Jessica Tandy Wins Best Actress: 1990 Oscars

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Gregory Peck presents Jessica Tandy the Oscar for Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy at the 62nd Academy Awards.
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@Squrtile101 6 жыл бұрын

I love that she thanked the director calling him "that forgotten man" because he was not nominated. That was a very nice thing to do.

@anacletwilliams8315 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was.

@aleksinfroid4644 3 жыл бұрын

Beresford is anti-abortion. That is why he was snubbed.

@kellyribeiro8717 3 жыл бұрын

@@aleksinfroid4644 you've own for the crazy in the comment section.

@markelijio6012 Жыл бұрын

Obviously, that's Bruce Beresford, who's got two Oscar nods. One, for writing "Breaker Morant" in 1981 and two, for directing "Tender Mercies" in 1984. That's all there is to it.

@idanwillenchik3050 Жыл бұрын

However she did not mention Morgan Freeman by name and failed to thank her long time husband actor Hume Cronyn.

@raddyreyes538 2 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy was absolutely brilliant in Driving Miss Daisy! A well deserved Best Actress Award. I have watched that movie over and over again and every time I do, I can't helped be amazed of how brilliant she was.

@smeenasiddiqui7464 8 ай бұрын

Very lucky to have seen the movie ....all I've seen the Trailer. Excellent & outstanding.

@user-rz8bu6vl8x 5 ай бұрын

One of my favorite my❤

@KOHF34 10 жыл бұрын

Morgan Freeman is a class act - he helped her on to the stage and made sure she didn't fall. Truly a gentleman.

@nerd_in_norway 7 жыл бұрын

He was her co-star in Driving Miss Daisy.

@fatima1009 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I saw that. Go Morgan!

@MsSunshine610 6 жыл бұрын

KOHF34 I

@FredBird 5 жыл бұрын

he clearly patted her way before she walked up the stairs alone

@siddharthnaagar7028 5 жыл бұрын

Now he's a registered sexual predation act

@GuidoJuno 13 жыл бұрын

Amazing performance. One of the most heartbreaking and touching of all. Jessica Tandy was at her best during the last years of her career.

@patricke2088 10 жыл бұрын

This is one of those times where it is clear the other nominees are just as happy as she is with the result

@shihlin1 3 ай бұрын

Michelle Pfeiffer should have won for "Fabulous Baker Boys", but she's smart enuff not to steal Jessica's moment knowing this was her last chance for an Oscar

@MikeysGayToday 10 жыл бұрын

One of the finest movies ever made. Sweet, simple, brilliant. Jessica was breath taking. Great talent. Greatly missed.

@MikeysGayToday 9 жыл бұрын

ONe of my all time favorites!!!!! Such a talent and class act. We shall never see the likes of Jessica again.

@pjangels609 6 жыл бұрын

Horrible, boring, for stupid people!

@lexdimond1 5 жыл бұрын

sounds about white.

@lonerunner89 3 жыл бұрын

@@pjangels609 Just like your username 🙄🤡🖕

@pjangels609 3 жыл бұрын

@Benjamin CI've never been called boring in my whole life, but stupid... maybe twice. Now why are u such a bully?

@alfredvalrie5541 9 жыл бұрын

Had the orchestra been practicing the "Driving Miss Daisy" theme for hours? They freakin' nailed it.

@lynnturman8157 9 жыл бұрын

Alfred Valrie uh...they're professional musicians (that means they're really, really good)....

@the-niknak 8 жыл бұрын

They practice all the movie themes for each nominees, and then when the winner gets announced the conductor will look at the appropriate sheet music and conduct that.

@azmang6804 8 жыл бұрын

+Alfred Valrie Interesting Trivia, Hans Zimmer composed the score completely with synthesizers, all of which he played. No orchestras were used. A true genius.

@oscarfun100 7 жыл бұрын

LOL, it would be awesome if they made a mistake once. :))) And the Oscar goes to... Helen Hunt in As Good As it Gets. *Every night in my dreams, I see you... I feel you* Shit!!!

@alfredvalrie5541 7 жыл бұрын

lolz--I don't know why the Academy gets dragged continually about that one. oops--we were playing the song from the movie with an actual actress truth is, I love "as good as it gets"--it's fun. i think when hunt and nicholson both got statues that year, the Academy was like, "oh well, it's late, we're done counting votes--just give it to helen and jack"

@direfranchement 3 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy played with Gregory Peck in a film called "The Valley of Decision" some 45 years before she won this Oscar that he presented to her.

