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- Elizabeth Taylor starred as Queen of the Nile in the 1963 film CLEOPATRA. Who played the title role in the 1934 version?
- Mary Pickford
- Veronica Lake
- Claudette Colbert*
- Norma Shearer
- The film was nominated for Best Picture, but lost out to IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, which earned five awards, including one for Colbert.
- The first year winners' names were kept under wraps until the awards were actually presented was
- 1940 (12th)
- 1941 (13th)*
- 1942 (14th)
- 1943 (15th)
- Hiring Price Waterhouse & Co. to count the ballots and insure secrecy gave the Academy Awards« its exciting element of suspense.
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