Oscars 1952: Stage to Screen


“I don’t think it’s fair I win,” Shirley Booth said after receiving the Best Actress Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba, her movie debut. “There is all the difference in the world between playing a character more than a thousand times, as I did, and getting your lines on the set in the morning and having to face the camera with them in the afternoon.” Hers was not a popular opinion among award givers, as, prior to her Oscar win, Booth received Best Actress recognition from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the Golden Globes. Even fellow nominee Joan Crawford expressed her support, telling reporters prior to the Oscar ceremony that “I bet on Shirley to win.”
BEST PICTURE
The Greatest Show on Earth
BEST DIRECTOR
John Ford, The Quiet Man
BEST ACTOR
Gary Cooper, High Noon
BEST ACTRESS
Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Anthony Quinn, Viva Zapata!
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Gloria Grahame, The Bad and the Beautiful
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