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Post by evilbliss on Dec 24, 2019 13:38:21 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 24, 2019 13:49:41 GMT
1. Fonda 2. Keaton 3. Dunaway 4. Sarandon 5. Monroe
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 13:58:05 GMT
My five favorite American actresses are, alphabetically: Kirsten Dunst Jane Fonda Ava Gardner Anjelica Huston Meryl Streep
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Post by jimmalone on Dec 24, 2019 14:03:21 GMT
Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway and Viola Davis are certainly the top 3 on this list. If I'd choose two more, which is not sure yet, I'd likely take Susan Sarandon and Teresa Wright.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 24, 2019 14:19:19 GMT
WHERE IS MILDRED NATWICK. WHERE IS MY BABY. Two polls she could have been in. ROBBERY.
Also no Natalie Portman?
Teresa Wright is obviously the best of this batch (and better than everyone save Queen Bette in the other American batch). I'm also going with Chastain (although she needs to challenge herself a bit more), Mara, Weaver... and eh, Farrow?
I don't care. I WANT MILDRED.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 24, 2019 14:19:22 GMT
Some additional thoughts - look how deep the US is!
Geraldine Page is a historic, landmark figure in American film - Id say far more than Hepburn or Davis (who I also love) - she is Streep before Streep - and Streep is everything once she arrived - and Page defines a lot of different and disparate styles of acting too. She clearly did not believe that "naturalism" or "realism" was the goal of an actors performance - she often achieves far more complex types of characterizations than just that.
I love Jane Fonda - who also is a "before Streep" type but would say in the 60s she was much more an interesting presence - especially a sexual presence - than movie star Jane Fonda in the 70s/80s. In the 70s she became respectable and won awards and was indeed great too but so were her peers - does anybody really believe she wasn't surpassed in a lot of ways by Burstyn, Rowlands, in the 70s especially and in other ways by Keaton too? I'd argue she definitely was.
Julianne Moore - is an insanely baffling actress - almost stupidly so - she has stepped into roles - be they sequels or not everyone would tell her to maybe reconsider - Carrie, Hunger Games, Hannibal etc. She has achieved great artistry without ever appearing calculated about it really even if it may have been. She's quite wonderful and uniquely American too like Spacek and Keaton are.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Dec 24, 2019 14:32:53 GMT
Lisa Kudrow kicks Hathaway's ass anyday.
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Post by evilbliss on Dec 24, 2019 14:45:19 GMT
WHERE IS MILDRED NATWICK. WHERE IS MY BABY. Two polls she could have been in. ROBBERY. Also no Natalie Portman? Teresa Wright is obviously the best of this batch (and better than everyone save Queen Bette in the other American batch). I'm also going with Chastain (although she needs to challenge herself a bit more), Mara, Weaver... and eh, Farrow? I don't care. I WANT MILDRED. I think we need another sequel Also missing: Frances McDormand, Lee Remick, Jill Clayburgh, Marsha Mason, Jessica Tandy, Lauren Bacall and Gloria Graham Part 3 coming up! Lauren Bacall is in the first one
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Post by TerryMontana on Dec 24, 2019 15:16:00 GMT
And then what? Take the top-3 actresses of every poll and make a new one?
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 24, 2019 15:29:01 GMT
Also missing Veronica Lake and Doris Day. Not that I'd vote for either one (well, maybe Day).
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Post by evilbliss on Dec 24, 2019 16:05:40 GMT
And then what? Take the top-3 actresses of every poll and make a new one? oooohhh nice idea!
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 24, 2019 16:06:37 GMT
hell of a group. went with Geraldine Page / Reese Witherspoon / Rooney Mara / Laura Dern / Susan Sarandon. Would probably pick a different five tomorrow.
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