Golden Globe Awards

Claire Danes, a four- time Golden Globe winner, played Juliet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo in the movie version of the Shakespeare tragedy directed by Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet (1996). The young actress talked about that experience with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press during an exclusive 1996 interview when she was 17 years old.

Julie Andrews had her sweet revenge and last laugh. Clutching her Golden Globe statuette in one hand, the British singer-actress stood on the stage of the fancy L.

In the early years of the Golden Globes, in addition to the Best Foreign Film category that started in 1955, there was a special award called the Samuel Goldwyn International Film Award, which was presented from 1959 to 1964. At the Golden Globes ceremony held on March 10, 1964, at the Cocoanut Grove, the winner of that prize was Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

While Lawrence of Arabia has become an enduring classic almost 60 years after winning six Golden Globes, the film could have looked very different if director David Lean had gotten one of his first choices for the starring role.

Of all the stars who illuminated the sky over Hollywood in a short burst of light, Marilyn Monroe is still the most radiant. Burned into our retinas and collective consciousness, her portraits and poses are ever-present — so much so that it might even be possible to imagine her appearance at the Golden Globes on the evening of Monday, March 5, 1962.

Gina Lollobrigida was a popular international movie star in the 1950s, starring in Italian movies like Bread, Love and Dreams (1953), directed by Luigi Comencini, and The Wayward Wife (1953), from Mario Soldati; French films like Beauties of the Night (1952) and Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), both co-starring Gérard Philipe; and American movies like John Huston’s Beat the Devil (1953), opposite Humphrey Bogart, and Trapeze (1956), alongside Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster.

On March 8, 1960, when Porgy and Bess won the Golden Globe for Best Musical, America was still more than four years away from the end of a horrible social ill known as “separate but equal. ”At the time, a Supreme Court decision of 1896, Plessy v.

There could not have been a more fitting analogy for the social realities of the 1950s. Often separated from each other, men of different races act full of hate and distrust “the other.