| re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:30 pm EST 12/26/22 |
| In reply to: re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). - huskyital 06:33 pm EST 12/26/22 |
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It's one of my all-time favorites. The Apartment winning best picture is one of the rare times when the Oscars got that award right. Well, my choice really would be the unnominated Psycho, perhaps my all-time favorite, but The Apartment is nearby. And obviously much more the kind of movie that might win at that time.
One of the shandas that year was nominating Greer Garson for best actress (for Sunrise at Campobello) and not nominating Jean Simmons for Elmer Gantry and/or Spartacus, the latter arguably supporting. In retrospect, perhaps MacLaine was the person who should have won. She is perfect in the movie, a deeply moving performance.
I think perhaps the fact that she didn't bond with Wilder as Lemmon did, that she felt a bit isolated, helped her. She admired Wilder greatly and thought he was kind, and she was very grateful to him, yet she felt that he didn’t especially like her. |
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