February 1st, 2007 - This Day In History


February 1st, 2007 - This Day In History

February 1st, 2007 - This Day In History

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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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February 9th, 2007 - This Day In History > source1951 : Greta Garbo becomes a U.S. citizenSwedish actress Greta Garbo, 46, becomes an American citizen on this day.Garbo came to the United States in 1926 after several successful movies in Sweden and quickly became...


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