How Joan Crawford became a shameless Oscars legend in bed 75 years ago
NY Post
It was a performance worthy of an Academy Award.
Smiling and radiant despite fighting the “flu,” Joan Crawford laid in bed — in full glam — as she accepted her 1946 Best Actress Oscar for “Mildred Pierce,” photographers popping bulbs to capture the charismatic screen queen’s triumphant comeback moment. “Whether the Academy voters were giving the Oscar to me, sentimentally, for ‘Mildred’ or for 200 years of effort, the hell with it — I deserved it,” she told reporters 75 years ago from the plush confines of her Brentwood boudoir.More Related News