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Movie Reviews By Bil Antoniou

Ida Kaminska

Born: September 4, 1899, Odessa, Russian Empire.

1924: Tkies Khaf

1939: On A Heym

1948: Border Street

1965: The Shop on Main Street (Oscar Nomination: Best Actress)

1970: The Angel Levine

Died: May 21, 1980, New York City, New York.

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BEST ACTRESS 1962: Actresses who aren't conventionally beautiful in the manner of popular ingenues are frequently cast older, something ANNE BANCROFT learned quickly when, at the ripe old age of 21, she was cast as an over-the-hill lonelyheart in Don't Bother To Knock with Marilyn Monroe. Deciding to concentrate her efforts on the more satisfying work available to her on the New York stage, Bancroft still made the odd foray into films throughout the fifties but hadn't appeared in one in five years when when she recreated her Tony-winning role in Arthur Penn's film adaptation of William Gibson's play THE MIRACLE WORKER. Playing Annie Sullivan, the visually impaired teacher who gave future twentieth-century legend (and butt of many a good Joan Rivers joke) Helen Keller a conduit to the seeing and hearing world, Bancroft is vibrant, intelligent and charismatic, though it's a far cry from the command of film acting she would have when the role she really deserved an Oscar for, playing Mrs. Robinson at the ripe old age of 36, would come her way five years later. Her win was a dark-horse choice that caught the crowd by surprise, none more so than fellow nominee Bette Davis, who hoped her tenth nomination for What Ever Happened To Baby Jane would bring her the third Oscar she had coveted for so long (and we've all seen that episode of Feud so I don't need to fill you on how that all went down). Davis certainly seemed the only likely choice, as Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth was, like Bancroft, too Broadway, Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey Into Night was too depressing and Lee Remick, receiving her only nomination for Days of Wine and Roses, was too young (and depressing); Davis, however, was in a horror movie and a performance in that genre hadn't won since Fredric March played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thirty years earlier (and wouldn't win again until Anthony Hopkins played Hannibal Lecter), and it didn't have the redemption arc that Annie Sullivan did.

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