I'll pick Maureen O' Hara in Rio Grande, Cathy Downs & Linda Darnell in My Darling Clementine. I'll add a few more as I think of them.
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Katy - how did I not list her, especially since in the last week I posted here about Ms Jurado in High Noon. Joanne Dru was excellent in John Fords Wagon Master. I am not one to belittle MsDru's performance in Howard Hawks' Red River, but I still wonder what Ella Raines would have done in this role.JackFavell wrote:I loved Gloria Grahame and Myrna Dell in Roughshod, shown earlier this year on TCM. Both were extremely fine, and blew the male performers away (except for little Claude Jarman, Jr. who was wonderful too).
Katy Jurado in High Noon is in a class by herself. Someone should have given her a film in which she was in every scene.
Olive Carey and Anna Lee in Fort Apache are wonderful together, they work off of each other in a way you don't usually see, very much in tune with one another.
Joanna Dru gives a great performance in Wagon Master. She really hits that part perfectly, and I think it is her very best performance, very simple and honest.
I understand. I don't like Joanna Dru in anything else so far BUT Wagon Master. She was a very inexperienced actress, having gone from modeling right into Red River, I'm pretty sure she had done no acting previously. Then she was cast in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and I am not crazy about her in that one either. Something about Ford's direction, maybe her comfort level? brought out a great performance by her in WM that she never had in other films. I think the role might have suited her. Maybe it was closer to her natural personality - I hear she was quite a fun gal in real life.Joanne Dru was excellent in John Fords Wagon Master. I am not one to belittle MsDru's performance in Howard Hawks' Red River, but I still wonder what Ella Raines would have done in this role.
I agree, 100%stuart.uk wrote:Debbie Reynolds in How The West Was Won