Best Performance In A Vintage Film

[Doctor Strange]

That's indeed a great moment... but Davis had some help from major geniuses in creating it: writer Lillian Hellman, director William Wyler, and cinematographer Gregg Toland!

 

[Paisley]

Yes, you can't fly like an eagle when you're surrounded by turkeys.

 

[Naphtali]

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937), the original Barefoot Boy With Cheek.

 

[imoldfashioned]

This is by far my favorite screwball comedy. The fly-fishing scene with William Powell is Hilarious. No matter how many times I see it, it still has me laughing out load, as does his elevator scene in Love Crazy.

It kills me that William Powell is so underrated (although not here in the lounge). I've never seen him give a bad performance. He runs the gambit from archly sophisticated to out and out slapstick. Such a great physical comedian too. I wish he would have gotten the recognition Cary Grant did while he was living.

 

[Polka Dot]

Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress. Her range in this movie is just phenomenal.