there's no need to knock Liza Minnelli and 'Cabaret' in order to praise
Tyson.
'Cabaret' is an excellent film and Liza Minnelli's performance was a
revelation.
Angela
On 12 Nov 2009, at 22:30, STEPHEN BOURNE wrote:
> Sorry, Darrell, I hate to be picky BUT Cicely Tyson played Rebecca
> Morgan in Sounder in 1972, two years before Jane Pittman. Cicely was
> nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for Sounder in competition with
> Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues. They were the first Black
> actresses to be nominated in that category since Dorothy Dandridge
> (the first in that category) for Carmen Jones in 1954. I desperately
> wanted one of them to win and I shall never forget being 15 years old
> and setting my alarm clock for 5am to listen to the breaking 'Oscar'
> news on BBC radio...only to hear that Liza Minnelli had won for
> Cabaret!!! HOWEVER, Cicely did win TWO Emmy awards for Jane Pittman,
> but it didn't take long for Hollywood to waste this gifted actress in
> crap like Airport - The Concorde (or something like that) though she
> has continued to play majestic/memorable roles in made-for-TV movies.
> I still live in hope that one day Miss Tyson will make a movie as
> great as Sounder and win that Oscar!
>
> Note: Though it was made for American TV, in 1974 Jane Pittman was
> released as a cinema feature in Britain. I remember attending a
> screening in a small cinema in London's West End. This qualified her
> for a BAFTA nomination as Best Actress (Britain's equivalent of the
> Oscar) but she didn't win this, either. Still, it was significant that
> BAFTA recognised her performance and nominated her, because Jane
> Pittman wasn't seen very widely in Britain, in spite of its cinema
> release.
>
> Stephen
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