Bing was great in this movie!

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Well I"ll say he deserved the Oscar...I honestly think that this is the greatest work Crosby has ever done on film. I was never really all that crazy about Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT...I would have given him the Oscar a few years earlier for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and I am genuinely glad he won later on for THE GODFATHER.

Bing should have gotten the oscar since he, above all the nominees, really stretched himself as an actor to make this part come to life. Just watching the contortion of his face in some of the scenes, the way he could portray this miserable man was so off the beaten path for Crosby. I think he was brilliant. I like Grace but beleive that Garland's work in "A Star Is Born" was an tour de force as an actress and singer. But Bing was playing a non Bing part, something he almost never did and I think he really should have won.

And Grace Kelly was playing a non-Grace Kelly part. She won because she played against type: a long-suffering, unglamorous, almost drab wife bolstering her weak mendacious alcoholic husband. I think she's solid -- no longer mere window dressing (Hitch had taught her well), but you're right. Garland in A Star is Born almost transcends mere performance and deserved that statuette (her nominated cameo in Judgment at Nuremberg and overlooked powerhouse intense turn in I Could Go On Singing proved that she could ACT). Bing also played brilliantly against type and would have won most years. Brando won for Waterfront not merely because it's a damn good performance, but precisely because the Academy was embarrassed that an actor already being called the greatest of his generation has lost the three previous years for Streetcar, Viva Zapata, and Julius Caesar.

Indeed, all three leads were quite goo. Holden more than holds his own, and doesn't overact... very telling that he'd accept the third, near-thankless role in this and Sabrina because of the projects' caliber. There are scenes that crackle between all three (bordering on sexual tension: Kelly reportedly had flings with both actors... not simultaneously!)

True indeed. What I liked about his performance in this movie, was the simple fact that he wasn't playing himself: the cheerful, easygoing guy who is on his way to win the heart of the lady of his dreams. He was so different and so far away from anything I've ever seen him before, but still, his performance was very sincere.

I actually wished he was given Academy Awards for this movie.
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He was brilliant, he completely inhabited the character of Frank, I really wouldn't have minded if he had won the Oscar over Marlon Brando (although he was great).