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Edward Peters

 

Leave Her to

Heaven (1945)

 

   What a joke. Let's see: a self-centered woman drives her parents to despair, lets a crippled boy (sic: the kid moves his legs when he swims!) drown a few feet from her, then throws herself down the steps to kill her unborn baby, and finally commits suicide and tries to frame her sister for murder. The pancake is an inch think on everybody's perfectly plastered face (so absolutely no facial expressions, folks!) and to top it off, Vincent Price is in the picture. Oscar for best cinematography! (I suppose everybody else's camera broke that year, the War and all.) Leave her to heaven? My foot. Leave her in Hell.

 

 

 

Personal Fine Films


 

Essential Actresses

 

Grace Kelly

1. Rear Window (1954)

2. To Catch a Thief (1955)

3. The Country Girl (1954)

4. High Society (1956)

5. High Noon (1952)

 

It might not be fair to compare a goddess to merely human actresses, but she walked among us for a time.

Meryl Streep

1. Out of Africa (1985)

2. Sophie’s Choice (1982)

3. Deer Hunter (1978)

4. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

5. Holocaust (1977)

6. Manhattan (1979)

 

Actresses with half her talent are very good.

Elizabeth Taylor

1. Who's Afraid of V Woolf? (1966)

2. Taming of the Shrew (1967)

3. Cleopatra (1964)

4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 

5. Father of the Bride (1950)

6. National Velvet (1944)

7. Suddenly Last Summer (1959)

 

Would that she were not quite so beautiful, or pressed into so many mediocre films, that her true greatness as an actress might be more visible.

Emma Thompson

1. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

2. Dead Again (1991)

3. Sense and Sensibility (1995)

4. Henry V (1989)

5. Primary Colors (1998)

6. Stranger than Fiction (2006)

 

Astounding range and mastery of technique.

Celeste Holm

1. All About Eve (1950)

2. High Society (1956)

3. The Snake Pit (1948)

4. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

 

 

No film ever failed to be improved by her presence in it. Almost complete absence of mannerisms.

Teri Garr

1. Close Encounters ... (1977)

2. Young Frankenstein  (1974)

3. The Black Stallion (1979)

4. Mr. Mom (1983)

5. Tootsie (1982)

 

I admit this to be something of a personal favorite, and I only regret that she did not work more.

 

Judi Dench

 

 

1. Macbeth (1979)

2. Henry V (1989)

3. A Handful of Dust (1988)

4. Mrs. Brown (1997)

5. Room with a View (1985)

 

 

Angela Lansbury

 

 

1. Manchurian Candidate (1962)

2. Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

3. The World of Henry Orient (1964)

4. The Pirates of Penzance (1983)

5. Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

6. The Harvey Girls (1946)

 

Anne Bancroft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. The Miracle Worker (1962)

2. The Graduate (1967)

3. Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

 

Barbara Stanwyck

 

 

1. Double Indemnity (1944)

2. Sorry Wrong Number (1948)

3. Titanic (1953)

 

Patricia Neal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Hud (1963)

2. The Fountainhead (1949)

3. The Subject Was Roses (1978)

4. The Fountainhead (1949)

 

 

 

 


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