Best Campy Performances?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 10:50pm

For me, it doesn't really get much better than Susan George in Mandingo. "I craves you to do it, Hammond."

Tallulah Bankhead in Die, Die, My Darling! is also up there.

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 11:14pm

Faye Dunnaway, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in everything they ever did.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 11:23pm

Glebb: Do you also include BONNIE AND CLYDE where Faye Dunaway is concerned? Frankly, I thought she gave a strong, well-nuanced performance in that film. Her best, in my opinion.

Updated On: 9/29/06 at 11:23 PM

[justme2]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 11:46pm

I'll have to disagree with you here Glebb....most anything Crawford did after Mildred Pierce was campy, but her early performances are great. Same with Davis. I can't pinpoint her exact fall into campiness, as she kinda wavered in and out of it in the late forties and early fifties.

I have nothing to add about Dunaway.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 12:13am

A few that sprang immediately to mind:

Maria Montez in COBRA WOMAN -- "I haf spoken!!!!"
Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge -- JOHNNY GUITAR
Eleanor Parker and Hope Emerson -- CAGED
Agnes Moorehead -- HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE
Bette Davis -- BEYOND THE FOREST

Updated On: 9/30/06 at 12:13 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 12:18am

Glenn Close--FATAL ATTRACTION
Anne Archer--FATAL ATTRACTION

Updated On: 9/30/06 at 12:18 AM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 12:51am

The message of Fatal Attraction basically seems to be: "It's okay if you cheat on your wife with another woman, just as long as the two of you get together and kill the bitch."

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 1:09am

Did you catch the Off-Broadway parody FATAL ATTRACTION: A GREEK TRAGEDY last year? It was brilliant satire.

[vbplayer]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 1:57am

"Agnes Moorehead -- HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE"

Thanks for the memory Margo. What a forgotten and totally forgettable performance. And she was so great in "Bewitched".

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 4:42am

Deborah Malone in "Written On the Wind"
Mary Boland in "The Women"
Marie Dressler in "Dinner At Eight"
Rosalind Russell in "Auntie Mame"
Alice Brady in "My Man Godfrey"
Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost"
Janis Paige in "Silk Stockings"
Jean Hagen in "Singin' in the Rain"
Lesley Ann Warren in "Victor/Victoria"

Updated On: 9/30/06 at 04:42 AM

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 8:06am

Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus
Carol Burnett in Annie

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 9:39am

Even more...

Madeline Kahn in "Blazing Saddles"
Cloris Leachman in "Young Frankenstein"
Peter O'Toole in "My Favorite Year"
Maureen Arthur in "How To Succeed..."
Miriam Margolyes in "The Age of Innocence"
Alec Guinness in "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
Catherine O'Hara in "Waiting For Guffman"
Sally Field in "Soap Dish"
Glenn Close in "101 Dalmations"
Elizabeth Berkeley in "Show Girls"
Patty Duke in "Valley of the Dolls"
Jean Harlow in "Dinner at Eight"
Rosalind Russell in "The Women"
Isabel Jeans in "Gigi"

Updated On: 9/30/06 at 09:39 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:30am

2 in the same movie The Oscar

Stephen Boyd - Frankie Fane
Tony Bennett - Hymie Kelly

Come to think of it the whole thing is a camp laughfest

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:40am

Well, if you're going to pull the Showgirls card, you must mention Gina Gershon. "I'll BUY her for you."

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:44am

Patty Duke?? And not Susan Hayward???

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:50am

if i ruled the world, i would've given Agness Moorehead every award there ever was for her performance as Velma in HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE.



i ***love*** that movie, & her character is one of my all-time favorites!
Updated On: 9/30/06 at 10:50 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 10:56am

Yes, yes, Susan and Gina too...

Throw in the whole damn casts of BOTH movies, if you want!

They certainly qualify.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:01am

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:05am

Piper is campy but she's also frightening in that part.

If you put her in, you should throw in the mother in "Sybil" too.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:09am

Theresa Russell in Wild Things ("Sam Lombardo must be out of his mind to think he can do this to me!")
Linda Blair in Savage Streets
Joan Cusack in Addams Family Values
Sylvia Miles in Heat

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:13am

n69n --- There are other campy performances like Piper's in "Carrie" that also succeed on different (and very effective) levels...

Like Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Blvd."
Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Kathy Bates in "Misery"

Definitely campy... but they also go way beyond that to "darker places."

Updated On: 9/30/06 at 11:13 AM

[DG]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:15am

Tim Curry - ROCKY HORROR

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 11:33am

Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in BOUND
Beatrice Straight in NETWORK
Maxwell Caufield in GREASE 2

Currently, the great actress Fiona Shaw is pretty f*cking (unintentionally) hilarious in THE BLACK DAHLIA.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 12:00pm

i kind of dont even believe in the label "campy" because its usually used as a term to disparage things i love.

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 12:31pm

Woa I <3 Mandingo!!!!!!

My favorite is Cybill Shephard in Martha Inc.!!!

"Balls? I have balls! I just don't have 38 million dollars."