Miriam Hopkins

Hopkins died in New York, New York from a heart attack. In 2001, a tribute documentary entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce was aired by ITV. 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 1986, a photograph of Yootha Joyce adorned the sleeve of Ask, a single released by British band The Smiths. She was one of the actresses auditioned to portray Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Yootha Joyce married once, to the actor Glynn Edwards, best known for playing Dave the landlord in Minder, but the marriage ended in divorce. The studios made up a rivalry between Hopkins and Bette Davis, making the climactic confrontation scene in Old Acquaintance eagerly anticipated by audiences. The actor Brian Murphy, who played her screen husband George Roper, was at her bedside.

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. For many years she battled alcoholism and ultimately succumbed, in hospital, to hepatitis four days after her 53rd birthday in 1980. Jekyll and Mr. A feature film was made of George And Mildred in 1980, but this was to be Joyce's last work. During the rest of the 1930s she appeared in such films as The Smiling Lieutenant, Dr. Much of the new series centred on Mildred's desire to better herself in her new surroundings, but always being thwarted, usually unwittingly, by her lifeskill-lacking husband's desire for a quiet life. In 1930 she signed with Paramount Studios, and made her film debut in Fast and Loose. The couple were seen moving from the London house which they'd owned in the previous programme and into a suburban semi-detached property.