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Hedda and Louella a Sleek Rival Hollywood Biographies
George Eells portrays Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons in a dual biography. He interviews 175 friends and reads about 49 million words of their work to explore how rivalry, influence, and myth shaped Hollywood gossip. Hopper died 1966 after a long illness. Parsons retired in 1965 and lived in a California nursing home.
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New York
Wns
Hedda Hopper
Louella Parsons
Hedda
Louella
Hollywood
George Eells
California
Eells
George Cukor
Eels
Parade
Look
Slim
Fortyish
Winslow
Cole Porter
Freeport
Dorothy Manners
Hearst
Harriet Parsons
Illinois
Louisiana
William Hopper
DeWolfe Hopper
Bill
Douglas Fairbanks
Harry Martin
Twentieth-Century Fox
Altoona
Los Angeles Times
Hopper