Best Actress 1952

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Best Actress 1952 - Vote for the Best Actress 1952

Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba
7
27%
Joan Crawford - Sudden Fear
4
15%
Bette Davis - The Star
1
4%
Julie Harris - The Member of the Wedding
8
31%
Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart
6
23%
 
Total votes: 26

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Post by Damien »

jowy_jillia wrote:Shirley Booth with Hayward as runner up
You need to give these polls a few days before you declare a winner. Right now, Julie Harris is in the lead.
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Damien wrote:I'm not sure what year Europa 51 was Oscar-eligible, but Ingrid Bergman would definitely be in the thick of things for me, probably #2 or 3 here if it's a 1952 L.A. release.
1954 under the title "The Greatest Love".
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For Crawford, Davis and Hayward, these are the weakest of all their nominated performances. And Crawford's Suden Fear is one of the most ludicrous movies ever to be nominated for a major Oscar.

Shirley Booth is on the irritating side, but that’s probably more the character than the actress.

My vote -- easily -- goes to Julie Harris. She's tremendously effective annd deeply moving, and within minutes you forget that she was in her 20s at the time -- she so thoroughly becomes Frankie. probably more character than performance. Her theatrical outbursts are thoroughly appropriate for the character

My Own Top 5:
1. Jean Simmons in Angel Face
2. Dorothy McGuire in Invitation
3. Susan Hayward in The Lusty Men (but defintely not for With A Song In My Heart or The Snows Of Kilimanjaro))
4. Ann Blyth in One Hour To Zero
5. Julie Harris in The Member Of The Wedding

I'm not sure what year Europa 51 was Oscar-eligible, but Ingrid Bergman would definitely be in the thick of things for me, probably #2 or 3 here if it's a 1952 L.A. release.




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This lineup makes me nostalgic for the days when we had two great cable channels dedicated to showing classic movies. I caught most of these--Booth, Hayward, and Crawford--on AMC back in the late 90's. Don't remember much about any of them, beyond the fact that I watched the Hayward film because I'd read that her dress fell during one of the musical number and exposed her breast. I couldn't find it during said musical number, and promptly turned the channel, angry that I had wasted my time.

Can't cast a vote in this category, obviously. Based on what I've seen of 1952 films, Susan Hayward would've been a very deserving nominee for The Lusty Men. Also Ida Lupino (On Dangerous Ground) and Jean Simmons (Angel Face).




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Haven't seen a one nominee. Probably won't.
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This was the worst line-up ever IMO.

Davis over-emotes, Crawford is bug-eyed throughout and Harris is just plain ludicrous as a 12 year-old.

Booth is a fine actress but I much preferred her in About Mrs. Leslie, The Matchmaker and Hot Spell. For me there's only one choice and that's Hayward lip-synching her heart out as Jane Froman in With a Song in My Heart.

Overlooked: Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man, Dorothy McGuire in Invitation, Katharine Hepburn in Pat and Mike and Judy Holliday in The Marrying Kind, but not Barbara Stanwyck in Clash by Night and certainly not Olivia de Havilland in My Cousin Rachel. The only actress of a certain age, besides Booth, deserving of consideration was Hepburn.
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I find Booth's performance cosmically annoying. If my wife wants to irritate me, she'll start quoting it -- "Remember, Daddy, when we were young, Daddy, we used to go dancing, Daddy..."

Davis, Crawford and Hayward are, for me, in close to generic territory, in watchable but not overly interesting films.

