Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom. The time she bonded with her son when
he was watching those gory, graphic movies. She just kind of
understood and silently, crazily approved. Remember how the kids
thought she was so cool when they found out she was the serial killer?
Somewhere I have the Quad for this. Love that movie!
Andrea
On Apr 3, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?
Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie
dad?" This week (because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are
asking, "Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?"
IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what
character in a movie who happened to be a mother was the most
memorable ever, but rather we are asking what character in a movie
was the most memorable MOTHER ever (many women characters in movies
have children, but in many of them the mother/child relationship is
very secondary to what makes the female character so memorable, so
those performances should NOT be considered). Try to focus on the
"mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so
memorable (and sometimes these memorable performances can be very
brief, sometimes only a single scene, but they can really stick in
your memory)! You are welcome to give any second or third choices in
the comments field!Please pick one of the options below, and then
please discuss why you chose the option that you did in the comments
field (and it is fine if you include second or third choices), or
anything else you would like to share with the rest of the e-mail
club.
Ann-Margret (Tommy)
Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis)
Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life)
Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934)
Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer)
Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)
Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More)
Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)
Cher (Mask)
Glenn Close (World According to Garp)
Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934)
Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager)
Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Bette Davis (Little Foxes)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest)
Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke)
Constance Ford (A Summer Place)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?)
Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)
Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Jane Hoffman (Sybil)
Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)
Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees)
Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Diane Keaton (The Good Mother)
Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)
Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate)
Piper Laurie (Carrie)
Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen)
Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge)
Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle)
Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller)
Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959)
Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane)
Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses)
Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap)
Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)
Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude)
Anne Ramsey (The Goonies)
Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train)
Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My Way)
Debbie Reynolds (Mother)
Rosalind Russell (Gypsy)
Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil)
Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
Lana Turner (Imitation of Life 1959)
Lana Turner (Madame X)
Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey)
Shelley Winters (Lolita)
Joanne Woodward (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds)
Jane Darwell ("Ma Joad" from Grapes of Wrath)
Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Other (but PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option
below) \
How do you MoPo members feel?
Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
For me, it has to be Debbie Reynolds as the mother in Albert Brooks'
MOTHER. I pick her because in this role Debbie managed to unlock the
secret that all real-life mothers hold dear in their relationships with
their fully grown children: how to push all their child's buttons and
make that child feel both resentful and guilty at the same time. And
the film is hillarious to bout! FRANC
-Original Message-
From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce
Hershenson
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:16 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not
include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?
Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?"
This week (because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking,
"Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?"
IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character
in a movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but
rather we are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable
MOTHER ever (many women characters in movies have children, but in many
of them the mother/child relationship is very secondary to what makes
the female character so memorable, so those performances should NOT be
considered). Try to focus on the "mother/child" scenes, where it is
those scenes that are so memorable (and sometimes these memorable
performances can be very brief, sometimes only a single scene, but they
can really stick in your memory)! You are welcome to give any second or
third choices in the comments field!Please pick one of the options
below, and then please discuss why you chose the option that you did in
the comments field (and it is fine if you include second or third
choices), or anything else you would like to share with the rest of the
e-mail club.
Ann-Margret (Tommy)
Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis)
Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life)
Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934)
Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer)
Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)
Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More)
Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)
Cher (Mask)
Glenn Close (World According to Garp)
Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934)
Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager)
Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Bette Davis (Little Foxes)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest)
Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke)
Constance Ford (A Summer Place)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?)
Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)
Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Jane Hoffman (Sybil)
Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)
Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees)
Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Diane Keaton (The Good Mother)
Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)
Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate)
Piper Laurie (Carrie)
Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen)
Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge)
Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle)
Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller)
Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959)
Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane)
Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses)
Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap)
Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)
Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude)
Anne Ramsey (The Goonies)
Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train)
Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My Way)
Debbie Reynolds (Mother)
Rosalind Russell (Gypsy)
Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil)
Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
Lana Turner (Imitation of Life 1959)
Lana Turner (Madame X)
Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey)
Shelley Winters (Lolita)
Joanne Woodward (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds)
Jane Darwell ("Ma Joad" from Grapes of Wrath)
Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Other (but PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option below) \
How do you MoPo members feel?
Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Message...it's got to be Brian's mother in Monty Pythons LIfe of Brian " He's
not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy! "
Simon
P.S. Does Anthony Perkins as Mrs Bates count?
- Original Message -
From: Franc
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not
include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
For me, it has to be Debbie Reynolds as the mother in Albert Brooks' MOTHER.
I pick her because in this role Debbie managed to unlock the secret that all
real-life mothers hold dear in their relationships with their fully grown
children: how to push all their child's buttons and make that child feel both
resentful and guilty at the same time. And the film is hillarious to bout!
FRANC
-Original Message-
From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce
Hershenson
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:16 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include
just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?
Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?" This
week (because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking, "Who do you
feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?"
IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character in
a movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but rather we
are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable MOTHER ever (many
women characters in movies have children, but in many of them the mother/child
relationship is very secondary to what makes the female character so memorable,
so those performances should NOT be considered). Try to focus on the
"mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so memorable (and
sometimes these memorable performances can be very brief, sometimes only a
single scene, but they can really stick in your memory)! You are welcome to
give any second or third choices in the comments field!Please pick one of the
options below, and then please discuss why you chose the option that you did in
the comments field (and it is fine if you include second or third choices), or
anything else you would like to share with the rest of the e-mail club.
Ann-Margret (Tommy)
Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis)
Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life)
Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934)
Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer)
Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)
Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More)
Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)
Cher (Mask)
Glenn Close (World According to Garp)
Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934)
Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager)
Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Bette Davis (Little Foxes)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest)
Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke)
Constance Ford (A Summer Place)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?)
Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)
Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Jane Hoffman (Sybil)
Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)
Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees)
Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Diane Keaton (The Good Mother)
Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)
Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate)
Piper Laurie (Carrie)
Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen)
Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge)
Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle)
Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller)
Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959)
Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane)
Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses)
Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap)
Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)
Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude)
Anne Ramsey (The Goonies)
Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train)
Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My Way)
Debbie Reynolds (Mother)
Rosalind Russell (Gypsy)
Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil)
Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
Lana Turner (Imitation of Life 1959)
Lana Turner (Madame X)
Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey)
Shelley Win
Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
My favorite part is when she has a name for the crusty stuff that forms on
ice cream that's been in a freezer for years!
Bruce
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Franc wrote:
> For me, it has to be Debbie Reynolds as the mother in Albert Brooks'
> MOTHER. I pick her because in this role Debbie managed to unlock the secret
> that all real-life mothers hold dear in their relationships with their
> fully grown children: how to push all their child's buttons and make that
> child feel both resentful and guilty at the same time. And the film is
> hillarious to bout! FRANC
>
> -Original Message-
> *From:* MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] *On Behalf Of *Bruce
> Hershenson
> *Sent:* Friday, April 03, 2009 4:16 PM
> *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
> *Subject:* [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not
> include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
>
> Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?
>
> Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?" This
> week (because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking, "Who do you
> feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?"
> IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character in
> a movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but rather
> we are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable MOTHER ever
> (many women characters in movies have children, but in many of them the
> mother/child relationship is very secondary to what makes the female
> character so memorable, so those performances should NOT be considered). Try
> to focus on the "mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so
> memorable (and sometimes these memorable performances can be very brief,
> sometimes only a single scene, but they can really stick in your memory)!
> You are welcome to give any second or third choices in the comments
> field!Please pick one of the options below, and then please discuss why you
> chose the option that you did in the comments field (and it is fine if you
> include second or third choices), or anything else you would like to share
> with the rest of the e-mail club.
> Ann-Margret (Tommy)
> Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis)
> Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
> Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life)
> Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
> Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934)
> Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer)
> Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)
> Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More)
> Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)
> Cher (Mask)
> Glenn Close (World According to Garp)
> Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934)
> Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager)
> Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
> Bette Davis (Little Foxes)
> Viola Davis (Doubt)
> Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
> Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest)
> Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
> Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke)
> Constance Ford (A Summer Place)
> Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
> Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?)
> Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)
> Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
> Jane Hoffman (Sybil)
> Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)
> Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees)
> Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
> Diane Keaton (The Good Mother)
> Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)
> Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate)
> Piper Laurie (Carrie)
> Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen)
> Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge)
> Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
> Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle)
> Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
> Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
> Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller)
> Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959)
> Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
> Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane)
> Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses)
> Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap)
> Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)
> Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude)
> Anne Ramsey (The Goonies)
> Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train)
> Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life)
> Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My Way)
> Debbie Reynolds (Mother)
> Rosalind Russell (Gypsy)
> Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil)
> Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)
> Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
> Lana Turner (Imitation of Life 1959)
> Lana Turner (Madame X)
> Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey)
> Shelley Winters (Lolita)
> Joanne Woodward (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds)
> Jane Darwell ("Ma Joad" from Grapes of Wrath)
> Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Lives)
> Other (but PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option below) \
>
> Ho
Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
No Mrs. Bates or step-moms or actual monster moms. I clearly did miss a few excellent ones, but I will be curious to see how it turns out. Thanks very much to everyone who helped with suggestions. Bruce On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:23 PM, JANET ORAM wrote: > ...it's got to be Brian's mother in *Monty Pythons LIfe of Brian " *He's > not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy! " > > Simon > > P.S. Does Anthony Perkins as Mrs Bates count? > > - Original Message - > *From:* Franc > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Sent:* Saturday, April 04, 2009 12:15 AM > *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not > include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)! > > For me, it has to be Debbie Reynolds as the mother in Albert Brooks' > MOTHER. I pick her because in this role Debbie managed to unlock the secret > that all real-life mothers hold dear in their relationships with their > fully grown children: how to push all their child's buttons and make that > child feel both resentful and guilty at the same time. And the film is > hillarious to bout! FRANC > > -Original Message- > *From:* MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] *On Behalf Of *Bruce > Hershenson > *Sent:* Friday, April 03, 2009 4:16 PM > *To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > *Subject:* [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not > include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)! > > Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom? > > Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?" This > week (because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking, "Who do you > feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?" > IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character in > a movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but rather > we are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable MOTHER ever > (many women characters in movies have children, but in many of them the > mother/child relationship is very secondary to what makes the female > character so memorable, so those performances should NOT be considered). Try > to focus on the "mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so > memorable (and sometimes these memorable performances can be very brief, > sometimes only a single scene, but they can really stick in your memory)! > You are welcome to give any second or third choices in the comments > field!Please pick one of the options below, and then please discuss why you > chose the option that you did in the comments field (and it is fine if you > include second or third choices), or anything else you would like to share > with the rest of the e-mail club. > Ann-Margret (Tommy) > Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis) > Anne Bancroft (The Graduate) > Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life) > Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase) > Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934) > Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer) > Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies) > Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More) > Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?) > Cher (Mask) > Glenn Close (World According to Garp) > Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934) > Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager) > Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) > Bette Davis (Little Foxes) > Viola Davis (Doubt) > Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) > Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest) > Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama) > Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke) > Constance Ford (A Summer Place) > Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate) > Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?) > Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free) > Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) > Jane Hoffman (Sybil) > Anjelica Huston (The Grifters) > Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees) > Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) > Diane Keaton (The Good Mother) > Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious) > Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate) > Piper Laurie (Carrie) > Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen) > Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge) > Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) > Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle) > Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) > Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) > Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller) > Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959) > Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People) > Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane) > Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses) > Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap) > Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth) > Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude) > Anne Ramsey (The Goonies) > Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train) > Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life) > Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My
Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Looks great to me, but I'd add Sarah Allgood for her Oscar-nominated turn as
Roddy McDowall's mother in "How Green Was My Valley."
Joe B in NOLA
--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
From: Bruce Hershenson
Subject: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just
a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 3:16 PM
Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?
Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?" This week
(because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking, "Who do you feel
played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?"
IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character in a
movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but rather we
are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable MOTHER ever (many
women characters in movies have children, but in many of them the mother/child
relationship is very secondary to what makes the female character so memorable,
so those performances should NOT be considered). Try to focus on the
"mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so memorable (and
sometimes these memorable performances can be very brief, sometimes only a
single scene, but they can really stick in your memory)! You are welcome to
give any second or third choices in the comments field!Please pick one of the
options below, and then please discuss why you chose the option that you did in
the comments field (and it is fine if you include second or third choices), or
anything else you would like to share
with the rest of the e-mail club.
