 | Greta Garbo - The Signature Collection (Anna Christie / Mata Hari / Grand Hotel / Queen Christina / Anna Karenina / Camille / Ninotchka / Garbo Silents)
Buy new: $75.49 / Used from: $49.99 contains garbo's two greatest performances! diana merick in 'a woman of affairs' and 'queen christina'. definitely the touchstone for garbo's artistry.
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 | The Bette Davis Collection (The Star / Mr. Skeffington / Dark Victory / Now, Voyager / The Letter)
Buy used from: $26.45 my personal go-to bette davis performance is not margo in all about eve. it is definitely judith in dark victory. she was her most gorgeous and her acting is full of fire and music. okay--so i went there.
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 | Diary of a Lost Girl
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.95 stunningly understated work in what is a very timely piece of filmmaking. bravo to brooks and pabst for creating a delicately nuanced portrait of a young woman in deep crisis.
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 | Dutchman
Buy used from: $100.00 shirley knight is an actress due for rediscovery. check this out along with 'the rain people' and you'll become a convert!
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 | Gone with the Wind (Two-Disc Edition)
Buy used from: $14.99 an historic performance that set the bar for years to come. and the ultimate fairy tale for all. vivien leigh nabbed the role of scarlett from formidable competition. only in hollywood, right?
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![Madame Bovary (1991) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21FVC07S1WL._SL75_.jpg) | Madame Bovary (1991) [VHS]
Buy used from: $3.04 jones' performance is a guilty pleasure right along with her work in 'gone to earth'. it's not great but something about her eyes and her voluptuously breathy voice are just riveting.
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![Imitation of Life (1934) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518N5VNKEAL._SL75_.jpg) | Imitation of Life (1934) [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.50 washington's work as peola is the reason why i keep returning to this work. it is horribly outdated now; fredi washington is its lifeline.
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 | Girl 6
Buy used from: $16.99 theresa randle rocks! she is a one-woman force of nature as girl 6!
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![Goddess, the [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5142W2ZMQJL._SL75_.jpg) | Goddess, the [VHS]
Buy used from: $34.95 kim stanley is another forgotten treasure. she made few films but each has her presence and her formidable presence as its anchor. if this film were shown more often, young actresses would know where they have to aspire just to be considered as able.
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 | A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.66 / Used from: $8.76 vivien leigh gives the performance of her career as blanche. sure--her blanche is ten times more sympathetic than williams wrote her, but she is still capable of inspiring fear, lust and pity with her masterful acting.
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 | The Misfits
Buy used from: $2.16 how much more did monroe have to do to show the film world she was capable of great work? her roslyn is heartrendingly great!
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 | Dead End
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.35 sylvia sidney--what a woman! delicate, yet tough. understated yet full of fire and passion. and drina is her shining moment in her 1930s work.
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 | The Lion in Winter
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.99 here is hepburn in her glory. i love her eleanor and hate her at the same time because she is so real.
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 | Stage Door
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.70 here is the hepburn we love and recognize in 'the aviator'. she is steely, maddeningly intelligent, yet full of heart and brimming with emotion. and she is in great company with ginger rogers, eve arden, lucille ball and so many others!
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 | Alice Adams
Buy used from: $4.76 hepburn is the only triple crown on my list i think. i used to watch alice adams when i was a kid and dare myself not to cry.
i lost! every time!
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 | The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.99 olivia de havilland would never be better than she was as catherine sloper! whenever i need to re-empower myself, i watch my copy of the the heiress. she is simply incredible!
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 | A Patch of Blue
Buy used from: $11.97 here is another actress about to get lost. she was that strange combination of technique and raw sensitivity. her work as selina is too real at times. i still flinch with pain in certain scenes. her sense of recall is so understated. what trust she had in her lines!
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 | The Beguiled
Buy used from: $14.55 hartman almost steals this film from her costars. the only person that lives as vividly in my memory is mae mercer as hallie, the wise servant of the manor that has become a girls school.
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 | Klute
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.50 jane fonda does the kind of work in this film that performers dream of. it is raw, bare, haunting. this would be the point of ascension for her.
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![Applause (1929) (B&W) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K75MECAKL._SL75_.jpg) | Applause (1929) (B&W) [VHS]
Buy used from: $15.99 see this film! if you are the least interested in an unmannered performance along the lines of courtney love in 'larry flynt' see helen morgan! she is an open wound!
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 | The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $15.88 huppert's performance makes me look inside myself and my loneliness every time i think of it. she is beyond brilliant in her portrayal of this woman.
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 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection Spine #62)
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $20.00 falconetti's commitment to the character of joan of arc will leave you speechless! don't hate on her work because this is a silent film.
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 | The Honeymoon Killers - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $9.29 shirley stoler had one point of recognition prior to re-release of this fabulous little gem of an indie as a character on pee-wee's playhouse. well, watch this once and she'll get out of the playhouse!
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 | I Shot Andy Warhol
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.18 taylor is brilliant as valerie solanas. she will crack you up and break your heart in this showy, raw performance. people were paying a little too much attention to courtney love's performance as althea leasure in 1996. they should have been showing some love to the little taylor girl too.
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 | Love Me or Leave Me
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.50 doris day is so good in this film, people think she was nominated for the oscar. some people thought she won it. she should have. it's hard to figure out where some of this is coming from--but day is really coming out emotionally in this film.
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 | Sherrybaby
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $0.22 gyllenhaal is something else as the recovering addict in this obscure indie. it says a lot about her commitment to work. she's so fearless and open as an actress.
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 | Far From Heaven
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $0.49 it would have been nice if nicole kidman could have postponed her divorce. then moore could have had the prize she deserved for her wonderful cathy whitaker.
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