In every character Barbara Stanwyck played there was a core of strength & reality. She really knew how to become what she wanted an audience to believe she was, besides being a professional who respected everyone who worked with her. She was grateful for her career, did her best & never "played" the diva to fans or co-workers. I always liked watching her.
The depth of *despair, torment, anger, sadness, lust and revenge...* Barbara Stanwyck brought it ALL to this amazing scene!!! 💗💗 A stellar performance!
I can't get enough of that scene; what an actress. My dad always loved her, but I'm just getting enthralled with her work. She and Betty were before my time. 30's and 40's had best movies, too bad I wasn't born. I love acting and study by watching Davis, Stanwyck, Hayward, Crawford, etc.
Mary's outburst and display of vulnerability sends chills down my spine every time I watch this scene. Barbara Stanwyck deserved that Emmy. Amazing. I love TTB.
Yes it is an incredible speech..i feel sad for Mary but at the same time i think that she is despaired and she really loves Ralph that is just a priest and a confident. She is right when she talks about her body which is old but that her feelings are still alive "Inside of that stupid body ,i feel young,i still want,i still love"..it is so terribly true and i want to cry each time i hear that.
She is a good actress. I'm 80 years old & can't even imagine feeling that way for a much, much younger man I adore Richard C. but, I don't have any desire to have sex with him. There is a season for everything & my season for that is gone. It was nice when it was in full bloom. LOL
The Thornbirds, for me, was the best mini series ever made. I was18 when it first aired. I have heard a few people over the years critisize this work as being over the top, too much agnst, too much emotion. As I have grown through adulthood I say more than ever that sometimes, for some people, real life can be much like this. I am a little jealous of those people who can not relate to unrequited love. I am happy for them. As for me, I understood this brilliant scene at 18.Even more so now.
I have watched The Thorn Birds 100 times and quit counting...have it on original taping off satellite, the VHS series, and the DVD series...I never grow tired of it: world-class acting and story for all time. Also, I have read the book twice.
"I have chosen to destroy you Priest!" In many ways she did. She left her entire Fortune to him, and instead of giving it to The Clearys who were Blood and not him, he chose to take it to make himself look good in terms of The Church. She knew she could "buy" him with her Money which produced Greed and even though he said he didn't want Drogheda or The Money, she knew better.
I know it is not a true Story but the fine acting makes this Movie so believable. Best Movie ever. Richard and Rachel are a perfect Match. Oh how I love it.
I saw this when I was a child. And her performance - her take on life at the end of her life - has stayed with me all of my life. Her soul crying out for love. I don't want to end up like this woman.
Now, that's drama---classic Stanwyck Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 -- January 20, 1990) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated, three-time Emmy Award-winning, and Golden Globe-winning American actress of film, stage, and screen. She is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.[1]
Barbara Stanwyck was a truly great actress and oh how she proved it in this scene, probably the best scene in the series. She certainly deserved the Emmy for it. I get chills every time I see it.
I think this was the Scene that got her The Emmy Award. I was born in 1966 and I don't remember her from The Big Valley but she was amazing in this performance.
Be it a television mini-series or otherwise, The Thornbirds has THIS scene in which Miss Stanwyck excels beyond most any "acting" I've ever witnessed. In this one incredibly honest and uncharacteristically genuine human scene, Stanwyck emotes her lines with all the conviction of her own truth. I can watch this scene one hundred times and feel precisely what she projects with the same impact as the first time I saw it. Her emotional prowess is timeless. Brava bravissima Barbara Stanwyck!
As i am a big fan of Barbara Stanwyck's i would expect nothing less from her , this scene is one of the most powerful in all of TV history, i dont think there are too many over 60 adults that can deny what she is feeling as she spilled out her guts here, Barbara was simply a great actor , another is Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow, the scene where she is drying out from being an alcoholic (with assistance/help from Eddie Albert) is truly gut wrenching ...Bravo to both ladies !!
@patvazable I suspect there was more Ruby Stevens in this than there was acting patvazable. Miss Stanwyck was a brilliant and complex woman. She deserved every ounce of the Emmy she won for her role as Mary Carson in this 1983 performance.
