... TO BAD COMPANY’: HEDDA HOPPER, HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP, AND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHARLIE CHAPLIN, 1940-1952 JENNIFER FROST ABSTRACT: Prominent in the motion picture industry and among political ... work together to stop him!’76 In these ways, Hedda Hopper and her readers contributed to the successful Cold War campaign against Charlie Chaplin. Scholars see this incident primarily as the ... Congress, the Department of Justice, the INS, and the press—Hopper most notoriously—cooperating formally and informally.68 AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES 73 ‘GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD COMPANY’:...