Who won the 1954 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film 'Country Girl'?
"The Country Girl (1954 film) The Country Girl is a 1954 American drama film directed by George Seaton and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and William Holden. Adapted by George Seaton from Clifford Odets' 1950 play of the same name, the film is about an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he has been given to resurrect his career. Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. It was entered in the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Kelly won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, which previously had earned Uta Hagen her first"
"The Country Girl (1950 play) The Country Girl is a 1950 dramatic play by American playwright Clifford Odets which was subsequently adapted as a film of the same name in 1954. Uta Hagen played the title role of Georgie Elgin in its original production, alongside Paul Kelly as her husband Frank, and Steven Hill as theatre director Bernie Dodd. The production was directed by Odets, and ran for 30 weeks, accumulating 235 performances, from November 10, 1950 to June 2, 1951. Hagen received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, and set designer Boris Aronson also won for"
"1954. Subsequently, she had leading roles in five films, including ""The Country Girl"" (1954) with Bing Crosby, for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Other films include ""High Noon"" (1952), with Gary Cooper; ""High Society"" (1956), with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra; and three Alfred Hitchcock films: ""Dial M for Murder"" (1954), with Ray Milland; ""Rear Window"" (1954), with James Stewart; ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955), with Cary Grant. Kelly retired from acting at the age of 26 to marry Rainier, and began her duties as Princess of Monaco. They had three children: Caroline,"
"nomination in 1954. Subsequently, she had leading roles in five films, including ""The Country Girl"" (1954), for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Other films include ""High Noon"" (1952) with Gary Cooper, ""Dial M for Murder"" (1954) with Ray Milland, ""Rear Window"" (1954) with James Stewart, ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955) with Cary Grant, and ""High Society"" (1956) with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Kelly retired from acting at the age of 26 to marry Rainier and began her duties as Princess of Monaco. They had three children: Caroline, Albert II, and Stéphanie. Kelly"
"dresses, but this wardrobe changed to ordinary-looking cardigans and ""house dresses"" toward the end of the film. As a result of her performance in ""The Country Girl"", Kelly was nominated for and ultimately won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Her main competitor was Judy Garland for her performance in ""A Star Is Born"". After receiving the Oscar nomination, Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954: ""Rear Window"", ""Dial M For Murder"", and ""The Country Girl"". At the Golden Globe Awards in 1955, Garland"
"Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and, in the run-up to the 27th Academy Awards, was generally expected to win for ""A Star Is Born"". She could not attend the ceremony because she had just given birth to her son, Joseph Luft, so a television crew was in her hospital room with cameras and wires to broadcast her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by Grace Kelly for ""The Country Girl"" (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly could even reach the stage. Groucho Marx sent Garland a telegram after the awards"
"and Kelly both won awards for their respective performances. Garland won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, and Kelly won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. With every film, Kelly received greater acclaim. ""The New York Times"" praised her performance in ""The Country Girl"" as ""excellent"", and ""Rear Window"" got her marquee credits on a par with, and beyond, those of James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock. In April 1954, Kelly flew to Colombia for a 10-day shoot on her next project, ""Green Fire"", with"
"Best Scenic Design. The play was subsequently remounted on Broadway twice, in 1972 with Maureen Stapleton and Jason Robards, and in 2008, with Frances McDormand and Morgan Freeman. It was also produced twice Off-Broadway, in 1984, with Christine Lahti and Hal Holbrook, and in 1990, with Karen Allen and David Rasche. The play was produced for television twice, in 1974 with Georgie Elgin played by Shirley Knight, and in 1982 by Faye Dunaway. Notes The Country Girl (1950 play) The Country Girl is a 1950 dramatic play by American playwright Clifford Odets which was subsequently adapted as a film of"
"Country"" (1962). In the 1950s, Stanley was a prolific performer in television, and later progressed to film, with a well-received performance in ""The Goddess"" (1959). She was the narrator of ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1962), and starred in ""Séance on a Wet Afternoon"" (1964), for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was less active during the remainder of her career; two of her later film successes were as the mother of Frances Farmer in ""Frances"" (1982), for which she received a nomination"
"year, she portrayed a long-suffering wife of an alcoholic actor played by Bing Crosby in ""The Country Girl"" (1954) for which Kelly received the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama in 1955. She reteamed with Hitchcock on the romantic thriller ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955) opposite Cary Grant. In 1956, she appeared in the romantic comedy ""The Swan"", and the musical comedy ""High Society"". Later that year, the 26-year-old Kelly retired from acting to marry Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and become the Princess of Monaco. Grace"
"an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe award for her role. Then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan stated in his personal diary that this film ""was a blatant propaganda message against our agri programs"". Some members of the U.S. Congress took the film so seriously that Jessica Lange was brought before a congressional panel to testify as an expert about living on family farms. ""Country"" was one of three 1984 films, including ""The River"" and ""Places in the Heart"", that dealt with the perspective of family farm life ""struggles"". Gilbert ""Gil"" Ivy (Sam Shepard) and his wife Jewell (Jessica"
