Note: The list of films following each name contain the performances by each actress that give me the most pleasure, and are not necessarily the finest films on that actress' resume. (But just try and argue with me on the merits of The Skeleton Key. I dare you.) The first film listed for each actress is the film pictured. Here we go:
Angela Bassett - Strange Days, What's Love Got to Do With It, Sunshine State
Jennifer Connelly - Dark City, Requiem for a Dream, Dark Water, Career Opportunities
Bette Davis - All About Eve, Jezebel, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Irene Dunne - Love Affair, The Awful Truth, My Favorite Wife
Audrey Hepburn - Funny Face, Wait Until Dark, My Fair Lady, Charade
Katherine Hepburn - Stage Door, Bringing Up Baby, Adam's Rib, Holiday
Madeline Kahn - Clue, Paper Moon, What's Up, Doc?, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, The Cheap Detective
Deborah Kerr - Black Narcissus, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Innocents
Jennifer Jason Leigh - eXistenZ, Short Cuts, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Anniversary Party, Margot at the Wedding
Shirley MacLaine - Some Came Running, The Apartment, The Children's Hour, Steel Magnolias, In Her Shoes
Giulietta Masina - Nights of Cabiria, La Strada
Emily Mortimer - Bright Young Things, Lovely and Amazing, Lars and the Real Girl, Transsiberian
Sarah Polley - No Such Thing, The Sweet Hereafter, Go, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Guinevere
Thelma Ritter - Pickup on South Street, Rear Window, All About Eve
Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, O Lucky Man!, Picnic at Hanging Rock
Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence, Faces, Minnie & Moskowitz, Love Streams, The Skeleton Key
Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday, The Women, The Trouble with Angels
Lili Taylor - I Shot Andy Warhol, Say Anything, Girls Town
Sylvie Testud - Fear and Trembling, Murderous Maids, Beyond Silence, The Chateau, La France
Rachel Weisz - My Blueberry Nights, The Shape of Things, The Fountain
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I still haven't mustered the energy to do one of these lists - especially with screengrabs. Now that the holidays are over, I must! I must!
I still want to do this with pictures, like everyone else, but I have been terribly lazy, and want to post something, so I am going to make a list. Are these in order? I doubt it. I will almost certainly want to change this immediately after I hit post, but that's all right.
1. Barbara Stanwyck - this part at least is in order; she is number 1.
2. Marlene Dietrich - she is #2
3. Ginger Rogers
4. Setsuko Hara - now I'm more into grouping them by country...
5. Hideko Takamine - the star of most of Naruse's later masterpieces.
6. Kinuyo Tanaka - star of some of Mizoguchi's greatest films, but in the 30s, in several of Ozu's - great great actress.
7. Catherine Deneuve
8. Isabelle Huppert
9. Anna Kerina
10. Jeanne Balibar - Rivette's leading lady, lately
11. Emmanuelle Beart
12. Emmanuelle Devos - Arnaud Desplechin's muse
13. Brigitte Lin - if this were in order, she'd be higher, maybe #3 - she has Dietrich's pure star power, a commanding presence - as well as the ability to be touching, emotional - even buried under layers of makeup and gender confusion.
14. Maggie Cheung - in some ways, I look at her as Stanwyck to Lin's Dietrich.
15. Julie Christie - obviously....
16. Ingrid Bergman
17. Julianne Moore
18. Gena Rowlands
19. Lillian Gish
20. Nicole Kidman
Plus: 5 supporting actresses - who either don't have enough lead roles, or I have not seen them enough, or they are rather one dimensional - or just I want to put them somewhere....
1. Catherine Keener - who needs to star more often
2. Jean Harlow - who needed a longer career
3. Isabella Rosselini
4. Joan Blondell - who needed to star more often too
5. Charlotte Rampling
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