Oscar Quiz: Best Actress
*Name the first black woman who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar?
Dorothy Dandridge, Carmon Jones, 1954
*Name the year in which 2 of the Best Actress nominees played biographical Roles?
1955:
Susan Hayward, I’ll Cry Tomorrow, as alcoholic Lillian Roth
Eleanor Parker, Interrupted melody, as polio-stricken Marjorie Lawrence
In the same year, Doris Day also made a biopic, Love Me Or Leave Me, as Ruth Etting (opposite James Cagney), but she did not win a nomination.
All three films were made by Warners and were critical as well as commercial hits.
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