[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] The year is 1942 and the nominees are: 1) Joan Fontaine - Suspicion 2) Bette Davis - The Little Foxes 3) Olivia de Havilland - Hold Back the Dawn 4) Greer Garson - Blossoms in the Dust 5) Barbara Stanwyck - Ball of Fire - In 1942 Joan Fontaine won Best Actress for Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion (a movie title he allegedly hated). Many pundits think she won because she did not win the previous year when she was nominated for Rebecca (1940 (Ginger Rogers won FYI (deservedly))). There is a little bit of classic Hollywood drama this year as Olivia de Havilland (Fontaine’s sister) was also nominated and lost. Not a feud of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford proportions but one that is worth researching. Plenty of YouTube docs available on this subject! Bette Davis received her fourth Oscar nomination in a row for The Little Foxes. Greer Garson gives one of her best performances in Blossoms in the Dust. Finally Barbara Stanwyck gives a hilarious performance in Ball of Fire, a sort of Snow White & the Seven Dwarves meets the Big Bang Theory sort of film. A truly enjoyable year! Who do you think should have won? Join host Kyle Brownrigg with guest host Bobby Knauff as they discuss.