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Miriam Hopkins - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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October 18, 1902 - October 9, 1972 - 1930s American actress.
Born October 18, 1902 in Bainbridge, Georgia, to a wealthy family. Having received a good education, in her youth she was seriously engaged in dancing, but on the very first student tour she injured her ankle and could not continue her career as a dancer.
In 1921, Miriam moved to New York, at first performed on Broadway as a chorus girl, and by the mid-1920s she had a good theatrical career. In May 1926, she married actor Brandon Peters, and in 1928, she first appeared on the silver screen in the short film "Home Girl" .
Two years later, the studio "Paramount Pictures" signed a contract with Miriam, and in the same 1930, she made her full debut in film, getting the lead role in the comedy "Fickle". She passed the usual for many aspiring actresses the fate of the first years to act in bit parts in walk-through films, and next year she starred in three large-scale films at once.
The first film in 1931 for Miriam was Ernst Lubitsch's musical romantic comedy The Smiling Lieutenant, where her partners were movie stars Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert. This was followed by the drama "24 Hours" and the thriller by Ruben Mamoulian "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". In the film adaptation of Stevenson's novel, Miriam appeared as singer Ivy Pearson.
In June 1931, Miriam left Peters and married the screenwriter Austin Parker, but a year later their union broke up. The first real fame came to the actress in 1932, after she brilliantly played the role of pickpocketing Lily in Lubich's comedy "Trouble in Paradise". In 1933, Lubich invited Miriam to the comedy "The Decision to Live", where, in addition to her, Gary Cooper and Frederick March starred, followed by a role in the drama "The Story of Temple Drake" based on William Faulkner's novel "The Sanctuary", and both of these works were no less successful.
Her career culminated in 1935 when Miriam starred in the drama Becky Sharp, based on Thackeray's acclaimed novel Vanity Fair, and won her only Oscar nomination (surpassed by Bette Davis, winning the Dangerous "). Then Miriam moved to the studio "Samuel Goldwyn Productions", and after the films "Barbarian Coast" (1935) and "The Three" (1936) her fame began to decline.
Despite the fact that Hopkins was incredibly harmonious on screen, in life she had a rather selfish character. It is known that on the set, she did not behave very decently in relation to her partners, tried to pull the emphasis on herself in joint scenes with other actors, demanded more favorable angles for herself. All of this ultimately ruined her reputation. In September 1937, she married director Anatole Litvak, a Kiev emigre who had made a career in America, and he filmed her in The Woman I Love .
In those years, Miriam's luck turned away. The actress was less and less offered a job (in 1938 she did not act at all), and yet another marriage did not bring happiness. In 1939, she divorced Litvak and moved to the Warner Bros. film studio, but she was rarely filmed there either. After the 1943 drama "Old Acquaintance" - the second leading role went to Bette Davis, and the film studio for advertising purposes spread rumors about the squabbles between the actresses, not without reason - Miriam disappeared from sight for a long time.
In 1945, she combined her fourth marriage with a certain Raymond Brock (six years later they divorced), and in 1949 she returned to Hollywood. Miriam played a supporting role in William Wyler's melodrama "The Heiress", but did not remain in the shadow of Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift, who played the leading roles, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
After that, she appeared from time to time in serials on television and very rarely in films. She experienced the last glimpses of fame only in the 1960s - in 1961 she appeared in the film "Children's Hour" with Audrey Hepburn and in 1966 she played a minor role in the drama "The Chase", where the main roles were played by the stars of the new generation Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.
Miriam Hopkins died on October 9, 1972 from a heart attack at the age of 69.
