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Was Miriam Hopkins the Sexiest Pre-Code Star of Them All?

October 18, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 13 Comments

Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Gary Cooper 1940 Tobacco Card

A look at Miriam Hopkins concentrating on her early 1930s work, including The Smiling Lieutenant, Trouble in Paradise, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and especially Design for Living, perhaps the most sinful of all pre-Code movies. Plus a gallery of Hopkins pre-Code movie ads.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: calendar, design for living, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Miriam Hopkins, october 18, pre-Code, sex, the smiling lieutenant, the story of temple drake, trouble in paradise

Claudette Colbert, Her Start, Broadway Success and Earliest Films

September 13, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Claudette Colbert 1939 Rothmans Beauties tobacco card

A biography of Claudette Colbert covering her earliest days as she came to the stage, found Broadway success and transitioned to film. Claudette Colbert from France to New York, up until It Happened One Night (1934).

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies, News - Notes Tagged With: Claudette Colbert, Frank Capra, it happened one night, the barker, The Sign of the Cross, the smiling lieutenant

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