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1.The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics) starring: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Miriam Hopkins, Ralph Richardson February 06, 2007
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The Heiress (1949) is an outstanding movie - adaptation of the play by Augustus and Ruth Goetz, based on the novel "Washington Square" by great writer, Henry James, The drama of a young, shy, sweet, open to love, rather plain in her appearance but very rich girl takes place in New York City in the mid-1880s. Olivia de Havilland is excellent as Catherine, the heiress of the title, who fells in love with a very good looking young man Morris Townsend(Montgomery Clift in the role that had propelled him to the stardom), who may or may not be after her extraordinary wealth. Catherine's Father, Dr. Austin Sloper (Ralf Richardson) is protective of his daughter and does not trust Moris sincerely felling in love with awkward Catherine. Dr. Sloper constantly compares his daughter to her late mother. ... Read More

2.The Gary Cooper Collection (Design for Living / The Lives of a Bengal Lancer / Peter Ibbetson / The General Died at Dawn / Beau Geste) starring: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Franchot Tone, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins directed by: Ernst Lubitsch, Henry Hathaway, Lewis Milestone, William A. Wellman May 31, 2005
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Gary Cooper fans, romantics, lovers of classic cinema, fans of fine art, here is a collection of five fabulos, lovingly restored films of one of the greatest actors of all time. The print quality ranges from very good to excellent and the moves are presented in their original aspect ratio. BEAU GESTE (1939) touches profoundly and is full of surprise, action and suspense. The story begins in a desert fort, where there's not a soul alive and yet, bodies disappear and the fort mysteriously catches fire. Then the movie takes us back in time and we are introduced to the family of Brandon Abbas Estate in England, Lady Patricia Brandon and the children in her care: her three adopted sons Beau, John and Digby Gests, her ward Isobel and Ghastly. There is also Sir Hector, the master of the estate, ... Read More

3.Swingtown - The First Season starring: Molly Parker, Jack Davenport, Grant Show, Lana Parrilla, Josh Hopkins directed by: Alan Poul, Alex Zakrzewski, Bob Balaban, Daniel Minahan, Jamie Babbit December 09, 2008
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I started watching this show on Netflix and was hooked on it within the first 15 minutes of the Pilot. I ended up watching the whole season within a week. What a great show! There's nothing more that needs to be said!

4.Errol Flynn Westerns Collection (Montana / Rocky Mountain / San Antonio / Virginia City) starring: Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Randolph Scott, Miriam Hopkins directed by: Michael Curtiz August 26, 2008
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Four wonderful entertaining westerns that are new to DVD. Great writing, directing and acting. I recommend!

5.The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 3 (The Old Maid / All This, And Heaven Too / The Great Lie / In This Our Life / Watch on the Rhine / Deception) starring: Bette Davis, Mary Astor, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Claude Rains April 01, 2008
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Collection was in good condition. There was however, a problem with delivery. The ship to address was wrong. First disc sent back by UPS. Second one also to wrong address, but, I did intercept it before it went back by getting in touch with UPS.

6.Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Double Feature (1932/1941) starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes directed by: Rouben Mamoulian, Victor Fleming, Friz Freleng January 06, 2004
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Just as in "Les Miserables", Frederic March really was this young once. The avuncular actor of later films won't be found. Here March portrays the split personality of both a kindly, idealistic London physician and the raging maniac he creates in his lab. Dr. J was filmed in creepy black and white-that lost art. The special effects are truly shivery as the good Jekyll transforms into the evil Hyde before the viewer's very eyes. Director Mamoulian keeps the pace frantic as March morphs from Jekyll to Hyde and back. The female leads are central to the plot. Both Miriam Hopkins and Rose Hobart are superb. MH is the racy, "pre Code" bar girl who Jekyll befriends and Hyde abuses. An old "Variety" review claimed that Hopkins played her role with "a capital sense of comedy and coquetry". She certainly had personality. RH is Hyde's proper ... Read More

7.The Children's Hour starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter directed by: William Wyler December 03, 2002
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This is one of those movies I didn't expect to hit me the way that it did. I love Hepburn and MacLaine and so I was anticipating finally getting to sit down and watch this film, but I truly had no idea what to expect. Hepburn was such a wonderfully light actress, an actress who filtered in and out of breezy comedies with such effortless charisma, so I was expecting something a little less dramatic and little more entertaining. What I got instead was one of those films that socks you in the gut and leaves you pondering issues and consequences that never seem to leave your head afterward. `The Children's Hour' is haunting. The film tells the story of Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, two young women who run a boarding school for young girls. Little Mary Tilford is quite the troublemaker and is constantly finding herself in ... Read More

8.Eclipse Series 8 - Lubitsch Musicals (The Love Parade / The Smiling Lieutenant / One Hour with You / Monte Carlo) (Criterion Collection) starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Boyer directed by: Ernst Lubitsch February 12, 2008
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Musical: From Broadway to Hollywood Shadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake The Criterion Collection has released LUBITSCH MUSICALS, an absolutely delightful 4-disc boxed set that contains a quartet of director Ernst Lubitsch's very risque' musical-comedies that he made for Paramount between 1929-1932. Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald each star in three of the films. Interestingly, although the performers make an engaging couple on screen, the fact is that they did not like working together. When it came to doing THE MERRY WIDOW at MGM in 1934, Chevalier felt double-crossed by Lubitsch, because the director had promised him that MacDonald would not be in the picture, then reneged. The movies in this collection are definitely dated, but they are still a lot of fun to watch. Being a Chevalier ... Read More

9.The Chase starring: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson directed by: Arthur Penn February 24, 2004
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Muddled but good story. Seemed unable to decide where it was going, but great performances by gret actors make it a keeper.

10.Old Acquaintance starring: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran directed by: Chuck Jones, Ralph Staub, Vincent Sherman May 30, 2006
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Film: 1/2 _____ DVD Transfer: 1/2 _____ DVD Extras: ** Through no fault of her own, "Old Acquaintance" is definitely one of Bette Davis's lesser vehicles from the late 30's through the early 1940's, certainly not up to the standards set by "Jezebel", "Dark Victory", "The Letter", "The Little Foxes", "The Man Who Came to Dinner", "Now, Voyager", "The Watch on the Rhine", and "Mr. Skeffington". In those superior films, Davis had the advantage of top flight scripts, formidable supporting casts, and superb production values in terms of directors, cinematographers, costume designers, and composers. In "Old Acquaintance", she is saddled with a sappy screenplay, a lackluster leading man (the bland John Loder), an unmanageable co-star (Miriam Hopkins who overplays her every scene to the point of embarrassment), an anachronistic wardrobe and hairstyles ... Read More

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