Mary Carson is one of the most well-written and conflicted characters in modern literature and only Barbara Stanwyck could play her with any amount of justice. Congrats Barb!
Those words stuck with me for years it wasn't until got older I understood what she meant about her body being old but here feelings are still the same as a young person. It is the truth if I ever heard it.Giselle
I saw a film noir with her and kirk douglas called the strange loves of martha ivers. Excellent movie. SHe was a "classy broad" and I mean that with the utmost respect!
Did you all know when she did this scene the entire crew applauded this incredible performance? She is remarkable actress and will always be considered a treasure in Hollywood.
I could say much, and Stanwyck has so many great sister actresses who I won't even try to insult by listing and then forgetting somebody. Barbara Stanwyck is the simply the single greatest film actress I have ever seen. Or any of us. If William Holden were still here, or Frank Capra, I would get confirmation by e-mail instantly. But not everybody has lived for a hundred years. And even those who have don't all own Blackberrys.
@Tgyrl66 I know what you mean. I never saw her on The Big Valley with Lee Majors and Linda Evans but this speech was so powerful and moving. She was so nasty at least when I was younger but give the lady her props. She was a successful businesswoman, she didn't give her Brother any special treatment, and you saw how sad, lonely, and depressed she was knowing that she was competing with her Neice for Father Ralph's Love but she had so much materialistically but was so poor emotionally.
Same passage from the Book. Sad to say she was right.. So Righteous - he couldn't give her a simple kiss.. What harm would that have done? He was Pius and Self- Aborbed. Barbara really let him have it - but he won't admit it was the truth until much later in life. What a performance from Barbara! So glad she got the Emmy for it! RIP
I agree that this is wonderfully played by Stanwyck. But I also love the scene where she and Ralph talk in the drawing room. This is another award-winning scene in my opinion. It's been posted on youtube recently as Thorn Birds Episode 1 Part 10.
You won't sweetie. Mary was cruel, insensitive and she treated her family as though they were servants, so when Meggie came along she knew that the child was a rival for Ralph's affections. Meggie got more attention from Ralph than she ever did.
I didn't come out of a lair. I came out of my mother's womb of my mother's egg and my father's sperm and the active, passionate love they shared with each other. You'll be surprised, but I actually was raised Catholic. I wasn't raised fire and brimstone, I was raised a social justice Catholic. I've left the religion for personal reasons. Yet, I still believe in G-d. I believe in hope and goodness in humanity. I believe in a G-d that LOVES. And I am not telling you this to convert you. Honestly
I had a completely different image of Mary, since she's described as being a fat redhead in the book. But when I read that Stanwyck was playing her, for some reason, I wasn't surprised. I knew she could pull it off.
"Tried to save me?" All you did was damn and judge, damn and judge. How is that going to save me? How is trying to scare me saving me? I don't want to enter a religion that refuses to show as well as tell the love they claim to believe in and practice in their lives. I want to know that I can loved, not hated. I did not bite your hand that hasn't already been bitten and I haven't spat in your face that hasn't already been spat on. And your transference, goddamn your transference! Accept humility
Does anyone else find Stanwyck's display of emotion and passion in this scene a turn-on? It especially turns me on that he is so resistant, yet she won't take no! Yum!
"That vengeful God who ruins our bodies and leaves us with just enough wit for regret" - I don't even need the sound on and that dialogue has burned into my mind since the first time I saw it. After Stanwyck's character dies I have little use for the remainder of Thorn Birds. No woman who has brawny Bryan Brown in her bed needs angst-up, hand-wringing Chamberlain but at least Rachel Ward was smart enough to marry Brown in real life.
Damn, even the old lady wanted Ralph. Yelp, can't deny Ralph's a handsome man; but, he twert that damn handsome. Just weren't many contenders on Drogheda😁
@Tgyrl66 I agree. most powerful. I have not seen this movie in over 20 years and I still remember this sceen. We don't get this type of acting today. Missing Barbara S.
Ha! She gave it to him! That was soooooooooo wonderfully played by Stanwyck! I am catholic and I think it sucks priests are not allowed to marry. Its so old fashioned and its enough!
