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As Hollywood legend has it, Joan Crawford feigned illness before the 1946 Academy Award ceremony. Nominated for her starring role in Mildred Pierce—which many people considered her comeback vehicle after a two-year absence from the screen—Crawford believed that Ingrid Bergman would win the Oscar for The Bells of St. Mary’s and did not want to be present for the loss. After discovering that she had won, however, she reportedly applied her makeup and invited members of the press into her…

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