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Best Actress 1962, Part 4: Katharine Hepburn and "Long Day's Journey into Night"
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- This is a review of Katharine Hepburn's Oscar-nominated performance in "Long Day's Journey into Night".
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
03:05 Eugene O'Neill and "Long Day's Journey into Night"
06:29 Bringing "Long Day's Journey into Night" to the big screen
08:25 Casting Katharine Hepburn
13:46 The personal misery of Katharine Hepburn
17:39 The shooting of "Long Day's Journey into Night"
22:10 Critical reactions to "Long Day's Journey into Night"
24:49 My Review
31:18 Final Thoughts
You can find the reviews of the other Best Actress nominees of 1962 here: • Review 1962
Ressources:
"Kate Remembered" by A. Scott Berg
"I know where I'm going. Katharine Hepburn - A personal biography" by Charlotte Chandler
"Eugene O'Neill. A Life in Four Acts" by Robert M. Dowling
"Me. Stories of my Life" by Katharine Hepburn
"Showman of the Screen. Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion" by A.T. McKenna
"Sidney Lumet. A Life" by Maura Spiegel
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I had no knowledge of the play when I watched the film for the first time, but I must say that I was awestruck by Hepburn's performance. It was a bravura performance in every sense of the word. I haven't seen it in years but her performance haunts me still and refuses to leave my memory. 1962 was just a great lineup for Best Actress.
5 fantastic nominees
I think that Katherine Hepburn was absolutely heartbreaking as Mary Tyrone in Long Day Journey into Night and I think that 1962 was a really great year for female performances. I think that there was a case of each of the nominees could had won and nobody would be mad about who won because each performance by the nominees were absolutely brilliant and wonderful
Totally right, they were all wonderful
1962 parallels 1950 big time. Laughable who gets a nomination any more.
Fantastic overview of one of the great performances. Thank you for giving Hepburn's astounding work full merit, when often her singular achievement in "Long Day's" is overlooked in discussions of the 1962 Best Actress race. It's nice to finally see it placed front-and-center for praise, where it belongs.
Thanks for your comment! :) Happy to see that you love her as much as well
She is extraordinary in this role. She rides the rollercoaster of vulnerability, rage, and desperation like she never had before. I always feel, though, that her last appearance dragging the wedding gown is where she remains too sharp and vivid. We hear James say that she'll be a ghost by tonight but she still recites the already familiar lines too clearly. By then I picture her slurring far more and being truly out of it. A small nit to pick in the face of such overall brilliance.
And the final close up shots of each them are absolutely shattering.
Unforgettable film.
Ms Hepburn deserved the Oscar for this brilliant piece of work far more than for her win for “Guess Who..”
yeah, Guess Who ... is really unwatchable today while Long Days'... stood that test of time
I think that year anne bancroft should win for her mrs.robinson role
Yes, this is a masterclass in acting, despite what Hepburn said about the art, because of course, she wasn't acting, she was bearing her soul. Because she had been a screen legend for decades, she knew exactly how to play the part for maximum effect. She certainly couldn't have done this in the 30s (some call her film heyday). Also, you have to give credit to the great instincts of director, Sidney Lumet and the great cameraman, Boris Kaufman, for capturing the performance so artfully and without which the film might not be the film classic it is today. Thanks!
The best actress of 1962. The Festival of Cannes winner. Her best role, along with "Lion in winter". Only the great Bette Davis could match her that year.
This film and The Lion in Winter are her final mature achievements.
if only that were true! she went on and on in lesser vehicles like On Golden Pond for another 20 years
14:18 You should have said WHY Katharine did the spitting. It was for brutal maltreatment of the already-fragile Montgomery Clift. Brava to Kate! 🙏🌹
thanks for the clarification
You knocked this one out of the park.
Long Day's Journey into Night was a remarkable movie, I've seen it many times. Jason Robards perhaps a bit old for the role, but we'll overlook that because the principals worked together so well as an ensemble, as a family. I was always lukewarm on Katharine Hepburn until this brilliant performance, but her Mary Tyrone won me over. I don't begrudge Anne Bancroft her Oscar win that year as her performance was deserving of the honor. It was just one of those years you wish for something statistically very rare: a tie.
