Faye Dunaway's Oscar-winning role, ma ruthless, power-hungry television executive in Network, is also more of an abstract type than a fully fleshed human character.
Oscar Actors: Fletcher, Louise in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
November 9, 2006 by
In most American movies, career women are ridiculed and condemned as grotesque, “unfeeling monsters.” This dehumanization is illustrated by Louise Fletcher's Oscar role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as Big Nurse Ratched, a tyrannical nurse in charge of a mental ward.
Oscar Actors: Jones, Shirley–Prostitute in Elmer Gantry
November 9, 2006 by
I am sick of portraying ingenues with sunny dispositions, high necklines, and puffy sleeves, who are girlishly aggressive about happiness being just around the corner–Shirley Jones
Oscar Roles: Reed, Donna in From Here to Eternity
November 9, 2006 by
Donna Reed built a name for herself as a sincere, wholesome girl, as in It's a Wonderful Life, in which she plays Jimmy Stewart's loving loyal wife. However, Reed won the Oscar for a role that was the exception, Alma, the good-hearted “hostess” in Zinnemann's “From Here to Eternity,” which swept most of the 1953 Oscars.
Oscar Actors: Fonda, Jane in Klute
November 8, 2006 by
Like other films of the era, “Klute” also makes an explicit association between the two traditional female professions, acting and prostitution. When Bree complains to her analyst that she has had no luck as an actress, the latter responds, “What's the difference You're successful as a call girl, you're not successful as an actress.”
