This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. It's the first Thursday in August, and in several months this year the first Thursday means an Oscar-themed edition. For August, the two categories selected are Costume Design, and Makeup (and hairstyling). The Makeup category only became an official category in 1981 according to the Academy's database. Since I know a lot more about movies from before I was born, I'll stick with the Costume Design category, which became an official category in 1948. For almost 20 years, until 1966, there were two Oscars given out, one for costumes in black-and-white, and one for costumes in color. With that in mind, I looked through the winners and decided to go with three movies in the black-and-white Costume Design category:
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955). Oscar-winner: Helen Rose. Susan Hayward plays, as only Susan Hayward can, Lillian Roth, who became a singer of torch songs on stage and in nightclubs of the 1930s. She had an extremely pushy stage mother (Jo Van Fleet) who didn't want her to have any personal life that would detract from the career, so Lillian responded by turning to drink, eventually becoming an alcoholic. After one incident too many she goes to Alcoholics Anonymous and turns her life around.
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956). Oscar-winner: Orry-Kelly Judy Holliday plays a small shareholder in a conglomerate who goes to the annual shareholders' meeting and asks the sorts of questions that get the board frustrated, so they try to buy her silence by giving her a pushy PR job. But there, she determines that the conglomerate is trying to drive one of its subsidiaries out of business, which gets her to rally all the other small shareholders to try to stop the board. Paul Douglas plays the former head of the comglomerate who takes a job in Washington, but develops a lot of sympathy for Holliday. Narrated by George Burns.
The Facts of Life (1960). Oscar-winners: Edith Head and Edward Stevenson. Don DeFore and Lucille Ball play one married couple; Bob Hope and Ruth Hussey play another who are friends with DeFore/Ball and a third couple to the point that they always vacation together. When emergencies at home force DeFore and Hussey to miss one vacation and the third couple get six, Hope and Ball are forced to spend time together, leading them to think they're falling in love with each other and wondering whether they should get divorces. According to IMDb, both Head and Stevenson were responsible for costuming Lucille Ball; I would have guessed one was responsible for men's wardrobe and the other for women's in general or one for Hope and one for Ball.
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