Do you think Clarire Trevor deserved thr Oscar?
"Ahhh!...and boom goes the dynamite."
Yes.
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shareBest Actress in a Supporting Role
WINNER
Key Largo: Claire Trevor
NOMINEES
Hamlet: Jean Simmons
I Remember Mama: Barbara Bel Geddes
I Remember Mama: Ellen Corby
Johnny Belinda: Agnes Moorehead
I must confess that I've never seen I Remember Mama nor Johnny Belinda. Bel Geddes and Moorehead are generally pretty good, but I don't know the roles and haven't seen or heard anything specific about those performances. Off the top of my head, I don't think that I even know who Corby is. As a general rule of Oscar voting: whenever two from the same movie are nominated in the same category, they tend to "split the vote" so that neither wins.
Simmons was a pretty good Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet, but didn't strike me as being so exceptional that her losing the Oscar to Trevor was an injustice.
Trevor was superb. Even after looking at the list of nominees, I can't think of anybody that I consider to have been robbed in that category that year. So, I'm fine with Trevor's win here.
I've seen I remember Mama and Hamlet and while my mother would disagree with me because she saw I remember Mama and loved the performances in that film, but I feel that Claire Trevor deserved that Oscar she completely sold her character as this washed up alcoholic singer.
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