75th Anniversary: The 1945 Oscars Revisited
by Baby Clyde
The war was over and finally Hollywood could get around to more important matters like giving Joan Crawford an Oscar.
It had been a pared down ceremony for the preceding few years with tuxes and ballgowns discouraged. Even the statuette itself had been made from plaster rather than gold plated bronze but at the 18th Academy Awards, which took place at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre 75 years ago today, the glamour was back and there was no one more glamorous in town than 20 year veteran Joan. She skipped the ceremony...