This glossy and trashy melodrama features a star performance from Liz Taylor, who won her first Oscar not for her acting but for nearly dying of Pneumonia in London. Reportedly, when Taylor saw the first screening, she threw her high-heel shoe at the screen, ran to the bathroom and threw up.

Produced in Todd-AO, a state-of-the-art widescreen and stereophonic sound recording process, with an all-star cast that included Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pearl Bailey, and Diahann Carroll, “Porgy and Bess, now considered an “overlooked masterpiece.

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The scores of “Drive” and “My Week With Marilyn” were disqualified, because they violated the strict rules of the Academy of Motion Picture   Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

The Writers Guild of America, West has restored Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay credit to “Roman Holiday.”