Ann-Margret (Tommy)
Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis)
Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life)
Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934)
Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer)
Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)
Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More)
Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)
Cher (Mask)
Glenn Close (World According to Garp)
Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934)
Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager)
Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Bette Davis (Little Foxes)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest)
Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke)
Constance Ford (A Summer Place)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?)
Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)
Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Jane Hoffman (Sybil)
Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)
Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees)
Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Diane Keaton (The Good Mother)
Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)
Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate)
Piper Laurie (Carrie)
Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen)
Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge)
Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle)
Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller)
Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959)
Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane)
Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses)
Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap)
Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)
Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude)
Anne Ramsey (The Goonies)
Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train)
Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My Way)
Debbie Reynolds (Mother)
Rosalind Russell (Gypsy)
Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil)
Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
Lana Turner (Imitation of Life 1959)
Lana Turner (Madame X)
Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey)
Shelley Winters (Lolita)
Joanne Woodward (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds)
Jane Darwell ("Ma Joad" from Grapes of Wrath)
Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Other (but PLEASE be sure to explain WHY you chose this option below) \
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Bruce
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Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
I didn't see her name on the list, and just checked my e-mail so I couldn't make a suggestion earlier, but how does Jane Darwell from the Grapes of Wrath not make this list? For me she makes that film. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
I completely agree! Somehow I had a brain lock and left her off the original list, but a MoPo member suggested her, and so she is added at the bottom of the list. So she is out of order, but she IS there (check back at the end of my original e-mail). There is a scene where she is burning stuff right before they leave in their truck, and it is completely silent, but incredibly touching. As you say, she makes the movie! Bruce On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Ron Wisberg wrote: > I didn't see her name on the list, and just checked my e-mail so I > couldn't make a suggestion earlier, but how does Jane Darwell from the > Grapes of Wrath not make this list? > > For me she makes that film. > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Natasha Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER
Yikes,
Ari
--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
From: Bruce Hershenson
Subject: Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include
just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Received: Saturday, 4 April, 2009, 11:18 AM
My favorite part is when she has a name for the crusty stuff that forms on ice
cream that's been in a freezer for years!
Bruce
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Franc wrote:
For me, it has to be Debbie Reynolds as the mother in Albert Brooks' MOTHER. I
pick her because in this role Debbie managed to unlock the secret that all
real-life mothers hold dear in their relationships with their fully grown
children: how to push all their child's buttons and make that child feel both
resentful and guilty at the same time. And the film is hillarious to bout!
FRANC
-Original Message-
From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce
Hershenson
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:16 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just
a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?
Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?" This week
(because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking, "Who do you feel
played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?"
IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character in a
movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but rather we
are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable MOTHER ever (many
women characters in movies have children, but in many of them the mother/child
relationship is very secondary to what makes the female character so memorable,
so those performances should NOT be considered). Try to focus on the
"mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so memorable (and
sometimes these memorable performances can be very brief, sometimes only a
single scene, but they can really stick in your memory)! You are welcome to
give any second or third choices in the comments field!Please pick one of the
options below, and then please discuss why you chose the option that you did in
the comments field (and it is fine if you include second or third choices), or
anything else you would like to share
with the rest of the e-mail club.
Ann-Margret (Tommy)
Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis)
Anne Bancroft (The Graduate)
Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life)
Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase)
Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934)
Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer)
Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies)
Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More)
Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)
Cher (Mask)
Glenn Close (World According to Garp)
Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934)
Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager)
Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Bette Davis (Little Foxes)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest)
Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama)
Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke)
Constance Ford (A Summer Place)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate)
Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?)
Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)
Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Jane Hoffman (Sybil)
Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)
Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees)
Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
Diane Keaton (The Good Mother)
Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious)
Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate)
Piper Laurie (Carrie)
Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen)
Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge)
Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle)
Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)
Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller)
Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959)
Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane)
Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses)
Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap)
Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth)
Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude)
Anne Ramsey (The Goonies)
Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train)
Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Going My Way)
Debbie Reynolds (Mother)
Rosalind Russell (Gypsy)
Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil)
Barbara Stanwyck (Stella Dallas)
Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
Lana Turner (Imitation of Life 1959)
Lana Turner (Madame X)
Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey)
Shelley Winters (Lolita)
Joanne Woodward (Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds)
Jane Darwell ("Ma Joad" from Grapes of Wrath)
Myrna Loy (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Other (but PLEASE be sure to expl
Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)!
