Sassmouthdames

Next time you hear someone blather on about method acting, please remind them that it wasn't all a boy's club. Brando and Jimmy Dean had a lot to learn from Shelley Winters. She gives a bravura performance as a woman in a post-war malaise of self-loathing in My Man and I (1952). Shelley's character Nancy uses men to pay the bar tab. When a decent man comes along (Ricardo Montalban) she snaps 'I'm poison for saps'. An ink-worthy line if there ever was one.