Joan Crawford: Faking Illness (1946)
Joan Crawford fell into a career slump during the early 1940s and was deemed box office poison.
Then, after getting fired from her longtime home studio of MGM, she gave the performance of her life as a working-class single mother in Mildred Pierce, making her the favorite for 1946’s best actress prize.
Still, nervous about her chances, she skipped the show, claiming to be ill. But after she did win, the film’s director Michael Curtiz and co-star Ann Blyth delivered the statuette to her bedside, bringing photographers with them.
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