Word: elda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked Elda Weaver to marry him. Like the Kuesters, the Weavers were of German stock. Says Elda's mother who, though eightyish, is still rugged, still speaks with a German accent: "God guided every step of our way to this blessed country...
...Chapman, who was his own legman and even typed his own copy, Hedda Hopper is real Hollywood. Not by accident has she risen in four years to challenge Lolly Parsons as chief outlet for Hollywood publicity. At 52, brown-haired, boisterous Hedda, who started life as plain Pennsylvania Quakeress Elda Furry, has been nearly 25 years in the movies (acting in over 100 pictures), was the fifth of the late Actor DeWolf Hopper's six wives, between times got "kicked around plenty" while staging fashion shows, coaching actors, selling real estate, even running for political office...
...fifth wife of the late, oft-wedded DeWolf Hopper, Hedda was born Elda Furry near Altoona, Pa., changed her first name as well as her last after marrying Hopper, partly to distinguish herself from her predecessors (Ella, Ida. Edna and Nella), partly to comply with the instructions of a numerologist. Her long connection with the cinema dates back 25 years. Credited with knowing more extramarital yarns about cinemagnates than even the relentless Louella. Hedda was signed up for a Hollywood column three years ago on the recommendation of M. G. M.'s publicity office, soon established herself so firmly...