Lee Grant Overcame the Blacklist and Won an Oscar

[@JoeOConnellAllNew]

"I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out." - Lee Grant

[@coreyham3753]

Lee Grant was fabulous. What a life and career she had.

[@eamonndeane587]

@@coreyham3753 And She's still alive in her 90s. At this rate she'll probably be over 100 years old when she dies (considering how formidable she is).

[@elizabethdavis2877]

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[@zarinaa1135]

Says all you need to know about both those ideologies

[@LonelyKnightess]

@@zarinaa1135 It really doesn't, no.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Interviewer: “How will you feel if you lose tonight?” Lee Grant: “Shitty, honey. Really shitty..” We Stan an underrated Icon.

[@ryneallen5163]

HonesTEA ☕️

[@HYSON3KITTY]

So glad you are doing the Best Supporting Actress category. There are so many great stories involving actresses who won this award over the years.

[@stankbutt88]

I would appreciate more video essays about women of color, especially since they have been relegated to this category. Many of these women have won in greater numbers more recently. I know producing content takes time, so I can wait patiently and continue to enjoy all the wonder content.

[@scpatl4now]

@@stankbutt88 I would like to know more about Pearl Bailey. I remember her name growing up, but don't know much about her.

[@nazarisreyes6037]

Yes!!!

[@outinsider]

@@stankbutt88 Yes! Particularly as of late regulating leading performances by women of color to supporting nominees to increase winning chances. I am thinking about Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls and Viola Davis in Fences.

[@orphicuranus]

Yes! Jennifer Connelly please.

[@MSonnyday]

I'm sad to say I'd never heard of Lee Grant before this but now I want to watch everything shes ever been in cause she seems like a badass and a great actress. An amazing combo. Also using Randall as Ronald Reagan stand in is the fucking greatest/funniest thing.

[@lissiz3432]

Although she never technically won an Oscar, I would love to see your take on the legendary career of Dame Angela Lansbury.

[@larrydirtybird]

Lansbury’s performance in The Manchurian Candidate is one of the most brilliant and bone-chilling in movie history. At least the Tonys have had the good taste to award her-she has won five Tonys yet no Oscar.

[@eamonndeane587]

@@larrydirtybird Exept for a Lifetime Achievement Award.

[@larrydirtybird]

@@eamonndeane587 , yes at least they gave her that.

[@rickardkaufman3988]

@@larrydirtybird Isn't she the lady from Murder, She Wrote?

[@B.Arthur]

