Miriam Hopkins

Ellen Miriam Hopkins is an American actress born the October 18th 1902 with Savannah, Georgia (the United States), died the October 9th 1972 with New York (New York).

Biography

Born with Savannah, Georgia and raised with Bainbridge, it finishes its studies in the Vermont and at the university of Syracuse with New York. At 20 years, it becomes " chorus-girl". In 1930, it signs a contract with the Paramount, and makes its first film: Fast and Loose .

During the Thirties, she plays in the Lieutenant smiling (1931), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Becky Sharp (1935), for which she obtains a nomination with the Oscar of the best actress, Ville without law (1935), They were three (1936) and the Old maid (1939). Its most outstanding film of this time remains the chief of work of Ernst Lubitsch Sérénade to three (1932) where it imposes a character full with charm and spirit.

Miriam Hopkins belonged to the troop of actresses auditioned for the role of Scarlett O' Hara in Gone With The Wind . She left with an advantage on her competitors, being the only one with being really originating in Georgia. But that will not be enough, and the role will go to Vivien Leigh, pursued by Paulette Goddard.

Bette Davis will write later that the insecurity from which Miriam Hopkins suffered led it to behaviors of strong competition on the plates. After their two collaborations ( the Old maid (1939) and the impossible love (1943), Miriam Hopkins does not turn any more during 6 years. She again turns in 1949 in the Heiress , then she returns to the comedy by incarnating the mother of Gene Tierney in the Time of the loves in 1951.

She was married four times: with the actor Torch Peters, the aviator Austin Parker, the realizer Anatole Litvak, and with the war journalist correspondent Raymond B. Brock. In 1932, Miriam Hopkins adopts a boy, Michael Hopkins.

She dies in New York of an heart attack, 9 days before celebrating her 70 years.

She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk off Famed: for the cinema at the 1701 Street Fortifies, and for television at the 1708 Vine Street.

Catalog of films

1928 : The Home Girl
1930: Fast and Loose : Marion Lenox
1931 : the Lieutenant smiling ( The Smiling Lieutenant ): Princess Anna
1931: 24 Hours : Turned pink Duggan
1931: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ): Ivy Pearson
1932 : Two Kinds off Women : Emma Krull
1932: Dancers in the Dark : Gloria Bishop
1932 : World and the Flesh : Maria Yaskaya
1932: High underworld ( Disorder in Paradise ): Lily
1933 : The Story off Temple Drake : Temple Drake
1933: The Stranger' S Return : Louise Starr
1933: Serenade to three ( Design for Living room ): Gilda Farrel
1934: All off Me : Lydia Darrow
1934 : She Coil to Me Not : Curly Flagg
1934 : The Richest Girl in the World : Dorothy Hunter, aka Sylvia Lockwood
1935: Becky Sharp : Becky Sharp
1935 : City without law ( Barbary Coast ): Mary “Swan” Rutledge
1935: Splendor : Phyllis Manning Lorrimore
1936 : They were three ( These Three ): Martha Dobie
1936 : Men Are Not Gods : Ann Williams
1937: The Woman I Coils : Mrs. Helene Maury
1937: Woman Huntings Man : Virginia Travis
1937 : Wise Girl : Susan “Susie” Fletcher
1939: the Old maid ( The Old Maid ): Untied Lovell Ralston
1940: the heroic Caravan ( Virginia City ): Julia Hayne
1940 : Lady with Red To hate : Mrs. Leslie Casing
1942: has Gentleman After Dark : Flo Melton
1943 : the Impossible love ( Old Acquaintance ): Millie Drake
1949 : the Heiress ( The Heiress ): Lavinia Penniman
1951 : the Time of the loves (The Mating Season) : Fran Carleton
1952 : The Outcasts off Poker Flat : The Duchess
1952 : Carrie : Julie Hurstwood
1961: the Rumor ( The Children' S Hour ): Mrs. Lily Mortar
1964 : Fanny Hill : Mrs. Maude Brown
1966: pitiless Continuation ( The Drives out ): Mrs. Reeves
1969: Savage Intruder : Katharine Parker

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