Hedda Hopper Quotes

Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

I went to Europe in 1917 with sixty-five lbs. on my back,” he told Hedda Hopper in a May 17, 1960, radio interview. To another interviewer, he quipped, “I learned to run the 100-yard dash in eight seconds flat, carrying a full pack.” He served for nineteen months as a private in the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France. He never said much about what combat was like, except to confess that he was “severely frightened 500 times.

April 26: Marilyn attends the Newspaper Public Convention luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria. She is photographed with Hedda Hopper and J. Edgar Hoover.

June 17: A letter from Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison (probably written by John F. Wharton) suggests that an article in Motion Picture by Hedda Hopper is libelous, according to Sam Silverman, a libel expert in Wharton’s firm. “I shall only say that bringing a libel suit might result in giving Miss Hopper a greater opportunity to display her venom. That doesn’t mean that we wouldn’t bring the suit if you wish us to.” Marilyn did not wish to.

May 4: Hedda Hopper publishes “The Blowtorch Blonde” in the Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine: “Marilyn Monroe who has zoomed to stardom after a three-year stretch as a cheesecake queen is easily the most delectable dish of the day. . . . She is fast supplanting Sam Goldwyn as a source of anecdotes and every producer at Twentieth is bidding for her as box office insurance.

appearing. After seeing the completed film, Brennan thanked Goldwyn for persuading him to do it. “It’s stories like these,” he told Hedda Hopper, “that make you realize it isn’t all beer and skittles in the life of a producer. I don’t mean our people should be mollycoddles and do things against their will, but they should listen to men who back their own opinions with their own cash.” Brennan always had a healthy respect for businessmen and liked to think of himself as one, too.

Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wrote after his testimony. “He is opposed to all forces that seek to curb or destroy individual liberty. ‘Our highest aim,’ said he, ‘should be the cultivation of freedom of the individual, for therein lies the highest dignity of man. Tyranny is tyranny, and whether it comes from right, left, or center, it’s evil.’”24

Hedda Hopper had had several careers before moving into radio and becoming one of the two major outlets for Hollywood gossip. She was born Elda Furry, June 2, 1890. She was a chorus girl, a silent-screen actress, and a real estate saleswoman. She had married comedian De Wolf Hopper and changed her name to Hedda, though she was occasionally confused with Edna Wallace Hopper, who gave beauty tips on the networks ca. 1930–32. In 1936 she decided to break into radio. Louella Parsons was then the country’s top purveyor of gossip, and Hopper—with her 25-year background in Hollywood—