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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:31 PM
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Greatest Actress who NEVER won an Oscar?
Gotta be Rosalind Russell. Watched The Trouble With Angels again the other night and died laughing. In the hands of a lesser actress, some of her lines would have fallen flat--but she knows how to get the most out of every word she uttered. The Women, Mourning Becomes Electra, Auntie Mame, His Girl Friday--this list goes on and on.

How about you?

I know some of you will say Barbara Stanwyck, but since she got an honorary one, I didn't consider her.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:32 PM
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1. My X wife for pretending she cared for 10 years (n/t)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:35 PM
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6. Awww, I'm sorry.
:hug: Thinking of you and glad it wasn't twenty for your sanity. :(
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:32 PM
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2. "Where's the fire??"
That was a great deadpan performance in Trouble w/ Angels. I didn't know anyone else remembered the film!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:34 PM
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5. Not remember??? It's one of my favorites! Where else can you find a
minor character named Marvel Anne?

"If she does, I quit."
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:36 PM
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7. "Well, Sister Ligouri, it's the last race at Pimlico....."
Gets me every time. :)
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:38 PM
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11. Yeah, the movie does well with mixing humor with drama...
...it could have been a hokey line from a lesser actress.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:34 PM
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3. Edith? Get A Good Grip On Yourself...Steven Haines Is Stepping Out On Mary
Yep... I adore Rosalind Russell too!!
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:37 PM
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10. Great minds think alike-we posted at the exact same moment
:toast:

"ladies one piece foundation garment. zips up the back and no bones!"
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:43 PM
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14. Oh, you remember the awful things they said about that what's-her-name...
...before she jumped out the window? There! You see? I can't even remember her name so who cares, Edith?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:59 PM
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24. That has got to be the greatest line in the movie, and one of the greatest
lines EVER!
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:55 PM
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20. Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death
Auntie Mame will always be my favorite. (When the movie came out everyone who knew my mother thought they'd been following her around to get material for the movie.)

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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:57 PM
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21. Patrick! Please... your Auntie Mame is hung!
What a marvelous woman she must be... I can only imagine what your childhood must have been like.
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:25 PM
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34. Actually, when I was a teenager having Auntie Mame for a mother
was a bit trying... I appreciate her more now. She's 80 and can still be pretty zany. Remember the two scenes where Mame has to deal with Patrick's fiance's pretentious parents? I can see my mother dealing with the Bushes that way. (In fact, I have seen her deal with nasty people that way.)

The funny thing is, she acts like Mame, but her oldest sister looks like Rosalind Russell.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:34 PM
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4. Rosalind Russell in "The Women": one of her best comedic roles!
I also love Myrna Loy. Did she ever win?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:36 PM
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8. I don't think Myrna did win--anyone know for sure??????
Loved her in all those Thin Man movies.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:50 PM
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18. never won but was given an honorary award.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:36 PM
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9. And How She And Cary Grant Managed To Rattle Off Their Lines...
so fast paced without missing a cue and without stumbling over their own words and without confusing each other (His Girl Friday) is beyond me. It's truly impressive!!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:39 PM
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12. Yeah--he was probably the greatest actor to NEVER win...although
they did give him an honorary one. Which is the least they could have done--think he was only nominated once.
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Nikepallas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:40 PM
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13. YES YOU ARE SOOO RIGHT!!! Have you seen Take a Letter,Darling
Some of the best one-liners
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:06 PM
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28. Never heard of it! Ill have to see if I can rent it! Thanks for the tip
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Nikepallas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:13 PM
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31. Great movie... Might be a hard fine.
It has the guy who played the father in my three sons (sorry can't think of his name tonight.) She is looking for a male secretary and she is the excustive who of course at the end of the movie who falls in love.

Yes, I do get a little upset that she plays these strong woman (ahead of the times.) and gives it up for love. BUT I know it was the way things were done BUT she played those smart strong woman that really made her a rolemodel for me.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:46 PM
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15. how about worst actresses who have won?
Marisa Tomei?
Angelina Jolie?
Mira Sorvino?
Catherine Zeta Jones?
Rene Zellweger?
Julia Roberts?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:04 PM
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25. I think something like that was posted a while back--great way to start a
flame war!
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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:49 PM
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37. Jolie won for "Girl Interupted"
She deserved it. Gripping performance. I would wholeheartedly agree with all the rest though.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:57 PM
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38. I thought she was decent, but God, what a crappy movie!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:36 AM
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43. Gwyneth Paltrow
Her performance in Shakespeare in Love was okay, but nothing special.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:48 PM
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16. Pickles
in the Stepford wives
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:49 PM
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17. Jennifer Jason Leigh
Bastard Out of Carolina
Dolores Claiborne
The Hudsucker Proxy
Last Exit To Brooklyn
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Rush
Single White Female

She was brilliant in every one of those films, but has Ms. Leigh ever received so much as an Oscar nomination? Not to my knowledge!
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:04 PM
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26. I always wondered about that too...
A lot of people dislike her but I think she's great! I only hope she gets more opportunities to act...Take notice, Hollywood people!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:05 PM
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27. No, she should have had a nomination at least, but there's still time...
...I was thinking more along the lines of DEAD actreses, whse chances are over!
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:52 PM
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19. Not an actress but Richard Burton never won an Oscar.
He was superb in "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf".
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:58 PM
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22. Who was also superb in Night of the Iguana. In fact, if you think of...
...half the drecks that get Oscars now, and he never got one, it just shows that the Oscars are as phoney as the 2004 election.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 10:59 PM
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23. Agnes Moorehead was a fine film actress as was Tallulah Bankhead
Hey, how come the heads aren't represented? :P

Ida Lupino was a good actress who got stuck in B movies because she was too independent for Hollywood. She also directed 'The Trouble With Angels' btw.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:08 PM
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30. Ida directed a slew of movies in the 60's--whenever they lament the
Edited on Wed Nov-24-04 11:09 PM by joeybee12
lack of female directors, they point to her as someone who made a successful career as a director.

Agnes was in EVERY old movie! God, she pops up in everything! She had a few nominations, I believe. I know she was nominated for The Magnificent Ambersons.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:08 PM
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29. Kate Winslet for: T I T A N I C
How Helen Hunt beat her I will never know. :grr:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:14 PM
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32. How Helen Hunt was even nominated, I'll never know!
What a shitty actress.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:27 PM
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35. My thoughts exactly.
:crazy: It boggles the mind. :crazy:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:29 PM
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36. I'm so glad Hank Azaria dumped her...I can like him again!
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bluetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 11:16 PM
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33. Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under The Influence
Minnie & Moskowitz
Opening Night
Gloria
Love Streams

She's a genius.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:01 AM
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39. Tura Satana:
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:03 AM
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40. I'm not sure that drag queens qualify....
...whatta ya mean she's a real woman??????????
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:03 AM
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41. She's more woman than you'll ever meet!
Edited on Thu Nov-25-04 12:04 AM by CanuckAmok
She'll kill ya six times before ya hit the ground!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 12:17 AM
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42. Trust me, I DON'T wanna meet her!!!!!!!!
Is this how they grow 'em up in Canada?
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 01:37 AM
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44. Kick--just for the hell of it, cuz I'm going to bed!
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