Best Actress 1957

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Best Actress 1957

Deborah Kerr - Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
2
7%
Anna Magnani - Wild is the Wind
4
14%
Elizabeth Taylor - Raintree County
1
4%
Lana Turner - Peyton Place
9
32%
Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve
12
43%
 
Total votes: 28

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Re: Best Actress 1957

Post by bizarre »

I have not seen any of these nominees, but here are my picks:

1. Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Twilight
2. Gulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
3. Jean Simmons, Until They Sail
4. Tatiana Samoilova, The Cranes Are Flying
5. Marlene Dietrich, Witness for the Prosecution
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Post by ITALIANO »

I will say more about Magnani in the 1955 thread, but yes, I confess, I voted for her here, too. I can't avoid it, not only because I am Italian, but because I really think that she's one of the best actresses ever, and one who SHOULD win an Oscar. Even for her American work, which is certainly not as good as her Italian one. Wild is the Wind isnt a masterpiece, but Magnani is more free here than when she has to memorize Tennessee Williams's literary dialogue (one might say that she's even too free). It's a good performance by an amazing actress.

Of the other nominees, Deborah Kerr is the only one who also gave an interesting performance. Hadnt Magnani been in the running, I'd have voted for her (it's Kerr's best nominated role, with the only possible exception of The Sundowners).

Woodward is bearable in a bad movie, Taylor unbearable in a bad movie, Turner is at her best but Lana Turner at her best isn't saying much.




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Magnani is by far the best.
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flipp525 wrote:Tee, Woodward's capstone for me is the Rachel, Rachel, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, The Glass Menagerie trifecta -- her three best performances.
I agree with Flipp on two of Woodward's performances and would like to substitute Mr and Mrs Bridge for The Glass Menagerie on the third performance.

Here I voted for Woodward by default. If Kerr had been nominated instead for An Affair to Remember she would have got my vote. Lana is good but I prefer her elsewhere more. Magnani was always an acquired taste....came off better in her Italian films than the ones in English. Liz was just entering her Oscar phase and appears very shrill in Raintree County....her best role would be in Virginia Woolf with Cat a close second.

My top 5 for the year:

Deborah Kerr, An Affair to Remember
Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve
Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face
Lana Turner, Peyton Place
Lauren Bacall, Designing Woman
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flipp525 wrote:
Penelope wrote:I think [Turner] was better in Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Bad & the Beautiful, but this is my only choice to vote for her....
What about Imitation of Life?!?!
I think Lana is better in Peyton Place than she is in Imitation of Life.
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Penelope wrote:I think [Turner] was better in Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Bad & the Beautiful, but this is my only choice to vote for her....
What about Imitation of Life?!?!

Tee, Woodward's capstone for me is the Rachel, Rachel, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, The Glass Menagerie trifecta -- her three best performances.
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Post by Penelope »

The only one I haven't seen is Magnani's performance. Of the rest, I think these are all terrific performances, but I have to give my vote to my beloved Lana in one of the most seminal films of my life. I think she was better in Ziegfeld Girl, The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Bad & the Beautiful, but this is my only choice to vote for her....
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I've been somewhat dreading this one. When I first saw Three Faces of Eve, I was about 14, and loved both it and the Woodward performance. Since then, I've seen it several times, at least in patches, and recognize its general shallowness and the less-than-revelatory qualty of Woodward's work. I'm with dws that it's more technique than soul -- though I'd still rate it good work, if not a worthy capstone to Woodward's fine career. (Rachel, Rachel was that)

The problem is, the other nominees are nothing special, either, nor are their films. My wife more or less wrecked Wild Is the Wind for me when, as the opening credits rolled, she said, Oh -- I guess Magnani's married to Quinn but has an affair with Franciosa, which turned out to be the whole movie. Peyton Place (sorry, Penelope) I find impossible to see as anything but trash, and Turner has never been a favorite. Taylor has some flashy moments, but, as dws says, the movie does go on -- I haven't watched it in some time, and can't imagine putting myself through it again.

It would seem like a good time to push for Kerr, but Heaven Knows Mr Allison is a thin knock-off of The African Queen, and not up to Kerr's standard in the period. Anyway, I already voted for her in From Here to Eternity.

I'm leaning toward abstaining, but, were I to vote, I might actually revert to first principles and give it to Woodward after all on sheer inertia.
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Post by dws1982 »

Anna Magnani. Kerr, maybe, if she had been up for An Affair to Remember. (Haven't seen the Huston film, admittedly.) Easy to see why Woodward won, although I think the (not very good) performance is pretty much all technique. Some day I should give Peyton Place another try; I don't think I've seen it since it aired on the old AMC. I do not plan on giving Raintree County another try, however. Interminable Gone With the Wind knockoff, without any of the wit or sophistication of the earlier film.



