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Miriam Hopkins

Ellen Miriam Hopkins was born in Savannah, Georgia on October 18th 1902 and raised in Bainbridge. At the age of 20 she became a chorus girl in New York City before signing for Paramount in 1930. After a few low key performances she enjoyed her first great success in Trouble In Paradise (1932) She then embarked on the most productive stage of her career starring in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) Becky Sharp (1935) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, Barbary Coast (1935) and These Three (1936)
She turned down the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night in 1934, the role went to Claudette Colbert who went on to win an Academy Award. She had many public spats with her arch enemy, Bette Davis after an affair with Hopkins' husband, Anatole Litvak. They did however star in two movies together, The Old Maid (1939) and Old Acquaintance (1943) She did not work again until The Heiress (1949) followed by The Mating Season (1951)
Hopkins auditioned for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind losing out to Vivian Leigh even though she was a native Georgian like the heroine herself.
She moved into TV from the late 1940's to the early 1960's and was honoured with 2 Hollywood Hall of Fame stars, one for movies and one for her TV work. Her final movie role was in The Chase (1966).
Hopkins was married and divorced 4 times, first to actor Brandon Peters, second to aviator Austin Parker, third to director Anatole Litvak and finally to war correspondant Raymond B Brock. In 1932 Hopkins adopted a son Michael Hopkins.
She died in New York from a heart attack 9 days before her 70th birthday.

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Miriam Hopkins - what members say

Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde review by TristanWhite from London, UK

Outstanding for its time 13 October 2005
...t came out because of the notorious Code) and it's surprisingly racy in parts - Miriam Hopkins as Ivy is very sexy... amazing how racy pre-Code was, in fact. A really good fi... Read customer review

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Old Maid review by A customer from london,england

davis at her best 7 January 2007
...pathetic and heart-rending performance.Shes'given admirable support by co-stars Miriam Hopkins and Donald Crisp but it's her triumph all the way.Astonishing work which remain... Read customer review

Miriam Hopkins - filmography

The Chase on DVD (1966)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Director: Arthur Penn
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday ..read more »

62% from 561 members

The Children's Hour on DVD (1961)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
Director: William Wyler
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Based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. When student Karen Balkin is punished for one of her many misdeeds, the mean-spirited youngster rushes to her wealthy aunt Fay Bainter, ..read more »

67% from 1,320 member

Carrie on DVD (1952)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins
Director: William Wyler
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A sterling performance by Olivier is the centrepiece of this drama based on the novel by Sister Carrie by Dreiser. When a farm girl follows her dreams to turn-of-the-century Chicago, she enters a bleak world of gruelling, poorly-paid factory work. Determined to better her condition, she attaches ..read more »

62% from 134 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set (6 discs) on DVD (1943)
Starring: Olivia De Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan
Director: Edmund Goulding, Anatole Litvak, Herman Shumlin
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To commemorate Bette Davis' 100th birthday, Warner Brothers are releasing six films from her heyday on DVD for the first time. The box set features some of her best films, including: - In This Our Life: The tale of two sisters, Stanley (Bette Davis) and Roy (Olivia de Havilland) Timberlake. When ..read more »

75% from 152 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Wat... on DVD (1943)
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Director: Edmund Goulding, Herman Shumlin, Anatole Litvak
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An adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play, Bette Davis and Paul Lukas are German anti-Nazi underground leaders who flee the country, only to be pursued to the U.S. by Nazi agents.

71% from 127 members

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The... on DVD (1939)
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
Director: Edmund Goulding, Anatole Litvak, Herman Shumlin
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Delia breaks her engagement to Clem, in favor of wealthy Jim. Cousin Charlotte comforts Clem, and becomes pregnant. But Clem dies in the war before he can marry her, and Charlotte intends to raise her daughter alone. But in spiteful jealousy, Delia takes Charlotte's child from her, and raises her ..read more »

79% from 261 members

Barbary Coast on DVD (1935)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
Director: Howard Hawks
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Edward G Robinson dominates this film as Louis, the owner of a saloon bar in the 1850's Red Light district of San Fransisco - the Barbary Coast. A cast of Hollywood regulars support Robinson in this rip-roaring tale of the saloons of the California Gold Rush starring Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, ..read more »

57% from 37 members

Trouble In Paradise (1932)
Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Certificate:
High class European thief Gaston Monesque meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess.

76% from 59 members
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Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde on DVD (1932)
Starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Spencer Tracy
Director: Rouben Mamoulian, Victor Fleming
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Two classic versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic thriller where Dr. Jekyll, a scientist with dreams of transforming the world, develops and drinks a potion that separates the good and evil aspects of man. But his experiment goes awry, and he metamorphoses into the twisted and sadistic Mr. ..read more »

68% from 637 members

Miriam Hopkins facts

5 most recent films

The Chase - 3.0 stars
The Children's Hour - 3.5 stars
Carrie - 3.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Watch On The Rhine - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - The Old Maid - 4.0 stars
Trouble In Paradise - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - 4.0 stars
Bette Davis 100th Birthday Box Set - Watch On The Rhine - 3.5 stars
Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Barbary Coast - 3.0 stars
The Chase - 3.0 stars
Carrie - 3.0 stars
The Children's Hour - 3.5 stars
Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

George Brent - 3 times - show films
Hattie McDaniel - 3 times - show films
Dennis Morgan - 3 times - show films
Paul Lukas - 3 times - show films
Claude Rains - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Herman Shumlin - 3 times - show films
Edmund Goulding - 3 times - show films
Anatole Litvak - 3 times - show films
Ernst Lubitsch - 2 times - show films
William Wyler - 2 times - show films

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