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The Whole Truth and Nothing But
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
From the dawn of the studio system to the decade it all came crashing down, Hedda Hopper was one of the Queens of Hollywood. Although she made her name as a star of the silent screen, she found her calling as a gossip columnist, where she had the ear of the most powerful force in show business: the public. With a readership of 20,000,000 people, Hopper turned nobodies into stars, and brought stars to their knees. And in this sensational memoir, she tells all.
In her career, Hopper crossed some of Hollywood's biggest bold-faced names, from Joan Crawford and Bette Davis to Charlie Chaplin and Katherine Hepburn, and her feud with rival gossip columnist Louella Parsons became the stuff of legend. In The Whole Truth and Nothing But, we get Hedda's side of the story - and what a story it is.
Hedda Hopper is portrayed by Judy Davis in the Ryan Murphy TV series Feud.
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- trixie
- 30-07-18
Story good, but pronunciation errors distract
I'm 75 percent through the book and have enjoyed the tales of old Hollywood - but it's apparent this was recorded without a producer or director. There's no other excuse for so many mispronunciations of names would be familiar to anyone with interest in a book dealing with this subject matter. The reader must be a Francophile - any name that could have the slightest whiff of French extraction is pronounced as if the person is Parisian. Pronouncing Brooklyn born baseball player Leo Durocher "Leo Duh-Row-Shay" and the Dumont Television Network as "Duh-mah..." are just two examples. There are other onetime household names mangled too - enough that I got distracted each time it happened, trying to figure out where the reader could possibly be from that she hadn't heard the name before. The reader does have a good delivery, but mispronouncing names of actors, sports figures, and business leaders familiar to listeners is jarring.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-07-23
Biased truth
Interesting when discussing the old stars , but generally sounds like an old busybody, shoving her snout into people's business and blackmailing for stories.
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