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...balls were teed on a cake for Bob Hope, turning 60 at a family party in his California home. "Hard to believe," groaned Bob. "I didn't believe it myself until I heard about it." And Hope heard about it plenty, notably from a host of friends including Hedda Hopper, who advised: "Don't worry about being 60; I'm still wearing hats that...
JAMES C. HAGERTY LEONARD HALL W. AVERELL HARRIMAN REX HARRISON HELEN HAYES JOHN R. HELLER JR. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. CONRAD HILTON OVETA GULP HOBBY BOB HOPE EDWARD HOPPER HEDDA HOPPER ROY HOWARD SAM HUFF GEORGE HUMPHREY HUBERT H. HUMPHREY ROBERT HUTCHINS
Press: Walter Lippmann, Roy Howard, James Reston, DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace, Samuel I. Newhouse, John Cowles, Al Capp, Hedda Hopper, George Gallup...
Broad-Minded. It was Hedda, Hedda says, who, after all, told Mike Todd how to make a movie, told Sam Goldwyn how to cast one, and helped Bernie Schwartz become Tony Curtis. By reasoning with Actor James Dean she saved the production of Giant at a time when Dean was absenting himself from the set in a fury at Director George Stevens. By Hedda's testimony, practically the only Hollywood personality she has never been able to charm, bully or cajole is Marlon Brando. Her single, memorable interview with him lasted half an hour, during which...
...readers who like to hoard their Hollywood gleanings like green stamps, Hedda has a wildly scattershot collection: Clark Gable had not a tooth of his own in his head; Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Doris Day all shower at least three times a day; Mario Lanza roamed the streets of Beverly Hills at night in his Cadillac to batter down the mailbox of a movie mogul he thought had betrayed him; Harry Cohn broke up the romance of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak by having a thug threaten to work Sammy over. And if such racy bits never appeared...