Here's those favourite great female performances we can return to any time: (in no particular order, two maximum for each, not necessarily leading roles, all covered at labels for each. No Meryl or ... Cate Blanchett may be the most recent, )
- Jane Fonda – KLUTE / THEY SHOOT HORSES DON’THEY?
- Bette Davis – ALL ABOUT EVE / THE LETTER
- Katharine Hepburn – THE LION IN WINTER / SUMMERTIME
- Vivien Leigh – A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
- Judy Garland – A STAR IS BORN
- Joan Fontaine – REBECCA
- Olivia De Havilland – THE HEIRESS
- Lee Remick – DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES /
- Julie Harris – EAST OF
- Susan Hayward – I WANT TO LIVE! / WITH A SONG IN MY HEART
- Kay Kendall – LES GIRLS / THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE
- Faye Dunaway –
- Janet Leigh – PSYCHO
- Joan Crawford – JOHNNY GUITAR / MILDRED PIERCE
- Barbara Stanwyck – DOUBLE INDEMNITY
- Geraldine Page - SUMMER AND SMOKE / SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
- Genevieve Bujold - OBSESSION
- Garbo – MATA HARI / QUEEN CHRISTINA
- Dietrich – THE SCARLET EMPRESS / THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN
- Marilyn Monroe – THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL / THE MISFITS
- Elizabeth Taylor – CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
- Sophia Loren – WOMAN OF THE RIVER / MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE
- Monica Vitti – L'AVVENTURA / L'ECLISSE
- Jeanne Moreau – BAY OF ANGELS / LA NOTTE
- Anna Magnani – BELLISSIMA / WILD IS THE WIND (I hate THE ROSE TATTOO)
- Ingrid Bergman & Liv Ullmann – AUTUMN SONATA
- Deborah Kerr & Ava Gardner – NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
- Romy Schneider – DEATHWATCH / LUDWIG (right)
- Isabelle Adjani – HISTORY OF ADELE H.
- Catherine Deneuve - POTICHE (Great Catherine is an endless delight in Ozon's charmer).
- Cate Blanchett - CAROL / THE AVIATOR (Cate does Kate perfectly).
- Kate Winslet - TITANIC
- Gloria Swanson - SUNSET BOULEVARD
- Rosalind Russell - THE WOMEN / GYPSY
- Maureen O'Hara - THE QUIET MAN (Mary Kate Danagher rules)
- Kim Novak – VERTIGO /
- Natalie Wood - THE SEARCHERS / THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED
- Mary Astor - THE GREAT LIE
- Barbra Streisand – FUNNY GIRL / THE OWL & THE PUSSYCAT
- Liza Minnelli - NEW YORK NEW YORK / CABARET
- Julie Christie - DARLING / AWAY FROM HER
- Tilda Swinton - I AM LOVE / A BIGGER SPLASH
- Claire Bloom - THE CHAPMAN REPORT
- Wendy Hiller & Pamela Brown & Nancy Price – I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING
- Ingrid Thulin – THE SILENCE
- Patricia Neal – HUD
- Glenda Jackson – STEVIE
- Sarah Miles – THE SERVANT / I WAS HAPPY HERE
- Rita Tushingham & Lynn Redgrave – GIRL WITH GREEN EYES / SMASHING TIME
- Stephane Audran – LA FEMME INFIDELE
- Audrey Hepburn – SABRINA / THE NUN'S STORY
- Maggie Smith & Celia Johnson – THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
- Judi Dench - NOTES ON A SCANDAL / PHILOMENA
- Tippi Hedren & Suzanne Pleshette & Jessica Tandy – THE BIRDS
- Deborah Kerr & Kathleen Byron - BLACK NARCISSUS.
One could go on and on:
- Ida Lupino - ROADHOUSE
- Kathleen Turner - BODY HEAT
- Lauren Bacall - DESIGNING WOMAN
- Jean Simmons - THE BIG COUNTRY / HILDA CRANE
- Ava Gardner - THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA / BHOWANI JUNCTION
- Alida Valli - SENSO
- Anne Baxter - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- Linda Darnell - A LETTER TO THREE WIVES
- Vanessa Redgrave - THE BOSTONIANS / ISADORA
- Gladys Cooper - NOW VOYAGER / SEPARATE TABLES
- Flora Robson - TWO THOUSAND WOMEN / HOLIDAY CAMP
- Edith Evans & Joan Greenwood - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST / TOM JONES
- Celia Johnson & Kay Walsh - THIS HAPPY BREED
- Geraldine McEwan & Prunella Scales - MAPP AND LUCIA
- Sian Phillips - I, CLAUDIUS
- Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis, Julia McKenzie, Imelda Staunton - CRANFORD
- Peggy Ashcroft & Judy Parfitt - THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN
- Beryl Reid & Susannah York & Coral Brown - THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE
- Paula Prentiss - MAN'S FAVOURITE SPORT / THE STEPFORD WIVES
- Capucine - NORTH TO ALASKA / WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT?
Much harder to argue with that list though where's Taylor in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, one of the greatest performances ever by an actress. Also you cheated by including television this time. Just sayin'.
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