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The Oscar
The breath-taking race for Hollywood's highest award!
Mar. 04, 1966
01:59:00
NR
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Genres:
Drama
Overview:
Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
Description
Frankie Fane has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he’s preparing to win his Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly reminisces over their life together, and Frankie’s ruthless struggle to the top and the people he’s stepped on (i.e., everyone else in the movie) to make it there.
Director:
Russell Rouse
Cast:
Elke Sommer Broderick Crawford Hedda Hopper Joan Crawford Eleanor Parker Peter Leeds Milton Berle Stephen Boyd Merle Oberon Walter Brennan Joseph Cotten Peter Lawford Ernest Borgnine Thordis Brandt Edie Adams Jill St. John Tony Bennett Ed Begley Jack Soo Jean Hale James Dunn Bob Hope Edith Head Nancy Sinatra
Genres:
Drama