@@rickardkaufman3988 Yes, she is Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote! She also played Mrs Potts in Disney’s original Beauty and the Beast. Her career spans some 80 years at this point - when Olivia De Havilland died last year, Angela Lansbury actually became the earliest surviving Oscar nominee - truly one of the final Titans of the Golden Age of cinema. She was a supporting figure in the movies for years, earning her first Oscar nod in 1944 for Gaslight (which won Ingrid Bergman her first Oscar), but languishing in B-movies for nearly a decade afterward. It wasn’t until 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate (which featured her playing a character several decades older than she actually was, the mother of an adult son played by an actor only three years younger than her) that she received widespread critical acclaim. Unfortunately, she lost the Oscar to Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker (which also took Best Actress for Anne Bancroft), and went on to find that there were few roles up to the quality of her Manchurian Candidate part. She departed Hollywood for Broadway in the mid-60’s, collaborating with Musical Theatre icons like Stephen Sondheim (in Anyone Can Whistle and Sweeney Todd) and Jerry Herman (notably in Mame) cementing her status as both a theatrical legend and a gay icon. Amid personal difficulties (and, astoundingly, her daughter getting involved with Charles Manson’s cult), she moved from California to Ireland in the 1970’s, continuing to take sporadic theatrical roles throughout the period, but only rarely returning to film - such as in Disney’s spiritual sequel to Mary Poppins, 1971’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks. She was also notoriously passed over for the lead role in the film version of Mame during this time, being replaced by Lucille Ball - whose long history of smoking made production on the musical comedy a nightmare. Murder, She Wrote began in 1984 and launched her to a previously unthinkable level of global superstardom. She still to this day says that she gets recognized more for MSW than anything else she’s ever done. It ran for 12 seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. Lansbury herself owned the series and was its executive producer for the final third of the show, making her an early pioneer of female actors transitioning into producing roles on television (which we see now extensively with figures like Julianna Margulies, Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon and Elizabeth Moss). Some of Lansbury’s biggest commercial successes came after MSW brought her back into the public consciousness - notably Mrs Potts in 1991’s Beauty and the Beast, and all its related media, as well as another voice role in Don Bluth’s Anastasia in 1997, cementing her as an almost unavoidable figure in western children’s films. Her beloved husband Peter died in 2003, and she briefly receded from public and professional life. It wasn’t until Emma Thompson, never believing Lansbury would respond, offered her a role in 2005’s Nanny McPhee that she returned to the screen. She’s spoken of how deeply personally meaningful that offer was to her at the time, and has appeared intermittently on screen since, including in 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns - filling a cameo void written for (and declined by) Julie Andrews, the original Mary Poppins. The Academy wised up and gave her a well deserved Honorary Oscar in 2013. Her speech is genuinely quite touching, and she recounts many of the same stories I did here. She’s already a more mainstream figure than many people might expect, but the breadth of her career is beyond what anybody could reasonably assume given her most successful (and lasting) works came from the mid-80’s to the late 90’s. How many Oscar nominees from the early 1940’s were still starring in Best Picture nominees come 1991? Katharine Hepburn’s final showing at the Oscars was a full decade before Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Picture, (On Golden Pond, 1981) - and given that her career started about a decade before Lansbury’s (Hepburn’s first Oscar came in 1933), Lansbury is arguably the only female Golden Age film star with a longer career than Kate the Great. She was also best friends with Bea Arthur, (they starred in Mame together), so TRULY a legend in her own time. I’d recommend any of her work if you’re interested, but my personal favourite performance of hers is probably the original cast recording / pro-shot of Sweeney Todd. The musical itself is a masterpiece, but Lansbury adds such an eccentric energy to it, shes unlike any other Mrs Lovett - both more cartoonish and broad and comedic, and also more frightening and ruthless and callous. It’s a fascinating line to watch her walk, and arguably the perfect transitional figure in Lansbury’s catalogue of characters - the in-between of her classic cold and bitchy characters (like Eleanor in The Manchurian Candidate) and her contemporary warm and loving characters (like Mrs Potts). Mrs Lovett is a wild and untrustworthy and appalling figure, but Lansbury manages to make her eminently sympathetic and relatable. She lulls us into a false sense of security with that warmth and charm, so that the revelations at the end of the show hit with even more emotional devastation. Perhaps that’s why I - who first knew Lansbury through her later, sweeter roles, like Mrs Potts - found it to be such a revelation. She’s a much more dynamic and versatile actress than her modern persona of “sweet, noble, murder solving grandma” might lead one to believe.

[@larrydirtybird]

Thanks for this; I learned a lot. I met Lee Grant once, I think it was in 2003. I was working at a Manhattan restaurant called Butter. She came in with Gloria Steinem. Everyone there freaked out over Gloria Steinem, coming up to her, saying to her how much they admired her, totally ignoring Lee Grant. When I said, “That’s Lee Grant,” no one even recognized the name. I found that sad and unjust and greeted her. I told her that I admire her work and that my favorite performance of hers was in Airport ‘77 because it was the first movie of hers that I ever saw, when I was 9 years old, and she was the most memorable thing about the movie to me, her character was such a monster. She was kind and thanked me. That was 18 years ago, so I’m afraid even fewer people today would know who she is.

[@caseyaulbach7693]

Is this the restaurant owned by Alex Guaranshelli?

