My Fair Lady and George Cukor Win Best Picture and Directing: 1965 Oscars 

exactly, not like "glamour" of today!

At home, she was a witch

Hardly 'starlet'. One of the biggest Stars there was!

@@andrewthornhill7042 You are correct. I don't know why I wrote starlet 3 years ago... let me edit that.

@@Wendlinger you don't know that, you were not at her home were you?

At her hottest in "Humoresque"

@Fly by night You are so right about the wire hanger lady. Joan was also the biggest phony in tinseltown

And the idiot haters show up.

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 hurt with your wire hanger ,,,lol!

Chris Allen, She thought she did. She looked foolish in that gown that was for someone in their 30's. She did however get a big applause. Do you think they had an illuminated sign APPLAUSE?

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 Are you kidding? She looks great. Certainly better then that Davis hag on any given day.

The audience cheered her loudly and enthusiastically. She was a huge star ⭐️ Her fans are loyal because she was so loyal to her fans. Rest In Peace, Joan ❤️

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 A dress for a younger woman would have showed more cleavage, even for the 1960s- just saying.

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 I'll go way out on a limb and guess that there were no "APPLAUSE" signs.

I thought the same as soon as I saw this clip. It's an AMAZING 'do' suits her too.

It's amazing what hair extensions can do.

Wig

@Fly by night You are correct again about the hairpiece. Dam your good.

I agree - that hairstyle is a work of art. I wish these styles would come back!

Joan Crawford & Carry Grant created amazing self made star personas.

Cukor directed Crawford in _The Women_ .

@@RaymondHng Joan Crawford never forgot her friends. William Haines was another life long friend of Joan Crawford.

@@richardmcleod5967 Her costar in several feature films and later her interior decorator.

@@RaymondHngWilliam Haines was very successful both in the United States and England with his own Interior Design and Antique business with the main office located in Beverly Hills. In many ways he became the Interior Decorator to the Stars and part of that success was because of the referrals given him through his old friend Joan Crawford.

"A Woman's Face"

Cory M She does not rank as high as other stars of her day

She is what a star is. A good actress too.

The greatest...hilarious!

@Fly by night Right again. Let's not forget the great Barbara Stanwyck.

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 the Best!!

Completely agree.

She would have LOVED that. Did you notice the long pause and bow? She was so proud of herself, the narcissism was showing.

Or Jack Warner either, thankfully.

Gabriel Sanz, Her hair was as phony as she was. Wake up and smell the coffee.

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 Boo hoo you hater.

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 aggressive response to a benign comment...wonder why...

Isn’t he the one that treated Monroe like shit on her last movie? Watch the making when he yells at her when in the pool

@thatoneguy BUT he was given The Women. Which is sublime.

Dr. Strange love: or how I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb was actually the best film that year!

INTERNETWORK As usual, bitter and rude..

That she did, just ask Christina and Christopher. One glance and you knew she meant business

@INTERNETWORK Exactly, that gown was not for someone in her 60's. And the sleeveless showing her old looking arms, not to mention the freckles and age spots which you can't see in black and white film. It's amazing how older people will dress so young to try and bring back their youth, only to look ridiculous.

@@johnsax1445 Just ask the twins too, they deny Christina and Christopher...

Gaurav W Abusers always target specific family members for abuse.

My favorite movie he directed was The Philadelphia Story.

Cukor also directed Crawford in _The Women_ (1939).

Indeed, including Gone with the Wind...

Singing in the rain is great also

"A Star Is Born" (1954) Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford.

He is actually jealous looking to me. 😂

She was somewhere between the age of 57 and 61 the actual year of her birth has never been verified!

JerseySurvivor. This was not the last time she presented an Oscar. She did it again in 1962. The clips right here on RU-vid

Juan Perez She did present in 1962, but this clip is from 1965 (1964 Oscars) and it was her last time as a presenter. She attended in subsequent years with 1969 (1968 Oscars) being her last. She is much missed in these troubled times we live in.

It was also a rare year that all 4 acting winners were not American.

+JEFF KIPER What Mommy Dearest showed is just her imperfect side. This is evident of everyone. I didn't ruin her image to me, it just showed me that there was an actress who had complications in her personality like we all do. It may not have played out so well for Christina Crawford, she may have had a hard time dealing with her mother, but that's really what it all boils down to. I'm sure that years from now, we'll be hearing about all of the not so pretty dark moment's about the Jolie-Pitt's.

***** Did it make you feel happy assuming something that's not even true about me?

***** I don't even know where you got the notion that I "justify child abuse" (according to your very own words) when I didn't even have any intentions of bringing that up, and DIDN'T even mention it in my response. So once again I ask, did it make you feel good to assume something like his about someone you don't even know?

Joan Crawford was human. For all the shit about her being a movie star robot she was in fact, impossibly human. That is what draws people to her that bother to learn anything past the wire hangers garbage. Would have been a challenging childhood but no well rounded human being should have not somehow been better for it. Discipline and personal responsibility is not a bad thing. "She was obviously superficial, but deep; selfish, but very generous; unschooled, but with a brilliant mind; and a monstrous bitch with the heart and soul of an angel."

