Number 74: Ingrid Bergman as Greta Ohlsson in "Murder on the Orient-Express" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

As Katharine Hepburn after mentioned, all the correct actors acquire Oscar, but for the wrong roles. For most men and women, Ingrid Bergman is the very best illustration for this considering that none of her a few Oscar wins seem universally loved. Her most controversial earn was for Supporting Actress.

Ingrid Bergman plays Greta Ohlsson, a straightforward-minded (or as she states it: “born backwards”) nurse who is one of the suspects in a murder circumstance on the Orient Categorical.

I have to confess that I am torn when it arrives to this overall performance – on the a single hand I like what Ingrid Bergman did listed here and I think she is by significantly the most memorable solid member but on the other hand I also comprehend how small she actually will get to do and how she is making an attempt to conceal this powering specified gimmicks in her functionality. I do like that she brought some complexity to her element in the course of her five-minute scene and that she shows how significantly Greta is truly hiding inside of but at the exact same time – performing selections like seeking determined when Poitot asks her about her time in The united states or terrified when he asks her why she is generating this vacation do not really want much time to be believed-out and would also almost certainly be created by an acting scholar in her very first semester.

I confess – her overall performance works. When she out of the blue starts to cry due to the fact of her non-religious mothers and fathers or moves her head absent, hunted by her recollections when Poirot accuses her touch me deeply. But at the same time I just can not help and consider ‘Really? Which is it?`

I consider that Ingrid Bergman succeeded the place Gloria Grahame failed – she turned her absolutely nothing position into a variety of scene-stealer but the level of accomplishment is still so extremely low that it’s really effortless to praise her even though she did not truly do something. The dreadful real truth is that the part of Greta Ohlsson is a huge ‘nothing’ that was only turned memorable by Ingrid Bergman’s tics and mannerisms – or, as would almost certainly be a better phrase, gimmicks. So, in the stop, I have to question myself: did she fool me with these gimmicks? Did her awkward smile, her stutter or her accent truly fool me so much that I observed items in a performance that weren’t there? Effectively, I hope not – I may like this functionality but as you can see from the position in this position that nonetheless does not indicate that I enjoy it very highly.

It’s a very intriguing approach by Miss out on Bergman and I applaud her for not failing totally but yet again – how could she fall short when her part did not request something from her?