[@abbynormal3068]

That truly is sad. She’s been one of my favorites since In The Still Of The Night and Shampoo really seals the deal as she traversed from drama to comedy. Such a master of timing!

[@stepawayful]

@larrydirtybird omg I loved Butter!

[@larrydirtybird]

@@caseyaulbach7693 , I don’t think she was the owner of it then, but she was definitely the head chef. I remember her very well. Very mellow person for a head chef! Maybe she has become the chef since then.

[@larrydirtybird]

@@stepawayful , me too. It looked like a some wooden spa in Sweden!

[@alejandraacosta3739]

Lee Grant didn't invent the bob, but she perfected it!

[@milesbrad9975]

Every time I hear someone say "you can't be conservative in Hollywood", I want to send them articles and works on McCarthyism so they can understand how it wasn't that long ago Hollywood was actually the other way around.

[@patty1247]

This! Plus the number of films funded by the pentagon with pro-war propaganda is astounding. Sure, when comes to women’s rights, LGBTQ issues, etc. Hollywood has become more progressive but there is a lot of hardline conservative values running amuck but in much more subversive ways.

[@autumn-vl5ez]

it's still the same way

[@franohmsford7548]

Two wrongs don't make a right! Just because wrongs were done to one group in the past doesn't make it right to do the same wrongs to another group today! And isn't it rather strange to be using something that happened 60+ years ago to justify doing those same things to people you disagree with today?

[@dionysus7045]

But...now you can't be a conservative right? What you said doesn't change the political standing of modern Hollywood.

[@vysharra]

@@dionysus7045 says who? Chris Pratt is one of the most wildly successful actors of his generation, who is in multiple movies a year for the next five years. Hilary Duff is a pop star who changed a generation with her success as both an actress and a singer. Clint Eastwood had such a successful career he went from actor to director to producer. Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a career spanning decades, with a successful foray into the highest political office of _California_ during the same time. All of these people are rich, popular, award winners and still very much beloved and in the public eye. Those are just the most successful off the top of my head. You need to open your eyes, there are strong and very public voices in support of conservatism and religious values in Hollywood if you turn off the talking heads and actually open your eyes. (The jerks are less popular, but it’s not Christian to hate, so they might be conservative but not Christian… and conservatives believe in “the market” so maybe they should be more Christian so they don’t anger the people who buy movie/concert tickets).

[@buzzawuzza3743]

You're an excellent storyteller.

[@CPTDoom]

I did a full LOL at "No Google, I am not talking about the Civil War." So glad you did a video on Lee Grant. I was actually introduced to her in "Airport '77," which featured her true talent, because she took that dreck to absolutely perfect levels of scene-stealing goodness and managed to give hint to an actual person behind the caricature of a drunk that was written. But after that I knew of her as a director - she did a TV movie dramatizing the Willmar 8 that I adored (Jean Stapleton and her daughter Dinah Manoff were in it) - and went back to her post Black List performances only much later.

[@TheLWord75]

I really never knew that much about Lee prior to seeing this video, but I can now say she is now one of my heroes. Her resilience to survive during the years she was blacklisted is a testament of the power of the human spirit.

[@oliviashley]

I feel like you'd do a great job chronicling Eartha Kitt's blacklist and career.

[@eamonndeane587]

I love how her CIA Dossier listed her as a "Sadistic Sex Nymphomaniac ". Such a Remarkable woman.

[@outinsider]

I love this look at Lee Grant! It seems the 1970s were about redeeming actors involved with sociopolitical consciousness. It's like Lee Grant was a Supporting Actress Jane Fonda almost. I can't wait to look into her documentaries. Thank you for highlighting her essential work and capturing the zeitgeist of her film and theatre career. And, she is still with us! Aren't we lucky?

[@TheSuzberry]

Seeing the photo of Lee with Peter Falk reminded of her marvelous turn as a heartless lawyer who murders her lawyer husband on Columbo. Damn, they were good together!

