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Oscars Retrospective: The Bridge on the River Kwai (30th Academy Awards Review Pt. 2)

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  To see part 1, click  here . 3:10 to Yuma Suite~George Duning - 3:10 to Yuma The 30th Academy Awards has a surprisingly grim story attached to it though it’s a good case study to show how these guys’ minds work. The husbands of Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner were both tragically killed shortly before this event (Mike Todd and Johnny Stompanato respectively). This being Hollywood, the big question was less about how these deaths were affecting the people in question and more about which death was more likely to win the respective actress the Academy Award for Best Leading Actress as a condolence prize (Taylor for Raintree County and Turner for Peyton Place ; both films are boring Oscar bait and not worth discussing). Instead the award went to relative newcomer Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve a now-forgotten drama where Woodward plays a woman with multiple personality disorder. Despite this being an acting trick that the Academy normally loves, the film is actually very g