The best Hedda Hopper’s movies

Hedda Hopper

Hedda Hopper

02/05/1885- 01/02/1966
Today we present the best Hedda Hopper’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Hedda Hopper’s movies.
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Wings

Wings
7.5/10
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away. Cinema's first ever gay kiss?

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard
8.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/08/1950
  • Character: Hedda Hopper
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Midnight

Midnight
7.8/10
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter
6.3/10
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/11/1937
  • Character: Dowager on Ship (uncredited)
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

Topper

Topper
7.2/10
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

The Women

The Women
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1939
  • Character: Dolly Dupuyster
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

The Patsy

The Patsy
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/06/1964
  • Character: Herself
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.

Alice Adams

Alice Adams
6.9/10
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?

Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind
6.6/10
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

The Barbarian

The Barbarian
5.8/10
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

War Nurse

War Nurse
6.1/10
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.

Pepe

Pepe
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/12/1960
  • Character: Hedda Hopper
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.

The Oscar

The Oscar
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/03/1966
  • Character: Hedda Hopper
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
8.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 31/07/1940
  • Character: Herself
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.

Lady Tubbs

Lady Tubbs
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/07/1935
  • Character: Mrs. Ronald Ash-Orcutt
A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

Harold Teen

Harold Teen
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1928
  • Character: Mrs. Hazzit
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.

Speak Easily

Speak Easily
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/08/1932
  • Character: Mrs. Peets
A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

Skyscraper Souls

Skyscraper Souls
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/07/1932
  • Character: Ella Dwight
Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.

A Star Is Born World Premiere

A Star Is Born World Premiere
7.3/10
  • Genre: History
  • Release: 28/09/1954
  • Character: Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.

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