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The Heiress

The Heiress (1949) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown

Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance married an unattractive but very wealthy young woman for the express purpose of living the rest of his life in luxury. Washington Square was turned into a stage play in 1946 by Ruth and Augustus Goetz; this, in turn was adapted ...

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The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour (1961) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter

Based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. When student Karen Balkin is punished for one of her many misdeeds, the mean-spirited youngster rushes to her wealthy aunt Fay Bainter, and, randomly choosing a phrase she has undoubtedly ...

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The Old Maid

The Old Maid (1939) more movies like this

directed by Edmund Goulding
featuring Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan

When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was roundly condemned by critics, who felt that Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour was more deserving, but had lost because of its lesbian theme. Certainly, Akins' story of the relationship between two Southern cousins in the ...

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The Barbary Coast

The Barbary Coast (1935) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven

It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub owner (Edward G. Robinson) and his efforts at wooing lovely Mary Rutledge (Miriam Hopkins), a lovely Eastern lass left to her own devices in the rowdy port city. The innocent babe loses that innocence when she becomes a ...

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Carrie

Carrie (1952) more movies like this

directed by William Wyler
featuring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Eddie Albert, Miriam Hopkins, Basil Ruysdael

Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat and precise screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Jennifer Jones stars as Carrie, who leaves her go-nowhere small town for the wicked metropolis of Chicago. Here she becomes the mistress of brash traveling salesman Charles ...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) more movies like this

directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Edgar Norton

This first sound version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic morality tale starred Fredric March as the kindly, philanthropic Dr. Jekyll, who makes the fatal mistake of delving into secrets that Man Should Never Know. Fascinated with the notion that within each man lurk impulses for both Good and Evil, Jekyll develops a drug to release the ...

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The Outer Limits: Don't Open Till Doomsday

The Outer Limits: Don't Open Till Doomsday (1964) more movies like this

directed by Gerd Oswald
featuring Miriam Hopkins, David Frankham

On the night of his wedding in 1929, Harvey Kry (David Frankham) is surprised by an anonymous gift, a box with a single hole containing a lens, through which a strange light emanates. He looks into it and sees a monstrous creature inside, that holds him in the gaze of its single eye -- and then transports the screaming man inside. Thirty-five ...

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Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp (1935) more movies like this

directed by Rouben Mamoulian
featuring Miriam Hopkins, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Billie Burke, Frances Dee, Alan Mowbray, Alison Skipworth

Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort in its own right. Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the film stars Miriam Hopkins as Becky Sharp, a resourceful, totally self-involved young lady who manages to survive any number of setbacks and ...

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Old Acquaintance

Old Acquaintance (1943) more movies like this

directed by Vincent Sherman
featuring Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran

After the box office success of The Old Maid, Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins were reunited for this catty drama. Kitty Marlowe (Davis) is a well-respected author who returns to the small town of her birth, where she becomes reacquainted with her childhood friend Millie Drake (Hopkins). While Millie is happy as a wife and mother and loves her ...

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Trouble in Paradise

Trouble in Paradise (1932) more movies like this

directed by Ernst Lubitsch
featuring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton

Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar's play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-'30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a ...

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A Gentleman After Dark (1942) more movies like this

directed by Edwin L. Marin
featuring Brian Donlevy, Miriam Hopkins, Preston S. Foster, Harold Huber, Phillip Reed

In this crime drama, a remake of Forgotten Faces (1936), a convict busts out of prison to protect his daughter from her conniving mother so that the girl will be able to marry a decent guy in the future. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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