Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like Oscar Wilde's strong-minded dowager, Lady Bracknell, Madame de Sévigné held that "health is the primary duty of life." She was her daughter's full-time amateur diagnostician, strongly opposed to bloodletting, but an advocate of "viper soup," i.e., snake consomme. Often Madame de Sévigné sounds rather like a faded copy of "Versailles Confidential." ("At one fell stroke the other day, the Queen lost 20,000 crowns and missed hearing Mass.") Letter-Writer De Sévigné is more fun when she is consciously making her own mots...
...once, in 1953, Bill broke through. In the midst of a box-office slump, three Holden pictures-Stalag 17, The Moon Is Blue, Escape from Fort Bravo-hit hard. And for Stalag, in which he played a scrounging U.S. sergeant in a German prison camp, Holden won an Oscar as the year's best actor. He deserved it. The boy next door had become the type in the back room, with rat-grey skin and rat-quick eyes and a furtive softness in the way he moved; for the first time, Bill had almost managed to lose himself...
Culture & Contracts. After the Oscar, Bill had his pick of parts at every studio, and he picked them shrewdly. With each successive hit-Executive Suite, Sabrina, The Country Girl, The Bridges of Toko-Ri-he grew bigger at the box office. From Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing his studio is now sure to gross at least $10 million...
...Oscar" Nominations (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Presented for the Motion Picture Academy by William Holden, Judy Holliday, Edmond O'Brien, Celeste Holm...