Can you name the Best Supporting Actress nominated performances of the 1970s by description?

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DescriptionActress, Movie
A drunken widow who deals with a gritty private detective in the 1940s.
A young girl who experiences a violent possession by a demon.
A young military wife who befriends another and has an attachment to her brother during the Vietnam War.
A resident of a small Texas town who harbors feelings for her former lover, the owner of the local movie theater.
A single mother who deals with her young son's experience with visitors from outer space.
An obnoxious woman who gets married, but then is dismayed to learn her husband immediately fell in love with another.
A bookeeper who provides a pair of reporters with leads in their investigation of Richard Nixon's staff.
A frustrated wife and mother who leaves her young son with her workaholic husand, only to want him back some time later.
The sister of a mob boss who has turned to alcohol and destructive relationships to deal with her frustrations about her family's business.
A woman who gets into a drunken fight with her married friend.
A young ballet dancer who has an affair with a Russian prodigy, and is torn between her mother and teacher, who were once best friends.
A wife of a rich Republican who has an affair with a womanizing hairdresser.
The overprotective mother of a young blind man who disapproves of his relationship with a ditzy neighbor.
A singer/ songwriter who splits with her husband to further her career, but later wants him back.
The loving wife of a deranged bomber on a commercial flight.
A gospel singer and mother of deaf children who engages in an affair with a country singer.
A woman whose sister leads a double life as a teacher for the deaf and a promiscuous bar hopper.
A high school football coach's wife who has a painful affair with one of her husband's players.
A Scandanavian nanny who is among the suspects in a killing on a famous European train.
A brassy woman who draws the ire of her new boyfriends three grown daughters and suicidal ex-wife.
A stripper who, for a time, travels with a conman and his precocious daughter.
A precocious girl who lives with her mother, an aging dancer, and bonds with the cocky actor who lives with them.
A sharp-tongued waitress who works with a single mother and failed singer.
A simple woman who has an unloving relationship with a runaway piano prodigy.
A single mother who bonds with her friend's husband when her friend abandons him and their young son.
DescriptionActress, Movie
An overweight former swimmer who becomes a victim in an ocean disaster.
A twelve year old prostitute whose salvation becomes the obsession of a deranged cabbie.
A flirtatious teenager who befriends a socially inept nerd on an eventful night in the 1950s.
A woman who refuses to accept her news producer husband's affair with a younger colleague.
A famous actress staying in a Hollywood hotel with her gay husband before the Oscars.
A stuffy nurse in a Korean War unit full of wacky doctors.
A passenger on a ship of Jewish refugees struggling to find a new home at the start of World War II.
A barfly who takes up with a washed-up boxer when her boyfriend is sent to prison.
A high school senior who dates a forty year old neurotic television writer.
The mother of a British woman whose daughter corresponds lovingly with a neighbor while engaged to another.
An anti-Nazi fighter who secures the help of her playwright friend in battle against Facism.
A white woman whose son buys an apartment building filled with inner-city black tenants.
An emotionally fragile country singer who is the sweetheart of her genre's capital city.
A German singer sent to seduce an African American sheriff in the Old West.
A daffy stowaway who causes problems for an airline manager at the worst possible time.
A girl from a small Pennsylvania town who marries one soldier, then begins with a relationship with his friend when he is presumed dead in Vietnam.
A woman who is uncomfortable with her aging as she has a relationship with a pop music composer.
A middle aged woman who supports her son's love of cycling and Italian culture.
A free-living literary agent who urges her client and friend to take many lovers.
A young girl who travels with a slick conman who may be her father.
A long-unmarried woman who has a disatrous relationship with a cad in his thirties.
A gold-digger who believes her plot to kill her husband is a failure when the spirit of a dead football player inhabits his body.
An older woman who has a troubled relationship with her daughter, an unhappy housewife.
A former diva starring in a cliched French melodrama with a troubled British actress.
A violently religious woman who abuses her socially inept and telekinetic daughter.
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Best Supporting Actress Noms of the '70s Quiz

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  • Created Mar 12, 2011 in Movies
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