Miriam Hopkins : Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel /

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"In the first comprehensive biography of this colorful performer, Allan R. Ellenberger illuminates Hopkins's fascinating life and legacy. Her freewheeling film career was exceptional in studio-era Hollywood, and she managed to establish herself as a top star at Paramount, RKO, Goldwyn, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellenberger, Allan R., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hopkins, Miriam, > 1902-1972.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In the first comprehensive biography of this colorful performer, Allan R. Ellenberger illuminates Hopkins's fascinating life and legacy. Her freewheeling film career was exceptional in studio-era Hollywood, and she managed to establish herself as a top star at Paramount, RKO, Goldwyn, and Warner Bros. Over the course of five decades, Hopkins appeared in thirty-six films, forty stage plays, and countless radio programs. Later, she emerged as a pioneer of TV drama. Ellenberger also explores Hopkins's private life, including her relationships with such intellectuals as Theodore Dreiser, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (424 pages).
ISBN:9780813174327

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