Show Notes
For our last episode of the year, we're talking about Alan Bates's one and only Oscar nomination, for his performance as a Russian-Jewish handyman who is falsely imprisoned for years after being accused of the ritual murder of a young boy in John Frankenheimer's THE FIXER!
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!