1962 is an embaressment of riches in this category and there is no wrong answer
I think Dean Stockwell was so underrated.
What a lovely man ever since he was the little boy in Gentleman's Agreement! He has always tended to shrug off his talent and not take himself too seriously, He had a ten year slow period later on in his life and he spent all the time doing the dreaded 'dinner theater'. He said he loved it because he wanted to do comedy and these were almost always comedies. Dinner-Theatre is 'the kiss of death' to a 'serious actor' but he made it a challenge and enjoyed it.
Katharine Hepburn is one of the few actresses who has given me goosebumps and been a revelation several times in her career, usually it happens once at best. Her performances in this movie, the lion in winter, the philadelphia story, bringing up baby and suddenly, last summer and for the ages and should be seen by anyone with an interest in acting.
Bravo.
I had the great good luck to see Jason Robards in this- NYC Broadway. Long play!
Wasn't he unbelievable? I saw him with Maureen Stapleton in COUNTRY GIRL. Never forget it.
Vielen Dank, Fritz ! Dieser Samstag ist mit deinem Video schon besser.❤❤❤❤
Vielen Dank für die netten Worte! :)
Kate was mighty proud o her work in Long Day's Journey into Night. It was rumoured she actually called up many columnists incl Louella n Hedda to promote the pic!! The one n only time she ever went outta her way to campaign. But she disappeared right after she got the nom. I believe if she had cont her campaign, she might hav won her 2nd oscar for this
I had forgotten the problem of the newspaper strike in NYC; i remembered that this was the reason that the New York Film Critics Circle did not give out its awards that year (would Anne Bancroft have won?). That played a large part in the "popular" reception for LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: without reviews (and in terms of nationwide coverage, the initial NYC reviews were crucial; Pauline Kael would rail about this when she was in San Francisco, as so apparent in her book I LOST IT AT THE MOVIES) there was no chance for the film to attract an audience. Yet the magnificence of Katharine Hepburn's work was so apparent that her Oscar nomination was almost a foregone conclusion. The thing is: it is a triumph in so many ways, and largely because, on first glance, Katharine Hepburn is not ideal casting. The part of Mary Tyrone is that of a woman from an Irish Catholic background: that is about as far from Katharine Hepburn's very WASP background as you can get. The religiosity which informs the character is also very far from the freethinking family background of the Houghton-Hepburn clan. When Hepburn played Jo in LITTLE WOMEN, it was "ideal" casting: everything about the part (the freethinking WASP background) found its perfect equivalent in Katharine Hepburn. But here, there is so much "friction" between Hepburn and the part, and she really must push herself beyond her limits in order to express the full character of this part. That she had the resources to do that is a testament to her ambitions as an artist. And i should just say your analysis is brilliant, equal to the task of explicating this brilliant performance.
Thank you so much for this comment! I personally think Anne or Geraldine would have won NY if it had happened
"Stretching" is good---one of the things I admire most about certain actors (Nicole Kidman for example). They take risks.
@darylchin53 What Hepburn does--and she does it with great depth and power--is delve into the inner pain of the character. She brings it out ever so forcefully. She herself knows pain; she was the one who found her young brother after he had hung himself. That heartache never went away (fierce and strong though she was). That frazzled face and frizzy hair only heightens the tension all the more.
I LOVE Katherinnes work beyond Guess Who's Coming To Dinner but THIS is one of best parts--she made me REMEMBER my craziness in MY life--I was depressed in my late 20's LOL- (NOT late in life I realize--but She Did MAKE me remember THAT as I Watched This!
Fritz....this actress series is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ! 🤩 I am enjoying it IMMENSELY & watching them ALLLLLL ! 😂👍❤️ Thanks soooo much for all the details, facts and your passion for film & theater.
Thank you so much for watching and for your very kind words! I'm glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for this. Very well done.
