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Harold Russell

Born: January 14, 1914, North Sydney, Nova Scotia.

1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (Oscar Winner: Best Supporting Actor)

1980: Inside Moves

1997: Dogtown

Died: January 29, 2002, Needham, Massachusetts.

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BEST ACTRESS 1967: Thirty-five years after her first Oscar, KATHARINE HEPBURN collected her second for what was one of the lamest cop-outs in the Academy's history. All five nominees could easily have won, though for me the most deserving was Anne Bancroft in The Graduate, one of the most fascinating women ever portrayed on screen by an actor who always made sure that her characters were more than the stereotypes they represented. Perhaps the Academy didn't want to reward a flagrant adulteress, or perhaps they felt she had already won too recently, but there was also Edith Evans, up for her third Oscar in The Whisperers as an elderly woman whose grip on reality gets looser with each disappointing day that her imagined inheritance doesn't arrive in the mail, though that film was probably too obscure for the Oscar voters who even bothered to see it. Faye Dunaway established her career as the most beautiful and most worried woman in show business as half of the titular couple in Bonnie And Clyde, she's the only one in that movie who seems to be aware that the end won't be pretty, but she was probably too fresh on the scene, and Audrey Hepburn delivered a new level of intensity with her performance in the box-office hit Wait Until Dark (which would turn out to be her last nomination), but the Academy wasn't going to give an acting Oscar to something as ignoble as a thriller. This left the other Hepburn, whose film GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER hit all the right feels with its liberal pandering: what would YOU do if your airhead daughter who sorta seems like she needs a husband to get anywhere in life came home with a Nobel prize-winning black man? SUCH a conundrum.

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"You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens." - Linda Cardellini, born June 25, 1975. #LindaCardellini

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