[@darthbee18]

Yeaaaaa that was my first viewing of her too!! 😎✨✨

[@robfuzz]

I love Lee Grant. Such a feisty talented actress and I'm so glad she won the Oscar. I would've loved Lily to win in 76 too.

[@Grundig80]

The creators of Fay were also the producers of The Golden Girls. Lee was considered for the part of Dorothy and her daughter, Dinah Manoff was on the spin-off Empty Nest.

[@lakrids-pibe]

And also "Soap", which is absolutely fantastic.

[@BoyProdigyX]

The clips of her in the limo going to and from the Academy Awards is hilarious!

[@georgier9151]

As somebody who is mainly educated about Hollywood history via this channel, I spent the whole video going "why do I know that name??" until you got to Down and Out. Fantastic video, as always.

[@georgier9151]

I also very much spent the whole video marvelling at her gorgeousness. Like.... Wow.

[@nosaintiago]

Loved this video! Still hoping to see another of 'Always Second Best Actress.' Thanks for the amazing work!

[@abandonedfragmentofhope5415]

Crossing my fingers that that video is going to be about Greta Garbo or Barbara Stanwyck.

[@rubytuesdayphoenix]

I literally drop everything whenever I see a notification of a new video from you to watch- it's a home run every time! Also, I DIED at Randall from Recess popping up when Reagan was being discussed

[@1trschaefer78]

Lee Grant was a stunningly beautiful, talented actress. And now an award-winning director!

[@Secret_Troilus]

You know, with all the buzz surrounding “The Power of the Dog” it would be so cool to watch a video of yours about Jane Campion and her directing Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin to oscars in 1993(?). What sort of climate was going on with the academy to warrant voting for Anna even tho she was so young? Would be interesting :)

[@reikun86]

I looked at the other Supporting Actresses Anna Paquin won over, and I have to admit I did not see the other nominee's performances, and the Piano was a huge hit at the time. I thought it was interesting that Anna beat Holly Hunter who was in the Firm, but Holly went to take home Best Actress for the Piano.

[@Secret_Troilus]

@@reikun86 exactly, she beat out Holly and Emma Thompson, which makes me wonder about how popular The Piano was at the time…

[@stepawayful]

Uggh. The only way Holly Hunter could EVER win an Oscar with that voice of hers, is if she didn't say a word in the entire fil..... What's that? Oh. I see. 🤣🤣🤣

[@reikun86]

@@stepawayful If Holly Hunter won an Academy Award for voice acting, it would have to be for The Incredibles.

[@stepawayful]

@@reikun86 I cast voices (as well as on - camera talent) for many years. The only way I would hire her would be if the director specifically wanted "a Holy Hunter type voice.". Even then I'd try to come up with better choices! 😖

[@veraweng9908]

Grant's performance in "Detective Story" is one of my favorites from the classic era but I had not heard the full extent of her blacklist until now. Great video!

[@anuraghun]

I've been binge-watching your videos almost as a comfort blanket while home for the holidays. You can't imagine how excited I was to see this in my subscriptions.

[@PlotFirst]

I love how this channel feels more like a documentarian account of events than a typical KZbin video. So informative and compelling!

[@kafka338]

I have never clicked on a notification so fast. I love your videos and how detailed and thoughtful they are ☺️

[@arnepianocanada]

Lee Grant was a blip below my radar until I saw this program. Research is impeccable, your matter-of-factness enhances the impacts, and the visuals are complete but not 'over-hyper'. Brava!!

[@woollyfingers]

OMG what a story.... your research is tremendous and your storytelling absolutely rivetting. Lee Grant's timing is perfect.

[@jjgavin3834]

i had never heard of lee grant before! she seems like a very interesting and emotionally-charged actress, i’ll have to check her out!

[@LLynneM]

Ur in for a treat.

[@SleepFan771]

Thank you for spotlighting Lee Grant's acting talent! She was resplendent in Valley of the Dolls, Shampoo, In the Heat of the Night, The Omen II.

