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Superb video! My choices follow. I definitely agree with Ann Blyth in 1945. Sentiment ruled over good judgement that year. I would chose Celeste Holm in All About Eve in 1950. She is integral to the relationship between Margot and Eve and knocks it out of the park for me. I agree with Carolyn Jones in 1957. Such a smart actress always. I strongly disagree for 1958. Wendy Hiller is so subtly powerful in her characterisation. Think of her in Pygmalion and A Man For All Seasons. I'm so glad she won an Oscar. For 1964 I'm conflicted because a win for Moorehead, Kedrova or Cooper would each please me for different reasons. You keep us on our toes :) Thanks!
williamreed2558 I always look forward to your comments. I wish Carolyn Jones had had a better career. She started her career with a lot of promise, but if she is remembered at all, it is for her role of Morticia Addams on THE ADDAMS FAMILY. Thank you for your comment on Wendy Hiller; she is one of my favorite actresses
@@ConanTheLibrarian-n5q Oh, thank you! You're right about Jones. Always a bit disturbing too when fine film actors are remembered for lesser, popular films or tv. Like Agnes Moorehead for Bewitched instead of Welles' The Magnificent Andersons.
@@williamreed2558 Did you know that Wendy Hiller was the original Catherine Sloper in THE HEIRESS on Broadway? Olivia de Havilland won the Best Actress Oscar for the film role
It is a shame that Agnes Moorehead wasn't recognized for her career. She won only one major award, an Emmy for a guest shot on the WILD, WILD WEST. Even her work on BEWITCHED only got her nominations, but no statuette (Alice Pearce and Marian Lorne won posthumous Emmys for their work on BEWITCHED),
Agreed...she was so great in that role, and while I imagine she didn't look upon doing a sitcom as the zenith of her career, it brought her financial stability, if not any Emmy (which she most definitely should have been awarded, as should have Montgomery).
It’s incredible that she never won for Bewitched although Pearce and Loren were fully deserving . Moorhead was one of three vital characters that made Bewitched work. Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte shows the full range of her talent. I thought she was excellent in Johnny Belinda too.
Too often people my age (and never mind what age that is) remember Agnes Moorehead only as “Endora” on”Bewitched”. Thank you for reminding us that she was nominated for an Oscar FOUR TIMES. Fun fact - in the 1940’s she was the highest-paid actress on radio, where she was the original lead in “Sorry … Wrong Number”, which Barbara Stanwyck played onscreen. As for your list and your picks, you make some very good arguments for your choices. 😊
RU-vid has the 22-minute radio version of SORRY, WRONG NUMBER. The radio play doesn't have all the subplots. If you can, please listen to it to hear what a great actress can do with just her voice
I didn't know about the "fun fact" - she didn't come across as a "star," but as an "actress." And yes, Endora will - for better or worse - be her legacy to most.
Moorehead is one of the top 5 finest actresses never to have received an Oscar. She should have won for both The Magnificent Ambersons and Hush. Hush Sweet Charlotte. (And an Emmy for her portrayal of a mute woman besieged by "aliens" in The Twilight Zone.) If you've never heard her doing Sorry, Wrong Number on the radio, be sure to listen. She's great, as always.
So happy you mentioned her TZ episode! For a real lollapalooza Moorehead performance, check her amazing star turn in an episode of Suspicion called Protege in which she plays an alcoholic stage actress trying for a comeback. It is reminiscent of All About Eve, and is a fabulous production co-starring W. Shatner and J. Klugman. One of the best roles she’s ever had. It’s here on RU-vid - search: Suspicion Protege!
Another thing about Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte is Olivia de Havilland makes a great villain! She usually played heroines or sympathetic characters but she could have played a villain more often.
Hope Emerson, Ann Blyth and Agnes Moorehead were absolutely riveting to watch in their respective movies. Hope Emerson especially was such a wickedly delicious performance. I love that movie still.
It is a great film with a wonderful ensemble. Emerson should have won, though I know many liked Hull's daffy performance. I can watch Blyth and Crawford go at it in that scene over and over!
Agnes! Queen! My favorite choices who were robbed are Thelma Ritter in Pickup on South Street (her death monologue is character-actor gold~) and, of course, Eileen Heckart in The Bad Seed. How she made a grieving mother, whose son was murdered by a little girl, both campy and heartbreaking, I'll never know...
1937 Oscars: Bonita Granville "These Three" over Gale Sondergaard "Anthony Adverse"; 1940: Judith Anderson "Rebecca" over Jane Darwell "The Grapes of Wrath"; 1944: Paulette Goddard "So Proudly We Hail!" over Katina Paxinou "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; 1945: Jennifer Jones "Since You Went Away" over Ethel Barrymore "None But the Lonely Heart"; 1953: Jean Hagen "Singin' in the Rain" over Gloria Grahame "The Bad and the Beautiful"; 1958: Diane Varsi "Peyton Place" over Miyoshi Umeki "Sayonara"; 1960: Susan Kohner "Imitation of Life" over Shelley Winters "The Diary of Anne Frank."
And then it's always a good idea at the top of a staircase to turn your back on the hot mess you just threatened. Didn't Velma see 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and learn anything from the housekeeper's folly? Guess not.
The Snake Pit was powerful. My mom used to talk about it and when I finally saw it I wasn’t disappointed if Emerson had won I wouldn’t have a problem with it .
