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sostie Elite Member @sostie Posts: 10,012 Likes: 4,307	Pick an Actor/Actress and the ONE performance you recommend above others May 23, 2019 19:41:45 GMT teleadm and Lebowskidoo 🦞 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sostie on May 23, 2019 19:41:45 GMT Bob Hoskins - Long Good Friday
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jervistetch Senior Member @jervistetch Posts: 8,875 Likes: 5,353	Pick an Actor/Actress and the ONE performance you recommend above others May 24, 2019 3:06:18 GMT spiderwort, movielover, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jervistetch on May 24, 2019 3:06:18 GMT Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE

movielover Exalted Member @movielover Posts: 80,273 Likes: 14,325 Member is Online	Pick an Actor/Actress and the ONE performance you recommend above others May 24, 2019 3:18:14 GMT spiderwort likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by movielover on May 24, 2019 3:18:14 GMT May 24, 2019 3:06:18 GMT jervistetch said: Bette Davis in ALL ABOUT EVE Great performance. Great movie.

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Pick an Actor/Actress and the ONE performance you recommend above others May 24, 2019 5:55:59 GMT movielover and teleadm like this

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Post by kijii on May 24, 2019 5:55:59 GMT

Richard Burton in Equus (1977)

Great thread.
Can we do more than one performer?

But, I think I get it--What one performance that sticks out as the best (for you) for a given performer.

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teleadm Elite Member IMDb member since June 2005, IMDB v2.0 member since February 2017 @teleadm Posts: 16,235 Likes: 20,411	Pick an Actor/Actress and the ONE performance you recommend above others May 24, 2019 16:15:36 GMT jervistetch and spiderwort like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by teleadm on May 24, 2019 16:15:36 GMT Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath 1940

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Pick an Actor/Actress and the ONE performance you recommend above others May 25, 2019 17:16:13 GMT spiderwort and teleadm like this

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Post by kijii on May 25, 2019 17:16:13 GMT

Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy (1943)
Of all the many, many movies he made, I don't think he was ever better than he was in THIS movie.

William Saroyon's valentine to America

kijii12 November 2016

This movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor (Mickey Rooney), and Best Director (Clarence Brown). William Saroyon won an Oscar for Best Original Story.

The story opens with a narration from Mr. Maculey (Ray Collins) as he looks down (from heaven) on his family in the small town of Ithaca, CA during World War II. First, we see his youngest son, Ulysses (Jackie Jenkins), as he sees life from the point of view of a small boy and hear his simple questions about life philosophically answered by his mother (Fay Bainter). Also in Maculey's home we find his college-age daughter, Bess (Donna Reed) and her friend, next door neighbor, her older brother's sweetheart, Mary (Dorothy Morris).

Maculey high school aged son, Homer (Mickey Rooney), is just starting a job as a telegraph delivery boy. The boss at the telegraph office, Tom Spangler (James Craig), teaches Homer that being a telegraph delivery boy is a valuable education, almost an adventure.

The old philosophical telegrapher, Mr. Grogan (Frank Morgan), also helps teach Homer his new duties, including waking him up whenever a telegraph comes in, giving him hot coffee, and disregarding his drunken condition whenever Homer meets him on the street.

Then, we meet the older Macley son, Marcus (Van Johnson), who is in basic training in North Carolina, preparing for active duty in the service. With his brother away and his father dead, Homer must become the "man of the family." He must both go to school and work to help support the family.

As the film moves into different areas of each of the family member's lives, we see other layers of wisdom and humanity around Ithaca. Homer is seen in class and competing in the 220-low hurdles. Bess and Mary meet three servicemen (Barry Nelson, Don DeFore, and Robert Mitchum), and go to the movies with them to help make the servicemen's evening more memorable and welcoming.

Ulysses befriends a strange mentally retarded boy, Lionel (Darryl Hickman), who finds wonder and amazement everywhere.

In training camp, Marcus befriends a fellow soldier, Tobey George (John Craven), who has no family of his own but adopts the Maculeys through Marcus's descriptions of them.

The movie presents a tapestry of little dramas, little bits of wisdom, and little bits of propaganda (as it stops to show discussions, events, and slogans) in small-town America during WW II.

The telegraph office is used as a symbolic metaphor to connect the town with the outside world. Dozens of messages (from singing telegrams to telegrams from the War Department informing families about the death of their sons or husbands) are transmitted and received by Mr. Grogan and delivered by Homer.

In 1943, America was in the middle of WW II and Hollywood had "gone to war." This movie may seem overly sentimental at times. It presents America's response to the war, on the home front, by using idealized small-town America, much like Norman Rockwell used it in his paintings. One may see this as William Saroyon's valentine to America or his stylized representation of it.

It is important to realize that this movie did not come out of a vacuum. Many award-winning movies from 1942 to 1946 were fixed on the war and how it affected the people "back home." These movies include:
Mrs. Miniver,
The More the Merrier
Watch on the Rhine
Casablanca
In Which We Serve
So Proudly We Hail
Since You Went Away
The Best Years of Our Life
and To Each his Own.
And these are only SOME of the basically NON-combat movies of the era.

THIS movie is worth watching once if only for its well-crafted structure and its interest to American film history. But, for some reason, I come back to watch it over and over.

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teleadm Elite Member IMDb member since June 2005, IMDB v2.0 member since February 2017 @teleadm Posts: 16,235 Likes: 20,411	Pick an Actor/Actress and the ONE performance you recommend above others May 26, 2019 0:45:59 GMT spiderwort likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by teleadm on May 26, 2019 0:45:59 GMT Anna Magnani in Rome Open City 1945 Aldo Fabrizi in the same movie

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Jessica Lange in Frances (1982)

I was not yet a teenager and just starting to really develop my film obsession when I saw this. So real and raw, it began my love for Jessica Lange. She's a two-time Oscar winner but I still feel like people are forgetting about just what a great range she has. She deserved the Oscar for this role (it went to Streep for Sophie's Choice, for which I could equally gush).

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May 23, 2019 19:41:45 GMT sostie said:

Bob Hoskins - Long Good Friday

Hoskins was ideal in this role, you can easily understand why Hollywood came calling afterwards.

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