The nominees were ...
Trained as an opera singer, Paxinou became a celebrated stage actress in Greece, where she was one of the founders of the National Theatre. She starred in her own translation of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, and was acclaimed for her work in Chekhov and Strindberg. She was performing in London when war broke out, and was unable to return home, so she came to the United States, where she had previously appeared on stage. Her performance as Pilar, the leader of the guerrilla cadre, was her screen debut. Her performance is one of the highlights of an otherwise unsatisfying adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, its story weakened and sapped of its flavor by the censors. Paxinou made only a few movies after For Whom the Bell Tolls, notably Mourning Becomes Electra, Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin, and Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. She returned to Greece after the war, but made occasional stage and television appearances in Britain and America.
- Gladys Cooper in The Song of Bernadette
- Paulette Goddard in So Proudly We Hail!
- Katina Paxinou in For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Anne Revere in The Song of Bernadette
- Lucile Watson in Watch on the Rhine
... when they should have been ...
- Patricia Collinge in Shadow of a Doubt
- Paulette Goddard in So Proudly We Hail!
- Charlotte Greenwood in The Gang's All Here
- Lena Horne in Cabin in the Sky
- Katina Paxinou in For Whom the Bell Tolls
And the Oscar went to ...
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| Paxinou as Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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