DVlaries I suggest you go back and watch the whole thing again so you can understand why meggie chose Ralph over Luke. If you had watched the whole thing you would have seen that Luke preferred to be cutting the sugar cane with his mates than be with Meggie. She chose him because he was as far away from Ralph as you can get.
Ever hear of the term "transference?" That's where people who transfer thoughts, feelings, and emotions that they can't deal with or accept onto another person because they themselves cannot deal with those things themselves. In this case, because priests cannot have sex or be sexual beings, and since they know what sex is, they want that innocence they had when they were children where they didn't know that aspect of themselves. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, it has to with this
Fantastic acting Barbara !! She asked some pertinent questions of life ,in this part. If only Richard C gave a meaningful explanation to her mouth full of ques for the audience, would enrich the sequal, instead or staring wide-eyed and looking lost. Yes we wonder why we have to grow old and still feel young ang suffer for tat.
What a great scene this is. This is one of the best and probably the most romantic movies I'm seen thus far but, what's up with the subtitles? Anyway, thanks again for this wonderfull scene. :)
Also dvlaries you seem to be comparing the actors with the characters of TTB. And just because Ralph is a priest does not mean he wouldn't be able to fight it is just his faith makes him rise above it. If he were not a priest I am damn sure that he would be able to handle himself. Thanks
This scene is a masterpiece when it comes to acting! Barbara Stanwyck is amazing here... So naturalistic and emotional. Pure genius!
In every character Barbara Stanwyck played there was a core of strength & reality. She really knew how to become what she wanted an audience to believe she was, besides being a professional who respected everyone who worked with her. She was grateful for her career, did her best & never "played" the diva to fans or co-workers. I always liked watching her.
Stanwyck and Chamberlain, pure gold acting. An amazing performance, unforgettable dialogue and acting.
The depth of *despair, torment, anger, sadness, lust and revenge...*
Barbara Stanwyck brought it ALL to this amazing scene!!! 💗💗
A stellar performance!
I can't get enough of that scene; what an actress. My dad always loved her, but I'm just getting enthralled with her work. She and Betty were before my time. 30's and 40's had best movies, too bad I wasn't born. I love acting and study by watching Davis, Stanwyck, Hayward, Crawford, etc.
How can anyone top Stanwick's perfornance? Simply brilliant and it has not lost any of its luster more than 25 years later. I bow to such artistry.
Wow! She did play a bitter, old lady to the hilt! Loved the look of shock on Father Ralph's face when she said she has always loved him!
LOL
She remained a great actress into her old age. What a powerful performance!
I remember watching this on TV back in '83 when I was 12 yrs old. Over 25yrs later this movie still chokes me up
a very fine and well acted scene! BRAVA Miss Stanwyck!
Mary's outburst and display of vulnerability sends chills down my spine every time I watch this scene. Barbara Stanwyck deserved that Emmy. Amazing. I love TTB.
This was without a doubt one of the most memorable scenes ever in the History Of TV. I feel that this was the scene that got her The Emmy Award.
Barbara Stanwyck is the one of the most talented actresses of all times. Indeed, she is a legend!
The monologue that Mary Carson delivers is creepy and powerful!!!! Bravo Ms. Stanwyck!
Yes it is an incredible speech..i feel sad for Mary but at the same time i think that she is despaired and she really loves Ralph that is just a priest and a confident. She is right when she talks about her body which is old but that her feelings are still alive "Inside of that stupid body ,i feel young,i still want,i still love"..it is so terribly true and i want to cry each time i hear that.
Creepy ? No. wait until you are old. Or older. When your body fails . And when your mind, your desires are still young .
She is a good actress. I'm 80 years old & can't even imagine feeling that way for a much, much younger man I adore Richard C. but, I don't have any desire to have sex with him. There is a season for everything & my season for that is gone. It was nice when it was in full bloom. LOL
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La bravura di Barbara …ai limiti …di più non si può …grandiosa !!!!
Tank you barbara stanwyck..l love richard😍😍💝💝💝😘😘😘😃💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
AMAZING!!!!! I can watch her do this scene over and over!!!!
