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...Paramount) has a title borrowed from a popular song, a story borrowed from William Faulkner and subjected to reverse English. In The Story of Temple Drake, Miriam Hopkins was a well-bred girl whose association with low characters led to unpleasant doings in a cornbin. In All of Me she is a patrician girl, selfishly in love with a young engineer (Fredric March). Her association with a petty crook (George Raft) and his mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island...
...Miriam Hopkins is one of the few cinemactresses who can face a camera and, without speaking or scratching her nose, convey the impression that her head is full of thoughts. Consequently, scenes in All of Me which show her as an attentive audience to the curt love making of Raft and his mistress are more effective than they should be. The picture is a pee-wee parable, strident, quick and insincere. Grisly shot: Raft's jump...
...much the immediate gold of the West as fame which will redound to their profit on their return to the legitimate. This is supposed, by tipsters of this school, to have been Katharine Hepburn's true reason for entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam Hopkins' also. For, although most who know her name would not recall it, Miss Hopkins has been in nine or ten New York hits before her career in celluloid started. Among these were "Lysistrata," "The Affairs of Anatol," "The Camel Through The Needle's Eye," and "John Ferguson." Unfortunately it cannot be said...
...voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that she was born in Bainbridge, Ga., 29 years ago and can still remember her Southern accent has aided Miriam Hopkins to impersonate unhappy samples of Southern womanhood. Since her last stage appearance, in The Affairs of Anatol, she has played in a dozen cinemas, notably The Smiling Lieutenant, Trouble in Paradise, Design for Living. Still rated by many as one of the cinema's most blood-curdling sound effects...
...Miriam Hopkins made her stage debut in the chorus of the first Music Box Revue (1921). In 1932 she divorced her second husband, Playwright Austin Parker. She has an adopted son. Michael. Her favorite drink is a Tom Collins. Hereafter, she plans to spend her summers picture- making in Hollywood, her winters play-acting in Manhattan...