Editing Miriam Hopkins (section)

==Personal life==
Hopkins married four times. Her first marriage was to actor Brandon Peters, second to aviator and screenwriter Austin Parker, third to the director [[Anatole Litvak]], and fourth to war correspondent Raymond B. Brock.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 October 1945 |title=Miriam Hopkins' Third Wedding |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128319344 |access-date=20 October 2024 |work=Adelaide News |pages=3 |quote=The film and stage actress Miriam Hopkins married Raymond Brock, war correspondent, in the Methodist Church at Alexandria (Virginia). It was her third marriage and Brock's second.}}</ref> In 1932, she adopted a son, Michael T. Hopkins (March 29, 1932 – October 5, 2010), who had a career in the U.S. Air Force.<ref>Ellenberger 2017, pp. 231, 249, 256, 273</ref>

She was known for hosting elegant parties. [[John O'Hara]], a frequent guest, noted that

{{blockquote|most of her guests were chosen from the world of the intellect&nbsp;... Miriam knew them all, had read their work, had listened to their music, had bought their paintings. They were not there because a secretary had given her a list of highbrows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/10/10/issue.html|title=TimesMachine|publisher=Timesmachine.nytimes.com|access-date=October 17, 2015}}</ref>}}

She was a staunch [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] who strongly supported the presidency of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].<ref name="janeway">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSZFAAAAQBAJ&q=Miriam+Hopkins+Democrat&pg=PT182 |title=The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ|author=Michael Janeway |date=August 22, 2009 |page=102|publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231505772|access-date=October 17, 2015}}</ref>