A poster for A STAR IS BORN (1954) with Judy
Garland. Mason was nominated for his first Best Actor Oscar as Norman
Maine, a famous Hollywood star who hits the bottle as his wife hits it
big in showbiz and his own career plummets. The film itself was nominated
for six Academy Awards.
Mason
as Captain Nemo in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (a .MOV file
courtesy the Walt
Disney Company).
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A poster from
Alfred Hitchcock's
suspense masterpiece
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) in which Mason played Cary Grant's tormentor Phillip Vandamm.
A poster from THE MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND (1960), a romantic comedy featuring Mason
as Paul Delville, a professor who finds himself attracted to Julie Newmar,
instead of his wife played by Susan Hayward.