@robinpeppin 2 ай бұрын

interesting

@hsd287 2 жыл бұрын

She was awesome I'm so happy she won that Oscar she looked so gorgeous at literally 80 amazing lady ❤️

@siddharthnaagar7028 7 жыл бұрын

the orchestra nailed the theme of driving miss daisy

@blackpark1910 7 жыл бұрын

siddharth nagar Was in all the cerimony take look Stone win for Bourn on the fourth july!!

@siddharthnaagar7028 5 жыл бұрын

@@blackpark1910 yaa they kinda perfevtt all of them, it's just I saw any Oscar thing for the first time

@Gallagher205 9 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy is AMAZING in this movie so well deserved.

@RailPreserver2K 4 жыл бұрын

She also did amazingly in the film fried green tomatoes to I hope she got an Oscar for that one

@danlippershey380 2 жыл бұрын

@@RailPreserver2K She was nominated

@ricardobigi5476 10 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy is synonym of great acting, be it on stage or on film. How wonderful to have been able to catch glimpses of her immense talent in a few films. I saw her on stage once doing the famous "candle" monologue from A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in three minutes she had the whole audience in tears. A great actress, a great lady. Too bad that she and her other great fellow actors are gone now.

@marvinmelhorn2516 10 жыл бұрын

You saw the original Broadway production of STREETCAR? *jealous*

@ricardobigi5476 10 жыл бұрын

Marvin Melhorn No, unfortunately I was not even born then, 1947, but I saw her and Hume Cronyn on the stage in the late 1970's doing scenes from their great stage hits. They were wonderful, as you can imagine.

@jasonhurd4379 6 жыл бұрын

Ricardo Bigi I have always regretted I was born too late to see Tandy create Blanche du Bois. It is a sin and a shame that she was not cast in the film version. I also deeply regret not having seen her Cordelia to Gielgud's Lear, not to mention her creation of Agnes in Albee's A Delicate Balance, a role in which she was again passed over for the film version.

@paulod27 8 жыл бұрын

Driving Miss Daisy is one of the best films I have ever seen.

@JulesMercerTunez 11 жыл бұрын

Wow. After decades of hard work as a working actress, albeit tony award winning stage performances, Mrs. Tandy gets what she had only hoped for it her most timid of dreams. Truly magical to watch her face light up like that.

@RUGRAT1362A 10 жыл бұрын

She was always such a class act. I miss her so.

@vegetasolo1221 6 жыл бұрын

So convinced was she that she would lose out, Jessica Tandy had a one hundred dollar bet with her agent, that she wouldn't win the Oscar for Best Actress. When she paid up on Oscar night, she told him that it was the best bet she had ever lost

@dillyho 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this little story!

@williammoody6600 3 жыл бұрын

Love her truely but can't believe not one word for Morgan Freeman but that's alright WE all know his value there and I'm whiter than milk!

@GracefulDanny 10 жыл бұрын

They should play that music every time someone wins an oscar.

@MikeysGayToday 9 жыл бұрын

YES THEY SHOULD!!

@siddharthnaagar7028 7 жыл бұрын

GracefulDanny yess

@mitchell021591 6 жыл бұрын

I agree

@wheninrome345 6 жыл бұрын

This is like the best movie theme of all time.

@axr7149 6 жыл бұрын

The original theme music was composed by none other than Hans Zimmer.

@mobywv 11 жыл бұрын

Driving Miss Daisy is one of the few movies I enjoyed watching with my parents back in the day.

@alex11578 11 жыл бұрын

"I am on cloud 9". Love it

@TheatreGeek147 13 жыл бұрын

Went I went to audition at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, they actually had her Oscar on display! It was so cool lol

@irina1296 7 жыл бұрын

My winner was Michelle Pfeiffer but I really see why Jessica won

@renegaderunner332 7 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Michelle Pfeiffer should have won.

@jorgeesquiviaescobar4149 5 жыл бұрын

@@renegaderunner332 I bet that Michelle Pfeiffer will probably win when she's old as Jessica Tandy...

@renegaderunner332 5 жыл бұрын

@@jorgeesquiviaescobar4149 Let's hope she wins sooner than that. She in in her 60 right now. She also needs to get back into the game. She has not made a mainstream film in quite awhile.

