Gregory1965
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I've probably missed some, but here's what I can see:
Marie Dressler won for playing Min in Min and Bill
Fredric March won for playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in said film.
Wallace Beery for playing Champ in The Champ
Helen Hays as Madelon in The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Charles Laughton as Henry VIII in The Private Life of...
Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in The Story of...
Robert Donat as Mr. Chips in Goodbye...
Ginger Rogers as Kitty Foyle
Gary Cooper as Alvin York in Sergeant York
Greer Garson as Kay Miniver in Mrs. Miniver
Jenifer Jones as Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of...
Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce
Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac
Ernest Borgnine as Marty
Yul Brynner as The King (but not the I)
Joanne Woodward as Eve, Eve and Jane
Charlton Heston as Judah "Ben-Hur"
Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins
Cliff Robertson as Charly
Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie (in her Prime)
George C. Scott as Patton
Art Carney as Harry (but not "and Tonto")
Ellen Burstyn as Alice (who) Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Diane Keaton as Annie Hall
Venessa Redgrave as Julia
Dustin Hoffman as (Ted) Kramer vs. (Joanna) Kramer
Sally Field as Norma Rae
Meryl Streep as (Joanna) Kramer vs. (Ted) Kramer
Ben Kingsley as Gandhi
Meryl Streep as Sophie of the well-known Choice
Anjelica Huston as an Honorable Prizzi
Jessica Tandy as Miss Daisy who goes Driving
Tom Hanks as Forest Gump
Julia Roberts as Erin Brokovich
Jamie Foxx as Ray
Philip Seymour Hoffman as (Truman) Capote
And I give honorable mention to these folks, even though there aren't any proper names involved:
Mary Pickford for playing a coquette in Coquette
Norma Shearer for playing a divorcee in The Divorcee
Bette Davis as a jezebel in Jezebel
Teresa Wright as Carol Belden aka Mrs. (Vin) Miniver
Loretta Young as The Farmer's Daughter
Olivia de Havilland as The Heiress
Ingrid Bergman as "The Woman" who thinks she's "Anastasia"
Susan Hayward as "I" in "I Want to Live"
Anne Bancroft plays "The Miracle Worker"
Julie Christie is the titular "Darling" ("Shame, shame - everybody knows your name" was the film's tag line)
Paul Scofied - A Man for All Seasons
Barbra Streisand as a "Funny Girl"
Glenda Jackson as (one of the) Women In Love
Marlon Brando as The Godfather
Robert De Niro as a Raging Bull
Timothy Hutton as just one of the plain old Ordinary People
Sissy Spacek as a Coal Miner's Daughter
Dianne Wiest as Holly, a 'Sister' of Hannah's
Dustin Hoffman as the Rain Man Raymond
Daniel Day Lewis for being the possessor of the Left Foot in title
Joe Pesci as "Good Fella"
Adrien Brody as the titular Pianist
Helen Mirren as The Queen
Jennifer Hudson as a Dreamgirl
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I'm giving this one a half-hearted nay. A little too frenetic, unattractive, and kinda the same in every movie. I don't hate him, but I wouldn't chose to see anything because he's in it.
I'm going to go duck now in case this sets tomatoes and other rotting veggies flying at me.
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Ordinary People kicks me in the gut every time I see it. An amazing film.
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For me it has to be Becky Sharp. I had only ever seen the faded public domain prints with lousy color, picture quality and sound as well. And then last fall I finally had a chance to see the UCLA restored version on the big screen here in NYC and WOW! It was like when Dorothy goes from Kansas to Oz. What a huge difference it made in appreciating this salacious, funny, engrossing film with Miriam Hopkins' wonderful performance.
I beg of anyone who hasn't seen the film yet - hold out for the restoration, you'll be sadly disappointed otherwise.
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I know there haven't been a ton of responses to this thread yet, but I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the amazing Ruggles of Red Gap and (the pretty good if you're a fan of Bob Hope and Lucy) Fancy Pants.
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While by no means a golf film overall, there's a funny golf bit at the start of Bringing Up Baby that gets the action going.
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A big whole-hearted YAY from me.
She takes such a rap around here for winning the Oscar against a couple of powerhouse performers, but she was indeed great as Billie Dawn and had just made a big impact the year before in Adam's Rib, and the Academy always does seem to prefer a fresh new talent to support.
But even looking beyond those two films, she really did make some high-quality comedies in the '50s - directed by George Cukor, scripts by the likes of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, Abe Burrows and George Kaufman, working with talents like Jack Lemmon, Aldo Ray and Paul Douglas - these weren't just star-vehicles to exploit her as a "dumb-blonde type" but really quality films that (I think) are very underrated - and frankly, Gladys Glover (among her other later characters) is actually no dummy if you ask me!