[@Windupchronic]

20:49 I had no idea Falk and Grant worked together on Broadway. It looks like they started the play perhaps months after she was on Columbo, too, as the play debuted in November 1971 and her episode of Columbo aired March of that same year.

[@beejls]

What a delight to find you had downloaded another video just as my dinner was ready. Thank you for another well researched, well edited biography of someone who much deserves the credit she earned.

[@demh7823]

The fact that 23 years after Grant's win, the Academy Board of Governors gave a lifetime achievement award to Elia Kazan, who was among those responsible for ruining the careers of so many in the industry by "naming names" still infuriates me to this day.

[@freshname]

Have you experienced it first hand? Under threat people do things they hadn't expected themselves to do, those things that then they regret to to the rest of their lives. If you've never been in a situation like that, don't judge. You don't know what you would've done. You just don't. And let's hope you'll never have to know.

[@paillette2010]

Yeah, he was a sellout. I don’t even like his movies. It would have been no great loss if he’d have had a spine.

[@freshname]

@@paillette2010 Ok, so "every woman who has been raped is a sellout" too? Do you really believe in things like that? That's quite despicable. The reason behind it, It's seems, you just don't realise what threat is, don't you? You just don't realise how threats work I guess that's good. That's really good. That's a testimony to you living in a different times. And in a very different country. It's very easy to judge, since you haven't faced what he did. But If you what to experience it first hand you should feel free to come to my country. Join me living here. Not in your (kind of) rule of law 21st century USA (kind of) comfort. And you will learn what it is not to judge or at least forgive your friends for their collaboration with FSB and center-E. People who resist are heros. It's inhumane to expect everybody to be a hero. And don't lie to yourself. It's very unlikely you would've been one.

[@ginak615]

@@freshname "Ok, so every woman who has been raped is a sellout too?" You need to shut up with your misogyny.

[@freshname]

@@ginak615 where's misogyny? Rape is criminal! Rape is immortal! And somebody above saying that victim should kill herself and "just not be a victim" is ok with you?

[@vinicio985]

When a few years ago Kazan the director was awarded a tribute and honorary oscar ( if I recall correctly), some of the actors remained seated or folded their arms amidst all the academy clapping...and I didn't realize It was due to the McCarthy purge as well, apparently He acted as an informant for mcCarthy's committee, and strangely enough he was one of Warren Beatty's most prominent mentors: I vividly remember Beatty applauding Kazan with vigor while Nick Nolte and Harris remained seated and still

[@beejls]

Some believe On the Waterfront is his apology. He did name names.

[@Kevin-rg3yc]

It’s interesting at that same ceremony that night Harvey Weinstein was given a standing ovation by the audience members that protested Kazan tribute ohhh that aged like a sour milk

[@vinicio985]

@@Kevin-rg3yc Kazan was known for being a snitch though, there were even rallies at the gates of the venue of the oscars, protesters against him...let's not mix up things that have nothing to do with each other

[@akym82810]

Yeah the host that year even made a rat joke if I remember correctly.

[@ultraviolettas]

stan ed harris

[@jasonraschen1109]

I didn’t know a lot about Lee Grant except that she was blacklisted. Very informative and compelling video. Thank you. Love your channel.

[@lukecarlson4710]

Conclusion coming out of this video: “Wow, Lee Grant was a badass.” As always this video was fantastic.

[@badgernation74]

She’s still a badass.

[@paulsuchy6210]

When I attended CalArts in 1980, their library included a video cassette of "TV TV Looks At The Oscars" and we practically wore out that tape. Thanks for providing a link as I haven't seen the program in 40 years (yet I recited every clip you share here from memory). There are too many Lee Grant performances to praise, but "The Neon Ceiling" always knocked me out. Thank you for highlighting another brilliant artist.

[@alanmckenna5608]

This channel will always be my favourite on KZbin.

[@hagfish_]

Thank you for continually introducing us to amazing artists. With every video, I'm always shocked to see how little I know.

