Cast: Miriam Hopkins

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Miriam Hopkins. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Heiress

1949 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Montgomery Clift · Ralph Richardson · Miriam Hopkins

Synopsis Catherine Sloper is a shy and backwards young woman who lives with her father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in 1849 New York. By all accounts Catherine's mother was a beautiful and graceful creature with the charm of queens. Catherine never knew...

8.1

7K votes

8.1

7K votes

The Chase

1966 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Marlon Brando · Robert Redford · Angie Dickinson · Jane Fonda

Synopsis Tense drama unfolds in a small town after a local bad guy escapes prison, causing everyone to fear what will happen when secret lives come to light.

8.0

12K votes

8.0

12K votes

The Children's Hour

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Shirley MacLaine · James Garner · Miriam Hopkins

Synopsis Karen (Hepburn) and Martha (MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander and accuses her teachers of questionable behavior. Soon the scandalous...

7.8

7K votes

7.8

7K votes

Trouble in Paradise

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Herbert Marshall · Miriam Hopkins · Kay Francis · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis In Venice, Lily (Miriam Hopkins), a pickpocket pretending to be a countess, meets the famous thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), who is posing as a Baron, and they fall in love. Gaston robs aristocrat François Fileba and flees with Lily...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fredric March · Miriam Hopkins · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert

Synopsis Henry "Harry" Jekyll is a well respected member of London society. In his personal life, he is pre-engaged to Muriel Carew, the daughter of a brigadier general. In his professional life, he is a medical doctor, scientist and academician. He...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

The Old Maid

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg leaving Charlotte an unwed mother. She and her daughter Tina,...

7.4

732 votes

7.4

732 votes

Design for Living

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Fredric March · Gary Cooper · Miriam Hopkins · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Painter George Curtis and playwright Tom Chambers, flatmates in a Paris apartment, meet fellow American and commercial artist Gilda Farrell on a train bound for the French capital. While both men are immediately smitten by the girl, she can't make...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Carrie

1952 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jennifer Jones · Miriam Hopkins · Eddie Albert

Synopsis When Carrie steps onto the train that will take her to Chicago, she regards the trip as a grand adventure. But her glorious dreams of the big city quickly die, for all that awaits Carrie there is a bleak life...

7.2

703 votes

7.2

703 votes

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These Three

1936 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Merle Oberon · Joel McCrea · Catherine Doucet

Synopsis Karen and Martha, college roommates, graduate and face the future with no place and no money. Karen, however, has inherited a farmhouse from her grandmother, and gets the idea that she and Martha can turn it into a school for...

7.1

578 votes

7.1

578 votes

The Smiling Lieutenant

1931 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Claudette Colbert · Miriam Hopkins · Charles Ruggles

Synopsis Lieutenant Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn falls for a violinist called Franzi in Vienna and they become lovers. When the King of Flausenthurm arrives to the city with his plain daughter, Anna, Niki has to stand guard in the street. Standing...

6.8

314 votes

6.8

314 votes

The Mating Season

1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Gene Tierney · John Lund · Miriam Hopkins · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis White-collar working stiff but upwardly mobile Val McNulty meets, quickly falls in love and marries socialite Maggie Carleton, who has no money of her own. Thus, they live in a modest apartment on Val's wages. At the same time, Val's...

6.8

282 votes

6.8

282 votes

Barbary Coast

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Edward G. Robinson · Joel McCrea · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Year 1849 in the Gold Rush era. Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s....

6.8

583 votes

6.8

583 votes

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6.8

26 votes

Old Acquaintance

1943 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · Gig Young · John Loder

Synopsis Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins--a pair of actresses who hated each other--re-mix their chemistry from The Old Maid in Old Acquaintance, an entertaining adaptation of John Van Druten's play. The action begins with Davis, a semi-famous author, returning to her...

6.8

352 votes

6.8

352 votes

The Stranger's Return

1933 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

6.7

44 votes

6.7

44 votes

Cast John Landis · Jonathan Kuntz · Rudy Behlmer · Jerry Beck

Synopsis A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

6.6

111 votes

6.6

111 votes

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The Story of Temple Drake

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Jack La Rue · William Gargan · William Collier Jr.

Synopsis A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.

6.4

55 votes

6.4

55 votes

Virginia City

1940 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Miriam Hopkins · Randolph Scott · Humphrey Bogart

Synopsis Union officer Kerry Bradford (Errol Flynn) escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby (Randolph Scott) is planning to send $5 million in...

6.4

407 votes

6.4

407 votes

Becky Sharp

1935 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Frances Dee · Cedric Hardwicke · Billie Burke

Synopsis Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this...

5.8

116 votes

5.8

116 votes

The Richest Girl in the World

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Beryl Mercer

Synopsis A witty Norman Krasna script distinguishes this airy romantic comedy. Millionairess Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be...

4.9

33 votes

4.9

33 votes

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