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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Miriam Hopkins</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/miriam-hopkins/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Bette Davis on TCM: THE OLD MAID; NOW, VOYAGER; THE WORKING MAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:18:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27505</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins, Bette Davis, The Old Maid Bette Davis, Warner Bros.' top female box-office attraction from the mid-'30s to the late '40s, is Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; performer-of-the-day this Wednesday, August 3. TCM will be presenting 12 Bette Davis movies, in addition to the 2005 documentary Stardust: The Bette Davis Story. [Bette Davis Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, none of TCM's Bette Davis movies [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bette-davis-the-old-maid-jezebel-the-working-man/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Gloria Swanson: Cinefest 2011</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-miriam-hopkins-gloria-swanson-cinefest-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-miriam-hopkins-gloria-swanson-cinefest-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:52:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26678</guid> <description><![CDATA[William Gargan, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue in Stephen Roberts' The Story of Temple Drake Cinefest 2011, a four-day festival of rare American films, kicked off earlier today in Syracuse, NY. According to organizers, Cinefest features &#34;great films &#8230; from the vaults of the world's greatest libraries and obscure specialties we are noted for from private collectors!&#34; [Cinefest 2011 schedule.] Among the highlights at this [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/claudette-colbert-miriam-hopkins-gloria-swanson-cinefest-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fredric March on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/fredric-march-movies-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/fredric-march-movies-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:41:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15421</guid> <description><![CDATA[Carole Lombard, Fredric March in a Nothing Sacred publicity shot. Fredric March has his &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Monday, Aug. 24. Turner Classic Movies will present 13 Fredric March films, including the TCM premiere of Richard Boleslawski's Academy Award-nominated Les Miserables (1935), a handsome &#8212; if dramatically stale &#8212; adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel that pits March's bread-thief Jean Valjean against Charles [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/fredric-march-movies-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-movies-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-movies-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15156</guid> <description><![CDATA[An early photo of Miriam Hopkins. Photos in this article: courtesy of Allan Ellenberger Miriam Hopkins, one of the most underrated performers of the studio era, will have her &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Thursday, Aug. 20. Turner Classic Movies will present fourteen Miriam Hopkins films, including one TCM premiere &#8212; the Samuel Goldwyn production of Barbary Coast &#8212; and three of Hopkins' saucy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-movies-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1939</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1939/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1939/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11620</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir FILM Gone with the Wind d: Victor Fleming; scr: Sidney Howard Le Jour se lève / Daybreak d: Marcel Carné; scr: Jacques Viot, Jacques Prévert Midnight d: Mitchell Leisen; scr: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett Mr. Smith Goes to Washington d: Frank Capra; scr: Sidney Buchman Ninotchka d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1939/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1936</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11617</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat FILM Follow the Fleet d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor Fury d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang Libeled Lady d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer Mr. Deeds Goes to Town d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin My Man Godfrey d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch Le Roman [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1936/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1935</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4334</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas FILM Alice Adams d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner China Seas d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness The Gay Deception d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman A Tale of Two Cities d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman The Whole Town's Talking d: John Ford; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1931</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1931/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1931/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:51:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4325</guid> <description><![CDATA[Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances FILM À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us d, scr: René Clair City Streets d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett Daybreak d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath Five Star Final d: Mervyn LeRoy; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1931/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins and Kate Morton&#039;s THE SHIFTING FOG</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-the-shifting-fog/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-the-shifting-fog/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:17:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6911</guid> <description><![CDATA[Australian author Kate Morton's bestselling novel The Shifting Fog (The House at Riverton in the US and the UK &#8212; see comment below) chronicles the emotional and romantic travails of two beautiful sisters from a declining