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...their roles as the grass-roots demagogue and his hard-bitten secretary in All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford won the Academy Award for the year's best male performance and radio's Mercedes McCambridge, playing her first screen part, took the Oscar for the best job by a supporting actress. The Academy voted the best-actress award (her second) to Olivia de Havilland for playing the jilted wallflower in The Heiress, and recognized a bald Dean Jagger's retread adjutant in Twelve O'Clock High as the best male supporting performance...
...King's Men. Broderick Craw ford as a ruthless backwoods politico who strongly suggests the late Huey Long (TIME...
...Broderick Crawford deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Willie Stark. Crawford, an ex-grade B gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; with Broderick Crawford (TIME...
...best performances, the Film Critics named Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men and Olivia de Havilland (for the second year in a row) for her work in The Heiress. The critics' honors for direction went to Carol Reed's staging of The Fallen Idol. Ignoring actresses, the National Board chose Ralph Richardson as the best performer, for his roles in both The Fallen Idol and The Heiress, and singled out De Sica for the director's kudos...