Best Actress 1959, Part 3: Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor in "Suddenly, Last Summer"

This is a review of Katharine Hepburn's and Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar-nominated performances in "Suddenly, Last Summer".
The entire playlist about the Best Actress Nominees of 1959 is here: • Playlist
Please note that I have already uploaded this video as part of the complete 1959 video: • An Oscar for Simone Si...

[@Marcel_Audubon]

"Sebastian and Violet, Violet and Sebastian ..."

[@michaelhamilton1523]

Williams’ works are brilliant and dated. The great thing about good actors like Taylor is she was a real human working convincingly in the styles of every era she passed through.

[@JeffRebornNow]

The films are dated, not the plays themselves.

[@johnyzero2000]

I am now obsessed with your channel!

[@FritzandtheOscars]

Thank you so much!

[@robertrobbins5691]

Both superb. Both unforgettable.

[@fob1xxl]

FABULOUS MOVIE ! TAYLOR SHOULD HAVE WON. GREAT PERFORMANCES FROM EVERYONE !

[@ellasaraharetha]

Both actresses were very compelling. It is a difficult script and with less talented cast, might have failed. Elizabeth, at the zenith of her beauty, I found it hard to concentrate on her acting, especially in the bathing suit. But, again, the film just drew me in. Amazing that the subject matter got by the 1959 censors.

[@anthonyanderson2405]

Very perceptive analysis, personally I find the film and Taylor’s performance to be quite overwrought.

[@poetcomic1]

Tennessee Williams autobio made him even WORSE a sexual predator than he was. He once said that Sebastian was himself. Its not about being gay its about being a predator with human beings of any kind which bothered him about himself.

[@windstorm1000]

Fabulous movie

[@claranism]

Liz Taylor' part is more showy w many emotive ACTING, while K Hepburn's role is more memorable because it was such a rare n unexpected 'villainy' turn fr her. Taylor was mighty proud o her perf but Hepburn hated the film n almost nvr mentioned it in her intw or memoirs

[@terpmaniac]

John Wayne was stupid and mean.

[@williamweis7153]

And horribly conservative

[@yvonneplant9434]

He actually went to see Taylor while she was still being hospitalized for her 1961 near death experience.

[@williamj.crofts41]

​@@williamweis7153YES... shows what of hateful asshole he was...and all the despicable people that followed him.... America ain't all that, is it?!!

[@char1737]

Running up that hill the fine young cannibals ate that human

[@thomasalbert6687]

Never quite bought the story. What happens to Sebastian seems imposed and clumsy. For me, Taylor was shrill and "actressy." The magic here is what Hepburn does with her part, not the story line. And special mention to the hat she wears with feathers across the forehead, a sort of half halo.

[@whatever-whatever7386]

It was an extremely over the top performance For Hepburn. She ruined it for me. Too much stylised acting.

[@The1976spirit]

The white shark told me otherwise. It was Sebastion whose manirisms, he lost his arm and some other parts, were disgraceful. Hepburns jaws were polite, chgarming and mature.

[@montyduskin4610]

WE ECLIPSE EVERYONE IN THE ROOM !!!!

[@Lafayette320]

Taylor should have received an award for being a goddess smoking her cigarettes most seductively!