Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Feud, Episode 3)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.6 • 15.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 1938, washed-up actress Hedda Hopper is installed as a movie gossip columnist with the express purpose of puncturing the success of Louella and Hearst. But Hedda quickly establishes a voice of her own, revolutionary for its insistence on making movie gossip political. Once friends, Louella and Hedda become bitter rivals, egged on in their feud by a third party who sees Hedda as an ally in right-wing conservatism.

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0:00.0	No birds apart outdoors
0:24.0	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring
0:34.8	the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:41.6	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment of our ongoing series,
0:50.0	The Awesome Girls, Louwella Parsons, and Hedda Hopper.
0:55.0	The desire of people to tell a story that is the dream of which my town was built.
1:01.0	What a spot to be in there are two of them in town.
1:04.0	It is in Louwella Parsons, it must be Hedda Hopper.
1:07.0	What about public insult? Did you ever suffer at the hands of the old crack, Lolly, and Eddon?
1:12.0	Hollywood's best known, best loved, most distinguished reporter.
1:15.0	Movie news from both Hollywood and New York, and that dream will remain forever.
1:22.0	When last we left her, Louwella was still on top, but in the late 30s, the context started
1:32.3	to crumble around her.
1:34.0	Marion Davies made her last film in 1937, which put herst out of the movie business, which
1:41.4	made Louwella less crucial to his overall bottom line.
1:46.2	On the flip side, Hurst's publishing brand was flagging to the extent that being tied
1:52.2	to him became almost a black mark on Louwella.
1:57.3	Hurst's own columnist, Westbrook Pegler, reported that Hurst's losses had dulled person's
2:05.5	star.
2:07.8	So much was changing in Hollywood, instead of adapting and turning focus to the new stars.
2:14.8	56-year-old Louwella turned to nostalgia for the lost era.
2:20.8	Marion wasn't the only star from Louwella's golden era who was dropping out of the spotlight.
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