And the nominees were ...
- Barbara Bel Geddes in I Remember Mama
- Ellen Corby in I Remember Mama
- Agnes Moorehead in Johnny Belinda
- Jean Simmons in Hamlet
- Claire Trevor in Key Largo
- Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair
- Agnes Moorehead in Johnny Belinda
- Jarmila Novotna in The Search
- Jean Simmons in Hamlet
- Claire Trevor in Key Largo
And the Oscar went to ...
Trevor plays the alcoholic mistress of a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) in Key Largo, which was typical of her lot in films. Her first Oscar nomination was for the syphilitic prostitute in Dead End, and she played the whore cast out by the respectable townswomen in Stagecoach. After starting her acting career on Broadway, she came to Hollywood in 1933, toiling steadily in B-pictures before her breakthrough in Dead End and Stagecoach. Even the Oscar failed to propel her to major stardom, however, and after a third nomination in 1954 for The High and the Mighty, she did a mixture of television and smaller film roles.
... when it should have gone to ...
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| Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair |
Billy Wilder certified his reputation for cynicism by setting a romantic comedy in the ruins of Berlin. Jean Arthur plays a starchy congresswoman who comes to the ruined city on a fact-finding tour and falls in love with an officer (John Lund) whose mistress (Dietrich) is a cabaret singer and former Nazi. Taking the role was a daring move for Dietrich, who had become an American citizen in 1939 and spent the war in grueling tours entertaining the U.S. troops, which earned her the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. It also earned her the animosity of some of her fellow Germans. When she returned to Germany in 1960 for a concert tour, she was met with protests in the press and the streets, but the support of the popular West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt helped smooth things over.
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| Dietrich and Jean Arthur in A Foreign Affair |
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