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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 437705" data-attributes="member: 5079">I don&#039;t want to seem like I&#039;m entirely trashing Davis.&nbsp; During her peak years, from the late 30s to about 1950, I think she was great.&nbsp; Yes, I think Crawford&#039;s naturalism in those years has aged better than Davis&#039; theatricality but that doesn&#039;t mean I don&#039;t appreciate Davis&#039; work during those years.&nbsp; She mostly made florid melodramas during those years, so florid acting was appropriate.Outside of those peak years, I think Davis&#039; work is much spottier.&nbsp; It&#039;s funny to me that she was so resentful for not winning an Oscar for OF HUMAN BONDAGE because I think her performance is awful; overblown, tatty and with the worst British accent this side of Dick van Dyke.&nbsp; And much of her later work was misguided.&nbsp; I watched A WATCHER IN THE WOODS a few months ago -- a perplexingly bad movie -- but was shocked at how hapless Davis&#039; performance was; she seemed like she wandered onto the set and had no idea what was going on.There&#039;s a reason why Hepburn usually gets ranked above Davis in &quot;best of&quot; lists, even though Davis was unquestionably the reigning queen during Hollywood&#039;s Golden Years: when you look at their careers as a whole, Hepburn runs laps around Davis. Honestly, I think even Crawford does.Oh, ask me a week from now and I&#039;ll be back to thinking Olivia was the better of the two options.&nbsp; It&#039;s one instance where I wish we could have both.&nbsp; And, in about a decade, we might just be able to tell AI: &quot;Give me HUSH ... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE with Joan Crawford&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 437705, member: 5079"] I don't want to seem like I'm entirely trashing Davis. During her peak years, from the late 30s to about 1950, I think she was great. Yes, I think Crawford's naturalism in those years has aged better than Davis' theatricality but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate Davis' work during those years. She mostly made florid melodramas during those years, so florid acting was appropriate. Outside of those peak years, I think Davis' work is much spottier. It's funny to me that she was so resentful for not winning an Oscar for OF HUMAN BONDAGE because I think her performance is awful; overblown, tatty and with the worst British accent this side of Dick van Dyke. And much of her later work was misguided. I watched A WATCHER IN THE WOODS a few months ago -- a perplexingly bad movie -- but was shocked at how hapless Davis' performance was; she seemed like she wandered onto the set and had no idea what was going on. There's a reason why Hepburn usually gets ranked above Davis in "best of" lists, even though Davis was unquestionably the reigning queen during Hollywood's Golden Years: when you look at their careers as a whole, Hepburn runs laps around Davis. Honestly, I think even Crawford does. Oh, ask me a week from now and I'll be back to thinking Olivia was the better of the two options. It's one instance where I wish we could have both. And, in about a decade, we might just be able to tell AI: "Give me HUSH ... HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE with Joan Crawford". [/QUOTE]

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