Hedda Hopper

Hollywood gossip columnist and rival of film critic and fellow gossip writer Louella Parsons. Her "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" column, which eventually fed the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era by naming alleged communists, first appeared in the Los Angeles Times in the late 1930s.

Hedda Hopper was born 2nd May 1885 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Their primary profession is listed as journalist. They died in 1966. On 2 May, 589 people in our archive share this birthday.