Show Notes
This week, we're talking about Anthony Franciosa's performance as a man living in the shadow of his favored older brother, a Korean War veteran with a morphine addiction kept secret from everyone in his life except for his brother, in Fred Zinnemann's A HATFUL OF RAIN!
More from The Lone Acting Nominees
For our penultimate(!) episode, we're taking a detour from the regular formula to look at once performance from an almost completely lost film - Emil Jannings in THE WAY OF ALL FLESH - and two performances from films that are only available in archives - Richard Barthelmess in THE NOOSE and Betty Compson in THE BARKER!
This week, we're talking about Janet McTeer's performance as a single mother of a preteen daughter who has a habit of packing up and moving to a new city every time her latest relationship goes south in Gavin O'Connor's TUMBLEWEEDS!
This week, we're talking about Norma Shearer's performance as a young woman who falls in love with a young man, only to realize that he's the son of the woman that her father divorced her mother to be with, in E. Mason Hopper's THEIR OWN DESIRE!
This week, we talked about George Arliss's performance as the Raja of a realm in the Himalayas where three British citizens crash land in Alfred E. Green's THE GREEN GODDESS!
This week, we're talking about Leslie Howard's performance as an American man in the 1930s who is transported back into the body of his ancestor in 18th century London in Frank Lloyd's BERKELEY SQUARE!