Biographies: Hedda Hopper - Actor

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An American actor, born on May 2, 1885, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, as Elda Furry. Hedda Hopper was awarded a Special Journalistic Merit Award in the 1960 Golden Globe Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the same year. Hopper married actor DeWolf Hopper Sr. (1913-1924) and had one child with him before they divorced. She is better known for Sunset Blvd (1950), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929), Men Must Fight (1933), and The Women (1939). Hedda Hopper was born to a father who worked as a butcher, and in 1903, she ran away from home to New York and got a job in an opera company. She made her movie debut in 1916. She moved to Hollywood with her son in 1920. In 1936, Hedda hosted a gossip radio show, and after two years, she started her job as a newspaper gossip columnist. Hedda Hopper died on February 1, 1966, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, of double pneumonia.

• 22 May 2022
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