απονομή Όσκαρ 1960
32η απονομή βραβείων Όσκαρ
για ταινίες του 1959
Highlights
of the Academy Awards
Modern
Screen magazine July 1960
Θεάματα
Κινηματογραφικά
Ben
Hur (1959)
όσκαρ Α΄ ανδρικού ρόλου:
Charlton Heston (Ben Hur)
συνυποψήφιοι:
Lawrence
Harvey (Room at the Top)
Jack
Lemmon (Some Like it Hot)
Paul
Muni (The Last Angry Man)
James
Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder)
Όσκαρ Α΄ γυναικείου ρόλου:
Simome Signoret (Room at the Top)
συνυποψήφιες:
Doris
Day (Pillow Talk)
Audrey
Hepburn (The Nun’s Story)
Katharine
Hepburn (Suddenly Last Summer)
Elizabeth
Tayrol (Suddenly Last Summer)
Όσκαρ Β΄ ανδρικού ρόλου:
Hugh Griffith (Ben Hur)
συνυποψήφιοι:
Arthur
O’Connell
George
C. Scott
Robert
Vaugn
Ed
Wynn
Όσκαρ Β΄ γυναικείου ρόλου:
Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)
συνυποψήφιες:
Hermione
Baddeley
Susan
Kohner
Juanita
Moore
Thelma
Ritter
Βραβείο σκηνοθεσίας:
William Wyler (Ben Hur)
συνυποψήφιοι:
George
Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank)
Fred
Zinnemann (The Nun’s Story)
Jack
Clayton (Room at the Top)
Billy
Wilder (Some Like it Hot)
Καλύτερη ταινία:
Ben Hur
Highlights
of the Academy Awards
Simone
Signoret was almost ill from nerves — she was shaking all over and her hair
was sticking to her forehead — an hour after she received her Oscar. When I
congratulated her at the Ball at the Beverly Hilton, she looked like she’d been
under a sprinkler and kept saying, ‘Thank you, Madame — I am so excited now I
have forgotten all my English — and I practice so hard.”
Every time Charlton Heston (who had not expected to win) stood up at his table
to receive congratulations, he’d grab his Oscar in one hand, then lean down and
give Lydia (Mrs. Heston) another kiss. No wife was ever so thoroughly bussed in
public by an Oscar winner! ...
The gowns were the most costly ever worn
to an Oscar night:
Natalie
Wood's short and stunning chalk-white jewel-embroidered creation cost $650,
with an added $75 for her shoes made of the same material .. .
Doris
Day’s floor-length sheath, solidly encrusted with silver-white bugle beads,
cost $1,000;
Janet
Leigh's nude chiffon on which were crocheted 186,000 gold bugle beads,
weighed twenty-one pounds and was so expensive she won't tell how much—but it
was plenty.
Another magnificent gown in the $1,000
bracket was Anna Maria Alberghetti's
all-over jewelled white Italian brocade with sheath front and great overskirt.
And, three-time loser Liz Taylor (I must say she was a gracious loser and most
complimentary about the winners) didn’t pick up that Grecian styled white
French jersey with its white mink-lined jacket for peanuts. When I stopped by
Elizabeth's table, she was smiling.
Liz Taylor and Simon Signoret
Liz Taylor, Yves Montand, Eddie Fisher
όρθια η Simon
Signoret
Speaking of clothes, the ecstatically happy Shelley Winters ("I waited fifteen
years for this Oscar’’) said she didn’t know how to dress. "I didn't know
whether to go ‘low and sexy’ or covered-up and dignified,’’ said Shelley, so
she settled for a conservative black lace and jersey. She told me that her
husband Tony Franciosa, her mother, daughter and thirty friends yelled and
screamed so much watching the show from New York that a neighbor called the
police!
The biggest and most spontaneous hand from
the audience inside the Pantages Theater went to Olivia De Havilland, the lovely young Hollywood ‘veteran’ returning
from France to make one of the presentations.
Stephen
Boyd (who should have had a nomination for Ben-Hur and didn't) almost
vaulted over the railing when Charlton Heston arrived at the banquet and was
one of the first to congratulate the winner.
Although Steve's date at the Ball was lovely
Romney Tree (from his native Belfast) he was overheard whispering to someone at
his table, "Have you seen Hope Lange here?” She had been at the theater — but
I don't believe she came to the Ball.
Beaming Ben-Hur director William Wyler had lipstick all over his
face and after I added some of my own I asked if he would like it wiped off,
“Oh, no!’ he protested. “It’s been too much fun getting it there.”
And so, another of Hollywood's biggest nights
goes into the history books.
Parties... Parties every night
The Academy Awards always inspire a lot
of social activity and the week before Oscar night was a big one for lovely
affairs.
Olivia De Havilland’s old friends vied with
each other to welcome her — and her handsome journalist husband Pierre Galante
back to her old home town after so many years of living in France.
