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+ Hedda Hopper (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966) was one of America's best-known gossip columnists, notorious for feuding with her arch-rival Louella Parsons. She had been a small-time 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 countless magazines and later on radio. Hopper debuted as host of her own radio program, The Hedda Hopper Show, November 6, 1939. Sponsored by Sunkist, she was heard on CBS three times a week for 15 minutes until October 30, 1942. From October 2, 1944 to September 3, 1945, Armour Treet sponsored a once-a-week program. On September 10, 1945, she moved to ABC, still sponsored by Armour, for a weekly program that continued until June 3, 1946. Hopper moved back to CBS October 5, 1946, with a weekly 15-minute program, This Is Hollywood, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. It ran until June 28, 1947. Expanding to 30 minutes on NBC, she was host of a variety series, The Hedda Hopper Show, broadcast from October 14, 1950 to November 11, 1950 on Saturdays, then from November 19, 1950 to May 20, 1951 on Sundays, This program featured music, talk and dramatized excerpts from movies with well-known guests, such as Broderick Crawford doing a scene from All the King's Men.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Hedda Hopper Show, The

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
04.01.1951	guest agnes moorehead	+ First item: Nancy Olsen is expecting. Sid Luft flew to New York with Judy Garland, but not to Eu...
11.19.1950	guest andy devine	+ First item: California Democrats have chosen a new theme song, "Jimmy Doesn't Live Here Any More...
11.11.1950	guest audie murphy	+ The first item: Robert Taylor, just back from filming "Quo Vadis," is in the hospital. Ezio Pinz...
11.26.1950	guest carl brisson	+ First item: Vera Ellen and Rock Hudson will soon wed. Charlie Chaplin has finally gotten a passp...
02.11.1951	guest carolina cotton	+ First item: Rita Hayworth is expecting a baby with Aly Kahn. Danny Thomas does a comedy routine ...
04.30.1945	guest charles laughton	+ Sponsored by: Treet, Vita-Lox. Charles Laughton substitutes for vacationing Hedda. Charles tells ...
02.25.1951	guest david nevin	+ First item: There are ten subpoenas from the House Unamerican Activities Committee to ten Hollyw...
01.14.1951	guest dean jagger	+ First item: Elizabeth Taylor is currently in love with her director. Dean Jagger does a scene fr...
12.03.1950	guest dinah shore	+ First items: Mario Lanza will sing for President Truman in Washington, D. C. Hal Wallis is worki...
01.21.1951	guest fernando lamas	+ First items: Lionel Barrymore has had a heart a...
10.14.1950	guest helen broderick	+ The first show of the series. The program is also referred to as, "The Hedda Hopper Show." The f...
12.10.1950	guest howard duff	+ First item: Mickey Rooney is divorcing his third wife. Hedda asks, "Who cares?" She then querie...
03.18.1951	guest j carroll naish	+ First item: Frank Sinatra will not get a Mexican divorce to marry Ava Gardner. Nancy Sinatra wil...
12.31.1950	guest jean hersholt	+ First item: Hedda's predictions about "those destined for stardom" in the coming year. She names...
11.04.1950	guest joseph cotton	+ First item: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Montgomery are divorcing after twenty-two years. Van Heflin comp...
04.29.1951	guest mario lanza	+ Hedda interviews Mario Lanza about his success with, "Be My Love."
01.28.1951	guest mel torme	+ First item: Deanna Durbin has just been married for the third time. Mel Torme sings, "Lucky In L...
02.04.1951	guest mike romanoff	+ First item: Geraldine Fitzgerald is expecting. Alan Young makes fun of product names. Vic Damone...
05.13.1951	guest paulette goddard	+ First item: Rita Hayworth is in Nevada; Aly Kahn is with an old friend. Hedda replies to the cri...
12.17.1950	guest raymond massey	+ First items: Cary Grant and Betsy Drake are going to start a radio series (it would be called, "...
02.15.1950	guest richard nixon	+ The first item: Robert Taylor, just back from filming "Quo Vadis," is in the hospital. Ezio Pinz...
03.04.1951	guest roy rogers	+ The program opening is upcut. The third item is that William Powell will soon be a grandfather. ...
10.28.1950	guest shelly winters	+ The first items: Howard Hughes is going to film "Rain" as a musical, starring Jane Russell. Char...
04.08.1951	guest the andrews sisters	+ First item: Jerome Kern's widow will marry Jerome Byron. Baby Leroy has enlisted in the army. Th...
02.18.1951	guest tony martin	+ First item: Jeanette MacDonald is making news in Austria. Tony Martin sings, "Would I Love You, ...

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Hedda Hopper talks about "Bill" in her autobiography, "From Under My Hat," but she never mentions that he played Paul Drake. Perhaps it was before the show began.

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