I think The Member of the Wedding is the only film in this group based on first-rate material, and maybe that's what pushes me in Harris' direction. All I can say is, if a film-unknown was going to win for recreating a Broadway success, I don't know why it was Booth and not Harris.
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Best Actress 1952

Post by jowy_jillia »

Shirley Booth with Hayward as runner up

Omissions:
Reynolds, Hepburn and De Havilland

1951
1. Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire - 20
2. Shelley Winters - A Place in the Sun - 2

1950
1. Gloria Swanson - Sunset Blvd. - 13 votes
2. Bette Davis - All About Eve - 7 votes
3. Eleanor Parker - Caged - 1 vote

1949
1. Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress - 9 votes
2. Deborah Kerr - Edward My Son - 2 votes
3. Loretta Young - Come to the Stable - 1 vote

1948
1. Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda - 8 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - The Snake Pit - 5 votes

1947
1. Susan Hayward - Smash Up - 3 votes
1. Rosalind Russell - Mourning Becomes Electra - 3 votes
3. Joan Crawford - Possessed - 2 votes
3. Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter - 2 votes

1946
1. Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter - 10 votes
2. Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own - 2 votes
2. Jennifer Jones - Duel in the Sun - 2 votes
4. Jane Wyman - The Yearling - 1 vote

1945
1. Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce - 6 votes
2. Gene Tierny - Leave Her to Heaven - 5 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - The Bells of St. Mary's - 3 votes

1944
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity - 13 votes
2. Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight - 4 votes

1943
1. Jean Arthur - The More the Merrier - 4 votes
2. Jennifer Jonies - The Song of Bernadette - 3 votes
3. Ingrid Bergman - For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1 vote
3. Joan Fontaine - The Constant Nymph - 1 vote

1942
1. Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver - 7 votes
2. Bette Davis - Now, Voyager - 6 votes
3. Katharine Hepburn - Woman of the Year - 1 vote

1941
1. Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire - 8 votes
2. Bette Davis - The Little Foxes - 4 votes

1940
1. Katharine Hepburn - The Philadelphia Story - 9 votes
2. Joan Fontaine - Rebecca - 6 votes
3. Bette Davis - The Letter - 3 votes

1939
1. Vivien Leigh - Gone With the Wind - 18 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Ninotchka - 2 votes

1938
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel - 4 votes
1. Wendy Hiller - Pygmalion - 4 votes
3. Margaret Sullavan - Three Comrades - 3 votes
4. Norma Shearer - Marie Antoinette - 1 vote

1937
1. Irene Dunne - The Awful Truth - 7 votes
2. Greta Garbo - Camille - 6 votes
3. Janet Gaynor - A Star is Born - 1 vote
3. Luise Rainer - The Good Earth - 1 vote
3. Barbara Stanwyck - Stella Dallas - 1 vote

1936
1. Carole Lombard - My Man Godfrey - 10 votes
2. Irene Dunne - Theodora Goes Wild - 1 vote
2. Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld - 1 vote

1935
1. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams - 7 votes
2. Claudette Colbert - Private Worlds - 2 votes
2. Bette Davis - Dangerous - 2 votes

1934
1. Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night - 7 votes
2. Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage - 1 vote

1932/33
1. Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory - 5 votes
2. May Robson - Lady for a Day - 2 votes

1931/32
1. Marie Dressler - Emma - 6 votes

1930/31
1. Marlene Dietrich - Morocco - 8 votes
2. Marie Dressler - Min and Bill - 1 vote
2. Norma Shearer - A Free Soul - 1 vote

1929/30
1. Greta Garbo - Anna Christie - 3 votes
2. Ruth Chatterton - Sarah and Son - 1 vote
2. Greta Garbo - Romance - 1 vote
2. Norma Shearer - The Divorcee - 1 vote

1928/29
1. Ruth Chatterton - Madame X - 4 votes
2. Jeanne Eagels - The Letter - 1 vote

1927/28
1. Janet Gaynor - Sunrise - 5 votes
2. Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven - 3 votes
3. Janet Gaynor - Street Angel - 1 vote

Most Wins:
Katharine Hepburn - 3
Vivien Leigh - 2
Barbara Stanwyck - 2

Most Runner-Ups:
Bette Davis - 5
Greta Garbo - 2
Olivia de Havilland - 2
Jennifer Jones - 2

Actual Winners who didn't recieve any vote
28/29. Mary Pickford - Coquette
31/32. Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
40. Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle
50. Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
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