Of Paramount Importance

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Miriam is cast in the hit play Lysistrata, and Paramount producer Walter Wanger offers her a contract. Her first picture is Fast and Loose, but she doubts that films are for her. Actress Nancy Carroll teaches her how to work before the camera. Going into rehearsals for Lee Shubert’s His Majesty’s Car, she has a breakdown. Hopkins’s grandmother dies during rehearsals for Anatol, but she cannot attend the funeral in Georgia, infuriating her mother. Hopkins is making good money and brings her mother to New York. Paramount signs her to do The Smiling Lieutenant for Ernst Lubitsch. Her husband’s screenplay, Honor Among Lovers, attracts RKO and he is offered a Hollywood contract. The couple’s lack of commitment creates a strain and they separate before Billy leaves for California. The Smiling Lieutenant is a hit for Hopkins. Paramount closes the Astoria Studios, and she will make her next film in Hollywood. The evening before she leaves, Bennett Cerf gives her a wild going away party.

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