Saturday 12 June 2010

Best Actor 1946

And the Nominee Were:

James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life

Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives

Larry Parks in The Jolson Story

Laurence Olivier in Henry V

Gregory Peck in The Yearling

Who do you Pick? Who Do you Predict? Will Olivier fare better than Kenneth Branagh as Henry V?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

To answer your question, yes. Olivier was much better then Branagh.

Larry Parks was pretty forgettable, as was Peck.

My pick is Fredric March.

joe burns said...

I think you'll go with Stewart. I saw March two or three years ago, and I remember he wasn't in the film so much.

Unknown said...

Hey Louis wst would u say is ur top 5 fav movies and actors of the 40s

Louis Morgan said...

Films:

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. The Treasure of Sierra Madre
3. The Third Man
4. Double Indemnity
5. Shadow of a Doubt

Actors:

1. Laurence Olivier
2. James Stewart
3. Claude Rains
4. Edward G. Robinson
5. Takashi Shimura

Unknown said...

Wat wud u say r the top ten. Best acting performances of the 1940s

Louis Morgan said...

1. James Stewart - It's a Wonderful Life
2. Edward G. Robinson - Double Indemnity
3. James Dunn - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. Dana Andrews - The Ox-Bow Incident
5. Claude Rains - Notorious
6. Ray Milland - The Lost Weekend
7. Humphrey Bogart - The Treasure of Sierra Madre
8. Richard Attenborough - Brighton Rock
9. Walter Huston - The Treasure of Sierra Madre
10. Toshiro Mifune - The Quiet Duel

Unknown said...

Wat wud ur next 20 just curious

Louis Morgan said...

11. Toshiro Mifune - Stray Dog
12. Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
13. Alec Guinness - Kind Hearts and Coronets
14. Laurence Olivier - Rebecca
15. Fred MacMurray - Double Indemnity
16. Barry Fitzgerald Going My Way
17. Orson Welles - The Thin Man
18. Sydney Greenstreet - The Maltese Falcon
19. Joseph Cotten - Shadow of a Doubt
20. Harold Russell - The Best Years of Our Lives
21. Ralph Richardson - The Heiress
22. Van Heflin - Johnny Eager
23. Toshiro Mifune - Drunken Angel
24. Richard Widmark - Kiss of Death
25. Walter Brennan - The Westerner
26. Charles Coburn - The More the Merrier
27. Ronald Colman - A Double Life
28. Claude Rains - The Passionate Friends
29. James Mason - Odd Man Out
30. Jean-Louis Barrault - Children of Paradise

Unknown said...

Wat wud u say r ur next 5 fav films and actors of the 40s

Unknown said...

Wat wud u say r ur next 5 fav films and actors of the 40s

Unknown said...

Um louis

Louis Morgan said...

6. Rebecca
7. The Ox-Bow Incident
8. The Maltese Falcon
9. Casablanca
10. Odd Man Out

Actors:

6. Toshiro Mifune
7. James Mason
8. Humphrey Bogart
9. James Cagney
10. Walter Huston