Dickenson says she deserved an Oscar.

Angie has confessed to having "a healthy ego" but she's not known for being obnoxious at all.

And you presumably need one (an ego -- a healthy one) in the business.

For my money, at the time (and even now) DRESSED TO KILL was overrated amongst the critics... The museum sequence was effective, there were many other moments the film offered which were not unimpressive, but the movie's sometimes cartoonish tone -- to say nothing of its late-'70s fetishistic flavor -- kept it from working as well as it's reputed to have. (And Nancy Allen was awful).

But Angie got some of her best reviews in the film.

In the '60s, Dickinson was smiled upon -- lightly -- by the critics who found her engaging and at times a rather good actress, but, with the collapse of the old studio system and new stars no longer being appropriately groomed, Angie found herself in a slew of also-ran films in which her male co-stars were the main draw. She was becoming A-list more by association than anything else (although POINT BLANK was pretty good, albeit ignored in 1967).

She could be a good actress and was more than just "eye candy" but she wasn't exactly getting important parts in good films.

She admitted that she'd "never felt like a movie star" until she'd had her own TV series, POLICE WOMAN, in the '70s. And while the first season of that show was good (by TV standards of the day) the series was sabotaged during its second season due to pressure over feminist complaints about her character being "too sexy" (despite the show creating an avalanche of applications from women for employment at law enforcement agencies around the country, and that show going to #1 in numerous countries, including in America one summer). The result was a major squelching of her charisma on that show, which was a strategic mistake.

IMHO, her acting never really recovered. It was as if she'd been made so self-conscious about her demeanor following the off-camera firestorm surrounding POLICE WOMAN that her thespianic mojo had been stolen. They'd sucked the diva-like focus right out of her.

In fact, she said a few years ago that, "whenever I tried to be sexy, it was ludicrous!"

Which isn't true at all. But her detractors apparently tricked her.

Anyway, by the time DTK came out in theatres in 1980, she was glad to get the good reviews for her acting... If she could have garnered an Oscar nomination in the supporting category is in question, and winning is another thing altogether.

But one would imagine screen acting careers are rife with disappointments.

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Non-sequiturs are delicious.

Wow. I thought she was pretty bad. Same as Nancy Allen.

At the time the interest in her performance was about the use of a body double.

A supporting nod, maybe, but a win in either category - I doubt it. It was a very hard "R" rating initially an "X" - and not in a naive kind of "Midnight Cowboy" way.

What clip would they consider? The scene where she fantasises about getting raped in the shower? The scene where she has sex with a stranger in a cab? Or the scene where she gets slashed to death in an elevator? It wasn't really AMPAS stuff.

Angie Dickinson's performance was very good. She played the warm, slightly lost and searching middle-aged housewife very well, and she expressed a variety of emotions convincingly. I think that if Angie had been content to campaign for a best supporting nod, she might have gotten it, ala Janet Leigh in "Psycho", but Angie's role really did not merit a leading credit.

As far as egotistical, you really need to hear the way Angie made the comment. The line in itself isn't necessarily egotistical.

I thought I was gonna die! - Roseanne Roseannadanna

Oscar for what? She’s in the film for half an hour, hardly does anything other than been nice to look at and then gets killed.