"Girl"" focuses on the effects of alcohol abuse on creativity and marital relations. It was a critical and box office success and was later adapted for a film starring Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. Both actors earned Academy Award nominations for their performances. Kelly won the Best Actress award for her work in the film, and screenwriter George Seaton received an Oscar for his adaptation. Odets' last play was produced on Broadway in 1954. ""The Flowering Peach"" was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955, but under pressure from Joseph Pulitzer Jr., the prize was instead given"
"a full skirted floral dress, and a casual pair of jeans"". On the film's opening in October 1954, Kelly was again praised. ""Variety""s film critic remarked on the casting, commenting on the ""earthy quality to the relationship between Stewart and Miss Kelly"", as ""both do a fine job of the picture's acting demands"". Kelly played the role of Bing Crosby's long-suffering wife, Georgie Elgin, in ""The Country Girl"", after a pregnant Jennifer Jones bowed out. Already familiar with the play, Kelly was highly interested in the part. To do it, MGM would have to lend Kelly to Paramount. Kelly was"
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"12th Golden Globe Awards The 12th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1954, were held on February 24, 1955, in the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. ""On The Waterfront"" directed by Elia Kazan ""Carmen Jones"" directed by Otto Preminger Marlon Brando - ""On The Waterfront"" James Mason - ""A Star Is Born"" Judy Garland - ""A Star Is Born"" Grace Kelly - ""The Country Girl"" Jan Sterling - ""The High and the Mighty"" Edmund O'Brien - ""The Barefoot Contessa"" Elia Kazan - ""On The Waterfront"" ""Sabrina"" - Ernest Lehman Gregory Peck and"
"Patricia Neal Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"" (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in ""Hud"" (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She featured as the matriarch in the television film ""The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"" (1971); her role as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series"
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"as ""The Andy Griffith Show"", ""Bonanza"" and ""Hazel"". She was considered for the roles of Betty Schaefer in ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950), Eve Harrington in ""All About Eve"" (1950), Georgie Elgin in ""The Country Girl"" (1954), and Marylee Hadley in ""Written on the Wind"" (1956), but never got any part (any, if not all, of which would have been instrumental in elevating her career and showcasing her talents as an actress). Tyler appeared on Broadway during her teenage years as the female lead in the 1945 production ""The Firebird of Florence"". Tyler's last appearance on the small screen was in 1961,"
"Month in the Country"", Lisa Banes in 1981's ""Look Back in Anger"", Anthony Heald in 1982's ""Misalliance"", Kate Burton in 1983's ""Winners"", Mark Capri in 1985's ""On Approval"", Lindsay Crouse in 1992's ""The Homecoming"", Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson in 1993's ""Anna Christie"", Calista Flockhart and Kevin Kilner in 1995's ""The Glass Menagerie"", Helen Mirren in 1995's ""A Month in the Country"", Alfred Molina in 1996's ""Molly Sweeney"", Helen Carey in 1997's ""London Assurance"", Alan Cumming in 1998's ""Cabaret"", Henry Czerny in 2000's ""Arms and the Man"", Juliette Binoche in 2001's ""Betrayal"", David Warner in 2002's ""Major Barbara"", Victoria Hamilton"
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"of Kilimanjaro"" (1952), ""The Barefoot Contessa"" (1954), ""Bhowani Junction"" (1956), ""On the Beach"" (1959), ""55 Days at Peking"" (1963), ""Seven Days in May"" (1964), ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1964), """" (1966), ""The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"" (1972), ""Earthquake"" (1974), and ""The Cassandra Crossing"" (1976). Gardner continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in London in 1990, at the age of 67. She is listed 25th among the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Gardner was born near the farming community of Grabtown, North Carolina. She was the"
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"Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American film and theatre actress, singer, and dancer. She is perhaps one of the most famous African-American actresses to have a successful Hollywood career and the first nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1954 film ""Carmen Jones"". Dandridge performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of The Wonder Children, later The Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films, usually in"
"her performance as the self-sacrificing wife Georgie in Clifford Odets' ""The Country Girl"". She won again in 1963 for originating the role of the ""I-wear-the-pants-in-this-family-because-somebody's-got-to"" Martha in Edward Albee's ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"". (An original cast recording was made of this show.) In 1981 she was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame and in 1999 received a ""Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award"". Hagen considered the period between 1938 and 1947 as ""the transitional years of my career, during which I lost my way and a love of acting until I finally regained it to begin a true"
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"her in her hometown of Covington, KY. Una Merkel Una Merkel (December 10, 1903 – January 2, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress. Merkel was born in Kentucky and acted on stage in New York in the 1920s. She went to Hollywood in 1930 and became a popular film actress. Two of her best-known performances are in the films ""42nd Street"" and ""Destry Rides Again"". She won a Tony Award in 1956 and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1961. Una Merkel was born in Covington, Kentucky, to Arno Merkel and Bessie Phares, but in"
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