[@branagain]

I am a big fan of Hal Ashby. He’s one of the most underrated directors. I really think Lee Grant should have won for The Landlord. A criminally overlooked film.

[@MariaVosa]

Another actress I didn't quite know by name but where I keep realising "Oh yeah - she was THAT great character!" I especially appreciate the post-Oscar biography, fantastic that she directed Down and Out... But yes - Lily Tomlin is a goddess and I can't express how happy I am that you named your cat after her.

[@TheAwardsContender]

What an extraordinary piece that examines the fascinating career of one of my favorite actresses!! You are the best of the best.

[@artleitch]

The the Academy Award for Best Cat Cameo goes to ... Tomlin

[@markchalled3976]

I love Lee Grant. Thanks for working on this so diligently. Love the show.

[@theclassicfilmloversguide1871]

Absolute Woman of Strength! She is such a leader that it's soooo unfortunate not enough people talk about her. She deserved that Oscar for Shampoo, indeed, as Amazing Lily Tomlin was.

[@paullemon5154]

Hope down the road you make a video on the career of Thelma Ritter and why the 6-time Best Supporting Actress nominee never won an Oscar. Ritter was excellent in "All About Eve."

[@kareninacarado]

I think she’ll appear in the Always Second Best (Supporting) Actress series of BKR. BKR did Deborah Kerr, so Thelma is very likely to appear in that video essay series soon, as well as other multi-nominated Oscar-less actresses.

[@krisjustbegun9740]

I hadn’t heard of Lee Grant before this video but I’m definitely going to check out her work this Christmas starting with Detective Story. Thanks BKR

[@Tee13-o8t]

This is a BRILLIANT video. Not only is your approach one of its kind in covering a subject matter, but it is your choice of subject matters that stands out as beyond unique and pointed. Bravo all the way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jskd2953]

First saw Miss Grant in the Neil Simon film "Plaza Suite" with Walter Matthau when I was a teen and have been a huge fan ever since. And yes, even if the movie she was in wasn't particularly great, she would invariably be the best thing in it. Great informative and insightful video on a superb underrated actress! Also "Down and Out in America" is one of the best american documentaries and should be required viewing since alot of it is still sadly relevant today.

[@victoriaolson8985]

I had no idea regarding this about Grant. Great material here, well done!

[@Jolar70]

She was HARDCORE! What a natural spirit and fighter. Thanks for this great retrospective on her.

[@emilytrott]

One of my favorites. I've had a crush on her seeing her in an episode of Columbo.

[@nicklundy9965]

Me too I just watched the episode and she is absolutely mesmerizing in it.

[@georgewhite6926]

This video was a high end documentary on its own. Wonderful work!

[@fob1xxl]

From the first time I saw her on "PEYTON PLACE" I loved her. "SHAMPOO" was great ! Loved her in everything she's done. Even "PLAZA SUITE", "DAMIEN THE OMEN ll" and "VALLEY OF THE DOLLS" !

[@tricivenola8164]

Thanks for celebrating Lee Grant. People older than me told me she was great and then I saw her in Shampoo. I thought I was the only person in the world remembered that movie; a few years ago I had to pay a guy to find and download it for me. It hasn't aged, although Warren Beatty is dressed for 1975 rather than 1968 when the film is set. Your research is exhaustive and so appreciated.

[@RobertRogersSC]

Great video, one of your best.... I must say Lee Grant won Ronee Blakley's Oscar and Helen Hayes won Lee Grant's Oscar. I still crack up thinking about her drunkenly putting a hamhock in her purse in The Landlord. Comedy gold.

[@thomasbirdeno]

First, so happy to see you hop over to the Best Supporting Actress category. Your research on this is breathtaking! As always, thank you. Second, you always one up yourself with every video. This time it was your words on Nashville. You're absolutely right in each statement. Tomlin and Altman = Heaven.

[@beckettkenny9690]

The work you do is always so fascinating and amazing!