At the dinner given by the Lew Schreibers,
Livvy looked like a vision in white lace with that authentic Paris look. But it
takes real inner happiness to give a gal that glow Olivia wears these days — and
she is very happy with Pierre.
Natalie
Wood and Bob Wagner were there —
excited about their coming-up trip to New York with Liz and Eddie Fisher.
Natalie was ‘previewing’ the new hairdo she later wore to the Academy Awards,
short and straight with a-sweep of bangs across her forehead.
This same night MGM production head Sol Siegel and his wife hosted a joint
birthday party honoring Sol and Mrs. Walter Lang. It was so amusing to note
that William Wyler (everyone was
sure he was a cinch for best director Oscar for Ben-Hur which, of course, he
won) kept reminding people “there’s many a slip, etc. whenever he was
congratulated in ‘advance.’
Rossano
Brazzi and his Lidia were there and if there’s a more handsome man than
Rossano I don’t know who he is —much more handsome than he photographs, I
think.
Several people kept telling June Haver MacMurray that they liked
her better as a blonde than with her new black hair but the man who matters, Fred MacMurray, voted for the brunette
June — and with her, that’s all that counts.
Groucho
Marx, with cigar of course, was in a serious frame of mind about affairs in
and out of Hollywood and cracked no jokes.
The Sunday night before the Oscars, another
party was given for Olivia and Pierre by Frank McCarthy and Rupert Allen at the
Beverly Hills Hotel. Saw many of the same guests we had seen at previous
affairs — but a standout was Hope Lange,
who is really a beauty. She hasn't been dating much since her separation from Don Murray — but if the smitten
bachelors in this town have their way she soon will be.
Following this cocktail party, Jimmy McHugh
and I went on to the home of Joan (Mrs. Harry) Cohn who was entertaining at a
dinner honoring Laurence Harvey, and
later giving her guests a look at his British-made comedy Expresso Bongo.
This really looked like a preview of the
Oscar contestants — so many were present and wishing each other well (with
their fingers crossed, I suppose).
Elizabeth
Taylor and Eddie Fisher had just
flown in that morning from New York and I saw them chatting with Simone Signoret —both ladies in the
running for best actress prize.
Pretty, fresh-looking Susan Kohner (herself contending in best supporting-actress) was
there with George Hamilton — who
else?
Susan Kohner was done up in a most exotic style — a truly
beautiful oriental costume.
Laurence
Harvey and Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher had much to talk about as
all three are stars of the (strike) interrupted Butterfield 8 and at that
time they were wondering when they would be back at work again. (Come ten days
later.)
Yes, Oscar time is a big
season in Hollywood.
ΜΕΡΟΣ Β΄
Συμπλήρωμα για την
ταινία “Ben
Hur”
More Than 51,000,000 Have Seen 'Ben-Hur'
NEW YORK — Now in its third year, MGM’s “Ben-Hur”
had been seen by more than 51,000,000 people in its first 5,400 engagements
through December 1961. “Ben-Hur” had its world premiere at Loew’s
State Theatre, New York, in November 1959 and, in 1960, won 11 Academy Awards.
Of these
30,000,000 people saw the William Wyler production in its 3,500 domestic
engagements to date and 21,000,000 in its 1,900 dates overseas. It is now
estimated that the worldwide audience for “Ben-Hur” will exceed 90,000,000.
In 17 of
these engagements, “Ben-Hur” had a continuous run of more than a
year, prior to its subsequent release in a limited number of neighborhood
theatre engagements. These include first runs in New York, Los Angeles, Boston,
Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Portland, Ore., Denver, Seattle,
Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, B.C., and, overseas, London, Tokyo, Sydney and
Melbourne. In London, “Ben-Hur” is in its 105th week and has grossed
over $2,000,000 at the boxoffice.
This figure
was exceeded only by Loew’s State in New York, which grossed $3,000,000 during
its 75-week run, and the Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, which ended its 98-week
run with a boxoffice figure of more than $2,200,000. Cities which topped the
$1,000,000 mark include Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco and
Tokyo, with Sydney also approaching the $1,000,000 goal.
Theatres also
benefited from the sale of the “Ben-Hur” souvenir books, with Tokyo leading
with 225,000 copies purchased, followed by New York, with 126,095 copies sold,
and Los Angeles, with 119,474 copies. The total souvenir books sold throughout
the world is 2,750,000, including 300,000 purchased as part of the MGM Records
album.
The novel
itself gained new popularity since the picture’s release. First published
in 1880, “Ben-Hur” now has had 150 editions published in England alone.
MGM now has “King of Kings”
playing reserved seat engagements in major key cities and the MGM-Cinerama
productions, “How
the West Was Won” and “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm,”
plus “Mutiny
on the Bounty,” set for hard-ticket release in the next 12 to 18
months.
Boxoffice magazine, January 1, 1962,
p. 15.
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