Good afternoon all Oscarman42, I agree with you with Hope Emerson -- but I wouldn't have minded if Celeste Holm or Thelma Ritter had won -- and Agnes Moorehead. I disagree with you on Umecki and Wendy Hiller. I would have voted for Eve Arden for MILDRED PIERCE. Ann Blyth might have had the stronger dramatic role, but Arden's one-liners are what is remembered. If Blyth is remembered today, it is for her commercials for Hostess Cupcakes. I was expecting to see Dorothy Malone. Does that mean she will be in Part II?
I just don't see anything in Umeki's performance that was Oscar-worthy. Did I miss something? As for Malone, she actually appeared in my video on Supporting Actress winners the Academy got right - so, no alternate choice for me that year!
She's dull and simply walks through the film. Dorothy, on the other hand, chews the scenery and steals the show. Hers is one of the most fun to watch Oscar-winning performances in history.@@oscarman42
@@oscarman42 FYI ... Director Josh Logan wanted to mount a musical version of SAYONARA for the Broadway stage. I don't know what happened to his plans. SAYONARA would make an interesting piece of musical theater (please note that I said "musical theater" not musical comedy.) FYI II: IIR, In the novel SAYONARA, Joe Kelly (the character played by Red Buttons) is 19 years old and an orphan. Buttons was 38, 39 when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
@@oscarman42 BUT WHEN SHIRLEY GREW OLDER I THINK HER CARM WORE OFF !! BECAUSE IN THE MOVIE 🎥 SINCE YOU WENT AWAY , THEY FOCUS MORE ON HER MOVIE SISTER JENNIFER JONES AND NOT TEMPLE !!
Oscarman you are absolutely correct about the 1959 Oscar s Cara Williams was exceptional her performance was just as good as Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier all 3 should have won the Oscar (Curtis and Portier co- winners) I think you are also right about Ann Blyth who at the time I think was just 17 who I think was just as good as Joan Crawford who did win the Oscar.
Thank you for mentioning Williams. It's a performance I'm not sure many know of or remember. Even though she enters late in the film, her scenes with Curtis were, I thought, really strong (and much better than Hiller's heavily edited performance). Blyth was, I believe, 16 at the time MP was filmed.
The funny thing is that I think for 1958 Wendy Hiller would agree with you. I read that she had little use for her Oscar because "you mostly saw the back of my head" and also claimed her screen time was cut in favor of Rita Hayworth.
I actually only saw bachelor party a couple of years ago, I hadn't seen it before that and I really liked it (a cinema here plays double features from the golden/platinum era on Saturdays, it's where I see most of the classics)
@@danginley8802 It is a compelling (and disturbing) film. Melton is excellent, with a quiet strength that subtly explains so much about his character and how this sordid incident happened (and you see his backside!).
Planning on doing Actors Who Were Nominated For A Role, But Not The Others? Such as.. Andrea Riseborough, Jonah Hill, Penelope Cruz, Michael Shannon, and Max Von Sydow?
Sounds interesting. Do you mean actors who were snubbed from the same film, or the wrong actor was nominated? Can you elaborate on those you suggested?
@@oscarman42 Nominated for an Oscar, But Snubbed by the others for the same film. Jonah Hill: Wolf Of Wall Street Andrea Riseborough: To Leslie Michael Shannon: Revolutionary Road Max Von Sydow: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Penelope Cruz: Parallel Mothers
Given that I've only seen a few of these films, I can't really assess if I agree or not. I think Moorehead was expected to win for the Magnificent Ambersons but Teresa Wright took that. I would've been happy had Ann Blyth won as she held her own Joan and should've gotten her own sequel "Veda Pierce"! I did enjoy Hope Emerson's performance in "Caged" but confess I watched the picture more for Eleanor Parker.
Moorehead was overdue by the time Hush Hush came out, so one would have thought she was finally going to be honored, even if the film itself had problems. I really loved Emerson's performance.
Wendy Hiller deserved the supporting actress Oscar. And she had enough film time in the movie to deserve it. Cara Williams was exceptional, but she didn’t have enough time on film and I’m not happy with any actor or actress who gets an Oscar for less than eight minutes or so in the film. At least she was important to the storyline. But I don’t think she had any tears on her face. Carolyn Jones is excellent in the bachelor party but come on now. Six minutes! No Oscar. You have to be a part of the film its plot and play a role that’s important to the storyline.
Cara Williams' screen time was 20:56, vs Hiller's 21:40. Many here have echoed your sentiments about "cameo"-like roles, which makes it difficult to judge competing performances that are so disparate in screen time (Tatum O'Neal vs. Madeline Kahn in "Paper Moon," for instance).
My choices 1945 Angela Landsbury in The Picture of Dorian Gray 1950 Thelma Ritter in All About Eve 1957 Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution or Hope Lange in Peyton Place 1958 Wendy Hiller in Separate Tables 1964 Agnes Moorehead in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
I don't understand Ritter's nomination. Yes, she gets off her great bon mots, but she disappears early in the film without mention. Yet, many love that performance. Hiller herself didn't have great things to say about her winning performance.
Admittedly I see Hiller and Ritter more as career wins. I would have chosen Rear Window for Ritter which she wasn’t even nominated for. I think I just don’t have and overwhelming favorite for the year Hiller won. I probably need to rewatch all of them. It’s been a while. I really was disappointed Ritter didn’t have more screen time she was the one character I wanted to see more of.
