(She lost to Hud’s Patricia Neal.)ĭeath: Heartbroken following her 1971 divorce from Rex Harrison, whose fourth wife she had been, she became increasingly depressed. Oscar History: For her work as a widowed landlady in the British New Wave film This Sporting Life (1963), Roberts received a best actress nomination. It remains unclear what brought about this incident - or why the actor, in his will, left most of his estate, including his Oscar, to his former agent, but only $10 to his teenage daughter, whom he had denied paternity. He described hearing his name called as the winner as “the greatest moment of my life.”ĭeath: Less than a decade after his Oscar win, and only three weeks after the 64-year-old married a 31-year-old German actress named Kim Schmidt - his fifth wife - Young shot her and then himself in their New York City apartment. Oscar History: Young was nominated for best supporting actor three times over an 18-year span, for Come Fill the Cup (1951), losing to A Streetcar Named Desire’s Karl Malden Teacher’s Pet (1958), losing to The Big Country’s Burl Ives and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969), for which he finally won. (Nearly 13 years earlier, the couple’s only child had committed suicide, as well.) Oscar History: The suave Frenchman received four best actor nominations over the years, for Conquest (1937), losing to Captain Courageous’ Spencer Tracy Algiers (1938), losing to Tracy again, for Boys Town Gaslight (1944), losing to Going My Way’s Bing Crosby and Fanny (1961), losing to Judgment at Nuremberg’s Maximilian Schell.ĭeath: Two days after the death of Boyer’s wife of 44 years, and two days before his 79th birthday, Boyer deliberately overdosed on barbiturates. She was found dead in her apartment - the result of an overdose of prescription tranquilizers and sleeping pills - with a suicide note on her piano.įEINBERG FORECAST: Scott’s Final Picks for Who Will Win at Sunday’s Oscars She received her last big-screen credit in 1964 and then fell out of the public eye, working temp jobs as a typist to pay the bills. (She lost to Roman Holiday’s Audrey Hepburn.)ĭeath: Following a divorce and a nervous breakdown, McNamara’s career began to wane. Oscar History: For her work in the big-screen version of the controversial film The Moon Is Blue (1953), which was adapted from a Broadway production in which she also starred, McNamara was nominated for best actress. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. One night, he checked into a hotel near Barcelona and was found dead two days later alongside five empty bottles of barbiturates and a note that read: “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. Oscar History: For his work as a ruthless theater critic in All About Eve (1950), Sanders won best supporting actor.ĭeath: In his later years, Sanders suffered a stroke and displayed signs of dementia, which caused him to become depressed. She died of starvation and kidney failure. The 23-year-old wife and mother became increasingly depressed, separated from her husband and ultimately stopped eating. A bullet lodged in her spinal cord, paralyzing her from the waist down. Miniver’s Teresa Wright.)ĭeath: On New Year’s Day 1945, Peters and her husband were out duck hunting when a rifle accidentally discharged. Oscar History: For her first significant role, in Random Harvest (1942), 21-year-old Peters received a best supporting actress nomination, becoming one of the youngest nominees in history, at the time. No suicide note was ever found, but he was known to be dying of cancer and so the prevailing belief has always been that he deliberately took his own life. (He lost to In Old Arizona’s Warner Baxter.)ĭeath: At the age of 69, the actor overdosed on barbiturates. Oscar History: Best remembered as the character “Boston Blackie” in a series of 1940 B-movie detective films, Morris was nominated years earlier, at the second Oscars, for best actor for Alibi (1929). In an effort to ensure that they are not forgotten - and at the risk of being a little bit of a downer - here is a recap of each of their stories, high points and low. Sadly, for one reason or another, nine people who received acting Oscar nominations in years past, but then fell upon hard times, took an irreversible course of action to deal with their problems: they deliberately ended their own lives.
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