Joan Crawford (1946)

1946 Oscars: Joan Crawford, Best Actress for "Mildred Pierce" (1945)

So another Oscar night has come and gone. I watched part of the ceremonies: Neil Patrick Harris rocked the opening; Steven Martin and Alec Baldwin were not as good as they usually were on SNL; best actor/actress tributes were touching; Farrah Fawcett was notably absent from In Memoriam and Tom Hank's Best Picture announcement was…

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Two of this year's Oscar Best Picture nominees - The Artist and Hugo - pay tribute to Hollywood's golden age. In this picture gallery, we look back at the glamour of Tinseltown at its tinsliest.

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The 18th Academy Awards was the first such ceremony after World War II. As a result, the ceremony featured more glamour than had been present during the war.

Best Actor winner for The Lost Weekend

As Hollywood legend has it, Joan Crawford feigned illness before the 1946 Academy Award ceremony. Nominated for her starring role in Mildred Pierce—which many people considered her comeback vehicle after a two-year absence from the screen—Crawford believed that Ingrid Bergman would win the Oscar for The Bells of St. Mary’s and did not want to be present for the loss. After discovering that she had won, however, she reportedly applied her makeup and invited members of the press into her bedroom as she accepted her statuette in bed. Can you guess how much the legendary Oscar—the only Academy Award that Crawford won in her nearly five-decade career—sold for on the auction block on Tuesday?

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