My Line." (via Facebook fan page) “You do know, don’t you, that even well-meaning people are pawns for the powerful, and ...

The best news about Hedda Hopper is that few remember her. Hedda was a journalist (of sorts), who famously wore exotic hats and devoted herself to destroying the careers of anyone she identified as ...

“In the early ’90s, gossip became very hot.” These are the first words you hear in the new docuseries “Gossip,” coming to Showtime next week. That raised an eyebrow for me. Gossip columns didn’t ...

Keeping a stiff upper face, CBS’s Ed Sullivan read the advance publicity for Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood, the NBC show he will have to buck next Sunday. Columnist Hedda’s guest list claimed more than 20 ...

Celebrity columnist Elda Furry, of Hollidaysburg and Altoona, is back in the national spotlight in a new movie. Older readers might recognize Elda by her more familiar stage name of Hedda Hopper. Here ...

From the Queen of England, a tough chief detective and a handful of ruthless secret agents, Britain's Dame Helen Mirren has never been a woman to be messed with -- on or off screen. Now the ...

ELYRIA, Ohio -- The Lorain County Historical Society held a Valentine’s tea party entitled “Glamour and Grudges” Saturday (Feb. 12) at the Hickories Museum, a beloved historical home in Elyria now ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman discussed his book, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America," and Richard Nixon and Hedda Hopper's views about the silent film ...