Olivia de Havilland, Shelley Winters, Eva Marie Saint and Shirley Jones chat with Dinah Shore about their careers in this 1977 TV discussion of "Ladies Who Won Oscars," joined by a young Robert Osborne.
Eva Marie Saint is still alive (in 2022) at 98 years old. Shirley Jones is alive at 88 years of age. Olivia De Havilland died in July of 2020; Shelley Winters died in January of 2006, and Robert Osborne died in March of 2017. All who have passed, Rest in Peace.
Shelley stole the show! Obvious,loud,funny and so interesting! The complete personality. Take her out of this panel and it would have been a less interesting affair!
Agree. She spearheads she has something to say and wrote some fab books. She is a real woman who led a great life and met some wonderful directors, actors, men, lovers.
I enjoyed watching this show. Love all the ladies and Shelly was always entertaining. I recognize the Osborne man and his voice. He went on to do TCM. I was a senior in high school and this probably aired during the day.
Did anyone notice Shelley got the biggest round of applause when Dinah announced her guests? She was always a big hit on talk shows. And she doesn't disappoint here, either. Very fun and entertaining.
I just realized that Eva Marie Saint was the only one on this panel to have co-starred with BOTH Cary Grant and Marlon Brando as their love interest. How many leading ladies can say that?
What was interesting to me was when they talked about Montgomery Clift. Eva Marie mentioning him first in RAINTREE COUNTY, and then Shelley Winters from A PLACE IN THE SUN, and then Olivia in THE HEIRESS.
Shelly will always be Nana Marry to me. God she was funny Shelly says once they go to college they never come back, well now a days they do because they can't afford to move out, especially with student loans. I'm surprised Olivia didn't say she liked working with Earl Flynn because he made 7 or 8 pictures with him and had a big crush on him. Michael J. Fox was a big fan of James Cagney too and was going to work with him but he passed away. I really love hearing this stories. When Olivia told the story of her and Earl at the party and Shelly was surprised she remembered every word, well honey when it's that good, you do remember every word. Shelly is such a hoot! Eva was born on the 4th of July and she's 94.
At last--now I know. Eva Marie Saint DID have a crush on Cary Grant when she did NORTH BY NORTHWEST with him. I've seen that wonderful movie many, many times, but I was never sure--she's such a good actress!
Olivia de Havilland is such a classy lady. Whenever she speaks, I pause to listen intently. SHE actually lived to be 104 and died relatively recently. She came from a family that was very well known in many professions and arenas and her education was excellent, so it is no surprise that someone such as she presents herself so beautifully. I imagine she had a rather happy life with two husbands and two children-- one by each-- and an amazing career and a long life. She may not be the Scarlets of this world, but she's a much finer person and has survived, keepiing her integrity in intact, always led by the North 🌟
What a wonderful program! I am fascinated with Shelley Winters. She really can tell a story. All the ladies can and did. I love how Dinah got to slip in some music.
@Daniel Wachtenheim, if you're still out there, read Shelley Winters' autobiographies, part one, and part two. It's fascinating reading, for certain. She had started part three, believe it or not, but she died in 2006 before she could finish it. I really wish it had been released.
I take it this was originally taped in March 1977. Shirley Jones must have been in a VERY introspective frame of mind at the time...this was about three months after the death of Jack Cassidy and not long before she married Marty Ingels.
Barbara Stanwyck had a great performance on which to base her character ( whether she intentionally did or not) in the amazing radio performance of Agnes Moorhead in “Sorry Wrong Number “.
Shelley Winters is so entertaining but is a bit of an enigma: so completely “natural” and seemingly devoid of affectation (almost as if she were oblivious to the idea of affectation) and unfiltered, that it’s not clear she is ever acting or aware of what acting is. Here she seems like a middle aged neglected housewife who watches TV all day and miraculously got sucked through the tube out of her bedroom (where she just woke up at 1pm after drinking too much the night before, for the 5th time that week) in her nightgown she wears all day. But that is her charm.
Olivia was always "going for an Oscar" in every thing she did and it was sometimes grating to observe. Shelley Winters had a remarkable life and always kept it real.
Olivia just turned 100 in July. She lives in France. It was funny when Shelly said she doesn't know anybody in the business who has a lot of kids and I kind of laughed and thought, way before Angelina. The only actress gone besides Dinah is Shelly. Come on Olivia, nobody's watching! ha ha
@@goldenblue2208 (lol- but disagree).The curse of all stronge performances is overplay (ham). The character played so beautifully by Shirley Jones benefitted from the fact that Elmer Gantry was so immoral conveyed so well by the strength of the fabulous Burt Lancaster performance.
Just watched Shelly’s winning Oscar for both - the story she tells here is totally not true . The tape shows nothing in her hand coming up to stage accepting the award or with her head down getting her necklace .
Dinah Shore - "What are some of the most embarrassing things to happen at the Oscar ceremony?" Oh, just you wait! None of you will live to see it though.
They're all so gracious and well-spoken - except for Shelley Winters, who comes across like the bar-maid in a seedy lounge! It doesn't help that she's got this fumbly, thick-tongued delivery that makes her sound a little drunk, all the time. :^/
@@nicholashuxley504 Personality is right! But as an individual she turns your crank more than she does mine. However, I appreciate that there was room for her in the pantheon of H.W. female stars for someone who's not yet another girl-ishly slim love-interest. With her, the 'character' role became the star. So: good on her.
I agree...character and directness are her streng the and what a l I've life...ahead of her times and not embarassed...were she a man, she would be applauded.
@@diedonner299 Dinah stayed looking good forever. I don't know how she did it. I think a lot of it was her attitude. She seemed to be a genuinely happy, confident & gracious woman, which probably is why Burt Reynolds gravitated toward her.
@@twistoffate4791 I completely agree. If you want to see Dinah at her most gorgeous (imho) check her out singing “Blue Canary” clip on you tube and tell me what you think? 😊
Absolutely can't stand Shelley Winters... The polar opposite of what a star of that generation should be. Reminds me more of the obnoxious types we have around now.