Word: brandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time of year, critics, exhibitors, trade papers and assorted know-it-alls select their cinema bests-and after checking over the 1954 crop, the choices were pretty automatic all the way. At the top of the heap: Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly...
...best acting job of his career, as a true-to-life patsy in On the Waterfront, Brando got the nod from the New York Film Critics, Film Daily and the Hollywood stars themselves, who were polled by the United Press. Newcomer Grace Kelly, who smoothly dressed up Rear Window, Dial M for Murder and Green Fire (see below} with what Director Alfred Hitchcock has called her "sexual elegance," but who performed most stunningly in her biggest acting part as the embittered wife in The Country Girl, won hands up with the New York Film Critics, and the National Board...
...office draw, although Wayne made only two films eligible in 1954: Hondo and The High and the Mighty. Runners-up: Martin and Lewis, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Marilyn Monroe. Alan Ladd, William Holden (first time to figure in the first ten), Bing Crosby. Jane Wyman (first time), Marlon Brando (first time...
...Waterfront. The year's best melodrama: Elia Kazan's tale of life and death among the longshoremen of New York Harbor; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Maiden (TIME...
...fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama sometimes got out of emotional focus. But the meaning of it all came clear in Marlon Brando, who turned in what was surely the most capacious performance given by any actor during...