Credit Where Credit is Due... 1944 Style
Monday, October 30, 2017 at 6:29PM 
The Smackdown is just six days away so as the panelists finish their screenings, remember that your ballots are due Friday. After a few old movie screenings in a row I get nostalgic for those old school title cards. I hate that so many modern movies are skipping opening credits altogether and doubling up at the end to fulfill their star contracts. Anyway, let's look at the billing situation for the Supporting Actress nominees just for fun after the jump...
Taking them in order of billing.
2nd billed
Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away. Second billed! She had just won the Best Actress Oscar (The Song of Bernadette) at the previous Oscars but she's directly behind Claudette Colbert. Since the movie is 3 hours long (I haven't watched it yet) I'm assuming she's a co-lead and she has more screen minutes than most winners in this category. We'll see. (Ethel Barrymore in None but the Lonely Heart is also second billed in her film)
3rd billed
Aline McMahon in Dragon Seed. Wonder what kind of strange loopholes or negotiations had her and Walter Huston receiving small font for their first names when actors below them get the all caps treatment!
4th billed
Agnes Moorehead in Mrs Parkington. Check out this insane cast list below. So much movie history with 18 nominations and 1 win between, or if you count only "prior to this movie" it was 9 nominations and 1 win between them but still. So many fine character actors in play. (Incidentally Agnes Moorehead is also in Dragon Seed but she's 8th billed in that one and on the second title card so if they would have had the SAG Ensemble nominations back then she would not have been included. Not that Dragon Seed would have been nominated for that, don't be silly!
5th billed
Angela Lansbury in Gaslight, her motion picture debut. She's second only to Dame May Whitty in the "with..." department (right after the three headlining movie stars) but Whitty was already a two-time Oscar nominee (Mrs Miniver & Night Must Fall)
Reader Comments (10)
They really made something back then of telling us the Stars were out in force.
I like Barrymore, Jones and Lansbury all quite a bit, with my vote among the three probably going to Barrymore. Curious to see who wins.
I think Jones hold the record for longest screen time performance nominated for a supporting actress award.
Tom: Off the top of my head, Tatum O'Neal must be the supporting actress nominee and winner with the most screen time. She's on screen for 61 minutes of the total 102 running time.
Marcos -- i clocked Tatum at 95 minutes or 93% of the running time in Paper Moon when we featured that year in the Smackdown. It's inarguably a leading role. The film even begins with her WITHOUT Ryan O'Neal. There is a total of one scene in the movie, as I recall, where she is not the focus or at least hovering in the background (a scene where her father is threatened by gangsters)
I love, love, love opening credits to classic movies, the way they totally say "MOVIE STARS WALK HERE." It's so cool-I wish modern-day movies would be a bit more willing to celebrate the actors at their centers in such a big way.
Agnes Moorehead was also in Since You Went Away! It was a really good year for her.
Nathaniel--Jennifer really is a co-lead. Her story runs parallel to Claudette's and runs the same amount of time. Her arc builds slowly and her character undergoes a true transformation that is emotionally draining. A wonderful performance.
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