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Hedda Hopper

Hedda Hopper

25 films on Best Blurays1 in 4K13 in HD
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Hedda Hopper (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966) was an American actress and gossip columnist, notorious for feuding with her arch-rival Louella Parsons. She had been a moderately successful actress of stage and screen for years before being offered the chance to write the column Hedda Hopper's Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times in 1938. At the height of her power in the 1940s she commanded a 35 million strong readership. She was well known for her political conservatism, and during the McCarthy era she named suspected communists. Hopper continued to write gossip until the end, her work appearing in many magazines and later on radio. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Supporting role · Director: Paul L. Stein

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Supporting role · Director: Monta Bell

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 6 DVD

Supporting role · Director: George Fitzmaurice

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Video Notes:

Probably from TCM Streaming

Supporting role · Director: Edward H. Griffith

Best English-Friendly:

Extras in Criterion Holiday (1938) Blu-ray

Best Video:

1080p, Included as extras in Criterion Holiday 1938 Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Edward Sedgwick

Best English-Friendly & Video:

AlphaVideo DVD

Supporting role · Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB DVD

Supporting role · Director: Hobart Henley

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Frank Lloyd

Best English-Friendly:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray

Best Video:

Flicker Alley Blu-ray, 4K scan of original negative

Supporting role · Director: Mitchell Leisen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray with new 4k resto

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Supporting role · Director: Harry Beaumont

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB DVD

Supporting role · Director: Edgar Selwyn

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Supporting role · Director: Edgar Selwyn

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Supporting role · Director: Richard Boleslawski

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Supporting role · Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Best English-Friendly & Video:

VCI Blu-ray

Video Notes:

But really bad encoding

Supporting role · Director: George W. Hill

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Undercrank Blu-ray

Video Notes:

2K scan from a 35mm safety duplicate negative made from an original tinted nitrate print in the Marion Davies Collection at the Library of Congress.

Supporting role · Director: Sam Wood

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Supporting role · Director: Jack Conway

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

Supporting role · Director: Edgar Selwyn

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration

Supporting role · Director: John G. Adolfi

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Apple TV HD Streaming

Small role · Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice

Best Audio:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono

Audio Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.

Additional Info:

The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.

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