[@robertgoyette5863]

definitely excited for you to cover the 2013 best actress and supporting actress race one day

[@SM-gl8yo]

Excellent choice of subject matter. Old enough to remember Miss Grant's triumphal comeback winning the Emmy in 1964 for her role in Peyton Place.

[@cisneroslariososcargerardo57]

OMG, so glad you are documenting Lee Grant, I LOVE HER!!! 💕❤️

[@bp_21]

The God and luck blasting off is one of my favourite moments, genuinely made me laugh. You are a wonderful researcher and storyteller. Thank you for your videos.

[@garyperkovac1002]

Wow. This retrospective on Lee's Career and Life, sheds a light on not only her, and not only the acting business, but on our country. Such a strong, no-nonsense person with her words that echo clearly... even today. A real call to wake- up.

[@SarcasmGuy091]

This is a dark period in both US History and US Film history

[@slowdancers]

truly stellar work!!!! I totally forgot it was her in Valley of the Dolls, and I feel awful because I remember thinking she was great in it when I saw it years ago. I've got Shampoo and the other ones you linked queue'd up to watch because I am absolutely in love with her after seeing this

[@monty3534]

I agree with Vincent Canby review. Lee Grant gave an extremely interesting performance. After leaving the movie theater it was Lee Grant who was fresh on my mind, both times with Shampoo and The Landlord. Also The Balcony, In The Heat Of The Night, Voyage Of The Damn and also The Omen Part 2.

[@paxwallace8324]

All I know is that in or around 1970 I saw the very 1st Columbo pilot. Lee Grant played the brilliant beautiful villain and I fell in love with her at about 10yrs old. But clearly a phenomenal actress to me as a child. The name of that exceedingly entertaining Coloumbo episode is "Ransom For a Dead Man"

[@yong2peaceful]

25:50 Oh wow the random Louise Fletcher namedrop. Gonna expect a future video essay on her overall career, her Oscar win, and how Nurse Ratched was one of the most iconic female villain character in pop culture.

[@eamonndeane587]

And maybe talk about how Sarah Paulson is being wasted on Ryan Murphy's Ratched fan fiction...

[@luisc1703]

Every time one of your videos comes out, it's a delight. Your channel is one of the best. Truly amazing job.

[@magnifique909]

Your work in this series is amazing, so interesting and educational on so many levels. I feel I get a much more full picture of Hollywood with every video. Love!

[@shelbybooker1478]

Oh my, I took a drink of tea at 30:12 and I about died from choking on it. What a good edit🤣🤣

[@daltonbelflower7331]

Time for me to toss in some more suggestions: 1) I'd like to see you tackle Marilyn Monroe more significantly. Literally anything about her, or specifically her time at the Actors Studio. 2) Susan Hayward winning for I WANT TO LIVE. 3) Jessica Tandy winning for DRIVING MISS DAISY. 4) Loretta Young winning for THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER. 5) A documentary-style look at the Grande Dame Guignol genre that employed aging actresses in the '60s and '70s. 6) Elizabeth Taylor's second win (for a role she loved) in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? I enjoy your videos! Keep them coming! Oh, and if ever you wanna do a video about Judy Holliday winning in 1951 I'd be down with that (sorry, I had to do it. I really want that video in my life LOL).

[@strayfaery]

I was having a bad night and then I saw you posted and I’m so grateful!

[@KeylogFilms]

Your channel is phenomenal! I just tweeted your two Weinstein videos as part of a thread on the book "She Said." I'm a big Oscars head so I love learning more, and the amount of detail you provide is fabulous. Thank you for your work!

[@valeriagarciavalencia4152]

Our best days are when we get a new video from you 💜

[@valeriagarciavalencia4152]

Btw, I really love this beauty 26:21

[@adamjonkie5601]

I watched the Oscar’s documentary (linked in description). Loved it.

