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.