@anacletwilliams8315 4 жыл бұрын

I am glad you can see why.

@m4lteas3 3 жыл бұрын

@@renegaderunner332 She just did this year and it’s generating some Oscar buzz. Not sure if she can win as she may be fighting against Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Sophia Loren and Vanessa Kirby.

@Kartveli751 11 жыл бұрын

Morgan Freeman was also perfect in this movie!

@wesstkilda 3 жыл бұрын

I love her. I love the music. I love her speech. I love that she thanked Bruce. I love that she won this award!

@renan.csmaia 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Lange was so beautiful! OMG

@davisonronald3877 3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@londonlauren5922 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't she a doll I just watched that movie and I was thinking that the whole time 🙂

@daytonhamilton1975 8 жыл бұрын

The other Jessica must have had a heart attack when she heard her first name and then crushed when she heard the wrong last name ahaha.

@ida305 8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but she already had an oscar at that point so I think she was alright. Jessica Tandy really deserved that.

@vikivarga3 7 жыл бұрын

Same with Mark Rylance and Mark Ruffalo at the 2016 oscars when the winner of the best supporting actor category was announced...

@SuperRod88 7 жыл бұрын

Tell me about...I almost died with that. Specially cause the last name started with the same letter. I watched that and it felt like slow motion. Mark R....ylance.

@moisemensah8233 6 жыл бұрын

Hamiltrongames She had already one in her name for Tootsie and won her second four years later for Blue Sky, which was epic.

@mia.2857 5 жыл бұрын

Dont worry for J Lange...she has hers 2 oscars....and still is active very much......

@karenmorris629 6 жыл бұрын

I know she thanked the cast but I think she should have given a special thanks to Morgan Freeman.

@j-r-m7775 6 жыл бұрын

Karen Morris I thought the same thing. I kept waiting for it like she was going to save it for last and then nothing.

@a.perkins907 4 жыл бұрын

I was scrolling down to see was anybody going to mention what was on my mind. I couldn't believe that she would not single out Morgan Freeman for his terrific performance as her Co-star in the film!! Wow I was disappointed & SHOCKED!!!!

@dillyho 3 жыл бұрын

She seemed to be quite nervous. I’m sure that had something to do with it.

@fanshorrormovies6249 3 жыл бұрын

perhaps she forgot because at that time he was already in an advanced age

@Tristan-ni8wz 3 жыл бұрын

It happens! I forgot to thank my wife at our wedding because i was nervous.

@shimmeringfairydust3275 9 жыл бұрын

She is so beautiful!!!

@skuzad25 9 жыл бұрын

A well-earned Oscar if I do say so myself.

@Robert-zx2ir 6 жыл бұрын

I want Pfeiffer to win an Oscar one of these days

@Cmc995 4 жыл бұрын

Robert Harris totally, Ive been impressed in everything I see her in.

@bobbyb7979 4 жыл бұрын

She's ok I guess....

@Davey7358 3 жыл бұрын

She may in 2021. For French Exit :)

@gregbryant516 3 жыл бұрын

@@Davey7358 was just about to write the same thing! Ha

@remigiorivera7987 3 жыл бұрын

Well the nominations are out and she was not even nominated. Sad though.

@awhitershadeofpail 13 жыл бұрын

Oh, dear g-d, Isabelle Adjani was phenomenal in "Camille Claudel!!"

@renan.csmaia Жыл бұрын

Despite having made her film debut many decades before, Jessica didn't become a movie star until her 70s, especially at 80 with "Driving Miss Daisy". She still holds the record as the oldest actress to ever win an Oscar.

@lexkanyima2195 Жыл бұрын

It was shocking

@tweston315 10 ай бұрын

Jessica Tandy stared in Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds" so, speak of things that you knew 😂

@DidiLennonJK 9 жыл бұрын

Wait! Sally field for steel magnolias??? no nomination ??? My fav part of this movie is the breakdown at shelby's funeral!! that scene was everything!

@CraigJordanLA 6 жыл бұрын

DidiLennonJK yes very surprising.Sally was phenomenal in that role and she got no love for it. Only Julia got the Attention at golden globes and still lost the Oscar to Brenda Fricker.

