Best Actress 1959, Part 7: Final Thoughts

[@gracesnoddy8179]

I love your videos!! Will you do best supporting actresses as well??

[@FritzandtheOscars]

@gracesnoddy8179 thank you so much 💓 I have done a video about the win of Marisa Tomei but I do t have amy further plans at the moment

[@thomasdonio2129]

I think that you gave short shrift to Doris Day's performance. It is certainly in the same league as the other four. None of the other four (and I am a big, big fan of Katharine Hepburn) could have handled the role with the same finesse, pananche, and directness as Doris Day did. Vivien Leigh once said that as an actress it was more difficult to make people laugh than it was to make them cry. Miss Day, and her co-stars, had me in stitches.

[@FritzandtheOscars]

I like Doris very much but I personally don't see her on the same level as the other four. This might sound like bias against comedy but I love comedic performances at the Oscars. I think in Pillow Talk, her co-stars did the heavy lifting in regards to the comedy while she was more the straight man

[@thomasdonio2129]

@@FritzandtheOscars The late Mary Tyler Moore also played the "straight-man" on her famous television show while all the characters surrounding her, Rhoda, Phyllis, Lou, et al, were getting all the laughs, it, doing the heavy lifting. However, she, as Doris Day in Pillow Talk, was the center or spoke in the wheel. One needs a center around which to pivot in order to highlight the brilliance of the other.

[@FritzandtheOscars]

@@thomasdonio2129 Totally agree and again, I don't mean it dismissively. I'm also a big fan of Pillow Talk so she obviously does a lot right. I just think that in this particular case, her co-nominees are offered such rich characters with so many opportunities that she just cannot catch-up. She plays the part as well as possible but the part just has limits

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

@@FritzandtheOscars agreed this is why I'm actually disappointed that Marilyn Monroe was snubbed for some like it hot because, i feel its the comedic performance that is on the level of the other nominees she adds a little more depth to her character in some like it hot

[@Count1jt]

To my own personal belief I felt that Audrey Hepburn should have won her second Oscar. I guess the reason why she couldn’t get her second is because the audiences like her in more of her happy go to girl. Than her playing deep tragic characters. I never heard of this movie the nun story until I discovered that Audrey was nominated for the Nun Story. I was torn apart of which one of these two Hepburn should get the Oscar. I am glad that Elizabeth didn’t win because I felt she should have won in A Cat on the Hot Tin Roof. I think that is Liz better performance. Doris Day I will rank her at number 3 of my choice for nomination.

[@oscarman42]

1962 was a good year. Thoughts?

[@FritzandtheOscars]

1962 was one of the best years

[@oscarman42]

@@FritzandtheOscars Hope to see you cover it!

[@slc2466]

@@FritzandtheOscars Hope Katharine Hepburn gets her due- she's rarely mentioned in talks about 1962 among all the drama surrounding the Davis/Bancroft dynamic, but IMO Hepburn was magnificent in "Long Day's" and deserved the win that year.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

Miss Barbara Stanwyck was a generation older than Simone Signoret ... not sure why she thought a Signoret win would translate into more plum roles for herself ... and no, I don't think The Big Valley was what she had in mind. She talks about being a fortyish woman when was already in her fifties by 1959. She's the type of Norma Desmond old dame who would have turned down the Violet Venable role thinking she should be playing Catherine Holly.