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Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 7:04 am
by Detective Jim McLeod
Happy Mothers Day!
Who do you think are the best and worst characters who were mothers in a film. This is what I think-
BEST
Irene Dunne in I Remember Mama (1948)
WORST
Shelley Winters in A Patch Of Blue (1965)
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 7:41 am
by Fedya
The first that comes to mind for best is Beulah Bondi in Of Human Hearts.
For worst, there's Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People and Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata.
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 8:06 am
by umop apisdn
BEST
Anne Revere in National Velvet (1944)
WORST
Gladys Cooper in Now, Voyager (1942)
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 11:52 am
by Belle
Worst: Shelley Winters in "Lolita", 1962 Kubrick
Best: Dorothy McGuire, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", 1945 Kazan
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 1:33 pm
by Swithin
The great
Beulah Bondi played numerous benevolent mothers, and at least one bad mother: as Aunt Molly Matthews in
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941). On his deathbed, her son "Pete tells his mother that he remembers when she was gentle and loving but that she is now the one who curses the family. At dawn, Mollie lights a funeral pyre around her son and stays with him as the house is engulfed in flames." (Description in quotes from the TCM site.)
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 2:46 pm
by jamesjazzguitar
Swithin wrote: ↑May 14th, 2023, 1:33 pm
The great
Beulah Bondi played numerous benevolent mothers, and at least one bad mother: as Aunt Molly Matthews in
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941). On his deathbed, her son "Pete tells his mother that he remembers when she was gentle and loving but that she is now the one who curses the family. At dawn, Mollie lights a funeral pyre around her son and stays with him as the house is engulfed in flames." (Description in quotes from the TCM site.)
Bondi was a very bad mom in the film The Very Thought of You, with Eleanor Parker.
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 5:55 pm
by Uncle Charlie
Best Mother: Margaret Wycherley as Ma Jarrett in White Heat
Worst Mother: Margaret Wycherley as Ma Jarrett in White Heat
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 6:10 pm
by Belle
Worst Mother: Jo van Fleet, "East of Eden", 1955 Elia Kazan
Best Mother: Sally Field, "Steel Magnolias" 1989 Herbert Ross
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 14th, 2023, 8:59 pm
by Swithin
Best mother: Aline MacMahon in Mary Jane's Pa
Worst mother: Dora Bryan in A Taste of Honey
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 15th, 2023, 7:24 am
by Lomm
I guess Mommy Dearest is a bit too on the nose for this thread?
Re: Best And Worst Mothers In Film
Posted: May 15th, 2023, 7:53 am
by Swithin
Lomm wrote: ↑May 15th, 2023, 7:24 am
I guess Mommy Dearest is a bit too on the nose for this thread?
If we want to get a bit far out, we can ask, into which category, best or worst, would Samantha Eggar in
The Brood fall?