Subtitle of this post could be: ”I’m MRS. Norman Maine”… See the film clip, at end of this Oscar Prep post.
A Star Is Born
From “The Envelope” — LA Times, which also happens to be Pete Hammond, one of my favorite Oscar ‘Oscarologists’…
Film 'Title Card'
“A Star Is Born,” both the 1937 and 1954 versions. Watch the classic scene where a drunken Norman Maine disrupts his wife’s big Academy Award moment.
“California Suite” (1978), a Neil Simon comedy in which Maggie Smith became the first person to actually WIN an Oscar for playing an Oscar also-ran for spitting out lines like, “I won’t really get pissed until AFTER I lose”.
“Susan Slept Here” (1954), Debbie Reynolds and Dick Powell comedy which is actually narrated by the Oscar statuette itself!
“The Star” (1952), Bette Davis got a nomination as a drunken has-been actress with only an Oscar to keep her warm at night.
“The Oscar” (1966), of course the granddaddy kitsch classic of all Oscar’s movie roles. The story of Frankie Faine, an up-from-the-gutter contender for the industry’s highest award who wanted to “swallow up Hollywood like a cat swallows a canary.”
…Davis’ [as] Margaret Elliott in “The Star” :
“Come on Oscar, let’s you and me go get drunk!”
Like this list! Nice little shout-out to these films the night before the BIG Night…haha well done.
I love these posts thank you =)