Fantastic job of acting!!! Bitter, sorrowful, sad. Brava Ms. Stanwyck!!!
That is why she won the Emmy for this Min-Series.. I also felt the pain and the longing
she felt for Father Bricassar - Bravo!!!!
Barbara Stanwyk ... what a great actress ... great scene.. Bravo!!
After all her many years in film, here, in this scene Babs shows us she's still got it!
The Thornbirds, for me, was the best mini series ever made. I was18 when it first aired. I have heard a few people over the years critisize this work as being over the top, too much agnst, too much emotion. As I have grown through adulthood I say more than ever that sometimes, for some people, real life can be much like this. I am a little jealous of those people who can not relate to unrequited love. I am happy for them. As for me, I understood this brilliant scene at 18.Even more so now.
I have watched The Thorn Birds 100 times and quit counting...have it on original taping off satellite, the VHS series, and the DVD series...I never grow tired of it: world-class acting and story for all time. Also, I have read the book twice.
"I have chosen to destroy you Priest!" In many ways she did. She left her entire Fortune to him, and instead of giving it to The Clearys who were Blood and not him, he chose to take it to make himself look good in terms of The Church. She knew she could "buy" him with her Money which produced Greed and even though he said he didn't want Drogheda or The Money, she knew better.
Look, just because I practice what I preach doesn't mean I should be damned for it. Belief can only get you so far.
Powerful! Oh so powerful. The greatest mini series of all time.
I know it is not a true Story but the fine acting makes this Movie so believable. Best Movie ever. Richard and Rachel are a perfect Match. Oh how I love it.
I saw this when I was a child. And her performance - her take on life at the end of her life - has stayed with me all of my life. Her soul crying out for love. I don't want to end up like this woman.
blimey she can act !
brilliant i had forgotten how good this is!
Stanwyck is SPECTACULAR in this series!
Stanwyck was amazing & won an Emmy for this role. It's interesting that she & Rachel Ward both have similar speaking voices. Really lovely sounding.
Now, that's drama---classic Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 -- January 20, 1990) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated, three-time Emmy Award-winning, and Golden Globe-winning American actress of film, stage, and screen. She is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.[1]
I have no words for that. Nobody else could have done that. Bravo!!!
La maravillosa Barbara Stanwyck . Entra actuar y todo crece
Barbara Stanwyck was a truly great actress and oh how she proved it in this scene, probably the best scene in the series. She certainly deserved the Emmy for it. I get chills every time I see it.
I'll never forget this scene I love it and I love the Thornbirds.
I think this was the Scene that got her The Emmy Award. I was born in 1966 and I don't remember her from The Big Valley but she was amazing in this performance.
雖短，但是很有力，驚人的演出。她死後最大的報復就是把錢都留給了神父。
"...you're some impotent thing..." lol
Amazing actress.
Missed but never forgotten. RIP
From the beginning, she may have always loved him. But she saw his love for Meggie, and that made her insanely jealous.
seems it wasn't acting it is so good
I only liked him show shogun far this show it's sin priest fallen in love that's just wrong they should banned this show in america
The book is just wonderful and all characters are amazing. You really won't be disappointed in that book ;)
Be it a television mini-series or otherwise, The Thornbirds has THIS scene in which Miss Stanwyck excels beyond most any "acting" I've ever witnessed. In this one incredibly honest and uncharacteristically genuine human scene, Stanwyck emotes her lines with all the conviction of her own truth. I can watch this scene one hundred times and feel precisely what she projects with the same impact as the first time I saw it. Her emotional prowess is timeless. Brava bravissima Barbara Stanwyck!
As i am a big fan of Barbara Stanwyck's i would expect nothing less from her , this scene is one of the most powerful in all of TV history, i dont think there are too many over 60 adults that can deny what she is feeling as she spilled out her guts here, Barbara was simply a great actor , another is Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow, the scene where she is drying out from being an alcoholic (with assistance/help from Eddie Albert) is truly gut wrenching ...Bravo to both ladies !!
Wow. Right up to the end of her career/life - she was just an absolute Titan. What a great scene.
