Movies: Hedda Hopper

A loose adaptation and parody of the Lewis Carroll tale by Hanna-Barbera Productions. A modern-day teenager doing a book report on Alice is accidentally sucked into her television set and ends up in a wacky version of Wonderland....

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene....

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. ...

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect...

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)...

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other ...

Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards....

A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying....

A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era....

Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role....

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966....

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign....

Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Jerry is determined to remain p...

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, h...

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity....

The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Za...

When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?...

A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband....

Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I....

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist....