Well, why not give it a shot? In my opinion and off the top of my head:
— O de H in "the heiress"
— Meryl Streep in "out of Africa"
— Katharine Hepburn in "the lion in winter"
— Audrey Hepbrun in "the nun's story"
— Faye Dunaway in "Bonnie and Clyde"
Olivia de Havilland in "The Heiress"
Vivien Leigh in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Bette Davis in "The Letter"
Glenda Jackson "Women In Love"
Simone Signoret in "Ship of Fools"
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Bette Davis – All About Eve
Maggie Smith – Gosford Park
Myrna Loy – Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Margaret Sullavan – The Shop Around The Corner
Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
My choices would be ( and like most posters here not in any specific order too ) -- 1.) Patricia Neal from " The Day the Earth Stood Still " ( 1951 ) 2.) & 3.) Janet Leigh and Vera Miles from " Psycho " ( 1960 ) 4.) Olivia de Havilland from this movie " The Heiress " ( 1949 ) 5.) Vera Ellen from " White Christmas " ( 1954 ) - I also agree all the other actresses everyone chose here too . For me It's just so difficult to narrow it down to just five . They are all so excellent lol . Thanks troifrer for your subject post .
share1. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress
3. Bette Davis - The Letter
4. Audrey Hepburn - The Nun's Story
5. Carole Lombard - Vigil in the Night
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Olivia de Havilland -- either "The Heiress" or "The Snake Pit"
Vivien Leigh -- either "Gone with the Wind" or "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Bette Davis -- either "The Letter" or "The Little Foxes"
Deborah Kerr -- either "Black Narcissus" or "Separate Tables"
Greer Garson -- either "Random Harvest" or "Mrs. Miniver"
And so many runner-ups:
Jane Wyman -- "Johnny Belinda"
Ingrid Bergman -- "Gaslight" or "Notorious"
Irene Dunne -- "I Remember Mama"
Rosalind Russell -- "Auntie Mame"
Joan Crawford -- "Possessed" or "Humoresque"
Susan Hayward -- "I Want to Live" or "I'll Cry Tomorrow"
Norma Shearer -- "Marie Antoinette" or "Escape"
Eleanor Parker -- "Caged" or "Scaramouche"
"Somewhere along the line, the world has lost all of its standards and all of its taste."
My Top 5 (no particular order):
Olivia de Havilland- THE HEIRESS/THE SNAKE PIT
Judy Garland- A STAR IS BORN/JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Bette Davis- NOW, VOYAGER/ ALL ABOUT EVE
Agnes Moorehead- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Deborah Kerr- THE INNOCENTS/THE KING AND I
Runners up:
Celia Johnson- BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Maggie Smith- THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Natalie Wood- SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS/WEST SIDE STORY
Anne Bancroft- THE MIRACLE WORKER
Ingrid Bergman- ANASTASIA
Audrey Hepburn- WAIT UNTIL DARK/MY FAIR LADY
Gloria Swanson- SUNSET BOULEVARD
Jessica Lange- FRANCES
Jean Simmons- ELMER GANTRY/SPARTACUS
De Havilland´s performance during the first 75 or so minutes is totally one-note and barely tolerable to be frank. She´s much better in The Dark Mirror where the character differences between the twins come through more subtly than her rough & obvious path from an imitation of her sister Fontaine´s screen persona to an avenging iron willed broad is in The Heiress. Ain´t that special.
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