... American History, 73, June, 1986, pp. 120-136. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES 73 ‘GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD COMPANY’: HEDDA HOPPER, HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP, AND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHARLIE CHAPLIN, ... 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 ... voice of small-town America and used her column to express what she saw as proper mores and values and to advise, and chastise, the residents of Hollywood Babylon’ about their actual and alleged...