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The quintet Tonight from West Side Story literally gives me goosebumps every time I watch it or even listen to the CD.
Aside from that, any moment when Eleanor Powell is dancing is a favorite musical moment.
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I'm named for my mom's favorite - Gregory Peck. My brothers for her other favs Glenn Ford and Gary Cooper (she also had a "G" thing)
I just watched Phfffft and Kim is GREAT in it in a small, Marilyn-esque part. I love watching films that demonstrate an actor's star-power just before they hit it big. This was certainly that role for Kim.
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Numerous:
12 Angry Men
Yours Mine and Ours
Cheaper by the Dozen
With Six You Get Egg Roll
Saccharine:
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While I personally tend to gravitate toward movies from the late '20s and early '30s, I'll single out 1945 as being pretty awesome with the following:
Along Came Jones
Anchors Away
The Bells of St. Mary's
Blithe Spirit
Brief Encounter
Christmas In Connecticut
The Corn Is Green
Keys of the Kingdom
Leave Her to Heaven
The Lost Weekend
Love Letters
Mildred Pierce
National Velvet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Song to Remember
Spellbound
State Fair
A Tree Grows In Broolkyn
The Valley of Decision
And I'm sure even with what I've listed I'm omitting some that should be mentioned!
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This line of yours:
I hate that there aren't two channels who show ad-free classics (mostly older B/W films),
suddenly made me think - why aren't their several channels incorporating classics into their schedules. There's so much energy expended on questioning why TCM does or doesn't seem to be adding more recent fare, but shouldn't we instead be putting the squeeze on other channels to incorporate more classics into their offerings?
When I was a kid, my stay-at-home mom used to take a break in her day every day at noon to watch some movie from the 30s or 40s on the KTLA, a local station in L.A. (Watching them with her on sick-days home from school is what introduced me to my love of old movies.) And then again there'd be another one broadcast on either KTLA or KTTV in the evening at 8:00. "The Million Dollar Movie" - why did this have to go away??? I get that this would not be financially sensible to continue on a daily basis, but was it truly necessary to drop the concept of showing classic movies in their entirety?
It really is sad that TCM is pretty much alone out there in keeping these great (and small) films available and convenient for public viewing.
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There are a lot of interesting topics and a lot of great people who love posting about movies. There are a handful of jerks, but for them I've found out that the "ignore member" function serves its purpose quite nicely.
Having a thick skin helps too at times.
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Additionally, Living It Up is a re-make of Nothing Sacred.
I wonder if this should be considered an arguement FOR or AGAINST remakes? Hmmm...
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Remind me again how many years during the '30s that errudite filmamaker Shirley Temple was tops at the box office before being dethroned through the '40s by those auteurs, Abbott & Costello?
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Barbara Lamarr
Lyda Roberti
Renee Adoree
Gilda Radner
Natalie Wood
Judy Holliday
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I'll chime in again to keep the flow going:
Doris Day:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Pillow Talk
The Pajama Game
(in that order)
Jennifer Jones:
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I'll start:
Little Women - the 1933 version
close second: Little Man, What Now? (1934)
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My favs are:
Wild Orchids
The Vagabond Lover
Disraeli
Bulldog Drummond
Madame X
Rio Rita
Queen Kelly
A Woman of Affairs
Our Modern Maidens
They Had to See Paris
Marianne
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For myself, the first thing I'd nab is the new Jazz Singer collection on DVD - primarily because of the Vitaphone shorts collection it contains - lots of bang for your buck there.
And if for any reason you don't want it for yourself, well, Valentine's Day is coming up... :-)
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Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress (no competition!)
Lauren Bacall:
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#4 is Hamlet - 1948
#7 - Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the mother/daughter team to both be nominated for the same film - Rambling Rose
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As for Winner Take All - alas, you just missed it. The reason the info is so fresh in my mind is because TCM just aired the movie recently since Cagney is Star of the Month this month. I'm sure it will cycle around again eventually though.
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I'm happy to say that this thread taught me to find the "report terms of service violators" button.
(a) The following are examples of the types of content or use that are prohibited under the Code:
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One Oscar Q that got me going. See if you can answer.
in Games and Trivia
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I learned that myself the hard way once - You most likely have an accidental indentation that you're not noticing. The text that follows the indentation does not show up on the posted message. If that's the case, and you remove the indent and repost, it should be fine.