Deglamorized For An Oscar Win
Known for her beauty and charm, it was actually a deglamorized role that earned Kelly an Oscar for her role as Georgie Elgin in the film “The Country Girl.”
The movie was a stage she shared with Bing Crosby and William Holden, two of the biggest and most admired actors of the generation.The screen adaption of Clifford Odets stage play of the same name quickly led to numerous roles for Kelly in some of the most iconic films of the last 100 years. Among those roles were leading spots in “Dial M for Murder”, “Read Window,” “To Catch A Thief,” and “High Society.” With every role came more praise and promises of bigger things to come — and then she left it all behind just as quickly as her career had started but it wasn’t an immediate spark that had her trading in her Hollywood roles for a tiara…
