Blind Item #2 - Old Hollywood
In these days, people will spend a ton on publicity or get pregnant or married and get their wife pregnant to try and win an Academy Award. Back in the day though, this permanent A+ list mostly movie actress with A++ list name recognition convinced the voting members that she was in the hospital and barely clinging to life. She won. Remarkably she was fit and ready to accept the award and partied for 72 straight hours afterwards.
Joan crawford
ReplyDeleteLiz Taylor?
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ReplyDeleteGone are the days of getting pregnant to save a marriage or to trap a man. Lol
ReplyDeleteJoan Crawford/Mildred Pierce. Liz Taylor really was at death's door.
ReplyDeleteIn Eddie Fisher's memoir, he talks about how congested she wss because of double pneumonia, she was choking to death on phleghm and needed an emergency tracheotomy. It really was no put-on.
ReplyDeleteRight! Well known Joan stayed away out of fear she'd lose. Partied after her win
ReplyDeleteSo what would we call the child, an "Oscar baby"?
ReplyDeleteNope - no faking from Taylor. She really did almost die. Her throat was full of thick dark mucous - apologies to those eating while reading this - and had to have an emergency tracteostomy. This is Joan Crawford.
ReplyDeleteCrawford claimed to have the flu, so she wouldn't have to fake a polite smile if sheost, but nothing more serious. She even received the press in her bedroom and was photographed lying in bed, wearing a rather fetching bed-jacket, as she cuddled her Oscar.
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