IN LOVING MEMORY,,,,BARBARA,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1907-'90 R.I.P.
The book is really great too, very detailed about Australian history, WWII, etc.
Stanwyck's best acting EVER! Her intensity is palpable.
Way to go Ruby Stevens!
Barbara play this scene brilliantly. Only someone who had been through somethings could have delivered those lines like that.
Stanwyck's finest hour ................ bar none.
@patvazable I suspect there was more Ruby Stevens in this than there was acting patvazable. Miss Stanwyck was a brilliant and complex woman. She deserved every ounce of the Emmy she won for her role as Mary Carson in this 1983 performance.
Mary Carson is one of the most well-written and conflicted characters in modern literature and only Barbara Stanwyck could play her with any amount of justice. Congrats Barb!
What a great video. Thanks for the posting.
HOW I SYMPATHISE WITH MARY CARSON...GOD FORGIVE ME
Those words stuck with me for years it wasn't until got older I understood what she meant about her body being old but here feelings are still the same as a young person. It is the truth if I ever heard it.Giselle
I saw a film noir with her and kirk douglas called the strange loves of martha ivers. Excellent movie. SHe was a "classy broad" and I mean that with the utmost respect!
Good grief she acted so superb ... I believe it could have been very real.
Povera Mary Carson
Innamorarsi di lui è stata la tua rovina e la sua.....
Wow!! she blew me a way. Now that is what you call TRUE acting.
I watched it when I was a kid.
That bitch was serious! (great acting!)
It is a very great acting! Each time i have thrills. Barbara Stanwick was really powerful.
Barbara Stanwyck always had a sexy voice, and what an actress! She won an Emmy for this role.
Unbelievable performance from a great actress "Barbara Stanwyck
Did you all know when she did this scene the entire crew applauded this incredible performance? She is remarkable actress and will always be considered a treasure in Hollywood.
Here you what's TALENT!
What an actress!
She was so great and, infact, few ones age in that way and act so well until the and af their career.
I do believe that was the scene that won her the much deserved Emmy.
I could say much, and Stanwyck has so many great sister actresses who I won't even try to insult by listing and then forgetting somebody.
Barbara Stanwyck is the simply the single greatest film actress I have ever seen. Or any of us.
If William Holden were still here, or Frank Capra, I would get confirmation by e-mail instantly. But not everybody has lived for a hundred years. And even those who have don't all own Blackberrys.
Forever a beautiful woman with more talent than just about any woman who came out of Hollywood
What a performance... Marvelous!
The most beautiful scene who Mrs Stanwyck did in this movie,I love that one.
adorei o filme,me fez chorar,essa historia
@Tgyrl66 I know what you mean. I never saw her on The Big Valley with Lee Majors and Linda Evans but this speech was so powerful and moving. She was so nasty at least when I was younger but give the lady her props. She was a successful businesswoman, she didn't give her Brother any special treatment, and you saw how sad, lonely, and depressed she was knowing that she was competing with her Neice for Father Ralph's Love but she had so much materialistically but was so poor emotionally.
Same passage from the Book. Sad to say she was right.. So Righteous - he couldn't give her a simple kiss.. What harm would that have done? He was Pius and Self- Aborbed. Barbara really let him have it - but he won't admit it was the truth until much later in life. What a performance from Barbara! So glad she got the Emmy for it! RIP
Dear God, Just listen to us.
This performance got her the Emmy for the Thorn bird P art 1.
I agree that this is wonderfully played by Stanwyck. But I also love the scene where she and Ralph talk in the drawing room. This is another award-winning scene in my opinion. It's been posted on youtube recently as Thorn Birds Episode 1 Part 10.
You won't sweetie. Mary was cruel, insensitive and she treated her family as though they were servants, so when Meggie came along she knew that the child was a rival for Ralph's affections. Meggie got more attention from Ralph than she ever did.
