Hedda Hopper age of 80 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills . She is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Altoona, Pennsylvania. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Hopper has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6313½ Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. In 1985, Jane Alexander received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination portraying Hopper in the television film "Malice in Wonderland", opposite Elizabeth Taylor as Louella Parsons. In 1995, Cynthia Adler portrayed Hedda Hopper in the documentary "". In 1995, she was portrayed by Katherine Helmond in "" (1995 TV film) In 1999, Rue McClanahan played Priscilla Tremaine,
William Hopper CBS's courtroom television series "Perry Mason" (1957–66). He initially tested for the title role, while Raymond Burr read for the role of Mason's courtroom adversary, district attorney Hamilton Burger. Burr was encouraged to lose weight and return to audition for the role of Perry Mason — which he later did, successfully. Hopper, too, was called back. Executive producer Gail Patrick Jackson recalled, "When Bill Hopper came in to read for Paul Drake he blurted out, 'You hate my mother.' And that was Hedda Hopper. Well, I disliked what she stood for, but 'hate' is something else — and anyway he