Danny Peary's "Alternate Oscars": Best Actress winners

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These are the movies with performances that film critic Danny Peary picked as his “best actress” choices from 1927-28 to 1991 in his book “Alternate Oscars” from 1993. Note that Peary selected two “best actresses” for 1942.

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    My Best Girl
    by Sam Taylor

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    The Wind
    by Victor Sjöström

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    Morocco
    by Josef von Sternberg

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    Grand Hotel (Snap case)

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    Queen Christina
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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    Of Human Bondage
    by John Cromwell

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    Alice Adams
    by George Stevens

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    Libeled Lady
    by Jack Conway

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    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

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    Three Comrades (1938)
    by Frank Borzage

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    Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Cukor

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    His Girl Friday
    by Howard Hawks

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    Ball of Fire
    by Howard Hawks

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    The Major and the Minor
    by Billy Wilder

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    To Be or Not to Be
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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    The More the Merrier
    by George Stevens

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    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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    Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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    Notorious - Criterion Collection

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    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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    Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) with Joan Fontaine
    by Max Ophuls

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    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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    A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Elia Kazan

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    The Marrying Kind
    by George Cukor

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    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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    A Star Is Born
    by George Cukor

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    The Rose Tattoo
    by Daniel Mann

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    The Rainmaker
    by Joseph Anthony (II)

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    The Three Faces of Eve
    by Nunnally Johnson

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    I Want to Live!
    by Robert Wise

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    Elmer Gantry
    by Richard Brooks

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    Splendor in the Grass
    by Elia Kazan

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    The Miracle Worker
    by Arthur Penn

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    The L-Shaped Room (1963)
    by Bryan Forbes

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    Man's Favorite Sport?
    by Howard Hawks

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    Two for the Road
    by Stanley Donen

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    Pretty Poison
    by Noel Black

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    The Rain People
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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    Women in Love
    by Ken Russell

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    Klute
    by Alan J. Pakula

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    Cabaret
    by Bob Fosse

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    The Way We Were (Special Edition)
    by Sydney Pollack

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  47. 48.
    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    by Martin Scorsese

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  48. 49.
    The Story of Adele H

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    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

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Comments

Just replaced the link for "Alice"... — 2 years ago

...with one that you can get to the amazon.com page for the video. Anybody who checked off the movie because of its appearance on this list needs to do so again!