and leaving us in this round with nine votes is...
1930-NORMA SHEARER-THE DIVORCEE!!!
Choose to eliminate one of the following: 1928-Janet Gaynor-Seventh Heaven, Street Angel & Sunrise 1931-Marie Dressler-Min and Bill 1933-Katharine Hepburn-Morning Glory 1934-Claudette Colbert-It Happened One Night 1935-Bette Davis-Dangerous 1936-Luise Rainer-The Great Ziegfeld 1937-Luise Rainer-The Good Earth 1938-Bette Davis-Jezebel 1939-Vivien Leigh-Gone with the Wind
NOTE: when voting for Bette Davis or Luise Rainer, please specify for which performance or else your vote will not be counted
Congrats to all the acting Oscar winners! and even the Coens for Directing and Diablo Cody for Original Screenplay....still There Will Be Blood and PTA shouldve taken Picture and Adapted Screenplay though
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Im okay with Norma leaving. she never was much of an actress. Greta Garbo definitely deserved that oscar over her.
imo, she deserved it for Marie Antoinette over Davis in '38 though.
anyway, yet again I vote for Luise Rainer "The Good Earth"
Congrats to all the acting Oscar winners! and even the Coens for Directing and Diablo Cody for Original Screenplay....still There Will Be Blood and PTA shouldve taken Picture and Adapted Screenplay though
Posts: 2570 | Location: New Zealand | Registered: April 10, 2007
Tempted to go with Hepburn, who wasn't very good here (shouolda have been up for LITTLE WOMEN that year instead.) Instead I'll go with
Luise Rainer, THE GOOD EARTH
Who I guess sorta played O-Lan accordingly (the character doesn't have much range)...She just played the character with one pained look on her face the whole time (This may have been in part due to the makeup they had on her?)
PRIMETIME EMMYS Congratulations to Sandra Oh, Chandra Wilson, Mary Louise Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kathryn Joosten and Michael C. Hall on their noms BOOOO to the snubs of... Elizabeth Perkins, Marcia Cross, David Scwhimmer, and Peter O'Toole
Originally posted by dwb: Luise Rainer-The Great Ziegfeld
One hysterical phone call, that's it.
She's next on my list for that very reason... though I would say "One hysterical, hammily acted phone call, that's it."
I think that this scene was great...but for me, the rest of her performance was always much more impressive! I think she gives a great comedy performance in The Great Ziegfeld, she never fails to make me laugh!
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On Rainer in "Ziegfeld": The transition on her face when she's laughing to the sorrow as she chokes out, "Goodbye, Flo" was better than anything the other nominees in 1936 came up with.
I never fail to be astonished at the versatility between Rainer's two Oscar-winning performances. In "Ziegfeld," she acts from the outside in, and turns in a fantastic character performance that modulates between high-strung comedy to delicious coquetry to tragic demimondaine.
In "The Good Earth," she projects from the inside out, and her soulful eyes say more than any of the dialogue allows her. Because her words are so sparse, and her face so haunted, I am riveted to her every time she is on the screen. (SPOILER ALERT) She manages to be ethereal and deeply human at every moment in the picture, and she is absolutely devastating in the scene where she takes it upon herself to make the decision for the family to move, and a few moments later, tells Wang about the death of their child.
Stunning work from an exquisite actress. One wonders what she might have gone on to do...
