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Favourite Actress of the past?

Stupid_HeadStupid_Head Posts: 37,826
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What the title suggests, mine are...

Faye Dunaway in the 60s/70s, was anyone better in that period? Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network. Amazing movies!

Diane Keaton in Annie Hall and Reds.. love those movies.

Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses Don't They? and Klute!

I know they're all still working today, but nothing will compare to their glory days. Especially now with the exception of Diane they look like waxwork figures of themselves.

Obviously going further back there is great ones like the Hepburns, Davis etc but I couldn't pinpoint just a couple good movies from them, the majority are (not including Davis in her later years of course).
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    spiney2spiney2 Posts: 27,058
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    Ingrid Bergman

    Veronica Lake

    Theresa Russell
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    TheSlayer10TheSlayer10 Posts: 1,866
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    Judy Garland was epic
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,648
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    Ingrid Bergman and Judy Garland are probably my very favourites out of Old Hollywood. :)
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    Stupid_HeadStupid_Head Posts: 37,826
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    Judy was good for a musical or two, but I've never thought she was that great an actress. More an entertainer.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,832
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    Another vote for Ingrid Bergman.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,417
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    I can never remember the names of them all, but Margaret Lockwood, Gene Tierney, Phyllis Calvert etc
    and although I hate to say so, I do believe Bette Davis was a good actress (even if a little OTT)
    sounds like a standard cop-out - but she did appear to be amusing at times.
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    DLS1DLS1 Posts: 2,319
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    Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Garbo........................
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    BellagioBellagio Posts: 3,249
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    Lillian Gish - her movie career spanned from 1911 to 1989.
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    He4rtHe4rt Posts: 5,379
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    Edit- Didn't read the title properly,sorry
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    Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Deborah Kerr.
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    Bella TrixBella Trix Posts: 7,278
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    Audrey Hepburn. :)
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    heart break kidheart break kid Posts: 447
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    I like Ingrid Bergman and Gloria Graeme (great in 'In a Lonely Place'), but my favourite is Gene Tierney. 'Laura' and 'Leave Her To Heaven' are never far from my dvd player and other films like 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir', 'The Razor's Edge', 'The Shanghai Gesture', and 'Whirlpool' are all good too.

    Here is Gene at her most beautiful - in Thunder Birds,1942:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH92U3iPGi4

    Here is her intro scene from Leave Her to Heaven, 1945:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r3ZotQacms&feature=related
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 17,345
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    Vivien Leigh
    Audrey Hepburn
    Marilyn Monroe
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Katharine Hepburn
    Natalie Wood
    Grace Kelly
    Judy Garland
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    trinity2002trinity2002 Posts: 16,059
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    Joan Fontaine and Margaret Sullivan
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    EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 22,016
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    Bette Davis
    Carole Lombard
    Katherine Hepburn
    Deborah Kerr
    Ingrid Bergman
    Lauren Bacall
    Barbara Stanwyck
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    Audrey Hepburn. :)
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    Conall CearnachConall Cearnach Posts: 874
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    Ingrid Bergman. I think I fell in love with her when I saw For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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    Stupid_HeadStupid_Head Posts: 37,826
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    Hera wrote: »
    Vivien Leigh
    Audrey Hepburn
    Marilyn Monroe
    Elizabeth Taylor
    Katharine Hepburn
    Natalie Wood
    Grace Kelly
    Judy Garland

    Thats a good one, she was such a natural child actress compared to many.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 348
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    Caroline Munro
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    Sweet FASweet FA Posts: 10,926
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    Do they have to be dead? Mine is Bridget Fonda. She's neither dead nor particularly old but I haven't seen her in anything for ages - very underrated.
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    FloydoidFloydoid Posts: 377
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    Audrey Hepburn

    Rita Heyworth

    Barbara Stanwyck
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    GortGort Posts: 7,467
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    Lauren Bacall
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    Walter NeffWalter Neff Posts: 9,201
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    Barbara Stanwyck
    Geraldine Page
    Anne Baxter
    Susan Hayward
    Rosalind Russell
    Katharine Hepburn
    Judy Garland
    Marlene Dietrich
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    Walter NeffWalter Neff Posts: 9,201
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    Stupid_Head wrote: »
    Judy was good for a musical or two, but I've never thought she was that great an actress. More an entertainer.

    I guess that you haven't seen A Star is Born, one of the greatest performances given by any actress ever!
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    heart break kidheart break kid Posts: 447
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    Surprised Ava Gardner hasn't got a mention yet
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