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Highlights of the Academy Awards
Simone Signoret was almost ill from nerves — she was shaking all over and her hair was sticking to her forehead — an hour after she received her Oscar. When I congratulated her at the Ball at the Beverly Hilton, she looked like she'd been under a sprinkler and kept saying, "Thank you, Madame— I am so excited now I have forgotten all my English — and I practice so hard."
Every time Charlton Heston (who had nof expected to win ) stood up at his table to receive congratulations, he'd grab his Oscar in one hand, then lean down and give Lydia (Mrs. H.) another kiss. No wife was ever so thoroughly bussed in public by an Oscar winner! . . .
The gowns were the most costly ever worn to an Oscar night: Natalie Wood's short and stunning chalk-white jewel-embroidered creation cost $650, with an added $75 for her shoes made of the same material . . . Doris
Day's floor-length sheath, solidly encrusted with silver-white bugle beads, cost $1,000; Janet Leigh's nude chiffon on which were crocheted 186,000 gold bugle beads, weighed twenty-one pounds and was so expensive she won't tell how much — but it was plenty.
Another magnificent gown in the $1,000 bracket was Anna Maria Alberghetti's all-over jewelled white Italian brocade with sheath front and great overskirt.
And, three-time loser Liz Taylor (I must say she was a gracious loser and most complimentary about the winners) didn't pick up that Grecian styled white French jersey with its white mink-lined jacket for peanuts. When I stopped by Elizabeth's table, she was smiling —but Eddie Fisher wasn't.
Speaking of clothes, the ecstatically happy Shelley Winters ("I waited fifteen years for this Oscar") said she didn't know how to dress. "I didn't know whether to go 'low and sexy' or covered-up and dignified," said Shelley, so she settled for a conservative black lace and jersey. She told me that her husband Tony Franciosa, her mother, daughter and thirty friends yelled and screamed so much watching the show from
New York that a neighbor called the police!
The biggest and most spontaneous hand from the audience inside the Pcmtages Theater went to Olivia De Havilland the lovely young Hollywood 'veteran' returning from France to make one of the presentations. Many onlookers felt it was a bigger hand than went to Ingrid Bergman when she was a top returnee.
Stephen Boyd (who should have had a nomination for Ben-Hur and didn't) almost vaulted over the railing when Charlton Heston arrived at the banquet and was one of the first to congratulate the winner.
Although Steve's date at the Ball was lovely Romney Tree (from his native Belfast) he was overheard whispering to someone at his table, "Have you seen Hope Lange here?" She had been at the theater — but I don't believe she came to the Ball.
Beaming Ben-Hur director William Wyler had lipstick all over his face and after I added some of my own I asked if he would like it wiped off, "Oh, no!" he protested. "It's been too much fun getting it there."
And so, another of Hollywood's biggest nights goes into the history books.
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