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Genre/Form: | collective biographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Miriam Hopkins; Miriam Hopkins |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Allan R Ellenberger |
ISBN: | 9780813174310 0813174317 |
OCLC Number: | 974475402 |
Description: | 360 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | "From a fine old family" -- Broadway bound -- Billy -- Of paramount importance -- Hollywood -- "An expensive leading woman" -- The Lubitsch touch -- Sutton Place -- Goldwyn -- Tola -- West Hollywood to Burbank -- "Perfect little bitches" -- All this, Jack Warner, and Bette Davis, too -- Angels battle in Boston -- "This is pure Hopkins" -- To New York and back -- "A little off-center" -- "They are sure reds" -- "How many times can you come back?" -- The final years -- "If I had to do it over again". |
Series Title: | Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.) |
Other Titles: | Life and films of a Hollywood rebel |
Responsibility: | Allan R. Ellenberger. |
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As Ellenberger's approach mines detail after detail and anecdote after anecdote, from Hopkins's echt southern beginnings to every zigzag of her life afterward, the woman who emerges is complex and compulsively compelling."" - Sheila Benson, former chief film critic for the Los Angeles Times and writer for the National Society of Film Critics""Outstanding for its authoritative research, Allan R. Ellenberger's Miriam Hopkins: Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel is a lively, interesting book about a lively, interesting woman."" - Emily W. Leider, author of Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood""Allan Ellenberger's thorough, empathetic biography captures the passionate, full-blooded life of celebrated actress Miriam Hopkins, revealing the idiosyncratic and complex life of one of Hollywood's most intelligent women."" - Mary Mallory, author of Hollywood at Play: The Lives of the Stars Between Takes Read more...

