Personal Life
In the mid to late 1930s, Hopper occasionally visited nightclubs with film actress Isabel Jewell. He married actress Jane Gilbert (née Kies, sister of the better-known Margaret Lindsay) in 1940; they had one daughter, Joan (born 1942); the couple divorced in 1959.
Shortly thereafter he married Jeanette Juanita Hopper (née Ward) and became stepfather to her son, Gordon Casimire Williams II.
Jeanette died on October 20, 2008, due to cardiac arrest from atherosclerosis in El Monte, California.
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