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Yes drew barrymore was good in ET too.
Shirley Temple could sing and dance and act.
The Little Rascals were good. I am not sure how many films they made but they were busy.
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Shirley Temple could sing and dance and act.
The Little Rascals were good. I am not sure how many films they made but they were busy.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Badham
But the fact she was even nominated shows she did an outstanding performance.
Her performance was great because she didnāt act. She spoke and emoted exactly like a nine year old girl would in the situations she played. No overdoing it like most actors, even adult actors, do all the time ( which some people think is āactingā :bigyikes: ). She held back and made you believe her. Thatās what I call a great performance.
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Well, the Academyās actors werenāt going to give the award to a ten year old girl, were they?
But the fact she was even nominated shows she did an outstanding performance.
Her performance was great because she didnāt act. She spoke and emoted exactly like a nine year old girl would in the situations she played. No overdoing it like most actors, even adult actors, do all the time ( which some people think is āactingā :bigyikes: ). She held back and made you believe her. Thatās what I call a great performance.
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Although I believe his role in true grit is the only role out of all the movies he made to earn him an oscar.
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Actually I believe the child actress Patty Duke won the oscar in 1962 fot her role as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker oppositr anne bancroft as miss sullivan, her teacher.
An excellent movie.
An excellent movie.
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Almost any child actor would have been given the Oscar for that role. It was the politically correct thing for the Academy actors to do.
Dustin Hoffman was given Best Actor for his role of the autistic man in The Rainman. :bigyikes: It must have driven all the Academy actors crazy to have to do that for political correctness.
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My pick would be Margaret OāBrien in just about anything. She cries in a way that feels so real that I canāt help crying myself. I saw her in a movie last month on TCM that I never saw before or heard of and noticed how she even ran her hand over one eye, closing it as she did. It was so authentic.
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Patty Duke very much deserved that award.
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I agree.
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Was she in Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland?
I believe the little girlās name was Tootie?
I love the scene on halloween night.
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Tatum OāNeal received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the Academy at 10 years of age for her performance in Paper Moon.
Anna Paquin received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the Academy at 11 years of age for her performance in The Piano.
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Yes, just after Judy sings Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas to her she runs out of the house upset about moving and smashes the snow people they had built. Then she starts crying and sobbing and I lose it every time. Even when I try hard not to. And I have seen the movie dozens of times. It is a favorite for generations of our family.
She was also in Little Women as Beth, Jane Eye, The Cantebury Ghost, and many, many more movies. I figured out the name of the one I recently saw - Tenth Avenue Angel. It is basically about faith and the power of prayer.
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Yes I remember the scene where she smashes the snow people.
That is one of my favorite judy garland movies too.
I do remember her in little women but I donāt remember her in
jane eyre. Which version was that?
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It would be interesting to see what Tatum OāNeal, Drew Barrymore, or Mary Badham would have done with the role,
a role that was a no-lose opportunity for the lucky actress who got it.
Sort of like the Scarlett OāHara role. Many actresses screen tested for the role, most of them older actresses. ( I think even Betty Grable tested for it, can you imagine?
She gets back to Tara and says, āWhat a dump!ā 
) The director wisely saw it had to be an actress who could look like a teenager. Vivien Leigh was 22.There were plenty of other young actresses around. But the role was a no-loser.
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I believe patty duke and anne bancroft both were in these roles on broadway.
Did you mean betty davis instead of betty grable?
At least betty davis got to be the southern belle in Jezebel.
Did you mean betty davis instead of betty grable?
At least betty davis got to be the southern belle in Jezebel.
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Yes, I meant Davis.
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Heās not considered a great actor; he mostly appeared in Westerns and military movies, neither of which are associated with serious drama. I do think he turned in a genuinely frightening performance opposite Montgomery Clift in āRed River.ā
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I re-watched some of this film recently with a view toward showing it to my 8-year-old son, but in the end I found it a bit too heartbreaking even for me to finish watching it.
Child actors? How about Jean-Pierrel Leaud from Truffautās āThe 400 Blowsā ( āLes Quatre Cents Coupsā)?
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I agree! I thought there were some scenes in The Searchers that also showed frightening aspects of the character he was portraying.
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Yes. When he says heās going to kill the Natalie Wood character, thereās no doubt in my mind that he means business.
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Yes. It is one of my favorite movies. I have not read the book.
I donāt know if they could do a remake of this movie today. It was a realistic portrayal of life in the old west for those brave settlers and the native americans who were seeing a strange people moving into their territories.
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