Joan was taller than 5’3”

Stephen Golden, She was 62 trying to look 32. That is not beautiful, that is wishful thinking on Joan's part thinking she looked good, but in reality she looked like a fool in that gown. That gown was for a Farrah Fawcett type in her 30's.

She looked amazing.Not trying to look younger at all just a great looking 60 year old many a younger woman would aspire to.

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 .... nothing good to say ever !

@@roberta.lofgrenjr.9182 another ridiculously aggressive response to an ordinary comment.

...and we do too!

Mike, Sorry Mike, that is not what Bob meant. What he meant was empty bottles of Vodka 100 proof. Didn't you see the look Joan gave him after he said it? Joan picked it up but apparently you did not.

Mike She was on the board of PepsiCo not CEO as well as the brand ambassador

MovieJon Florence looking better than Trog.. oops. I mean Joan

MovieJon ... my goodness you have a sharp eye!!.... that is definitely her.

Nice! Thanks.

5 were nominated. Also, along with only 1957 and 1981, all 5 nominees for Director and Picture matched.

He directed her brilliantly in The Women, Susan & God & A Woman's Face.

I don't know how Hollywood betrayed her. She would only take roles in which she could look beautiful. Even in "Baby Jane" she did. If she was unemployed, it was her choice.

Let’s think for a moment that she began to make movies in silent movies, so it was a really long time ago and Hollywood wasn’t so much different by now, and she was asked to be always beautiful and perfect, and she did it, but then like today ageism took her apart and she was nothing. She was just an old Hollywood movie star, but she did everything in her power to change things. Even presenting and taking And ask her for another actress, and she did it with class till the end of her time when she died hill and alone

@@alealig5602 I have no idea what you mean she wanted to change and how she did everything in her power to change it. She was neither a feminist, woke, or any sort of activist.

That’s because you’re thinking with a 2024 mind , Try to go back for 70 years and think how Hollywood betrayed her because she was the beautiful actress. Not a good one event. Is it worth it, at some point, you are the beautiful girl in the world who makes all movies and from A moment to another, you are zero, nothing but an old movie star who can’t act anymore because you’re not as beautiful and young as you used to be in your 20’s . Don’t get me wrong, she wasn’t the best actress in the world of course, but she was good really good and her last performance was in a English independent movie called The Trunk, but she did it like it was the most important part of her career, that’s what I admire her, and even though she wasn’t perfect, she had alcohol problems, you also had to think that in the 1930’s she adopted 4 children and raised em alone, think about that but almost 100 years ago

@@alealig5602 Nobody betrayed Crawford except her daughter and I think she was justified. Crawford never adopted in the 1930s and her last film was "Trog" (1970). Her last performance was on TV in 1972. It's possible you just recently heard of Crawford. Better to read about her than make up things and write about her. I don't think English is your primary language so I'm going to stop here.

I think Mary Poppins

I think Mary Poppins and it would have beenngreat to see Walt Disney win an Oscar for Best Picture such a short time before he passed.

I would go with Mary Poppins IMO. Wider audience for that movie than for My Fair Lady.

@@johnsaxton5281 if only he would achieved it, because afterwards, not much from walt disney pictures would have continued to be nominated for that category if you know what i mean

+Arvid Van Bottenz That night Julie Andrews was (by contract) forbidden to hug black Sidney Poitier, Rock Hudson and Richard Chamberlain sat there with their fake wifes cause homosexuality was a crime. Joan Crawford abused her daughter and no one cared. So much about the good old times and their "class".

Well, my guess is Sidney would rather have been hugging Julie Christie, anyhow... and Rock and Richard would rather have been hugging each other.

Reality television...

The 1960's happened. Joan was losing her shit the entire time about hippies and the death of class and glamour during that decade. Watching period dramas like Mad Men you can literally watch it go a bit with every season.

people since the 1980s are horrible now especially the ones under 40 who dont care about what was or should be only whats happening now its wrong in every way and just awful.!!!

Yes those eyebrows were so big and dark and harsh. Unfortunately I found it was all I could look at when I saw her in her later years. Her earlier years her brows were much lighter and not filled in so big. It would have made her look younger to keep them light. But she was a fabulous actress!

Don’t forget about The Music Man, another sensational ‘60s musical film.

Audrey DEFINITELY should have been nominated, regardless of not doing her own singing. Like you said, MANY actors didn't do their own singing in various movies and were nominated, and this particular occasion shouldn't have been an exception. Audrey turned in superb work (as usual) in that film.

Shaun Wakefield, Christina! Vodka 100 proof. Mouth always had a butt in it, and something else in the bedroom.

Jim Britt, Princess Diana had class not trashy Joan.

It wasn't My Fair Lady vs Mary Poppins, it was more My Fair Lady vs Becket.

That was Faye Dunaway