What did Jessica Tandy say when she was told she was the oldest performer to ever win a competitive Oscar for DRIVING MISS DAISY????
2007-03-05 14:04:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
~As reported in the March, 1989, editions of both Rolling Stone and The National Inquirer "It's about friggin' time I won something." But it was really hard to understand her, as she left her teeth home on Oscar Night. At the party afterwards, all she could say was "Poor Oscar, he's got such a tiny wee wee." To which Morgan Freeman said, "Try this on for size Momma"
2007-03-05 14:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jessica Tandy won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Daisy Werthan. At age 81, she is the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar.
Her competition that night was Isabelle Adjani for Camille Claudel; Pauline Collins for Shirley Valentine; Jessica Lange for Music Box; & Michelle Pfeiffer for The Fabulous Baker Boys
So convinced was she that she would lose out, Jessica Tandy had a $100 bet with her agent that she wouldn't win the Oscar for Best Actress. When she paid up on Oscar night, she told him, "It was the best bet she had ever lost".
She also said, "I must say, if I had known at the beginning of my life that this is where I would get to, I would have said, 'Not possible. Not possible.'"
Other amazing info on her life: In 1989, she became the twelfth performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscar: Best Actress, 'Driving Miss Daisy' (1989), Tonys: Best Actress-Play, 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1948) & Best Actress-Play, 'The Gin Game' (1978) & Best Actress-Play, 'Foxfire' (1983), and Emmy: Best Actress-Miniseries/Special, 'Foxfire' (1987).
Has won four Tony Awards: in 1948, as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "A Streetcar Named Desire," an award shared with Judith Anderson for "Medea" and Katharine Cornell for "Antony and Cleopatra;" as Best Actress (Play), in 1978, for "The Gin Game," and in 1983, for "Foxfire;" and in 1994, a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement shared with her husband, Hume Cronyn. She also received Tony Award nominations in 1971, as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Rose," and in 1986, as Best Actress (Play) for "The Petition."
2007-03-05 14:44:26 · answer #2 · answered by CJ S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she might have said "i'm as young as I feel".
2007-03-05 14:06:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She said "Was I in that movie?" I don't remember..."
2007-03-05 14:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