Grace Kelly's Oscar win as Best Actress in 1954 for "The Country Girl" is a complete miscarriage of justice and a total farce. All Grace did was wear glasses and frumpy clothes and talk in a monotone and for that, she beat out Judy Garland in "A Star is Born" and Dorothy Dandridge in "Carmen Jones"? As if!!
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Good as Judy Garland was in A STAR IS BORN, that picture cost a fortune, didn't make much money and she was (rightly) perceived as an undependable loose cannon. On top of that, she wasn't under contract to any studio at that time, which usually provides a lot of Oscar support in terms of promotion and votes.
Kelly, however, was very well-liked, on the top of her game and had *two* studios who stood to profit from her Oscar victory. She was just finishing up contract at Paramount (where she still had the unreleased TO CATCH A THIEF to her credit) and was about to go to MGM, which also stood to benefit from her Oscar win.
In addition, Kelly had something of a competive edge; previously seen only in glamorous roles, her downbeat (but often boring) performance was perceived by some as a real acting stretch. Apparently, same folks thought that A STAR IS BORN was just SuperGarland, king-size version of same stuff she'd been doing for years.
Still, Garland wuz robbed.
The dependable Grace Kelly wound up turning her back on Hollywood, the film
industry, and the American public who loved her, by marrying a title and
never made another movie. So much for dependability.
Judy also won the Golden Globe that year.
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The dependable Grace Kelly wound up turning her back on Hollywood, the film
industry, and the American public who loved her, by marrying a title and
never made another movie. So much for dependability.
ROFLMAO? What sort of English is that?
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A Star is Born was actually in the top ten earners that year, so look it up before you say it didn't make that much money.
frankly, it doesn't matter if Judy won or not. Which movie is remembered more? Which actress is remembered more? Which movie is more acclaimed?
here we are 54 years later, and the answer to all three is obvious
because she was going to go against what a fricking royal family and their whole country wanted just to make some movies.
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You're right. Don't worry about any of the glamor brainwashees/special needs students here trying to disagree with common sense through the use of baseless insults of either you or Judy Garland as their arguments. These are people who are defending the acting ability of Grace Kelly. Someone who probably herself knew so well how incompetent she was that she had to quit the business around 5 years into her career.
Just as a poster above me alluded to, the performance and actress that has gone on to withstand 50 years of time is pretty easy to determine, and is what matters at the end. Remember that the Academy gave also once gave an award to Marisa Tomei.
Hold on mate. I would not be too harsh on Grace Kelly. What she decided to do with her personal life is only her concern, and should be of no one else.
Now...let's talk just about the films. I liked "The Country Girl" way better; acting by all actors was top-notch. I've only seen "To catch a Thief" by Grace Kelly before, in which she was nothing much more than a wax statue.
So for me "Country Girl" was a pleasant surprise, and she made me fall in love head-over-heels for her character. Boy...how much everybody would wish to have such an understanding, dependable, world-wisely wife (Grace's character).
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I have to disagree mfan0825, but then some of my fav actors are Geraldine Paige and Kim Stanley who could act anybody (man or woman) under a table.
Grace was not much of an actress, watch Rear Window. Thelma Ritter and Jimmy Stewart fill the scenes, you notice Grace because she has presence, but that is all.
I know people enjoy her performances and that is great, but from an artistic point of view she was very limited, simply playing against type once in your life doesn't cut it.
However let's not pretend Judy didn't have her supporters, when A Star is Born was premiered it was lauded as a cinematic masterpice, and Judy was hailed a comeback queen.
Then that moron Jack Warner (who If I meet in the after life I am going to annoy for eternity) shred the movie to pieces (this was the version submitted to voters) and the hype for the movie was lost, while it didn't do poorly it certainly lost momentum.
I do believe Grace won because it was a performance of the moment, not a great Oscar performance. I don't think you can say she was a better actress then Judy, if I was an academy voter I might have been too snobish to vote for Grace Kelly, I would have preferred Uta Hagen on Broadway and thought Kelly too Green.
Let me put it another way. Judy could easily have played the Grace role, do you think Grace could have done the same in A Star is Born.
"I know people enjoy her performances and that is great, but from an artistic point of view she was very limited, simply playing against type once in your life doesn't cut it".
How does an artistic viewpoint differ from an opinion? People who enjoyed her performance do so because they're not artistically grounded and incapable of discerning a quality performance? You say Grace wasn't much of an actress, and Rear Window would make that apparent. How could that happen if the viewer lacked an artistic point of view? I'm messing with you. It was a miserable movie. All three leads turned in pedestrian performances. I watch it because Grace Kelly was so beautiful. I once had dinner with her. It was at my home. I was eating cold cereal and she was watching me from inside the TV.
Oh my god! Could you just stop talking about this topic. Okay Grace Kelly won the Oscar and in my opinion she earned that. For those who said that Grace Kelly's perfomance was bland and wasn't Oscar worthy. The character as hardened by life. In this case her husbands alcoholism and lost of their child
The thing she did was called acting. It's just rude to say that that her perfomance wasn't good as Judy Garland's. She earned that Oscar because she showed another side of her and proved her capability to be an versatile actress. Jydy Garland was also superb but what can you do? What's done is done. It was just a stupid piece of metal. The important thing that both were respectable and admired actresses who both worked hard and always be remenbered in history. Just leave it at that.
I have to agree, girlie-25. I did favor Grace, even when age 20, over Judy. But Judy was outstanding also. As to who people remember, which movie they remember, yes, people are going to remember the more spectacular movie and the more emotional performance.
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It’s rude to tell people they should not have opinion. It’s not fan site.
shareIt should have been a tie eg. Hepburn and Streisand. Kelly and Garland were both iconic in their roles.
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