Sunday Video: Oscar-nominated Liza Minnelli’s brilliant telephone scene in 1969’s “The Sterile Cuckoo”

The great Liza Minnelli turned 76 yesterday.

It’s fun to celebrate her amazing career.

When I watched this scene from The Sterile Cuckoo again recently, it served a reminder of what a wonderful actress a young Liza was earning best actress Oscar nominations for two of her first films. She won for Cabaret but a few years earlier earned a well-deserved nod for The Sterile Cuckoo.

The telephone scene from Cuckoo is a brilliant piece of acting was shot in one take.

Liza had a big hit with 1981’s Arthur and I think she was tremendous in New York, New York. But films have not been kind to her with bombs like Lucky Lady, A Matter of Time, and Rent-A-Cop. But she’s made up for it on Broadway and her tremendous live shows.