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Oct 3, 2016 · Hopkins’s heyday was the 1930s, when her attention-getting mixture of insouciance and witty knowingness made her perfect for the free-for-all of pre-Code movies. Her run of films included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Trouble in Paradise, and Design for Living, in which Hopkins and her two pals (Fredric March and Gary Cooper) demolish civilization ...
Miriam Hopkins was born into a wealthy household in Bainbridge, Georgia, in 1902. She attended the Goddard Seminary in Plainfield, Vermont, and Syracuse University. She then moved to New York to study dance in hopes of becoming a ballerina, but after breaking her ankle settled for a career as a chorus girl.
Other articles where Miriam Hopkins is discussed: Anatole Litvak: The Hollywood years: It starred Miriam Hopkins, whom Litvak later married (divorced 1939), and Paul Muni. Litvak then signed with Warner Brothers, and his first film for the studio was Tovarich (1937). The popular comedy starred Boyer and Claudette Colbert as Russian aristocrats who, during the Russian Revolution of 1917,…
Mar 7, 2018 · Miriam Hopkins: Belle on wheels. MIRIAM HOPKINS: LIFE AND FILMS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL by Allan R. Ellenberger. Published by University Press of Kentucky. 424 pages. $45 retail. University Press of Kentucky’s stellar string of show-biz biographies – which have included such recent releases as Cynthia and Sara Brideson’s He’s Got Rhythm ...
Actress Miriam Hopkins was born in Savannah and grew up in Bainbridge. She began her career in the 1920s as a dancer and vaudeville performer before finding success as a Hollywood actress during the 1930s. Hopkins appeared in thirty-six feature films over the course of her career. Image from Wikimedia. View on source site. Learn More.
Miriam Hopkins Known to be difficult on the set, Hopkins flitted from studio to studio. After her early tenure at Paramount, she was under contract to independent producer Samuel Goldwyn during the mid-30s and by the end of the decade had moved to Warner Brothers, where a rivalry with Bette Davis manifested itself in both the plotline and the ...
Old Acquaintance: Directed by Vincent Sherman. With Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder. Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
