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Women in History

Golden Age of Hollywood

Women in History brings you the renown Gossip Mavens, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, as they take you on a journey through the Golden Age of Hollywood. (Sorry, no hair pulling aloud!)​

So much gossip!  So little time!  Women in History brings you the renown Gossip Mavens, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, as they take you on a journey through the Golden Age of Hollywood.  (Sorry, no hair pulling allowed!)​

Known as the "Queen of the Quickies," Hedda Hopper was a "B" movie actress who was in over 120 films. Born Elda Furry, on May 2 1885, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of a butcher and one of 7 children. Star struck, she set out first to New York and then to Hollywood to establish a career on the stage and in films. She never really saw success until later in life, when struggling to make ends meet, she took up her pen and began to write. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, Hedda, along with Louella Parsons raised the gossip column to an artform and had the power to make or break careers. She died in Hollywood, at the top of her game, on February 1, 1966.

Hollywood gossip columnist, who dominated Hollywood's Golden Era.
Louella's relationship with William Randoph Hearst and her own three marriages made her life as stormy as any Hollywood movie

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