Pogue - I shall pass on your lovely post to Mr. Haines.
Some of my pantheon performances - Of course I'm adding Mr. Shimura from Ikiru - an astonishing performance. Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, Mr. Peck in Mockingbird, Miss Bancroft and Miss Duke (especially the latter) in The Miracle Worker, Mr. Bogart in Casablanca, Mr. Claude Rains in Notorious, Mr. John Wayne in The Searchers, Mr. Joel McCrea and Mr. Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country, Mr. Holden and Miss Swanson in Sunset Blvd., Mr. Preston in The Music Man, Mr. Chaplin in City Lights, Katherine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey into Night (WHERE IS THE DVD), Cary Grant in North by Northwest, James Stewart in Vertigo and Rear Window, Bette Davis in Baby Jane, and I'm sure I'll think of a hundred more shortly.