Miriam Hopkins on TCM
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 "Summer Under the Stars" day on Thursday, Aug. 20.
Turner Classic Movies will present fourteen Miriam Hopkins films, including one TCM premiere — the Samuel Goldwyn production of Barbary Coast — and three of Hopkins’ saucy pre-Code vehicles made at Paramount.
Although there are no Hopkins rarities in the program — TCM must lease the Universal library, which contains both the Universal and Paramount classics — it’s great to have a day dedicated to an actress who, no matter how good, has been usually dismissed because of her (alleged) off-screen behavior.
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by Andre Soares | August 15, 2009
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Bette Davis’ DARK VICTORY Screening
The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fifth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the Warner Bros. cartoon Dangerous Dan McFoo, directed by Tex Avery.
Adapted by Casey Robinson from a play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, Dark Victory is one of Bette Davis’ [...]
by Andre Soares | June 10, 2009
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GONE WITH THE WIND Screening
"Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939" is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ summer series, which kicks off next Monday, May 18, with a big-screen presentation of Gone with the Wind.
"Hollywood’s Greatest Year" will showcase all of the best picture nominees from 1939, which many consider the best film year in Hollywood history. The 10-film 70th anniversary celebration runs through August 3. (Up to 1943, most years had 10 to 12 films nominated for the best picture Oscar.) All screenings will be held on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 1939 best picture Oscar nominees were:
May 18 [...]
by Andre Soares | May 14, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Another Thin Man, At the Circus, Babes in Arms, Bachelor Mother, Balalaika, Beau Geste, Buster Crabbe, Butterfly McQueen, Clark Gable, Classic Movies, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Dark Victory, Daughters Courageous, David O. Selznick, Destry Rides Again, Dodge City, Drums Along the Mohawk, Dust Be My Destiny, Each Dawn I Die, East Side of Heaven, Four Wives, George Cukor, Golden Boy, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Gunga Din, Hattie McDaniel, Hollywood Cavalcade, Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939, Idiot's Delight, In Name Only, Intermezzo, It's a Wonderful World, Jesse James, Juarez, Leslie Howard, Los Angeles Screenings, Love Affair, Made for Each Other, Margaret Mitchell, Midnight, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Naughty But Nice, Never Say Die, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Olivia de Havilland, On Borrowed Time, Only Angels Have Wings, Rose of Washington Square, Sidney Howard, Son of Frankenstein, Stagecoach, Stanley and Livingstone, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Cat and the Canary, The Great Man Votes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Kid from Kokomo, The Light That Failed, The Little Princess, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Old Maid, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Rains Came, The Real Glory, The Roaring Twenties, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, They Made Me a Criminal, Union Pacific, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh, When Tomorrow Comes, Wuthering Heights, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Young Mr. Lincoln, Zaza
Jane Bryan
Jane Bryan, who played ingenues in several Warner Bros. productions of the late 1930s, died on April 8 at her home in Pebble Beach, California, following a long illness. She was 90.
The Los Angeles-born (on June 11, 1918) Jane O’Brien had her name changed to Jane Bryan after landing a Warners contract in the mid ’30s.
Bryan’s most notable role at the studio was as Paul Muni’s mistress in We Are Not Alone (1939), directed by Edmund Goulding. Apart from that, she was usually seen as forgettable sweet young things, supporting Bette Davis in Marked Woman (1937), Kid Galahad (1937), The Sisters (1938), and The Old Maid (1939); Edward G. Robinson in A Slight Case of Murder (1938); [...]
by Andre Soares | April 11, 2009
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Miriam Hopkins IV: Hollywood Blacklist, Bette Davis
Miriam Hopkins III: BECKY SHARP
Miriam Hopkins blacklisted during the post-war anti-Red hysteria? Why? And how come that fact — to the best of my knowledge — 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 (of which Hopkins was 2nd vice president) and the incendiary League of Women Shoppers.
In 1945, Louis Bundenz, a Communist Party functionary and the managing editor of the Daily Worker, renounced communism and in 1950 created a “List of 400 Concealed Communists” for the FBI. Miriam Hopkins was on that list. Of course she wasn’t [...]
by Andre Soares | January 9, 2009
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Tags: Allan Ellenberger, Bette Davis, Classic Movies, Design for Living, Hollywood Blacklist, Interviews, Miriam Hopkins, The Old Maid
