tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014874020674080213.post8230252932681742195..comments2024-03-22T11:43:15.466-07:00Comments on Oscargasms: Rosalind Russell, Sister KennyAllenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11964977693763983338noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014874020674080213.post-77550945471903117232015-12-26T12:48:16.256-08:002015-12-26T12:48:16.256-08:00Agreed--I feel as though she and Grant got the sho...Agreed--I feel as though she and Grant got the short end of the stick in the sense that they were each granted nominations this decade for work that no one remembers decades later, in spite of both putting out quite excellent work within the same time frame. 'tis a shame really. <br /><br />I'll try and find time to check The Velvet Touch out, it sounds interesting!Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11964977693763983338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014874020674080213.post-90442720819761159752015-12-26T03:41:11.774-08:002015-12-26T03:41:11.774-08:00I too saw this as a teenager, and while I remember...I too saw this as a teenager, and while I remember Russell being as earnest as possible playing it, Sister Kenny never calls you back on the scale of Sylvia Fowler, Hildy Johnson and Mame Dennis Burnside.<br /><br />Of her late 40s material however, I certainly enjoyed 1948's "The Velvet Touch," Russell playing a Broadway actress who impulsively kills her producer/former lover and allows (a great) Claire Trevor to take the blame. The terrific Sydney Greenstreet is onboard too.dvlarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14154934310323584284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8014874020674080213.post-27989257711968221532015-12-19T19:46:23.628-08:002015-12-19T19:46:23.628-08:00I first saw this film as a youngster and was quite...I first saw this film as a youngster and was quite moved by it. When I saw it again as an adult I was rather aghast at almost all of the observations you've made here. Rosalind Russell had a tendency to overstress dramatic moments and hit her beats like a tom tom. She does settle down a bit as the movie progresses and shows more sensitivity in her interpretation during later moments, but the film is such a by the numbers example of forties biopics that her rising to the occasion, so to speak, is not enough to raise the film above the merely ordinary.<br /><br />I will say, Russell got better at these dramatic roles later in her career, though the properties themselves became more pedestrian, but this is a prototypical '40s biopic that has dated badly.Frank/click5https://www.blogger.com/profile/03605293626729520817noreply@blogger.com