Ok, sick mofo I am, the first thoughts I had were Jill Clayburgh in Bertoluci's Luna, Alberta Watson in David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey, and Lea Massar in Malle's Le Souffle au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart), all of which involve actual incest between a mother and her son! Certainly memorable. So there! Chris Quarles From: Ari Richards To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 9:33:12 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)! Natasha Kinski in TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER Yikes, Ari --- On Sat, 4/4/09, Bruce Hershenson wrote: From: Bruce Hershenson Subject: Re: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)! To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Received: Saturday, 4 April, 2009, 11:18 AM My favorite part is when she has a name for the crusty stuff that forms on ice cream that's been in a freezer for years! Bruce On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Franc wrote: For me, it has to be Debbie Reynolds as the mother in Albert Brooks' MOTHER. I pick her because in this role Debbie managed to unlock the secret that all real-life mothers hold dear in their relationships with their fully grown children: how to push all their child's buttons and make that child feel both resentful and guilty at the same time. And the film is hillarious to bout! FRANC -Original Message- From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:16 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] The most memorable mom, final version (I could not include just a few MoPo choices, cause I ran out of time)! Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom? Last week, we asked, "who do you feel played the FUNNIEST movie dad?" This week (because there are very few "humorous" moms) we are asking, "Who do you feel played the most MEMORABLE movie mom?" IMPORTANT! This is kind of tricky! We are not asking what character in a movie who happened to be a mother was the most memorable ever, but rather we are asking what character in a movie was the most memorable MOTHER ever (many women characters in movies have children, but in many of them the mother/child relationship is very secondary to what makes the female character so memorable, so those performances should NOT be considered). Try to focus on the "mother/child" scenes, where it is those scenes that are so memorable (and sometimes these memorable performances can be very brief, sometimes only a single scene, but they can really stick in your memory)! You are welcome to give any second or third choices in the comments field!Please pick one of the options below, and then please discuss why you chose the option that you did in the comments field (and it is fine if you include second or third choices), or anything else you would like to share with the rest of the e-mail club. Ann-Margret (Tommy) Mary Astor (Mee Me in St. Louis) Anne Bancroft (The Graduate) Ellen Barkin (This Boy's Life) Ethel Barrymore (The Spiral Staircase) Louise Beavers (Imitation of Life 1934) Eugenie Besserer (The Jazz Singer) Brenda Blethyn (Secrets and Lies) Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More) Darlene Cates (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?) Cher (Mask) Glenn Close (World According to Garp) Claudette Colbert (Imitation of Life 1934) Gladys Cooper (Now Voyager) Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) Bette Davis (Little Foxes) Viola Davis (Doubt) Doris Day (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Faye Dunaway (Mommie Dearest) Irene Dunne (I Remember Mama) Jo Van Fleet (Cool Hand Luke) Constance Ford (A Summer Place) Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate) Ruth Gordon (Where's Poppa?) Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free) Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) Jane Hoffman (Sybil) Anjelica Huston (The Grifters) Elsa Janssen (Pride of the Yankees) Lainie Kazan (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) Diane Keaton (The Good Mother) Leopoldine Konstantin (Notorious) Angela Lansbury (Manchurian Candidate) Piper Laurie (Carrie) Myrna Loy (Cheaper by the Dozen) Shirley MacLaine (Postcards From the Edge) Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) Marjorie Main (Ma & Pa Kettle) Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) Dorothy McGuire (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Dorothy McGuire (Old Yeller) Juanita Moore (Imitation of Life 1959) Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People) Agnes Moorehead (Citizen Kane) Patricia Neal (Subject Was Roses) Maureen O'Hara (Parent Trap) Maria Ouspenskaya (Dodsworth) Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude) Anne Ramsey (The Goonies) Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train
