Miriam Hopkins

Hopkins died in New York, New York from a heart attack. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica.. 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. Her various volumes of reminiscences contain much valuable material for the social and dramatic history of the period. She was one of the actresses auditioned to portray Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. These were followed by Records of a Girlhood (1878), Records of Later Life (1882), Notes on some of Shakespeare's Plays (1882), Far Away and Long Ago (1889), and Further Records (1891). The studios made up a rivalry between Hopkins and Bette Davis, making the climactic confrontation scene in Old Acquaintance eagerly anticipated by audiences. Besides her plays, Francis the First, unsuccessfully produced in 1832, The Star of Seville (1837), a volume of Poems (1844), and a book of Italian travel, A Year of Consolation (1847), she published a volume of her Journal in 1835, and in 1863 another (dealing with life on the Georgia plantation), and also a volume of Plays, including translations from Dumas and Schiller.

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. During this period Fanny Kemble was a prominent and popular figure in the social life of London. Jekyll and Mr. In 1877 she returned to England, where she lived in London using her maiden name till her death. During the rest of the 1930s she appeared in such films as The Smiling Lieutenant, Dr. In 1847 she returned to the stage, from which she had retired on her marriage, and later, following her father's example, appeared with much success as a Shakespearian reader. In 1930 she signed with Paramount Studios, and made her film debut in Fast and Loose. They were divorced in 1849.