@cwnbn3226 5 жыл бұрын

DidiLennonJK Shirley should have been nominated for BSA too but the whole cast made Steel Magnolias a great heartbreaking movie

@loralynf.9722 4 жыл бұрын

True

@psb1969 3 жыл бұрын

@@CraigJordanLA Sally was nominated for a Golden Globe but agree should've gotten Oscar nod.

@PowerDiva 2 жыл бұрын

Steel Magnolias was snubbed so hard at the Oscars that year... the entire cast was brilliant. It wasn't even nominated for Best Picture either.

@A.A_xv 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy was so deserving of this award rip.

@davidl2569 7 жыл бұрын

i think this was the toughest competition in the history of anything. And my god Michelle looks stunning as usual, Jessica Lange is one of a kind actor and Jessica Tandy, well she's a legend

@scifinerd17 5 жыл бұрын

Michelle Pfeiffer should've won an Oscar for her performance in The Fabulous Baker Boys, she made that movie.

@Tommyhedland 3 жыл бұрын

Pfeiffer I didn't deserve it. Mrs. Tandy is the just winner

@slc2466 2 жыл бұрын

Michelle won nearly every other award that year; would love for the stars to align and see her onstage with an Oscar win someday.

@shihlin1 2 жыл бұрын

You're right. Pfeiffer won practically most if not all the industry and critics awards. This Oscars were given when older stars had a better chance winning Oscars. Unlike later years when odds-on favorites such as Lauren Bacall and Glenn Close were shockingly shut out on the day of the Oscars.

@markelijio6012 Жыл бұрын

@@shihlin1 Lauren Bacall got an Honorary Oscar.

@shihlin1 Жыл бұрын

@@markelijio6012They'll give Glenn her honorary Oscar someday, better be soon cuz she's already 75. With EIGHT Oscar noms stretching back to 1982, it would be a travesty if the Academy denies her one. In fact, I'm quite shocked they haven't given her one by now, the honorary that is.

@mooky9669 11 жыл бұрын

Driving Miss Daisy is one of my all time favorite films!

@ce9345 Жыл бұрын

What a classy actress. Well deserved!

@89plainsman 13 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy came on very strong in her later years....like Katharine Hepburn and others, the epitome of continuity throughout a career.

@polyprinz 5 жыл бұрын

Rest in love, Ms. Tandy...you are terribly missed!!!

@Brightonbarnes1980 4 жыл бұрын

Love this video, and so happy Jessica Tandy won. However, if there could have been a tie, so that Pauline Collins's unforgettable performance in Shirley Valentine could have also been recognised, that would have been brilliant! And love how perfectly the orchestra plays the Driving Miss Daisy theme when Jessica wins - astounding!

@exodia1892 7 жыл бұрын

We watched this so many times in school still wanna watch it till now..

@andrewfrantz5502 6 жыл бұрын

Michelle Pfeiffer and hopefully Isabelle Adjani win it as Senior Citizen nominees. Both of them are due.

@laxus9451 6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Frantz debra winger too

@sirot5561 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree 100%

@neelabhraroy4238 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman literally breathed life into Driving Miss Daisy. Having said that, I would have loved to see a tie between Tandy and Michelle Pfeiffer

@scottmiller6495 6 жыл бұрын

An absolutely beautiful moment to see Miss Jessica Tandy win this wonderful award she was a lovely woman and well deserved winner of this oscar pure class in every way a terrific person never to be forgotten !!!

@mac_c 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy did deserve to win, but Michelle Pfeiffer was my winner.

@irened5192 3 жыл бұрын

The class of Gregory Peck. Never before and never after. Fantastic actor 🤗🌷🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@wesstkilda 3 жыл бұрын

Jessica was brilliant. So was Bruce another outstanding Aussie director.

@roc8674 6 жыл бұрын

I think that the academy had the feeling that it's was the last time that Jessica will be there, that's why the music sounds amazing when the won

@roberikabraga7963 3 жыл бұрын

Michelle Pafeiffer é uma atriz fantástica. Fico triste de até hj não ter um Oscar, que ja deveria ter a tempos. Ela fez outros trabalho incríveis

@emilyh.8704 2 жыл бұрын

I just watched this INCREDIBLE movie, Driving Miss Daisy for the hundredth time!! Her acting in it was well earned for this award!👏 and I pray 🙏 she knows just how special and wonderful she was! Thank you Ms Tandy for all the years of acting, the joy you have given me watching this movie, along with Fried Green Tomatoes will always be my all time favorites..Rest in glory along with your beloved husband..❤🙏❤

@YoungFrankenstein 11 жыл бұрын

I still can't believe she's the oldest actress to win an Oscar. To me, she looked younger than her age. Such a class act and I hope Emanuelle Riva wins this year.