Thanks for watching!
The winner of the Oscar for 1962 is Anne Bancroft in "The Miracle Worker."
That is completely correct
This is wonderful documentary. And well researched. What a wonderful channel! The play is great, and that production was fabulous. It doesn't get the credit it deserves for the reasons you articulated here: Tennessee Williams was saucy. O'Neil more cerebral. Hepburn deserved the Oscar [but so did Geraldine Page that year], and it's shocking the film only received one nomination. A sad twist for Kate around the timing of the film. About 10 years before, her radical mother, a feminist, union supporter, supporter of the Soviet Union, and co-founder of Planned Parenthood, had died just weeks before Kate had to fly to Africa to film "The African Queen." So, here she was in 1962 with a film to complete and this time her father on her mind.
Thank you so much for your comment and your nice words! 🙂
Excellent video …. I learned a lot thank you
Thanks for watching!
I read a comment somewhere else that the Academy got it backwards and that Kate should have won in '62 for Long Day's Journey and Anne Bancroft should have won in '67 for The Graduate. But basically yeah...
Would have worked very well
@jamesa.romano8500 I think, rather, that Anne Bancroft ought to have won the Oscar for The Pumpkin Eater instead of Julie Andrews who won for Mary Poppins. She was certainly also great in The Graduate.
Can’t wait to hear your review on bette and Anne’s performances,
everyone talks about Hepburn's 4 Oscars- but when she did this- she had only won once and that was 29 years earlier- she was due for a second and this would have been perfect- but there are those years when 3 actresses split the vote- this was one such year. 1950 had Bette Davis and Gloria Swanson splitting the vote- letting Judy Holiday come through the middle. In 2017 Glenn Close and Lady Gaga split it letting Olivia Coleman thread the needle... this year- 1962- we had Kate and Bette Davis splitting it and Bancroft took it. Each time, one actress took and early lead and began to decline as the ward drew near and a second coming on strong at the end, as she rose and the other fell, the 3rd kept a strong middle ground between them. The week before, the first would have won- a week later the surging one would have won- at this perfect time- the 3rd one won.
Thanks a lot for your comment. Maybe you wanna check out my video on Anne Bancroft that year where I explain why she won
Nowadays Mary is rightfully placed front and centre..when you mentioned the word ghostly that I think is the key element to Mary as a character as when she is not on screen the ghost of her presence remains...this was exemplified in Vanessa Redgrave's occasionally breathtaking work as Mary, playing her as a figure seemingly lost in opiated haze and delusion...Jessica Lange is a Dionysian actress so her Mary had an edge that was akin to Kate's Apollonian skills but with a sensuality that implies something darker....The one performance of Mary I would love to have seen is Gwen Ffrancon Davies which Glenda Jackson once stated was the only performance she saw in her lifetime she could describe as great....
Thanks for this wonderful comment! Yes, Mary seems like the natural center but apparently when it premiered, the father (played by Frederic March) was considered the central aspect. What Glenda said sounds fascinating
@@FritzandtheOscars It wasn't until Jason Robards played the role of James that we got to see that on paper and in practice Jim is less a presence than Mary or Jamie. It would be difficult to argue than Robards was the greatest of all O'Neill interpreters but that is a book in itself and despite rather middling reviews probably due to being in the wrong venue as that Ouintero production with Colleen Dewhurst was more suitable in an intimate setting, anyone who saw Robards in the productions original venue has been rapturous of his performance. But this was no barnstorming, his Jim was played as a shackled King Lear, an observer to the more histrionic displays of Mary and Jamie. Prior to that Laurence Olivier was a titanic force in the London production and subsequent televised version but unfortunately this was possible due to Constance Cummings being a rather subdued ineffectual Mary which allowed Larry to take over...albeit splendidly...with Robards we see that in comparison to other great O'Neill characters James is not the tour de force role that others in the O'Neill canon are...only a few months to wait for Jessica Lange repeating her stage triumph on film
@@TheMrpiggy6666 I have to say, next to Katharine Hepburn, I am most fascinated by Dean Stockwell in the movie version. What he does with his role is astonishing
@@FritzandtheOscars if you have time, I can thoroughly recommend a book named Method Acting by Steve Vineberg there is a great chapter on Jason Robards. actually there are lots of great chapters... will be interested to hear your take on the new version of the film when it arrives soon... Stockwell was terrific...it is still hard to believe that these four people were related they have such disparate acting styles, I think perhaps Jason was the least well served by the film as much of what was praised about his stage performance doesnt quite transfer to film.
