Best Actress Rewind: 1958

Oscar Nominees:

Susan Hayward … I Want to Live!

Deborah Kerr … Separate Tables

Shirley MacLaine … Some Came Running

Rosalind Russell … Auntie Mame

Elizabeth Taylor … Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Mazur Nominees:

Susan Hayward … I Want to Live!

Dorothy Malone … The Tarnished Angels

Kim Novak … Vertigo

Kim Stanley … The Goddess

Elizabeth Taylor … Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Oscar Winner: Susan Hayward.

Mazur Winner: There is no doubt in my mind that Kim Stanley gives a bravura performances as a Marilyn Monroe-esque actress. The fact of the matter is that Stanley, often dubbed “The Female Brando” for her immersive Method acting techniques, gives one of the finest performances of the 1950s. No one even comes close to her explosive work this year. The tragic trajectory of this mercurial woman is held together flawlessly by Stanley, usually a very cerebral actress, body and soul. There are no seams.