Miriam Hopkins
Subtitle: life and films of a Hollywood rebel
By: Allan R. Ellenberger
Series: Screen classics; Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780813174310
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Other titles: Life and films of a Hollywood rebel
Description: "In the first comprehensive biography of this colorful performer, Allan R. Ellenberger illuminates Hopkins's fascinating life and legacy. Her freewheeling film career was exceptional in studio-era Hollywood, and she managed to establish herself as a top star at Paramount, RKO, Goldwyn, and Warner Bros. Over the course of five decades, Hopkins appeared in thirty-six films, forty stage plays, and countless radio programs. Later, she emerged as a pioneer of TV drama. Ellenberger also explores Hopkins's private life, including her relationships with such intellectuals as Theodore Dreiser, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: "From a fine old family"; title: Broadway bound; title: Billy; title: Of paramount importance; title: Hollywood; title: "An expensive leading woman"; title: The Lubitsch touch; title: Sutton Place; title: Goldwyn; title: Tola; title: West Hollywood to Burbank; title: "Perfect little bitches"; title: All this, Jack Warner, and Bette Davis, too; title: Angels battle in Boston; title: "This is pure Hopkins"; title: To New York and back; title: "A little off-center"; title: "They are sure reds"; title: "How many times can you come back?"; title: The final years; title: "If I had to do it over again".