On Miriam Hopkins

For those of you who only remember her as the dowdy aunt in the 1949 Olivia de Havilland/Montgomery Clift classic, "The Heiress", you'd probably be surprised to learn that she was also one of the screen's most charming and alluring vixens all throughout the 1930s. Add to that the fact that a lot of her meatier roles (she played a prostitute in 1933's, "The Story of Temple Drake") came in the years prior to the Hays Code in which Hollywood was basically forced to clean up its act and that makes her seem even more of a hottie....And, who's to say, if you also threw into the mix that well-publicized feud with Bette Davis and the fact that she actually turned down the female lead in "It Happened One Night", there might even be enough material for a movie about her some day. I sure as hell would watch the sucker.