Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar for 1952's "best actor" was presented in absentia to durable Gary Cooper for his performance as the cow-town marshal in High Noon. In Manhattan, Broadway's Shirley Booth, whose slatternly housewife in Come Back, Little Sheba was her first screen role, stumbled excitedly up the steps to the stage. But the Hollywood audience, watching the big-screen TV, also saw her gracefully walk off with a well-deserved award for "best actress...
Perhaps in a sentimental mood, the academy gave the Oscar for "best picture" to Cinema Pioneer Cecil B. DeMille, 71, for his moneymaking circus extravaganza, The Greatest Show on Earth (already No. 2 on Hollywood's list of all-time big grossers...
Among other Oscar winners...
...Best direction: John Ford for The Quiet Man (his fourth Oscar...
...Best two-reel short subject: Walt Disney's Water Birds (Disney's 18th Oscar...