I didn't come out of a lair. I came out of my mother's womb of my mother's egg and my father's sperm and the active, passionate love they shared with each other. You'll be surprised, but I actually was raised Catholic. I wasn't raised fire and brimstone, I was raised a social justice Catholic. I've left the religion for personal reasons. Yet, I still believe in G-d. I believe in hope and goodness in humanity. I believe in a G-d that LOVES. And I am not telling you this to convert you. Honestly
I had a completely different image of Mary, since she's described as being a fat redhead in the book. But when I read that Stanwyck was playing her, for some reason, I wasn't surprised. I knew she could pull it off.
"Tried to save me?" All you did was damn and judge, damn and judge. How is that going to save me? How is trying to scare me saving me? I don't want to enter a religion that refuses to show as well as tell the love they claim to believe in and practice in their lives. I want to know that I can loved, not hated. I did not bite your hand that hasn't already been bitten and I haven't spat in your face that hasn't already been spat on. And your transference, goddamn your transference! Accept humility
Does anyone else find Stanwyck's display of emotion and passion in this scene a turn-on? It especially turns me on that he is so resistant, yet she won't take no! Yum!
I understand fully what she means. I wonder what we did to God to deserve such a fate?
2:04 when she tries to pulls herself back under control! Amazing!!
"That vengeful God who ruins our bodies and leaves us with just enough wit for regret" - I don't even need the sound on and that dialogue has burned into my mind since the first time I saw it. After Stanwyck's character dies I have little use for the remainder of Thorn Birds. No woman who has brawny Bryan Brown in her bed needs angst-up, hand-wringing Chamberlain but at least Rachel Ward was smart enough to marry Brown in real life.
Damn, even the old lady wanted Ralph. Yelp, can't deny Ralph's a handsome man; but, he twert that damn handsome. Just weren't many contenders on Drogheda😁
@Tgyrl66 I agree. most powerful. I have not seen this movie in over 20 years and I still remember this sceen. We don't get this type of acting today. Missing Barbara S.
@litaaaam
Me too, I just thought about it and I'm so glad to be abke to see it again pn TH-cam.
Absolutely still a super performance.
ughhhh....Now I want to watch it,what a great series.But do I seriously want to sit in front of my TV for 7 hours lol..
And to think that they originally wanted Audrey Hepburn to play Mary Carson.
Now THAT is true acting! Today's Jolies and Anistons are talentless compared to this lady!
Ha! She gave it to him! That was soooooooooo wonderfully played by Stanwyck! I am catholic and I think it sucks priests are not allowed to marry. Its so old fashioned and its enough!
THE BIG WILLY......opss....WALLEY..1965-'69..CO-STARRING..LINDA EVANS
Wow! I've always loved this scene! And I heard somewhere that they originally wanted Audrey Hepburn for this role!
At 00:28, she looks like Kane from Poltergeist II or Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church.
DVlaries I suggest you go back and watch the whole thing again so you can understand why meggie chose Ralph over Luke. If you had watched the whole thing you would have seen that Luke preferred to be cutting the sugar cane with his mates than be with Meggie.
She chose him because he was as far away from Ralph as you can get.
Ever hear of the term "transference?" That's where people who transfer thoughts, feelings, and emotions that they can't deal with or accept onto another person because they themselves cannot deal with those things themselves. In this case, because priests cannot have sex or be sexual beings, and since they know what sex is, they want that innocence they had when they were children where they didn't know that aspect of themselves. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation, it has to with this
Fantastic acting Barbara !! She asked some pertinent questions of life ,in this part.
If only Richard C gave a meaningful explanation to her mouth full of ques for the audience, would enrich the sequal, instead or staring wide-eyed and looking lost. Yes we wonder why we have to grow old and still feel young ang suffer for tat.
What a great scene this is. This is one of the best and probably the most romantic movies I'm seen thus far but, what's up with the subtitles? Anyway, thanks again for this wonderfull scene. :)
Can anyone tell me what language is in the subtitles? It seems like a Romance language but different from anything I know. Rumanian perhaps?
Yep classic
Also dvlaries you seem to be comparing the actors with the characters of TTB. And just because Ralph is a priest does not mean he wouldn't be able to fight it is just his faith makes him rise above it. If he were not a priest I am damn sure that he would be able to handle himself.
Thanks