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Films Featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe Winning Performance: Some Like It Hot, the Apartment, as Good as It Get
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155529981
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Some Like It Hot, the Apartment, as Good as It Gets, the Goodbye Girl, Being There, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Chicago, Lost in Translation, Singin' in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Around the World in 80 Days, a Star Is Born, Walk the Line, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the Player, Pocketful of Miracles, the Moon Is Blue, Scrooge, Three Little Words, a Star Is Born, Ray, the Seven Year Itch, Pal Joey, Educating Rita, on the Riviera. Excerpt: A Star Is Born A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film directed by George Cukor . The screenplay written by Moss Hart was an adaptation of the original 1937 film , which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson , Dorothy Parker , and Alan Campbell . In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film ranked #43 on the American Film Institute 's 100 Years... 100 Passions list in 2002 and #7 on its list of best musicals in 2006. The song "The Man That Got Away " was ranked #11 on AFI's list of the 100 top tunes in films . Star Judy Garland had not made a movie since she had been dropped from her MGM contract soon after filming began on Royal Wedding in 1950, and the film was promoted heavily as her comeback. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and NBC , which was televising the ceremony, sent a film crew to the hospital room where she was recuperating after giving birth to her son Joey in order to carry her acceptance speech live if she won, but she lost to Grace Kelly for The Country Girl . Plot Norman Maine is a former matinee idol whose career is in the early stages of
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Films Featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe Winning Performance: Some Like It Hot, the Apartment, as Good as It Get
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