1966 : Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper dies
Hollywood fixture and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper dies on this day in 1966.
Born Elda Furry in 1890, the fifth of nine children, she left school after the eighth grade and worked as a chorus girl on Broadway, where she met her future husband, actor DeWolf Hopper. She became a silent-film actress, starring in some 120 films over the next two decades, but her real stardom came later, as a purveyor of ...
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