10 Iconic Performances

They are roles that are iconic in that an actor is important as a symbol to a given role.  We can't think of anyone else in the role at all.  It's a role that an actor or actress owns and history, at least, proves it.  These are roles that define the actor who played them.  In fact, I am given to saying they don't so much play the roles as they just are these characters.  They are pure perfection.

Good 50's Films: Sudden Fear

1952 Film Noir
From RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by David Miller

Starring
Joan Crawford
Jack Palance
Gloria Grahame
Bruce Bennett
Mike Connors
Virginia Huston

The Directors: Daniel Mann

As a Broadway director, he almost wanted his characters to leap into the laps of those watching them.  As a movie director, he still wanted the essence of that.  Characterization was everything to him.  Regardless of medium, he wanted his characters to exhibit strengths and weaknesses as they wandered through their modern-day lives.  He had a gift for listening and dialogue.  He wanted more than anything that his audiences felt something for his characters.