The Actress

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Audience Member Screen writer Ruth Gordon chronicles her teenage years hen she wanted to move out of her small town and head to New York City to become an actress. Here she is played by Jean Simmons. Spencer Tracy plays her stern father and Teresa Wright her caring mother. Anthony Perkins is also on board as a suitor. Director George Cukor usually thrived at telling these types of stories. This story is simply episodic moments that might be fine for dramatic little skits, but fail to compose itself into a coherent feature length movie. Spencer Tracy is always good at playin the loveable yet cranky father figure. He even on a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes for it. Though well enough made, even Cukor seems bored behind the camera. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review steve d sweet and strongly acted. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Frances H A great cast brings to life this bio-flick of one of my favorite actresses early years to the screen with love and warmth. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/21/20 Full Review Audience Member I can’t believe this sweet, beautifully acted film does not have higher ratings. Yes, Tracy is grumpy and great and funny, but it is the incredible (and never fully appreciated) Jean Simmons who really shines. It is not easy to play teenage angst and enthusiasm, but Simmons nails it. In the first 10 minutes she was worthy of an Oscar nomination. She won the National Board of Review Best Actress award 1953 for the combo of this film and Young Bess (I guess for The Robe too, but meh to that film). Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/22/20 Full Review joe s Dreadful script. Jean Simmons's adopted squeaky voice is like chalk on a blackboard and excessively irritating. Spencer Tracy is all on one key and he too becomes irritating. It's inters interesting to see Anthony Perkins in one of his early roles, but he's not on screen long enough to sit through this awful film. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I've never been in a situation yet where having a little money made situations worse. Clinton Jones is a poor seaman that has settled down to a job where he barely makes enough to feed his family and make ends meet. His daughter has just turned seventeen and is about to graduate from high school. She decides her career path is to become an actress, but she doesn't know where to begin to make her dream come true. Jones, who is a bit old fashion, will do whatever he can to make his daughter's dreams come true. "It isn't only men you have to worry about. Women are worse than men." George Cukor, director of My Fair Lady, A Star is Born, Adam's Rib, The Philadelphia Story, Born Yesterday, A Life of her Own, Pat and Mike, and Holiday, delivers The Actress. The storyline for this movie is very good and fairly standard for this time period (a struggling family trying to make ends meet). The characters are well developed and the acting is first rate. The cast includes Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright, and Anthony Perkins. "What she knows you could fit in a frog's ear." I DVR almost all of Spencer Tracy's pictures that air on cable that I have not seen. This is a movie I DVR'd some time ago and finally got around to watching. I must say this movie has a "Christmas Story" feel to it with ups and downs and a few comedic sequences. Overall, this is a fun movie that is definitely worth watching at least once. "That's my own blood." Grade: A- Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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