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

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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1. My Best Girl
by Sam Taylor
  
2.
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 The Wind
by Victor Sjöström
  
3. Pandora's Box - Criterion Collection  
4. Morocco
by Josef von Sternberg
  
5. Grand Hotel (Snap case)  
6. Queen Christina
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
7. Of Human Bondage
by John Cromwell
  
8. Alice Adams
by George Stevens
  
9. Libeled Lady
by Jack Conway
  
10. The Awful Truth
by Leo McCarey
  
11.
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 Three Comrades (1938)
by Frank Borzage
  
12. Gone With the Wind (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by George Cukor
  
13. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
14. Ball of Fire
by Howard Hawks
  
15.
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 The Major and the Minor
by Billy Wilder
  
16. To Be or Not to Be
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
17. The More the Merrier
by George Stevens
  
18. Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
by Billy Wilder
  
19. Scarlet Street (Remastered Edition)
by Fritz Lang
  
20. Notorious - Criterion Collection  
21. Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
by Michael Powell
  
22.
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 Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) with Joan Fontaine
by Max Ophuls
  
23. The Heiress (Universal Cinema Classics)  
24. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
25. A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Elia Kazan
  
26. The Marrying Kind
by George Cukor
  
27. The Big Heat
by Fritz Lang
  
28. A Star Is Born
by George Cukor
  
29. The Rose Tattoo
by Daniel Mann
  
30. The Rainmaker
by Joseph Anthony (II)
  
31. The Three Faces of Eve
by Nunnally Johnson
  
32. I Want to Live!
by Robert Wise
  
33. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition)  
34. Elmer Gantry
by Richard Brooks
  
35. Splendor in the Grass
by Elia Kazan
  
36. The Miracle Worker
by Arthur Penn
  
37.
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 The L-Shaped Room (1963)
by Bryan Forbes
  
38. Man's Favorite Sport?
by Howard Hawks
  
39. The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
by Robert Wise
  
40. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Mike Nichols
  
41. Two for the Road
by Stanley Donen
  
42. Pretty Poison
by Noel Black
  
43.
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 The Rain People
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
44. Women in Love
by Ken Russell
  
45. Klute
by Alan J. Pakula
  
46. Cabaret
by Bob Fosse
  
47. The Way We Were (Special Edition)
by Sydney Pollack
  
48. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
by Martin Scorsese
  
49. The Story of Adele H  
50. Carrie (Special Edition)
by Brian De Palma
  
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Created by RobT2 on Nov 23, 2006.