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Warner Bros’ 1935 drama film Dangerous stars Bette Davis at her early finest. Her florid, mannered but still effective acting secured the 27-year-old rising star her first Best Actress Oscar. Director Alfred E Green’s 1935 […]
Sophia Loren won Best Actress awards at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and the 1962 Oscars for her glorious tour-de-force in the 1961 drama film La Ciociara [Two Women], the first non-English-language performance to win […]
John Schlesinger’s triumphant 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging […]
Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor for the high-impact 1978 American romantic war drama film Coming Home. A third Oscar went to Best Original Screenplay. Bruce Dern and Penelope Milford were nominated […]
Still Alice is a devastating heart-tugger and guaranteed weepie. Julianne Moore is brilliant in a demanding and challenging role as Dr Alice Howland, a 50-year-old renowned linguistics professor struck down with rare congenital, early-onset Alzheimer’s. […]
Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film Room at the Top is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Laurence […]
Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]