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Post by naterdawg on Mar 1, 2017 17:31:17 GMT
I agree. Joan Fontaine definitely deserved to win for Rebecca, but the Academy gave the award to Ginger Rogers because she'd "gone dramatic" with Kitty Foyle. Fontaine's was a break-out performance, and the Academy corrected their error the next year when she won for the lesser "Suspicion." Did you ever see Fontaine in BORN TO BE BAD? Average movie, but her performance is fantastic. Very different from "I" in REBECCA. I love REBECCA too and agree that she deserved the Oscar. It's a shame she and Olivia didn't get along. I have seen Born to be Bad, and her performance is quite a bit different from what we'd been used to. It was the start of her "icy, bitchy" period, where she played worldly, sophisticated women. I much preferred her heroines with a spine of steel from such classics as Jane Eyre. She reverted to form in Hammer's "The Devil's Own," which was my introduction to Joan Fontaine. It's still one of my favorite Fontaine movies. Have you seen it? |
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