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Best Female Performances - 1940s
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#1
as Laura Hunt in "Laura" (1944)#30
as Martha in "Heaven Can Wait" (1943)#55
as Isabel Bradley in "The Razor's Edge" (1946)#73
as Ellen Berent Harland in "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945)
Stehako's rating:
8.1
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#2
as Mrs. Miniver in "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)#11
as Marie Curie in "Madame Curie" (1943)#59
as Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice" (1940)#82
as Paula in "Random Harvest" (1942)
Stehako's rating:
8.3
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#3
as Jean Harrington in "The Lady Eve" (1941)#14
as Phyllis Dietrichson in "Double Indemnity" (1944)#21
as Dr. Helen Hunt in "You Belong to Me" (1941)#42
as Sugarpuss O'Shea in "Ball of Fire" (1941)
Stehako's rating:
8.5
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#4
as Alice Huberman in "Notorious" (1946)#7
as Ilsa Lund in "Casablanca" (1943)#19
as Sister Mary Benedict in "The Bells of St. Mary's" (1945)#35
as Joan of Arc in "Joan of Arc" (1948)#48
as Dr. Constance Peterson in "Spellbound" (1945)#60
as Paula Alquist in "Gaslight" (1944)#75
as Maria in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943)
Stehako's rating:
8.5
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#5
as Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940)#28
as Tess Harding in "Woman of the Year" (1942)#36
as Amanda Bonner in "Adam's Rib" (1949)
Stehako's rating:
7.9
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#6
as The Second Mrs. de Winter in "Rebecca" (1940)#15
as Jane Eyre in "Jane Eyre" (1944)#52
as Lina in "Suspicion" (1941)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
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#8
as Esther Smith in "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)#25
as Hannah Brown in "Easter Parade" (1948)
Stehako's rating:
7.8
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#9
as Lucy in "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942)#40
as Sophie MacDonald in "The Razor's Edge" (1946)#62
as Nora in "The Luck of the Irish" (1948)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
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#12
as Julia Brougham in "The Bishop's Wife" (1947)#44
as Mary Longstreet in "The Stranger" (1946)#71
as Katrin Holstrom in "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
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#13
as Cora Smith in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946)#26
as Bunny Smith in "Week-End at the Waldorf" (1945)#38
as Lady de Winter/Charlotte in "The Three Musketeers" (1948)#53
as Beatrix Emery in "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1941)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
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#17
as Irene Malvern in "Week-End at the Waldorf" (1945)#39
as Dinah Barkley in "The Barkleys of Broadway" (1949)#61
as Susu Applegate in "The Major and the Minor" (1942)
Stehako's rating:
8.4
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#18
as Nora Temple in "Key Largo" (1948)#33
as Vivian Rutledge in "The Big Sleep" (1946)
Stehako's rating:
8.1
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#20
as Leslie Crosbie in "The Letter" (1940)#37
as Charlotte Vale in "Now, Voyager" (1942)#77
as Regina Giddens in "The Little Foxes" (1941)
Stehako's rating:
8
0
#22
as Peggy Stephenson in "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)#31
as Charlie Newton in "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943)
Stehako's rating:
7.5
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#23
as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in "Maltese Falcon" (1941)#64
as Mrs. Anna Smith in "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
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#24
as Elizabeth Bartlett McMasters in "Boom Town" (1940)#80
as Mrs. Anne Hilton in "Since You Went Away" (1944)
Stehako's rating:
8.1
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#27
as Congresswoman Phoebe Frost in "A Foreign Affair" (1948)#45
as Miss Nora Shelley in "The Talk of the Town" (1942)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
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#29
as Julie Gardiner Adams in "Penny Serenade" (1941)#46
as Ellen Arden in "My Favorite Wife (1940)
Stehako's rating:
7.1
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#49
as Pat Martin in "Saboteur" (1942)#76
as Elaine Harper in "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944)
Stehako's rating:
8
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#50
as Marie Derry in "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)#66
as Verna Jarrett in "White Heat" (1949)#79
as Rosalind van Hoorn in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947)
Stehako's rating:
8.2
0
#57
as Mildred Pierce Beragon in "Mildred Pierce" (1945)#81
as Julie in "Strange Cargo" (1940)
Stehako's rating:
8.1
0
#65
as Jamilla in "Kismet" (1944)#72
as Erika Von Schluetow in "A Foreign Affair" (1948)
Stehako's rating:
8.4
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#68
as Karen Vanmeer in "Boom Town" (1940)#84
as Delilah in "Samson and Delilah" (1949)
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Beautiful women in some powerful roles, starring or supporting. This is classic Hollywood at its best!
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