Favorite Film Actresses
Submitted by RosieCotton on Wed, 08/11/2004 - 08:42
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- Deborah Kerr An Affair To Remember, From Here to Eternity, Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
- Ingrid Bergman Casablanca, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Bells of St Mary's, Notorious, Indiscreet
- Irene Dunne My Favorite Wife, Love Affair (1939), I Remember Mama, The Awful Truth
- Mary Pickford Daddy-Long-Legs, Poor Little Rich Girl, The (1917), Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
- Joan Plowright The Entertainer, Twelfth Night (1969) (TV) ,Merchant of Venice, The (1973) (TV), Equus
- Meryl Streep Out of Africa, A Cry in the Dark, The Manchurian Candidate(2004)
- Sally Field Sybil (1976) (TV) ,Absence of Malice, Steel Magnolias
- Grace Kelly To Catch a Thief, High Noon
- Greta Garbo Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina
- Ginger Rogers Top Hat, Swing Time
- Jean Arthur Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936),Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Greer Garson Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Random Harvest (1942)
- Helen Mirren Calendar Girls (2003), Gosford Park (2001), The Madness of King George (1994), The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
- Emma Thompson Much Ado About Nothing, The Remains Of The Day, Howards End, Sense & Sensibility
- Judi Dench Mrs. Brown, Henry V, Shakespeare in Love, A Room with a View, Mrs. Brown, Iris
- Shirley MacLaine The Apartment, Being There, The Children's Hour, Terms of Endearment, In Her Shoes, Steel Magnolias, Postcards from the Edge
Author Comments:
These are ladies whose tremendous talent, beauty, and personal charm blows me away.
Fun list, but no Katharine Hepburn?
For her comic side, I always loved the 1990-1991 double-punch of Streep in Postcards from the Edge and Defending Your Life.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Nope, sorry. I just can't relate to any of the characters she's played.
A few months of therapy, perhaps, and I can forgive you.
:)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Some of her characters have qualities I hate to see in a woman: neurotic, manipulative. On the plus side, I really admire their independence, intelligence, and outspokeness. As an actress, she was quite a pioneering feminist role model, for her time, but I disapprove of her affair with Spencer Tracy. That, to me, seems like the worst kind of hypocrisy. To be "independent" means not selling yourself short, which is what being a mistress does.
Well, my love for her as an actress really sidesteps any feelings about her personal life. I am especially impressed by anybody who can play such intelligent, headstrong women and still pull off an airhead (?) in Bringing Up Baby. I am also astounded by her longevity.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Does she really play anyone besides "katherine hepburn", though?
There's two kinds of actors I admire. The ones I like (charming, attractive), but they always play themselves, and the ones I might not like too much (ugly, villainous), but who make me forget who they are. The best actors, I've found, are the ones who inhabit their roles so completely, you forget they were even in the movie.
Very good list, but what about Faye Dunaway and Sigourney Weaver?
I don't like Faye Dunaway.
I like Sigourney Weaver, but she just doesn't have "it".
What do you think of Myrna Loy?
I think she's lovely. I enjoy her in the Thin Man and the Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer.