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There are Hollywood golden age events that are impossible to imagineJoan Crawford Accepted his Oscar definitively corresponds to this bill. During the 1946Oscars, Crawford was not at the show when she was named the actress's best winner - this part is not so strange. But, what would probably never happen in Hollywood today is that Crawford has accepted her bed price with her hair and makeup made and journalists at home to cover her. The waterfall was a feeling, attracting Crawford even more attention than it would have received it if it had attended the prices in person.

Crawford's reasoning on the reason she was not at the price show changed over the years until her death in 1977. Read the rest to discover what led to her emblematic diva display.

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Crawford won his Oscar for the 1945 filmMildred Pierce, which was considered a return for the star, who made her debut in the 1920s. She played the title role in the film Noir on a single mother. Crawford continued to receive two other Oscar nominations: in 1948 forPossesses and in 1953 forSudden fear, both for the best actress.

As indicated by theNew York Post,,Crawford wrote in his 1962 memories,,A portrait of Joan, that she jumped the Oscars because she was sick.

"On the evening of the prices, I was running a temperature of 104. I was suffering from flu since last week, the shootingHumorous… The flu coupled with the nervous tension to be eligible for an Oscar made me tremble with chills and fever, "she said. She also said that she was all ready to go to the show, but Her doctor ordered that she stays in bed. " We had a great time that night, and I was so overheated, the fever broke, "she wrote.

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In another Crawford account, the nerves played a greater role in its decision.

"I was afraid of losing," she told the biographerCharlotte Chandler (via theNew York Post), who published the bookNot the girl next door in 2008. Crawford said she was thinkingIngrid Bergman was going to win forThe bells of St. Mary's. Bergman had already won the previous yearLight.

"The tension is so terrible when you are sitting there while waiting," said Crawford. "Waiting for the best actress means sitting there almost all evening. You must look composed and applaud at all good times ... So, when you lose, and I was sure that I should sit down through The last prices carrying your best face ... I would not know which part to play after hearing the words that someone else had won, probably Ingrid. "

In the 1980 bookConversations with Joan Crawford byRoy Newquist, Crawford said that she had drunk to face her nerves.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I remember what I felt at night when the prices were awarded," she said (via theNew York Post). "Hope, frightened, worried, so afraid that I do not remember what I meant, terrified about looking at these people, almost hoping that I would not get it, but I want it so much - Do not ask me that I did not do it all ... I stayed at home and I strengthened, probably a little too much, because when the announcement arrived, then the press, and a kind of party, I didn't make much sense at all, even if I wanted to spread. "

While Crawford said that she had legitimate personal reasons for accepting her Oscar as she did, it was theorized that it was all a stroke of advertising - something Crawford did not hesitate. And inviting the press in her room to photograph her by holding her price made the actor the biggest story of the night.

"I'm sure she enjoyed it", Turner Classic Films'Dave Karger said toNew York Post. "The majority of the speeches concerned her best victory for the actress." He added: "I don't think there is someone who would have the guts, or perhaps the lack of self-awareness, to try one of the stunts that Joan Crawford has tried over the years. She did not seem to have no shame - and not a problem showing the industry how much she wanted. "

Another apparent hit came to the 1963 Oscars whenCrawford acceptedAnne Bancroft award On his behalf after having carried out a campaign against his rival, Bette Davis . According Vanity , gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wrote on the night: "When it comes to giving or stealing a show, no one can lead Joan Crawford."

Crawford died in 1977 after a career that lasted five decades. In 2012, his Oscar went to auction and Sold for $ 426 732 , as reported by NPR.

Nate D. Sanders Auctions, who sold the infamous statuette, included A quote that Crawford gave to journalists During the night of his victory in the list: "If the voters of the academy gave me the Oscar, sentimentally, for Milled Or for 200 years of effort, hell with him - I deserved him. ""