The nominees were ...
- Joan Crawford in Possessed
- Susan Hayward in Smash-Up -- The Story of a Woman
- Dorothy McGuire in Gentleman's Agreement
- Rosalind Russell in Mourning Becomes Electra
- Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter
- Joan Crawford in Possessed
- Jane Greer in Out of the Past
- Susan Hayward in Smash-Up -- The Story of a Woman
- Deborah Kerr in Black Narcissus
- Maureen O'Hara in Miracle on 34th Street
And the Oscar went to ...
Loretta Young in The Farmer's Daughter.
Like the year's best actor winner, Ronald Colman, Young had begun her career in silent movies, making her screen debut when she was three years old and appearing regularly in movies starting in 1927 when she was in her teens. She made scores of movies in the 1930s and early '40s, often in leading roles, without quite becoming a major star. Her Oscar-winning role was her breakthrough, though the part of the Swedish-American farm girl who runs for Congress became hers only after Ingrid Bergman had turned it down. Even then, Rosalind Russell had been expected to win the Oscar for her role in Mourning Becomes Electra, but that film's miserable failure at the box office apparently doomed Russell's chances. Young received one more nomination, for Come to the Stable, and then turned her attention to television, where her series of half-hour dramas, "The Loretta Young Show," ran from 1953 to 1961. After a second attempt at a series, a "dramedy" called "The New Loretta Young Show" was canceled in 1963 after one season, she retired. In 1999, Young, a devout Roman Catholic, finally admitted publicly that her "adopted" daughter, Judy, was in fact the product of her affair in 1935 with Clark Gable.
... when it should have gone to ...
 |
| Jane Greer |
Greer is more honored today than she was during her film career, just as Out of the Past, which gave her her greatest role, was ignored by the Academy but is now regarded as a film noir classic, added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry in 1991. She plays the definitive noir femme fatale, concealing her murderous and larcenous aims behind a mask of innocence. Unfortunately, she was under contract to Howard Hughes, who kept a tight rein on her career, so she had little opportunity to establish herself as a major star. After appearing in several more films, including a reteaming with Robert Mitchum in The Big Steal, she began working primarily in television. In 1984 she returned to the movies for Against All Odds, a remake of Out of the Past, playing the mother of the character she had played in the earlier film. She also had recurring roles in the TV series Falcon Crest and Twin Peaks.
_02.jpg) |
| Jane Greer and Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past |
No comments:
Post a Comment