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With four great performances in a row - The King and I, Tea and Sympathy, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison and An Affair to remember it's difficult to pass Kerr up, though again I think she was nominated for the wrong movie . I preferred her in An Affair to Remember.

Woodward is fine but she's the whole show in The Three Faces of Eve. Magnani, Turner and Taylor were also-rans.

The really strong work besides Kerr and Woodward came from Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution, Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria and Maria Schell in Gervaise, with Patricia Neal in A Face in the Crowd not far behind.




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Post by jowy_jillia »

I'm voting for Woodward.

1956
1. Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia - 8 votes
2. Carroll Baker - Baby Doll - 2 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker - 1 vote
3. Deborah Kerr - The King and I - 1 vote
3. Nancy Kelly - The Bad Seed - 1 vote

1955
1. Katharine Hepburn - Summertime - 10 votes
2. Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo - 3 vote
3. Eleanor Parker - Interrupted - 2 votes
4. Susan Hayward - I'll Cry Tomorrow - 1 vote

1954
1. Judy Garland - A Star Is Born - 13 votes
2. Grace Kelly - The Country Girl - 2 votes
2. Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession - 2 votes
4. Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina - 1 vote

1953
1. Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday - 9 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - From Here to Eternity - 4 votes
3. Leslie Caron - Lili - 1 vote
3. Ava Gardner - Mogambo - 1 vote

1952
1. Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding - 5 votes
2. Susan Hayward - With a Song in my Heart - 4 votes
3. Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba - 3 votes
4. Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear - 2 vote

1951
1. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire - 20 votes
2. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun - 2 votes

1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. - 13 votes
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve - 7 votes
3. Eleanor Parker - Caged - 1 vote

1949
1. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress - 11 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - Edward My Son - 2 votes
3. Loretta Young - Come to the Stable - 1 vote

1948
1. Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda - 8 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit - 6 votes

1947
1. Susan Hayward - Smash Up - 4 votes.
1. Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra - 4 votes
3. Joan Crawford - Possessed - 2 votes
3. Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter - 2 votes

1946
1. Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter - 12 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own - 2 votes
2. Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun - 2 votes
4. Jane Wyman - The Yearling - 1 vote

1945
1. Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce - 6 votes
1. Gene Tierny - Leave Her to Heaven - 6 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's - 3 votes

1944
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity - 13 votes
2. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight - 5 votes

1943
1. Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier - 6 votes
2. Jennifer Jonies - The Song of Bernadette - 3 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls - 2 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph - 1 vote

1942
1. Bette Davis - Now, Voyager - 7 votes
1. Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver - 7 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year - 1 vote

1941
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire - 8 votes
2. Bette Davis - The Little Foxes - 5 votes

1940
1. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story - 9 votes
2. Joan Fontaine - Rebecca - 6 votes
3. Bette Davis - The Letter - 3 votes

1939
1. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind - 20 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka - 2 votes

1938
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel - 4 votes
1. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion - 4 votes
3. Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades - 3 votes
4. Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette - 1 vote

1937
1. Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth - 7 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Camille - 6 votes
3. Janet Gaynor - A Star is Born - 1 vote
3. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth - 1 vote
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas - 1 vote

1936
1. Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey - 10 votes
2. Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild - 1 vote
2. Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld - 1 vote

1935
1. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams - 7 votes
2. Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds - 2 votes
2. Bette Davis - Dangerous - 2 votes

1934
1. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night - 7 votes
2. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage - 1 vote

1932/33
1. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory - 6 votes
2. May Robson - Lady for a Day - 2 votes

1931/32
1. Marie Dressler - Emma - 6 votes

1930/31
1. Marlene Dietrich - Morocco - 8 votes
2. Marie Dressler - Min and Bill - 1 vote
2. Norma Shearer - A Free Soul - 1 vote

1929/30
1. Greta Garbo - Anna Christie - 4 votes
2. Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son - 1 vote
2. Greta Garbo - Romance - 1 vote
2. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee - 1 vote

1928/29
1. Ruth Chatterton - Madame X - 4 votes
2. Jeanne Eagels - The Letter - 1 vote

1927/28
1. Janet Gaynor - Sunrise - 6 votes
2. Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven - 3 votes
3. Janet Gaynor - Street Angel - 1 vote

Most Wins:
Katharine Hepburn - 4
Bette Davis - 2
Vivien Leigh - 2
Barbara Stanwyck - 2

Most Runner-Ups:
Bette Davis - 4
Greta Garbo - 2
Olivia de Havilland - 2
Jennifer Jones - 2
Deborah Kerr - 2

Actual Winners who didn't recieve any vote
28/29. Mary Pickford - Coquette
31/32. Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
40. Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
50. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
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