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 ...

Hedda Hopper was allowed a $5,000 IRS exemption for her signature hats. Getty Images. If you didn’t take her call, you were dead. If you lied to her, you were dead.

Hedda’s triumph was a triumph for gossip over news. On June 1 her column will supplant that of the New York Daily News’s John Chapman. During his two years in Hollywood he stuck to news, not ...

Hedda Hopper’s first big scoop came at the expense of the president’s son. In 1939, the 52-year-old failed actress and fledgling gossip columnist obtained an interview with James Roosevelt, ...

Women In History actresses (Linda Witkowski, left, and Ruth Pangrace) entertained as "Hedda Hopper" and "Louella Parsons" at the Hickories Valentine Tea in Elyria.

A column I wrote a year ago about the power of legendary gossip columnist Hedda “the Hat” Hopper captured the attention of Marti Ross of St. John. I had published this column just prior to the ...

In 1962, powerful Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper held a strange and intimate dinner party, hosting rival movie stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis for a truce meal at her home on Tropical Avenue ...

No. I think we distilled the essence of Hedda Hopper in making Helen be Hedda. The thing about Hedda is how her clothes don’t really go with the hats. It’s not usually an outfit.