aristocratic British family during the early 20th century. The reason I'm posting a mention of The Shifting Fog has nothing to do with the plot or with author Morton [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-the-shifting-fog/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins IV: Hollywood Blacklist, Bette Davis</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-hollywood-blacklist-bette-davis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-hollywood-blacklist-bette-davis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:01:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16298</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins III: BECKY SHARP Miriam Hopkins blacklisted during the post-war anti-Red hysteria? Why? And how come that fact &#8212; to the best of my knowledge &#8212; has never been discussed anywhere? During the late '30s and throughout the '40s, Hopkins was involved with several political and social groups that were considered fronts for the Communist Party. These groups included the Motion Picture Democratic Committee [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-hollywood-blacklist-bette-davis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins III: BECKY SHARP</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/miriam-hopkins-becky-sharp/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/miriam-hopkins-becky-sharp/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:00:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16297</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins: Q&#38;A with Allan Ellenberger Part II Becky Sharp was the first feature film in three-strip Technicolor. Why was Miriam Hopkins selected for the title role? And what was filming like? Hopkins was producer Jock Whitney’s choice for the role from the beginning; I’m not aware of anyone else being mentioned. However, she almost lost it when she couldn’t come to an agreement with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/miriam-hopkins-becky-sharp/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins: Q&amp;A with Allan Ellenberger, Part II</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:59:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6893</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview Part I I understand that Miriam Hopkins turned down a large number of parts. Could you name a few of those? And was there anything she felt sorry she missed out on &#8212; any part she rejected but then came to regret her decision, or any part she wanted to play but lost out to someone else? [Photo: One role [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview I</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:56:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16288</guid> <description><![CDATA[Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins in All of Me Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview Intro First of all, why Miriam Hopkins? The films she made with Bette Davis &#8212; The Old Maid (1939) and Old Acquaintance (1943) &#8212; first attracted me to Miriam Hopkins. Also, the stories of their purported feud and Davis’ virulent comments that she spouted forth during her last days piqued my interest. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/miriam-hopkins-allan-ellenberger-interview-i/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins: Q&amp;A with Author Allan Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:55:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6881</guid> <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hopkins in a publicity shot for Becky Sharp Miriam Hopkins. If mentioned at all today, Miriam Hopkins' name pops up in the media for two reasons: One of her movies is being shown on cable or at some retrospective or other, and someone says or writes that Old Hollywood's Miriam Hopkins was a selfish, self-centered, megalomaniacal, scene-stealing, temperamental, fire-spitting Bitch from Hell who made [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SAVAGE INTRUDER &#8211; Miriam Hopkins</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/savage-intruder-miriam-hopkins-gale-sondergaard/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/savage-intruder-miriam-hopkins-gale-sondergaard/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:35:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2572</guid> <description><![CDATA[Savage Intruder (1970) Direction and Screenplay: Donald H. Wolfe. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, John David Garfield (aka David Garfield), Gale Sondergaard, Florence Lake, Lester Matthews, Joe Besser, Virginia Wing, Riza Royce, Charles Martin, Minta Durfee &#160; Savage Intruder was filmed in 1970 but (briefly) released in 1974, and is also known as either Hollywood Horror House (the video edition) or The Comeback (its production title). The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/savage-intruder-miriam-hopkins-gale-sondergaard/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rouben Mamoulian Retrospective at Film Forum</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:06:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;Mamoulian,&#34; a complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987), one of cinema's greatest stylists and innovators, will run at the Film Forum from Friday, September 7 through Tuesday, September 18. As per the Film Forum's press release, Mamoulian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, to an Armenian family. He worked at the Moscow Art Theater while attending university, and, following a chance meeting with industrialist/philanthropist [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rouben-mamoulian-film-forum/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Miriam Hopkins Biography in the Works</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:22:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2006/12/03/miriam-hopkins-biography-in-the-works/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Though relatively forgotten and, when remembered, usually dismissed as a second-rate talent (quite possibly by those who have never seen her on film), Miriam Hopkins was actually a highly capable performer who worked with some of the most renowned directors in Hollywood history &#8212; Rouben Mamoulian, Ernst Lubitsch, and William Wyler, among them. Hopkins was also a household name in the 1930s, a time when [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/miriam-hopkins/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>26</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
