The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Drama.
The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion...
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The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Drama.
The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy".
1950: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
1951: June Allyson - Too Young to Kiss
1952: Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart
1953: Ethel Merman - Call Me Madam
1954: Judy Garland - A Star Is Born
1955: Jean Simmons - Guys and Dolls
1956: Deborah Kerr - The King and I
1957: Kay Kendall - Les Girls & Taina Elg, Les Girls
1958: Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame
1959: Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot
1960: Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment
1961: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One
1962: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy
1963:...
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