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Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
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1. William Holden gives his best performance as Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (1950). Playing the struggling screenwriter who begins an affair with silent screen star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) Holden was Oscar nominated for this Billy Wilder classic.
Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)Stalag 17 (Special Collector's Edition)
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2. William Holden won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a cynical POW sergeant suspected of being a Nazi spy in Stalag 17 (1953).
PicnicPicnic
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3. As a drifter who hops off a freight train just in time for the Labor Day picnic in a small Kansas town, William Holden shines as Hal who charms everyone he meets in Picnic (1955).
Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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4. Network (1976) brought William Holden a third Oscar nomination as a married network newsman involved with Faye Dunaway.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Limited Edition)The Bridge on the River Kwai (Limited Edition)
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5. As a POW in a Japanese prison camp, William Holden plots to destroy the bridge he help build in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
Born YesterdayBorn Yesterday
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6. William Holden is cast as a reporter who is hired by Broderick Crawford to teach girlfriend Judy Holliday (in an Oscar winning role) some culture in Garson Kanin's hilarious comedy Born Yesterday (1950).
Love is a Many-Splendored ThingLove is a Many-Splendored Thing
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7. As a Korean war correspondent in Hong Kong, William Holden falls in love with Eurasian doctor Jennifer Jones in this true story: Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955).
The Country GirlThe Country Girl
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8. William Holden plays a Broadway director who falls in love with his leading man's wife (Grace Kelly in an Oscar winning role) in The Country Girl (1954). Bing Crosby was Oscar nominated as her actor husband.
SabrinaSabrina
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9. William Holden is the playboy brother of Humphrey Bogart who both fall for their chauffeur's daughter, Audrey Hepburn in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (1954).
The Wild Bunch [HD DVD]The Wild Bunch [HD DVD]
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10. William Holden as an aging outlaw in his best western, Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969).