If you don't know this movie, you are NOT a Katharine Hepburn fan. It's one of the five greatest performances by any actor ever put on film. As for Oscar blunders, Hepburn losing to Bancroft is right there with Garland losing to Kelly.
Agree- Hepburn goes about as far dramatically in becoming the character as an actor can.
Excellent, excellent summation of Hepburn's performance and art. I look forward to your analysis of her later work. Kudos!
As good as Hepburn is in A Long Day's Journey into Night. I still say that Anne Bancroft's performance in The Miracle Worker is stronger than Hepburn's and was a very deserving winner. Katharine Hepburn was a very divisive performer. You either loved her or hated her, mainly because she took no guff from anyone. Director Joseph Mankiewicz who directed her Suddenly Last Summer gave a famous quote. He called Katharine Hepburn the world's greatest artificial actress, apparently he hated her. On screen Hepburn comes across as either sincere or phony. Many have said that her performance as Mary Tyrone in this film was better than any of the four best actress Oscars that she won for other movies.
@@michaelverbakel7632Only hateful men say that about her. For attacking her is like pelting an orchid with rocks; she was a joy but that doesn't mean everyone appreciates her kind of joy and rareness.
@@michaelverbakel7632 And Lumet and Cukor said she was the greatest they ever saw. So who gives a sith what Mank said? He hated her because she spit in his face, and rightfully so. By all reputable accounts he was cruel and brutal to an ailing Clift who was so bad off he couldn't even defend himself. Now, if you want to hang your star on the hook of a miserably nasty POS like that, have at it.
One day please do a review on Reese vs Felicity Huffman 😂
I'll have to see :)
@@FritzandtheOscars reese my idol however Felicity was good too
What made you decide to focus on this year?
It's just a very interesting year with five great performances; whenever I am finished with one year on my channel, I think about what year I want to spend the next couple of months with; and after 1970, I just decided to do 1962
Initially the casting for the two elder Tyrone’s were to be Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. She would have been brilliant, far better than Hepburn. But then I also heard that Spencer Tracy was to play James Tyrone, but I wish Leigh had done it instead. She was far more subtle than Hepburn.
Vivien Leigh would certainly have been very fascinating
Love 14:18-14:24!
Never quite bought her in this role. Mary Tyrone needs softer, put-upon, insecure and passive/aggressive qualities which by temperament (and the many roles we have already seen her in) Hepburn is too far away from. Even on the clip provided in which Mary longs for the person she once was and "would pray to her"--- what talented Kate does is rather empty. If I were to apply the word "miracle" to a performance of hers it would be for "Summertime" I will go so far as to say what she does in "Long Day's Journey," even throws off the balance of the filmed play. For anyone interested in a "behind the curtain" view into the life of Miss Hepburn I recommend "Kate Remembered" by her good friend A. Scott Berg, as startling in some ways as the book written about Marlene Dietrich by her daughter. Nice research, Fritz!
Thanks for your comment! Shows again how everyone reacts differently to performances - especially "extreme" ones like this
I haven't seen Long Day's Journey (yet) so l may be wrong, but for me Hepburn in Summertime is the peak of great screen acting. She truly should have won every award going for her brilliant performance.
@@barrylangford3276 Summertime is wonderful but in 1955, Anna Magnani was a foregone conclusion
Not when the majority of film goers have NOT even a 3rd grade education, Ms. Hepburn!!
Fritz take ur HEAD & shove u know where!
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