Hedda Hopper
Acting
Biography
Hedda Hopper (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966) was an American actress and gossip columnist, notorious for feuding with her arch-rival Louella Parsons. She had been a moderately successful actress of stage and screen for years before being offered the chance to write the column Hedda Hopper's Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times in 1938. At the height of her power in the 1940s she commanded a 35 million strong readership. She was well known for her political conservatism, and during the McCarthy era she named suspected communists. Hopper continued to write gossip until the end, her work appearing in many magazines and later on radio. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: May 1, 1885
Place of Birth: Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
Midnight
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.
The Man Who Played God
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
Wings
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
The Women
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Hedda Hopper
as Herself
as Self
as Herself
as Hedda Hopper
as Self
as Self
as Hedda Hopper
as Maizie Weldon
as Self - Announcer
as Self
as Hedda Hopper
as Self
as Hedda Hopper
as Self
as Self - Panelist
as Herself
as Self
as Herself
as Aunt Henrietta
as Herself - Host
as Self - Host
as Mrs. Aldrich
as Mrs. North
as Mrs. Emily Sturgis
as Hedda Hopper (Uncredited)
as Mrs. Aldrich
as Dolly Dupuyster
as Stephanie
as Polly Griscom
as Mrs. Carson
as Mrs. Harrison
as Penny Reed
as Dowager on Ship (uncredited)
as Mrs. Van Klettering
as Mrs. Townsend
as Mrs. Stuyvesant
as Lottie Courtney
as Agnes White
as Mrs. Dorothy Kent
as Lady Esme Hammond
as Mrs. Murray Hill
as Mrs. Marian Tallman
as Tutor
as Mrs. Cummings
as Alvin's Mother
as Mrs. Palmer
as Mrs. Vandergriff
as Mrs. Ronald Ash-Orcutt
as Laura Proctor
as Mrs. Burton
as Lady Daniels
as Madame Sonia Barton
as Mrs. Worth
as Mrs. Loway
as Mrs. Chase
as Jean
as Mrs. Peets
as Countess De Marnac
as Ella Dwight
as Ines Montari
as Mrs. Rand
as Mrs. Alice Chittendon
as Mrs. Atherton
as Mrs. Trent
as Mrs. Smith
as Liz Crawford
as Mrs. Marian Radcliffe
as Claire Neville Collis
as Auntie
as Hedda - Norma's Friend
as Mrs. Stanslaw
as Mrs. Stanlaw
as Callie
as Christine
as Mrs. Clara Williams (uncredited)
as Matron
as Mrs. Russ-Weaver
as Madge Livingston
as Susan Potter
as Aunt Pat
as Mrs. Divine
as Muriel Wyndham
as Mrs. Lee
as Mrs. Page
as Mrs. Collingswood Stratton
as Be Kind to Animals Society President
as Lady Maria
as Mrs. Moore
as Mrs. Hartley
as Mrs. Hazzit
as Mrs. Garrett
as Mrs. C. King
as Countess Ferenzi
as Mrs. Ann Blair
as (uncredited)
as Hedda Frane
as Mrs. Hamill
as Olive Gresham
as Mrs. Powell (uncredited)
as Katherine Flanders
as Mrs. Aldrich
as Jean's Mother
as The Modiste
as The Society Woman
as Marchesia Rinaldo
as Mrs. Gould
as Mrs. Colby
as Mrs. Van Dream
as Valentina
as Margaret Wyndham
as Mrs. Clarice Vidal
as Mrs. Caldwell
as Muriel Church
as Lady Wildering
as Mrs. Bernice Hamilton
as Mrs. Leiter
as Elizabeth MacKenzie
as Mary Tate
as Mrs. Chrystal Pole
as Nina Neilson
as Madame Zoe
as Mrs. Kane Norton Tappan
as Mrs. Adams
as Eleanor Carter
as Mrs. Neer
as Madge Larrabee
as Vida Phillimore
as Countess of Rochester
as Mrs. Harmon
as Mrs. Howard Jeffries Sr
as Irma Delabarre
as Myrna Bliss
as Society Woman (uncredited)
as Hattie King
as Myra Thornhill (as Elda Furry)
as Maida Rhodes