Best Actress 1939
Winner: Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
Nominees: Bette Davis, Dark Victory
Irene Dunne, Love Affair
Greta Garbo, Ninotchka
Greer Garson, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Field: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Ranking Oscar's Ballot
 
 My Pick:
Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

From There:
Bette Davis, Dark Victory ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Greta Garbo, Ninotchka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Irene Dunne, Love Affair ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Greer Garson, Goodbye, Mr. Chips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Who gets your vote in this field, and on my dream ballot below? VOTE HERE!


My Favorites from 1939:
(As determined by years of Oscar eligibility)

My Pick: Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
Nominees: Jean Arthur, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Nominees: Bette Davis, Dark Victory
Nominees: Greta Garbo, Ninotchka
Nominees: Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz

Honorable Mentions: Irene Dunne, Love Affair; Bette Davis, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; Claire Trevor, Stagecoach; Norma Shearer, The Women; Joan Crawford, The Women; Greer Garson, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Gourmet Prospects: Fay Bainter, Daughters Courageous; Bette Davis, Juarez; Bette Davis, The Old Maid; Marlene Dietrich, Destry Rides Again; Irene Dunne, When Tomorrow Comes; Geraldine Fitzgerald, The Mill on the Floss; Miriam Hopkins, The Old Maid; Carole Lombard, Made for Each Other; Maureen O'Hara, Jamaica Inn; Ginger Rogers, Bachelor Mother; Barbara Stanwyck, Golden Boy; Barbara Stanwyck, Union Pacific

Further Research: Fay Bainter, The Lady and the Mob; Joan Blondell, East Side of Heaven; Madeleine Carroll, Cafe Society; Joan Crawford, The Ice Follies of 1939; Olivia de Havilland, Raffles; Medea de Novara, The Mad Empress; June Duprez, The Four Feathers; Betty Field, Of Mice and Men; Kay Francis, King of the Underworld; Susan Hayward, Beau Geste; Nancy Kelly, Jesse James; Priscilla Lane, The Roaring Twenties; Myrna Loy, Another Thin Man; Myrna Loy, The Rains Came; Ida Lupino, The Lady and the Mob; Maureen O'Hara, The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Maureen O'Sullivan, Let Us Live; Stella Rho, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Norma Shearer, Idiot's Delight; Gloria Stuart, It Could Happen to You; Shirley Temple, The Little Princess; Claire Trevor, Allegheny Uprising; Loretta Young, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

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