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The Country Girl (1954 film)

The Country Girl
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theatrical release poster
Directed by George Seaton
Produced by William Perlberg
Written by George Seaton
Based on the play by Clifford Odets
Starring
Music by Victor Young
Cinematography John F. Warren
Edited by Ellsworth Hoagland
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • December 15, 1954 (1954-12-15) (US)
Running time
104 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $6.5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)

The Country Girl is a 1954 American drama film directed by George Seaton and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and William Holden. Adapted by George Seaton from Clifford Odets' 1950 play of the same name, the film is about an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he's been given to resurrect his career. Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. It was entered in the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

Kelly won the Oscar for Best Actress for the role, which previously had earned Uta Hagen her first Tony Award in the play's original Broadway production. The role, a non-glamorous departure for Kelly, was as the alcoholic actor's long-suffering wife.

The win was a huge surprise, as most critics and people in the press felt that Judy Garland would win for A Star Is Born. NBC even sent a camera crew to Garland's hospital room, where she was recuperating from the birth of her son, in order to conduct a live interview with her if she won. The win by Kelly instead famously prompted Groucho Marx to send Garland a telegram stating it was "the biggest robbery since Brinks."

Given the period of its production, the film is notable for its realistic, frank dialogue and honest treatments of the surreptitious side of alcoholism and post-divorce misogyny.


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