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...Hedda Hopper was the town's genial Scold, Buster Keaton its somber Sphinx; together, they were Hollywood past and present. Keaton's world-the gothic twilight of the silent movie, the pratfall, the Quixote on a treadmill-dimmed when the sound stage dawned. Hopper's world-of glamour, gossip and low jinks among the high-lifes-survived largely because she made it seem exciting even when it was dull. When TV nearly killed the movies, she helped rescue them with exposés and exclusives, chitchat and charm; to 30 million readers, Hedda Hopper was Celluloid City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Scold & the Sphinx | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...Hedda was blessed with eternal middle age. She began her show-business career in 1913 as Elda Furry, the plumpish daughter of a Quaker meat dealer in Hollidaysburg, Pa. She had little acting ability -but that little carried her to Broad way, where she met and married Headliner DeWolf Hopper, 32 years her senior. The marriage was a failure. In 1922 they were divorced.* It was her last public failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Scold & the Sphinx | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Unlike Parsons, Hedda had a sharp sense of humor, deliberately collected the showy hats that became a national joke-and the foundation of her fame. But Hopper was known for more than her topper. She continually outreported her rival, spoon-fed the fans endlessly with the trivia that thrills. Through Hedda, the readers learned that Clark Gable had not a tooth in his head, that Joan Crawford's compulsive cleanliness caused her to drop to her hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor during a visit to SAC headquarters. The fans also got a sizable helping of bloopers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Scold & the Sphinx | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

More Hats than Hedda. In the command he inherited, Westmoreland wears more hats than Hedda Hopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...seldom heard from again. In 1947 she showed up on TV as Mrs. Hush, the mystery guest on Truth or Consequences. In 1960 she made news by writing Hedda Hopper: "I slip my old crown of It Girl not to Taylor or Bardot but to Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Girl Who Had IT | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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