Hedda Hopper In 2015, Helen Mirren played Hedda Hopper in the movie "Trumbo" directed by Jay Roach. In 2016, Tilda Swinton played in "Hail, Caesar!" the double part of Thora and Thessaly Thacker, two identical twin sister gossip columnists (mimicking the rivalry between Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, but both heavily based on Hopper herself). In 2017, in the first season of "Feud", Hopper was played by Judy Davis and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the portrayal of the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The New York City Opera announced that it will stage the East Coast premiere
Stewart Wallace Memorial Opera House of the San Francisco Opera in 2008. The New York City Opera announced that it would stage the East Coast premiere of Wallace's “Hopper’s Wife” — a 1997 chamber opera about an imagined marriage between the painter Edward Hopper and the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper—at Harlem Stage from April 28 through May 1, 2016. Stewart Wallace Stewart Wallace (born 1960) is an American composer and cantor. Wallace was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has spent much of his career composing experimental operas, from the dance-centered "Kabbalah" (1989) to the surrealist "Hopper's Wife" (1992). Two of his operas