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Gloria Swanson with José Ferrer, the Best Actor winner for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), and Judy Holliday, Best Actress for Born Yesterday (1950). C laire Trevor prepared to give Humphrey Bogart a k iss after presenting him with the Os car for Best Actor for The African Queen (1951). Harry Cohn presents Vivien Leigh with the Oscar for Best Actress for her work in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Leigh was un able to attend th e ceremon y that year, so the award was given t o her in London. Fredric March congratulates Shirley Booth after presenting her with the Oscar for Best Actress for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).  Gloria Grahame received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). Cecil B. DeMille poses with his Oscar for Best Picture for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and the Irving G. Thalberg A ward for "consistently high quality of motio n picture prod uction." Audrey Hepburn proudly ho...

Douglas Fairbanks presents Janet Gaynor with the first ever Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Seventh Heaven (1927) , Street Angel (1927) and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).  Mary Pickford poses with her Oscar for Best Actress. She won for her performance in Coquette (1929), her first talkie.   Norma Shearer receives from Conrad Nagel the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in   The Divorcee (1930). Marie Dressler and Lionel Barrymore were the Best Actress and Best Actor winners at the 5th Academy Awards. She won for Min and Bill (1930) and he for A Free Soul (1931).  Louis B. Mayer presents Carl Laemmle with the award fo r Best Picture for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). Helen Hayes proudly holds her Best Actress Oscar for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931). Shirley Temple gives Claudette Colbert the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in  It Happened One Night (1934). ...