Interesting line-up on Saturday night on Turner Classic movies:
8pm EDT - Funny Girl 1045pm EDT - The Lion in Winter 115am EDT - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 300am EDT - The Champ
Back to back they're showing the 2 acting oscars that ended up in ties. The only one I've ever seen in its entirety is Funny Girl. Streisand was great in the lead role. Her singing, magnificent.
So who should have really won these oscars? Now you can decide.
Vanessa Redgrave of course deserved to win in 1968 for Isadora, but she had no chance since the film except for a week's run in LA had not opened anywhere (and apart from her performance did not get particularly good reviews).
If not, the non-nominated Mia Farrow also would have been a better choice.
The deserving best actor winner for the 1931/32 period was Paul Muni for Scarface, who was not nominated. This is said with the understanding that both Hepburn and Streisand were decent; neither however was the best.
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Thanks Stinger! I'm set the tv to tape The Lion in Winter. May also do a few of the others.
I adore TCM! Just finished watching Night Must Fall (wonderful creaky old flic with Dame May Witty who's very witty, Robert Montgomery who was oscar nominated for this and the lovely 4 time best actress nominee Rosalind Russell).
I tape my TCM movies, so always have an inventory on hand. Tonight, after feeling a tetch dizzy (well I'm a dizzy old dame after all!), I'm retiring to the couch and completing the evening with a Lauren Bacall interview with Robert Osborne followed by a screening of the Petrified Forest with Better Davis and Leslie Howard (reunited after Of Human Bondage) and Humphrey Bogart. If I can stay awake, I have several more to chose from. Maybe Elmer Gantry to finish, not sure yet.
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Originally posted by ETHELCHARLES: Thanks Stinger! I'm set the tv to tape The Lion in Winter. May also do a few of the others.
I adore TCM! Just finished watching Night Must Fall (wonderful creaky old flic with Dame May Witty who's very witty, Robert Montgomery who was oscar nominated for this and the lovely 4 time best actress nominee Rosalind Russell).
I tape my TCM movies, so always have an inventory on hand. Tonight, after feeling a tetch dizzy (well I'm a dizzy old dame after all!), I'm retiring to the couch and completing the evening with a Lauren Bacall interview with Robert Osborne followed by a screening of the Petrified Forest with Better Davis and Leslie Howard (reunited after Of Human Bondage) and Humphrey Bogart. If I can stay awake, I have several more to chose from. Maybe Elmer Gantry to finish, not sure yet.
I also generally have a collection of TCM flicks on my DVR. I left work early today due to illness and mixed sleeping and TCM viewing. Saw "The Divorcee", which won Norma Shearer an Oscar, and the Bette Davis film "The Letter", a little embarrassed I'd never seen it before, and am now watching "Picnic"... which seems very dated from what I have seen so far.
From TCM I have recorded "The Tales of Hoffman", the German film "Munchhausen", "Wings", "A Nous la Liberte", "Coquette", "Morning Glory", "Light in the Piazza" (saw the musical and wanted to see the film), and "Mamma Roma" on my DVR. Not that it is definite I will watch them as some may be erased to make space for other things.
I will be recording "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" out of the four films mentioned at the beginning of this thread. I have seen the other three and used to own a copy of "The Lion in Winter" back when I had videos rather than DVDs. I might have even had the film on laserdisc when that was the height of home viewing technology. Also am scheduled to record the Bette Davis weepie "Dark Victory".
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Oh, I thought Striesand deserved her win. This shouldn't have been a tie. We all know Striesand had the extra boost with her role from doing it on Broadway, but so did Rex Harrison for " My Fair Lady" .
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Now that I've seen both performances, it's Katharine Hepburn for me too.
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Originally posted by Fritz: Katharine Hepburn should have been the sole winner!
Definitely. I, personally, have never liked Streisand's acting or her music.
You may not like her material, but she has a voice that can shatter glass.
Her voice is definitely...unique. But not in a positive way.
Lol! Still; Barbra has complete control over her voice, the most difficult instrument. I dont have any of her albums or anything, but she's one of the great altos of modern times.
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