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Con Man | Film Noir
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Best Dramatic Performance Female | 1953 | Joan
1953 | Joan
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1953 | Joan
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1953 | Jack
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1953
Best Costume Design BlackandWhite | 1953
Best Actress Drama | 1953 | Joan
As the film's executive producer, Joan Crawford was heavily involved in all aspects of the production. She personally hired Lenore J. Coffee as the film's screenwriter, David Miller as director and suggested Elmer Bernstein as composer. She insisted on Charles Lang being hired as the film's cinematographer and personally cast Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame as her co-stars.
Gloria Grahame reputedly had an affair with Jack Palance during the filming of "Sudden Fear (1952)".
This film was Jack Palance's "big break," garnering him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, and helping him get cast in the following year's Shane (1953), for which he was also an Oscar nominee.
Crawford received her third and last Academy Award nomination for this film, and it was the only year she competed against Bette Davis for the Oscar. Both lost to Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952).
Elmer Bernstein reused portions of his musical score the following year in Robot Monster (1953).
"Myra Hudson: I was just wondering what I'd done to deserve you."
"[after being rejected for a romantic role because of his looks] Lester Blaine: Miss Hudson, in your own native city of San Francisco, there's an art gallery in the Legion of Honor in which there's an oil painting of Casanova. It's quite obvious that you have never seen this painting. For your information, Miss Hudson, this is what Casanova looked like: he had big ears, a scar over one eye, a broken nose, and a wart on his chin, right here. I suggest, Miss Hudson, that when you return to San Francisco, you visit this gallery and see this painting!"
