Great Drunk Acting.

Marilyn Monroe surprised me in CLASH BY NIGHT.

Bette Davis as Margo Channing in ALL ABOUT EVE at her fiancé’s Bill birthday party. Classic!

Jeff Bridges for about three quarters of “Crazy Heart.”

Divine. Cuddles to Francine Fishpaw in Polyester: “Francine, your the most drinkinest gal I know”.

Kathleen Turner in “Peggy Sue Got Married” downing a much needed drink at the beginning of the movie.

Blanche Baker "Sixteen Candles"

"Come on, Oscar !... Lets you and me get drunk !"

Gloria Swanson in the New Year's Eve scene.

"Pumping, pumping, pumping!"

Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen.

Linda Dano in Another World

Are you unpoopular? Do you pop out at parties? Well, do you?

Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon in DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES.

In the episode "One for the Road" from ROSEANNE, where Becky and her friend Dana get drunk when they're allowed to stay home alone overnight while Roseanne, Dan, and DJ visit the grandparents.

Anyway, both girls, who were around 15 at the time, did a really good job of acting drunk. I was impressed.

Goldie Hawn in The First Wives Club.

Sean Connery is Monique's mother!

Judith Evelyn as the lonely drunk Eloise Crandall in Female on the Beach.

“Swan dive off a bottle of brandy…”

Courtney Thorne Smith in Melrose Place.

Deborah Rush as Jerry Blank’s mother in Strangers with Candy, having “just a few fingers more of breakfast”.

R17 LOL! That was one of my favorite episodes!

The subplot was Jerri being cast as the matriarch in the high school's all-white production of A RAISIN IN THE SUN. haha

Jerri Blank: Look, I never said my mother was an alcoholic, all right. Yes, she drinks a lot and yea, it's alone and yea, OK, maybe she can't stop. But it doesn't mean she has a problem.

Craig Snow: Why are you covering for her, Jerri?

Jerri Blank: I'm not covering for her, Craig. I'm dealing with this the same why I dealt with my own alcoholism and drug addition- with lies and delusions.

Kenneth Branagh in "Peters Friends". Dudley Moore in "Arthur".

Joan Crawford in everything after circa 1949

Sorry, forgot the apostrophe.

James Gandolfini had some heartbreaking drunk scenes in the Sopranos. I can’t find a clip but I remember one where he was trying to have a heart to heart with Meadow and she blew him off.

Bob Newhart and Jerry the dentist and Howard the navigator ordering Chinese baby food.

Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, although I'm not so sure it was acting.

Catherine O'Hara in Waiting for Guffman, Chinese restaurant scene. Husband Eugene Levy is embarrassed and asks for coffee.

Jeanne Cooper as a drunk Katherine Chancellor.

r26 one of my favorites! She was great in that scene.

Gena Rowlands in "Opening Night."

Thanks R28. Also, it's not Eugene Levy, sorry. It's Fred Willard as the husband.

Julie...plotzed.

Sharon Stone in most of Casino.

[quote]r32 Sharon Stone in most of Casino.

Her awkward but determined walk is so good here.

And I like how she pours the drink, like she’s breaking the approach down into steps - first, hold the glass out too soon, before firmly setting it down. (Alright, glass is okay.) Then lean on the bar as soon as possible, to steady things. (Room’s slightly spinning.)

I used to have to focus like that when I drank too much : )

Eileen Heckart, in The Bad Seed. My personal favorite. She lost the 1957 supporting actress Oscar to Dorothy Malone (Written in the Wind).

Anthony Andrews in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

R35 That’s a great example. He was so beautiful as Sebastian and watching him descend into alcoholism and dissipation was tragic.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Especially these 2 scenes:

Liz opens fridge, pulls a drumstick off of a chicken, takes a bite, and puts the drumstick back.

Liz and male from the other couple "dance."

I'm convinced that Liz and Dick were not sober when filming Virginia Woolf. That wasn't really acting that they were doing.

Miss Lange as Sister Jude.

Miss Lange as Joan Crawford.

r34, heartbreaking! More sad because as drunk as she was, she KNEW something wasn’t right about her son’s death and Rhoda Penmark knew something.

Eileen Heckart hit it out of the park every time. She was a wonderful character actress, one of the best ever. She eventually won Best Supporting Actress for Butterflies Are Free.

Semi-drunk acting by Shirley MacLaine in Postcards from the Edge. "It twiiiirrrrrled UP!"

R43 I love when Shirl is making a smoothie, putting all kinds of healthy things in it, and then glugs in half a bottle of Stoli.

[quote]Liz and male from the other couple

Really, r37?

Gladiator

Vera in Back Street

I thought a young Ed Westwick portrayed a drunk Chuck convincingly at times on Gossip Girl.

r44, that scene cracks me up every time.

Evan Peters in "Mare of Easttown"

Colin Zabel was a tragic figure.

Nadia drinking the drug blood in What We Do in the Shadows

Bogie In a Lonely Place

Denholm Elliott in Trading Places - drinking the dregs of the guests glasses during the Eddie Murphy party scene, and in the train dressed as a whiskey priest.

Lucy in Yours, Mine and Ours.

James Mason in A Star is Born (1954)