For Best Actress, it has to be Luise Rainer (The Good Earth, 1937). She's still chugging along at 100+.ADDED: I mostly know Celeste Holm from "All About Eve":
"I walked onto the set of 'All About Eve' on the first day and said, 'Good Morning,' and do you know her reply? [Bette Davis] said, 'Oh shit, good manners'. I never spoke to her again - ever."
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They had a Luise Rainer-fest on TCM a few months ago, including her go as Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld". I imagined she was a serious Garbo-type, but she was actually quite fetching.
The only thing I'd ever seen her do was an episode of "Combat!" (14 years old) and had never heard of her.
Wikipedia makes this pretty easy. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg is still alive; everyone who won before him is not.
Fuck Madonna - Bette Davis RULED!
Olivia de Haviland is still alive, but she lost Best Supporting Actress to Hattie McDaniel.
Interesting that both de Haviland and her sister Joan Fontaine still survive. There are very few "golden age of Hollywood" stars left.
Marty. 1955.
"Fuck Madonna" I'll pass. You remember she dated Dennis Rodman.
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Olivia de Haviland is still alive, but she lost Best Supporting Actress to Hattie McDaniel.
But she won Best Actress for "The Heiress".
Just turned 96, in fact
My greatest memory of Celeste Holm was as the Fairy Godmother in the TV version of the musical,Cinderella. It was a yearly treat when I was growing up.
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In the man-bites-dog category, the headline should have been not that Celeste Holm died but that as of yesterday Celeste Holm was still living.
Oldest living * is a good google search.
The second hit
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I'm kinda surprised at Celeste Holm's (in my opinion) overreaction to Betty Davis' lack of graciousness. You don't speak to someone ever again because she got out of the wrong side of the bed and was rude to you? I guess Holm was less self-confident than the image she projected.
edutcher,
I know that de Haviland won a Best Actress Oscar, but she's still younger than Luise Rainer.
The question was oldest living in the five major categories.
I was trying to get the Supporting Actress category... Maybe Cloris Leachman?? [Best Supporting Actress in Last Picture Show.]
Blucher.
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Ms. Holm was also the original Ado Annie (the girl who cain't say "no") in Oklahoma! on Broadway.
"Hollywood is a good place to learn how to eat a salad without smearing your lipstick" Celeste Holm
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I'm kinda surprised at Celeste Holm's (in my opinion) overreaction to Betty Davis' lack of graciousness. You don't speak to someone ever again because she got out of the wrong side of the bed and was rude to you? I guess Holm was less self-confident than the image she projected.
I think it's well known that Bette Davis was a bitch to nearly every person on that set. So, not sure how much of an overreaction Celeste's reaction actualy was.
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Then you and Victor were...
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"I'm kinda surprised at Celeste Holm's (in my opinion) overreaction to Betty Davis' lack of graciousness. You don't speak to someone ever again because she got out of the wrong side of the bed and was rude to you? I guess Holm was less self-confident than the image she projected."
It seems that Holm confirmed Davis's first impression of her as a big old prude.
Holm should have said "fuck yeah" and then the 2 could have laughed and become best friends.
"I'm kinda surprised at Celeste Holm's (in my opinion) overreaction to Betty Davis' lack of graciousness. You don't speak to someone ever again because she got out of the wrong side of the bed and was rude to you? I guess Holm was less self-confident than the image she projected."
It seems that Holm confirmed Davis's first impression of her as a big old prude.
Holm should have said "fuck yeah" and then the 2 could have laughed and become best friends.
"The question was oldest living in the five major categories."
Actually, the question is "longest-ago winner," so the younger person could have had the Oscar from the earlier date. But Rainer is 1937 and de Havilland won in 1946 (and 1949).
Fontaine actually beat out her sister by winning best actress in 1942 for Hitchcock's Suspicion.
Well, Mickey Rooney, still alive, won an Oscar in 1938, but it wasn't for a major category. It was one of those Juvenile awards.
Even Judy Garland thought it was insultingly small.
Best Actor: Maximilian Schell, 1961, Judgement at Nuremberg.
Best Supporting Actress: Eve Marie Saint, 1955, On The Waterfront.
Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris, 1962, West Side Story.
Best Director: Mike Nichols, 1968, The Graduate.
Bette Davis was a bitch to nearly every person on that set
Was she a method actress, or just a natural bitch?
I always thought it a stretch that that foursome were friends. Lloyd wasn't a believable playwright, either. How long did Bette and "Bill's" marriage last?
Celeste had class, Bette didn't. That CH refused to talk Davis after her put-down of CH simply increases my liking for Celeste.
BTW, there's no evidence that Davis' ever tried to befriend CH after her remark. Bette Davis' didn't have a lot of female friends for obvious reasons.
"Bette Davis was a bitch to nearly every person on that set"
Not just "that" set. Decades later while making "The Whales of August" with silent screen star Lillian Gish - now in her 90s while Bette was around 80 - Bette supposedly said, "Of course she takes a lovely close-up. The bitch invented close-ups".
Gentleman's Agreement: the movie that teaches us we should be nice to every Jew we meet, because he might just be a Gentile in disguise.
-paraphrasing David Mamet
What's bitchy about saying "The bitch invented close-ups"?
I think it's a sassy compliment.
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