She was so wonderful in this film! She won the oscar and she deserved it! A very strong performance. You could feel her despair and hopelessness as well as her love for Heathcliff.
A great actress, and she had a great life. God bless her and may she rest in peace.
She was very good as Isabella, but didn't win an oscar for her performance. Hattie McDaniel won that year for Gone With The Wind.
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She didn't have enough of a part to win an Academy Award. She, and makeup, did a great job of transforming her from lovely young girl to worn, haggard, neglected wife in just a few scenes. If I'd been her, I'd have slugged Heathcliff.
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I don't know how many minutes of screen time she had but, Anthony Hopkins won an Academy Award and only had 16 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs. He holds the record for the shortest screen time to win an Oscar. (wasn't the same true for Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential? I never saw it but thought she had a short amount of screen time or something...dunno). Geraldine was wonderful in her role. It stinks when so many good movies come out the same year! The Wizard of Oz came out in 1939 as well...but, they weren't going to give an award to someone in a fantasy picture that's for sure. Bummer...it's on my top 10 favorites. :(
"Love many...
Trust few...
Do wrong to none" *Shakespeare* & *Yau-Man*
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She was absolutely marvelous in this film. Yes, the hair and makeup helped. But in her final scene in the film, where she's so broken and desperate, she is scarily good. Haunting. Fantastic!
shareI totally agree, she stole Merle Oberon's thunder in the last 15 minutes. But Hattie McDaniel won the Oscar of that year.
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She was indeed great in this film. I don't think I could've pictured anyone else playing her role as well as her. I mean she had some great moments during the film...many of which were heart breaking...unrequited love at its best.
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Really hers was a more sympathetic characterisation than Cathy's. Merle
Oberon's chilling hauteur could be off-putting, it was a by-product of
her Eurasian background and uncertainty about where she fit in in the
rigid and complex British class system.
Had only seen her in "OSS" before watching "Wuthering Heights" for the first time last night. Any other recomendations???? "OSS" was good, a bit different than this movie though....
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She was amazing, especially when she's begging for Heathcliff's affection standing under the doorway, what a scene.
I think I heard that Laurence Olivier years later dismissed the movie primarily because he was embarrased by his pompous (I come from the theater!) attitude during the filming and said that Geraldine Fitzgerald was the only good thing in it.
What a nice tribute.
A lesser actress would have made Isabella merely pitiful, maybe even ridiculous. Geraldine Fitzgerald, though, made her a truly tragic figure who somehow retained her dignity even as she abandoned her pride. I love her performance, and her look, in this movie and think she is the best thing about it. Beside her Isabella, Heathcliff and Cathy look like a couple of melodramatic and petulant teenagers.
She was good in WH is Isabella.
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