[@r-t9266]

Absolutely fascinating journey ! ( I love both the cat and the name )

[@zwartepiet412]

Watching this excellent piece on Lee Grant made me think of another actress who had a long hiatus in the middle of her career for no good reason. I hope BKR will consider doing a profile on Piper Laurie. Piper received an AA award nomination for Best Actress for her role opposite Paul Newman in "The Hustler" (1961) and then, because she didn't receive any substantive role offers for some unknown reason, didn't appear in a movie again until 1976 when she received an AA award nomination for Best Supporting Actress alongside Sissy Spacek as Carrie's mother in "Carrie".

[@ginak615]

Oh God, she is such a badass! I've been into her for so long, and she's such a great example of an extremely versatile woman who is such a badass that she bulldozed her way through so many restrictive power barriers in Filmmaking (not just in Hollywood) to make what she wanted to make. She seems like the kind of artist that the French would appreciate a fuck ton more than the U.S. ever has.

[@johnboy32064]

I don’t think it’s the best acting that year but I still love the academy chose to award Grant. Thanks for choosing to showcase her story. She really is a survivor. Also hate to point out a small boo boo…you show Charlotte Rampling instead of Sylvia Miles in the nominee listing.

[@aronc24]

As ever, you are a godsend with the links you provide. Great work and insight, thanks!!!

[@robertgoyette5863]

YESSSSSSS watched detective story last year and was blown away by grant. she totally runs away with the movie

[@ghostofyeats]

This was fantastic & Lee Grant is certainly an inspiring figure.

[@meolajackson]

You have never failed to amazed my day with your videos. Once again a masterpiece .

[@BryonyClaire]

I've been missing your work! I so appreciate all the effort and research you put into these videos, this was utterly fascinating. I can also see you flexing those new editing skills you've been learning, this looks fantastic!

[@RadioLaPrincess]

Her daughter, Dinah Manoff was Marty in Grease.

[@rics1883]

Great analysis, I always look forward to your videos. One request- could you pls in future do the video on Cate Blanchett?

[@AnneStott]

Thanks for spotlighting Lee Grant. Love her. And so much we could say about Shampoo, but that end, with Warren Beatty crying at the top of the hill while watching Julie Christie go with the older rich man is some brave storytelling.

[@sabrinagrant8003]

It’s ironic to me that Lee Grant had such a back story because by the time I was old enough in the late ‘70’s Lee Grant was the “G-O-A-T.”

[@ayindestevens6152]

Yassss The Queen has returned! I really need to watch Lee’s work now that I know more of who she is! Also ofc she’s survived she’s a Tough as Nails New Yorker who actually gives a damn!

[@adagiobreeze8493]

I’m so happy to learn about this marvelous woman cuz I think her win and story is somewhat overshadowed by The One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Victory in Academy History.

[@joeybaggs4059]

"The first time ever I saw your face (On Columbo - Mon-03-01-1971) I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the endless skies, my love."

[@nikanj6]

Outstanding storytelling. 🙏

[@meshplates]

Very moving!

[@lovethefields]

Criterion just uploaded her documentaries!!! 😁🙏🏾

[@HelloHello-tm7uc]

This was refreshing - I cant wait to check out her filmography! also, shocked a movie on her life in pre production right now

[@quiquetall]

Very good video, as always! I seem to be saying the same thing as in 21:45 , "She is good as usual." But that's how it is! Thanks for all the hard work, thanks for making me laugh with Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn, and thanks for the "Gucci buckle" too 😅👍

[@jmnny85]

Lee Grant so talented and so real, so glad she won the Oscar!! 👍👏

[@ItsMEMonicaMarie]

I love these deep dives because of the way that all the stories are connected. Like linking back to Streetcar in this one. Having the back story on all the other wins/misses makes each actors story so much more fascinating and makes the Hollywood system feel so much more... Intentional? Logical? It's just rabbit hole after rabbit hole that makes the whole picture make more sense.

[@henryflournory9193]

These clips are the GOAT.