My current Top 5

My current Top 5

1/04/2011

Best Actress 1933 - The resolution

After having watched and reviewed all three nominated performances, it's time to pick the winner!


3. Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory 

While Katharine Hepburn is an actress that can usually express 1000 emotions at once, in Morning Glory she only emphasized the limitedness of her character instead of fighting against it. It’s a performance that is often disappointing, once captivating, sometimes adequate but never interesting.




While some positive aspects can be found in her work, Diana Wynyard’s performance combines a dated style of acting, an underwritten character that is more a plot device than anything else and an inability to make any true emotional impact. Just like her co-nominee Katharine Hepburn, she ended up delivering one of the most bland and lifeless performances in the history of this category.

                


It’s hard not to be moved by Apple Annie or feel happy for her in the end, but the character was changed too radically by May Robson and Frank Capra during the run of the story and the whole movie basically forgot about her in the second half. What could have been a wonderful and challenging role that way turned into a mixed performance that still impresses with its early scenes.



7 comments:

Louis Morgan said...

A rather weak year it seems. Although I must admit I expected it to be.

Anonymous said...

I definitely think Hepburn outshined Wynyard and her crossed eyes.

Fritz said...

lol, well, they are basically interchangeable for me...

Fritz said...

This is now the 3rd time that I put Hepburn in last place. I hope it won't happen again...

dinasztie said...

Seems to be a weak year.

Fritz said...

I doubt that I will find a weaker one.

Srinivas said...

Greta Garbo should have won her Oscar for Queen Christina. Her performance is miles ahead of these.