Alternate Oscars (Danny Peary) - Best Actress

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These are the movies with performances that film critic Danny Peary picked as his “best actress” choices from 1927-28 to 1991 in his book “Alternate Oscars” from 1993. Note that Peary selected two “best actresses” for 1942.

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    My Best Girl

    1927, in 1 top list Check
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    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
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    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
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    Morocco

    1930, in 9 top lists Check
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    Grand Hotel

    1932, in 4 top lists Check
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    Queen Christina

    1933, in 3 top lists Check
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    Of Human Bondage

    1934, in 1 top list Check
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    Alice Adams

    1935, in 2 top lists Check
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    Libeled Lady

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Awful Truth

    1937, in 15 top lists Check
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    Three Comrades

    1938, in 2 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    His Girl Friday

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
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    Ball of Fire

    1941, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Major and the Minor

    1942, in 3 top lists Check
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    To Be or Not to Be

    1942, in 24 top lists Check
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    The More the Merrier

    1943, in 4 top lists Check
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    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
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    Scarlet Street

    1945, in 10 top lists Check
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    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
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    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    1948, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Heiress

    1949, in 10 top lists Check
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    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Marrying Kind

    1952, in 1 top list Check
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    The Big Heat

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
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    A Star Is Born

    1954, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Rose Tattoo

    1955, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Rainmaker

    1956, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Three Faces of Eve

    1957, in 0 top lists Check
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    I Want to Live!

    1958, in 2 top lists Check
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    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
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    Elmer Gantry

    1960, in 6 top lists Check
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    Splendor in the Grass

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Miracle Worker

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
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    The L-Shaped Room

    1962, in 1 top list Check
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    Man's Favorite Sport?

    1964, in 1 top list Check
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    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
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    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    1966, in 19 top lists Check
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    Two for the Road

    1967, in 4 top lists Check
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    Pretty Poison

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Rain People

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
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    Women in Love

    1969, in 7 top lists Check
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    Klute

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
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    Cabaret

    1972, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Way We Were

    1973, in 6 top lists Check
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    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    1974, in 4 top lists Check
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    L'histoire d'Adèle H.

    1975 — a.k.a. The Story of Adele H, in 1 top list Check
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    Carrie

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
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