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Miriam Hopkins

Highest Rated: 100% The Heiress (1949)

Lowest Rated: 40% Becky Sharp (1935)

Birthday: Oct 18, 1902

Birthplace: Savannah, Georgia, USA

This highly talented blonde Broadway actress possessed an intriguing, husky voice and a brittle, sometimes twitchy yet sexy style. An off-beat combination of a vivacious Southern belle and an insecure yet superior modern woman, Hopkins signed as a leading lady with Paramount in 1930 and gained early stardom for her roles in productions including the delightful Ernst Lubitsch musical "The Smiling Lieutenant" (1931) and Rouben Mamoulian's striking "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1932). In Lubitsch's masterpiece, "Trouble in Paradise" (1932), she displayed a sharp talent for sly, sophisticated banter, and she won an Oscar nomination in the title role of Mamoulian's "Becky Sharp" (1935). The feisty, intelligent Hopkins gave what is probably her finest dramatic performance in William Wyler's sterling if significantly altered adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play "The Children's Hour," "These Three" (1936).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 93% The Heiress
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100% 76% These Three
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92% 51% Barbary Coast
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91% 81% Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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90% 90% Trouble in Paradise
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88% 66% The Smiling Lieutenant
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86% 65% The Story of Temple Drake
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80% 73% The Chase
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78% 84% The Children's Hour
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76% 80% Design for Living
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Filmography

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Lubitsch Musicals 60% 2008 Actor Savage Intruder 33% 1970 Katharine Parker Actor The Chase 80% 73% 1966 Mrs. Reeves Actor Fanny Hill 43% 1964 Mrs. Maude Brown Actor The Children's Hour 78% 84% 1961 Mrs. Lily Mortar Actor Carrie 75% 58% 1952 Julie Hurstwood Actor The Outcasts of Poker Flat 1952 Mrs. Shipton Actor The Mating Season 50% 1951 Fran Carleton Actor The Heiress 100% 93% 1949 Lavinia Penniman Actor Old Acquaintance 77% 1943 Millie Drake Actor A Gentleman After Dark 1942 Flo Melton Actor Virginia City 56% 1940 Julia Hayne Actor Lady With Red Hair 50% 1940 Mrs. Leslie Carter Actor The Old Maid 75% 1939 Delia Lovell Ralston Actor Woman Chases Man 50% 1937 Virginia Travis Actor Wise Girl 38% 1937 Susan "Susie" Fletcher Actor These Three 100% 76% 1936 Martha Dobie Actor Men Are Not Gods 1936 Ann Williams Actor Becky Sharp 40% 26% 1935 Becky Sharp Actor Barbary Coast 92% 51% 1935 Mary "Swan" Rutledge Actor Splendor 33% 1935 Phyllis Manning Lorrimore Actor All of Me 1934 Lydia Darrow Actor The Richest Girl in the World 40% 1934 Dorothy Hunter Actor She Loves Me Not 50% 1934 Curly Flagg Actor The Story of Temple Drake 86% 65% 1933 Temple Drake Actor
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