Miriam Hopkins

Hopkins died in New York, New York from a heart attack. They separated in 1997. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures at 1701 Vine Street, and one for television at 1708 Vine Street. In 1980 she married Jonathan Krane. She was one of the actresses auditioned to portray Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. She married director Rick Edelstein in 1970 but subsequently divorced. The studios made up a rivalry between Hopkins and Bette Davis, making the climactic confrontation scene in Old Acquaintance eagerly anticipated by audiences. Kellerman supplements her ongoing film career with stints as a nightclub singer, television and radio narrator and voice-overs.

Hyde, Trouble in Paradise, The Story of Temple Drake, Becky Sharp (for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress), Barbary Coast, These Three, The Old Maid and Old Acquaintance. Altman said that her attitude and passion was exactly what he was looking for in the character. Jekyll and Mr. She was incensed about the way her would be character, "Hot Lips," was humiliated. During the rest of the 1930s she appeared in such films as The Smiling Lieutenant, Dr. She had an argument with M*A*S*H director Robert Altman after reading the script. In 1930 she signed with Paramount Studios, and made her film debut in Fast and Loose. She reportedly almost talked herself out of her most famous role.