Oscars Scandals: Grace Kelly (“Country Girl”) Beats Judy Garland (“Star Is Born”)

Grace Kelly Oscar: Comedian Groucho Marx sent Judy consolatory telegram: “Dear Judy. This is the biggest robbery since Brink’s.”

A Child Is Waiting (1963): John Cassavetes’ Mainstream Hollywood, Starring Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands

Cassavetes’s “A Child is Waiting,” his only effort at a more mainstream cinema, is one of his weakest films, a result of a series of compromises.