@mermaidgirl9232 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful lady she was inside and out.

@Taintless101 4 жыл бұрын

Such an incredible career yet not often talked about. Multiple Tony awards including as the original Blanche Dubois in a Street Car named Desire opposite Marlon Brando in his breakout performance. Performed alongside the greatest ever Hamlet, Sir John Gielgud, and the greatest ever Henry V, Sir Laurence Olivier. Shame theatre shows were not filmed back then so a wider audience could now appreciate her body of work.

@kdeloris2225 3 жыл бұрын

Driving Miss Daisy is a classic

@sw9618 3 жыл бұрын

Just finally got around to see it, what a fantastic, nuanced film. Tandy totally deserved this. Bravo.

@shihlin1 2 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised the critics had pegged Michelle Pfeiffer to win for "Fabulous Baker Boys".

@sw9618 2 жыл бұрын

@@shihlin1 that is surprising

@bartstottlemyre9677 10 жыл бұрын

Such a great film...makes me cry every time at the end...Jessica Tandy is a gem! Pure kind humble...

@loveanimals6981 8 жыл бұрын

Isabelle Adjani probably really gave the best performance out of the five nominated (it certainly was the most challenging role out of the nominees... though I personally didn't like Camille Claudel). But I LOVE the selection of Tandy anyway, and I loved Driving Miss Daisy.

@paulskyekahawaty6133 6 жыл бұрын

I fervently hope she'll win an Oscar for Best Leading Actress in the future.

@jacobmorris6615 11 ай бұрын

Agreed. It was a tour de force, though not entirely untread emotional territory for her, sharing more than a little similarity with L'histoire d"Adele H.

@fob1xxl 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite films of all time. A wonderful tour de force performance. A touching, loving, heartfelt story of aging, no matter what year you were born.

@nastassjae4115 4 жыл бұрын

Dommage pour Isabelle Adjani... Elle le méritait tant !!!! Gérard Depardieu aussi...Vraiment rageant... et des années plus tard ils le donnent à Marion Cotillard...

@hardsam68 3 жыл бұрын

It was good to see old Hollywood together in Peck and Tandy

@TommyLellan 8 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy as she walks off stage: "Gregory who?"

@vinaymulukutla358 2 ай бұрын

She is very much missed and was a very beautiful woman both in her youth and as she aged so gracefully. As a fellow Brit, her taking her talents from her beginnings in London across the pond where she became an icon of Hollywood Cinema really make me proud. Driving Miss Daisy was one of those films I saw as a kid that stayed with me for life.

@peetamellark8503 3 жыл бұрын

0:32 she is so beautiful

@roberthandrewmartinezharo4726 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Tandy was a legend, without a doubt but michelle pfeifer deserved that oscar.

@spn1007 13 жыл бұрын

I was lucky enough to have seen her in The Gin Game and Glass Menagerie on Bway. But my greatest theatre moment ever was at a memorial service for Tennessee Williams at the Shubert Theatre in NY where Jessica Tandy lost 30 yrs. in a split second and became Blanche Dubois delivering a monologue from Streetcar. The only true spontaneous standing ovation I have ever witnessed occured the split second she finished! Truly amazing!

@ol2952 3 жыл бұрын

She was brilliant. An astonishing moment

@jg2904 13 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this one... thanks for posting.

@belampe1 12 жыл бұрын

So lovely and gracious... thank you for sharing this wonderful video. Jessica Tandy had class and elegance in spades :)

@michaelmuldowney8 3 жыл бұрын

Music Box is an under-rated movie - Great performance from Jessica Lange, although writer Joe Esterhaus basically used the same "did-they-or-did-they-not" plot device in a number of movies JAGGED EDGE, BASIC INSTINCT and MUSIC BOX.

@CJODell12 11 жыл бұрын

1:08 - 1:55. I LOVE that music, a nice mix of orchestra and synthesizers.

@fran_1978 12 жыл бұрын

What a lovely lady and fabulous actress! She deserved more than one Oscar!

@MARCBSTN 11 жыл бұрын

Love her elegant diction ...

