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- From: mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
- Subject: Re: Audrey
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:57:02 GMT
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- In <1k1k5dINNh1m@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
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- >In article <mattm-250193092258@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- >mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >> In article <1jr4iqINNdhv@mizar.usc.edu>,
- >> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) wrote:
- >> > Oh. I just never think "great actress" and "Katharine Hepburn"
- >> > at the same time. "Great movie star", yes, but not "great
- >> > actress".
- >>
- >> This may be terribly subjective - and a reflection of political
- >> prowess - but tell me, Dolphie... Which actress has the greatest
- >> number of Academy Awards?
-
- >What, may I ask, do Academy Awards have to do with great
- >acting? For that matter, what do Academy Awards have to
- >do with any kind of acting?
-
- But Arne, just remember some of the greatest film actors of all time:
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- Mongomery Clift.
- Alan Ladd.
- Marilyn Monroe.
- Thelma Ritter.
- Charlie Chaplin.
- Judy Garland.
- Elsa Lancaster (Lanchester? You know, Charles Laughton's wife).
- W.C. Fields.
- Mae West.
- Buster Keaton.
- Carole Lombard.
- Richard Burton.
- Peter O'Toole.
- Lana Turner.
- Frank Morgan.
- Rosalind Russell.
- Jean Simmons.
- Peter Sellers.
- Barbara Stanwyck.
-
- And how many competitive, non-honorary Oscars, in total, did these
- performers win as a group?
-
- Zero.
-
- All of the appeared in films eligible for Academy Award consideration,
- and in fact several were nominated multiple times -- Thelma Ritter,
- for example, was nominated four (or possibly five, I'm going from
- memory) years in a row in the early 1950's -- but _NONE_ of them ever
- was awarded that little statue "with no genitalia" (as Dustin Hoffman
- declared when he won for _Kramer vs. Kramer_).
-
- I think most (if not all) of these are widely acknowledged as legends
- of film art.
-
- So _OF COURSE_ a multiple winner of Oscars must be a "great actress".
-
- Or, possibly as you stated Arne, a "great movie star", as were Bogart,
- Ingrid Bergman, and Clark Gable.
-
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