Best Actress 1951
Winner: Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominees: Katharine Hepburn, The African Queen
Eleanor Parker, Detective Story
Shelley Winters, A Place in the Sun
Jane Wyman, The Blue Veil

The Field: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★


Ranking Oscar's Ballot
 
 My Pick:
Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

From There:
Jane Wyman, The Blue Veil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Katharine Hepburn, The African Queen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Shelley Winters, A Place in the Sun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Eleanor Parker, Detective Story ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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


My Favorites from 1951:

My Pick: Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominees: Katharine Hepburn, The African Queen
Nominees: Machiko Kyô, Rashômon
Nominees: Elizabeth Taylor, A Place in the Sun
Nominees: Jane Wyman, The Blue Veil

Honorable Mentions: None


Gourmet Prospects: Pier Angeli, Teresa; Ava Gardner, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman; Ava Gardner, Show Boat; Susan Hayward, I Can Get It for You Wholesale; Miriam Hopkins, The Mating Season; Jean Kent, The Browning Version; Jan Sterling, Ace in the Hole; Nora Swinburne, The River; Gene Tierney, The Mating Season

Further Research: Eve Arden, Three Husbands; Ethel Barrymore, It's a Big Country; Barbara Bel Geddes, Fourteen Hours; Ann Blyth, The Great Caruso; Ann Blyth, The House in the Square (aka I'll Never Forget You); Ann Blyth, Thunder on the Hill; Betty Buehler, The Mob; Claudette Colbert, Let's Make It Legal; Claudette Colbert, Thunder on the Hill; Valentina Cortese, The House on Telegraph Hill; Jeanne Crain, People Will Talk; Jeanne Crain, Take Care of My Little Girl; Linda Darnell, The 13th Letter; Nancy Davis, Night into Morning; Doris Day, I'll See You in My Dreams; Doris Day, Lullaby of Broadway; Doris Day, Storm Warning; Yvonne De Carlo, Silver City; Marlene Dietrich, No Highway in the Sky; Peggy Dow, Bright Victory; Penny Edwards, Missing Women; Ava Gardner, My Forbidden Past; Greer Garson, The Law and the Lady; Mitzi Gaynor, Golden Girl; Betty Grable, Call Me Mister; Kathryn Grayson, Grounds for Marriage; Kathryn Grayson, Show Boat; Ann Harding, The Unknown Man; Susan Hayward, David and Bathsheba; Deborah Kerr, Quo Vadis?; Gwendolyn Laster, The Well; Janet Leigh, Strictly Dishonorable; Viveca Lindfors, Journey into Light; Joan Lorring, The Big Night; Gloria Madison, Native Son; Marilyn Maxwell, The Lemon Drop Kid; Virginia Mayo, Along the Great Divide; Mercedes McCambridge, The Scarf; Dorothy McGuire, I Want You; Terry Moore, Gambling House; Patricia Neal, The Day the Earth Stood Still; Margaret O'Brien, Her First Romance; Jane Powell, Rich, Young and Pretty; Jane Powell, Royal Wedding; Ginger Rogers, Storm Warning; Ruth Roman, Lightning Strikes Twice; Ruth Roman, Tomorrow Is Another Day; Jane Russell, His Kind of Woman; Lizabeth Scott, The Compay She Keeps; Lizabeth Scott, The Racket; Moira Shearer, The Tales of Hoffmann; Jean Simmons, So Long at the Fair; Alexis Smith, Here Comes the Groom; Barbara Stanwyck, The Man with a Cloak; Elizabeth Taylor, Father's Little Dividend; Phyllis Thaxter, Come Fill the Cup; Gene Tierney, Close to My Heart; Gene Tierney, On the Riviera; Märta Torén, Sirocco; Jane Wyman, Here Comes the Groom

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