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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho is your all time favorite film actress?
I have one but I won't reveal it right now...
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)
made for film acting.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)Ingrid Bergman is the greatest actress I've ever seen. But she's not my favorite.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Love everything shes ever done, even the insipid ABBA movie.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)exactly the same in every role. To me anyway
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)You couldn't get more contrast in her roles in Sophie's Choice and in The Bridges of Madison County. A Polish refugee from Nazi Germany to an Italian war bride living in Iowa. Out of Africa and Rikki and the Flash. She seems to relish the diversity of her roles.
Could you tell me why you came to this conclusion?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Growing up with polish grandparents, her fake accent unnerved me. Actually think the only role I enjoyed her in was a comedy when she played a rich romance author ... Roseanne was actually really good in that too.
It really is just personal preference...so I shouldn't have even responded. Sorry.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Sophie). Her voice is pretty much always recognizable so perhaps that is what you are referring to.
I'll bet most actors have their own style of acting, not matter who they are playing, but I feel that she really tried and worked at her roles. It was probably her training at Yale Drama School that she learned it.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)thought she had a talent for mimicking voices and accents and that she spends lots of time doing that before a role.
I will try and think of some examples of actors who truly transform themselves and perfect accents and mannerisms...which to me is a sign of a great actor. John Travolta immediately comes to mind... Urban Cowboy..amazing portrayal if a southern/Texan blue collar oil worker.
EleanorR
(2,391 posts)irisblue
(32,975 posts)Listed as her first movie. She played the wronged wife and Strep was the homewrecker.
R B Garr
(16,954 posts)fierywoman
(7,683 posts)UTUSN
(70,696 posts)fierywoman
(7,683 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)fierywoman
(7,683 posts)TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Watch Temple Grandin. No comparison.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)Guppy
(444 posts)Now Voyager.
Mold breaker!
BootinUp
(47,154 posts)FSogol
(45,487 posts)Also Hedy Lamar, Clara Bow, Chelo Alonso, and Ava Gardner.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,547 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne, Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman.
KayF
(1,345 posts)R B Garr
(16,954 posts)Well played!
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Early cinema: Myrna Loy
Mid-century: Natalie Wood
Late century: Gena Rowlands
Modern: Amy Adams
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)Damn she was good.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Reserving judgement until we've had a chance to see more, but it certainly showed promise.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)It really starts to pick up at episode 5. Don't read anything about it. There are a lot of spoilers out there.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)malthaussen
(17,199 posts)Note that I make no claim for her being the "best." I really hate such arguments.
-- Mal
Talitha
(6,590 posts)Can't pick just one... sorry!!!
oasis
(49,387 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)Loved her ever since.
Tucker08087
(621 posts)Unless they could make me look like Michelle Pfeiffer! Then all bets are off!
MLAA
(17,294 posts)mithnanthy
(1,725 posts)Beautiful, talented and a great dancer.
UTUSN
(70,696 posts)yellerpup
(12,253 posts)One of the funniest women I ever met.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)She may be before the time of some but she is worth checking out. Her performance in Hud was to me quite possibbly the best ever by an actress. Of course she was good in everything but truly amazing in Hud.
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)Meeting her and working with her was fantastic. She told the best back-stage stories ever! Always the total pro.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Naomi Watts
Ingrid Bergman
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Just wanted to add her name to a worthy list. Depth, humanity, subtlety. And even when her looks faded she could still seduce a dead man. See Ship of Fools.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)I think she has incredible range.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)Atomic Blonde
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Mad Max: Fury Road
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Snow White and the Huntsman
Aeon Flux
(many more)
llmart
(15,540 posts)Funtatlaguy
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violetpastille
(1,483 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Actually I've not seen any of her work, but I'm sure I'd enjoy it
Funtatlaguy
(10,877 posts)Really dives into her work. Can handle any subject matter, no matter the mushroom size....likes to stay on top of things.....rarely tightens up under pressure....
ZZenith
(4,122 posts)She once prompted the Daily Telegraph to ask, "Emma Thompson: a national treasure or Britain's most annoying woman?
National treasure, you idiots.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)ZZenith
(4,122 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Mendocino
(7,494 posts)"Is Bismarck a herrwing?"
brush
(53,779 posts)Response to CTyankee (Original post)
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TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)If you've never seen it, you're in for a treat. The house should look familiar.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z4xgy
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)brush
(53,779 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Hard to pick a favorite among the four. They all had some really outstanding performances in great movies.
Least favorite is much easier: Jennifer Aniston. She plays the same person in every performance - herself. There is no acting involved.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)worst actress.
Yet Anniston had two good roles (she worked as a make up clerk at a drug store? and a hippie type in another???) Film names escape me.
Guess they are tied for worst?
MLAA
(17,294 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Cher in Moonstruck,
Barbra in Funny Girl,
Jane in Coming Home,
and Debbie in The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Four greats to be sure.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Lena Horne and Natalie Wood my favorites without a doubt.
blm
(113,062 posts).
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(113,062 posts).
Lithos
(26,403 posts)nt
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)mega talent
tblue37
(65,377 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)beauty and glamour, Natalie Wood.
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)House of Roberts
(5,171 posts)Marsha Mason or Ellen Burstyn
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)is one of my favorites. So many amazing performances.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Part of it is that I just love that era of film ... and TBH she's not like 'the greatest actress' in the world, but I still just LOVE LOVE LOVE Audrey Hepburn. Nobody lit up the screen like she did, IMHO.
She's was also a completely terrific person IRL from all I ever saw. Did tons of charity work once she retired from film.
FM123
(10,053 posts)enid602
(8,620 posts)Faye Dunaway
Tikki
(14,557 posts)A Place in the Sun, Suddenly Last Summer, Giant, Butterfield 8....more.
I, also, enjoy watching anything with (Suzie) Suzanne Pleshette and Annette OToole
acting in it.
Tikki
MountainMama
(237 posts)Vivien Leigh. *sigh (and I'm straight!)
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
Key Largo (1948)
jpak
(41,758 posts)MountainMama
(237 posts)She was the best entertainer of the last century, if you ask me.
WestMichRad
(1,324 posts)... but a lot of greats named by others here, too
ProfessorGAC
(65,044 posts)Jennifer Lawrence.
Her roles in Silver Linings, American Hustle, Joy, and Passengers are all radically different from each other, and then she did action films.
Gigantic range, there.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)Was only 19 when it was made.
RobinA
(9,893 posts)Susan Sarandon (so shoot me)
Bette Davis
Cher
MLAA
(17,294 posts)Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)nt
Laffy Kat
(16,381 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,999 posts)I'm a huge old movie fan and so my usual pick is Bette Davis (unless I've just seen a Barbara Stanwyck movie).
But I grew up with Hayley Mills.
SKKY
(11,810 posts)She does it for me.