Speaking of #AllAboutEve, I watched a YouTube video about the essentially three-way race among Judy Holliday, Gloria Swanson, and Bette Davis for the Best Actress Oscar in 1951, and it made a compelling case the Holliday's win did not come out of nowhere or merely results from vote-splitting...

...as has sometimes been suggested. Holliday had some things going for her: first, she gives a great performance. She's not undeserving of the Oscar. Second, she'd had rave reviews in a successful run of Born Yesterday on Broadway, and several Broadway stars were at that time doing the...