Hedda Hopper (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966) was an American actress and one of America's best-known
gossip columnists, notorious for feuding with her arch-rival
Louella Parsons. She had been a moderately successful actress of stage and screen for years before being offered the chance to write the column
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood for the
Los Angeles Times in 1938. In the
McCarthy era she named suspected Communists. Hopper continued to write gossip to the end, her work appearing in many magazines and later on radio.