@hardwiredpc942 9 жыл бұрын

When the Oscars were something worth watching.... RIP to the ultimate Hollywood couple, Jessica and Hume.

@KristianKronicles 13 жыл бұрын

I'd love it if you guys could put Gregory Peck's Oscar victory speech for "To Kill a Mockingbird". So Oscars, when you're doing your next batch of uploads, could you try to keep that in mind?

@sm11199305 2 жыл бұрын

That was the longest standing ovation I have ever seen on the Oscar’s

@ladyyuna2000 6 ай бұрын

💐💐RIP Jessie Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 - 11 September 1994) (aged 85) you will truly be missed and my prayers go out to you and your family. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for entertaining us all those years. 💐💐

@songmahobi5662 3 жыл бұрын

i have goosebump coz of the standing ovation wow. and her dress very beautiful, glittering like diamonds.

@robertrobbins5691 3 жыл бұрын

Unforgettable.

@TroyaIsOurMother 7 жыл бұрын

GREAT actress Jessica, you have to come back one day!!!

@mitchellhodack657 4 жыл бұрын

Her final movie was "Nobody's Fool" starring Paul Newman in 1994.

@MsOratoria 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for uploading this! My favourite movie :)

@anamariagutierrez2019 10 күн бұрын

I like Jessica Tandy her lovely personality comes through in any role she portrayed, and she stlll had a sparkle in her eye.

@endora2.046 2 жыл бұрын

She looked absolutely beautiful ❤️

@jjburkk 5 жыл бұрын

It's a shame this world is losing people of this generation. Such class, grace and humility. This world will never have people of this caliber again.

@marvinmelhorn2516 10 жыл бұрын

"Driving Miss Daisy" may not have been a great film, but Jessica Tandy was marvelous in it. I was in awe of her throughout.

@sojourningteddybear6838 5 жыл бұрын

Marvin Melhorn not a great film????

@Starkardur 11 жыл бұрын

Its still being watched and was a huge box office hit and Tandy is a class act

@aceventura3241 11 жыл бұрын

What is interesting is Gregory Peck's announcement of Janet Gaynor and her Academy Award win. Miss Gaynor, at the time of the First Academy Awards Ceremony was the youngest of all actresses, and when Jessica Tandy won, she became the oldest recipient. (Both records still stand today.)

@paulskyekahawaty6133 6 жыл бұрын

Ace Ventura Marlee Matlin actually surpassed her record a couple of years prior, what's interesting and very coincidental is that the youngest nominee for Best Actress at time Isabelle Adjani and the oldest at the time of course Jessica Tandy are nominated simultaneously on same category . 😃

@sgsmozart 3 жыл бұрын

She should have been cast as Blanche Dubois in "Streetcar" instead of Vivian Leigh.....

@Lucifera1011 12 жыл бұрын

Tender story. Great photography and brilliant music. My favourite picture is when camera is on the tyre ( when she wants to go to grocery ), car moves off and the main music theme starts.

@sweetdixie8498 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful lady

@truly3743 4 жыл бұрын

Wow what a great actress!! She was one of those actresses that just had that old face even when she was young she looked old. She made so many great movies

@melissa007ish 4 жыл бұрын

A lot of people think this was an unworthy Best Picture winner, but I've always liked it and come back to it often. It is poignant, and the acting is great. Like the catchy theme too.

@philipc67 13 жыл бұрын

A great actress and a very great lady. Well deserved.

@elamantebilingue 11 жыл бұрын

I realize Jessica Tandy had a great theater & film trajectory. However, Isabelle Adjani was absolutely mesmerizing as Camille Claudel. I personally feel Adjani's performance was more nuanced, varied and impassioned. I would have chosen Adjani.

@paulskyekahawaty6133 6 жыл бұрын

elamantebilingue Me too, Academy actually owe her 4 Oscars, in 1975, she would have won if only Louise Fletcher was rightly placed as Best Supporting Actress nominee; in 1981 she should have won for Possession but wasn't even nominated; that year, 1989; and in 1994 for Queen Margot but then again she wasn't even nominated. I still fervently hope she wins the Best Leading Actress Oscar in the future. 😃

@pokergalpoker 11 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you. I believe the reason they gave Cher the oscar was because she should've gotten it for Mask and Glenn unfortunately paid for the academy's mistake, but that's just my opinion!!!!