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Luise Rainer (Big City; The Emperor's Candlesticks; The Toy Wife)—i mean. look at her.
Miriam Hopkins (Design For Living, Trouble in Paradise)—miriam hopkins had great range as an actresses, truly a woman who could play a passionate outburst for either dramatic or comedic effect and sell the ever-loving hell out of it. she's wonderful in the witty and sophisticated comedies she made with ernst lubitsch, great examples of movies that could never have been made after the hays code; the frothy musical comedy the smiling lieutenant where she plays a naive princess who accidentally gets betrothed to maurice chevalier, the polyamory classic design for living where she gary cooper and hot vintage shadow king fredric march are a throuple, and the ineffably exquisite comedic masterpiece trouble in paradise in which she and hubert marshall are sexy jewel thieves trying to con sexy rich lady kay francis, but will emotional complications ensue???? watch to find out!!
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Miriam Hopkins:
She is an incredibly charismatic and versatile actress who brings a certain captivating je ne sais quois to each and every one of her roles that makes her impossible to ignore. Her pre-code films were considered quite risqué, with her part in a thrupple in Design For Living, and some saucy scenes they had to cut from Jekyll and Hyde. She also had a strong career in early television, so good that this queen literally has TWO Hollywood Stars, TWO!! One for TV and one for Film
Also she is Gorgeous, capable of being the girl nextdoor and also a stunning blonde bombshell. She's not as well known as some golden-age Hollywood stars but she's really incredible and I recommend everyone watch her films
In Trouble in Paradise she plays a pickpocket who flirts by stealing from her criminal boyfriend and I fell in love
queen of the pre-code era. often her roles were of carefree, flirty and lighthearted but intelligent women. famously in the movie where she was part of a fredrich march/gary cooper throuple.
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She's got this sly slouchy confidence that just draws you in. Almost no one wore 30s fashion as well as her
We all know that Design for Living is THE pre-code movie and she is so iconic in it. Her eyes are everythingggg. Also everyone look at her in a suit in She Loves Me Not please
A Frequent collaborator of Ernst Lubistch, Miriam Hopkins like up the screen in her comic roles, as is especially sexy in her pre-code performance in Design for Living; probably one of the first movies to showcase a coded polyamorous relationship. She toes the line between adorable and sexy, and had the acting chops to back it all up.
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ACTRESSES WHO DIED 2014
Shirley Temple at 85 from COPD
Lauren Bacall at 89 from stroke
Virna Lisi at 78 from cancer
Polly Bergen at 84 from natural causes
Alexandra Bastedo at 67 from cancer
Carla Laemmle at 104 from natural causes
Kate O’Mara at 74 from cancer
Martha Hyer at 89 from natural causes
France Anglade at 72 from natural causes
Luise Rainer at 104 from pneumonia
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Luise Rainer, January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014.
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Charlie Chaplin at the Mocambo nightclub following the Hollywood premiere of "Pride of the Yankees" August 18th 1942.
Also pictured left friend Tim Durant, actress Luise Rainer and Charlie's 17 year old son Charles Jr
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Luise Rainer, born on January 12, 1910 #botd
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