The Best Actress winner wore an off-the-rack skirt set.
The guests nibbled at half-broiled chicken on toast.
And the entire ceremony was over in 15 minutes.
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(In fact, the show wouldnt reach a television audience at all until 1953.)
Otherwise, the rules were hardly stringent.
If I got them cups and awards, theyd kill themselves to produce what I wanted.
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Thats why the Academy Award was created.
(He wouldnt receive another Oscar until the Academy granted him an honorary award in 1971.)
Ninety years on, the spirit remainsgive or take a few billion friends.
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