Garland was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress , and , in the run-up to the 27th Academy Awards , was generally expected to win for '' A Star Is Born '' . She could not attend the ceremony because she had just given birth to her son , Joseph Luft , so a television crew was in her hospital room with cameras and wires to broadcast her anticipated acceptance speech . The Oscar was won , however , by Grace Kelly for '' The Country Girl '' ( 1954 ) . The camera crew was packing up before Kelly could even reach the stage . Groucho Marx sent Garland a telegram after the awards ceremony , declaring her loss " the biggest robbery since Brinks " . '' TIME '' labeled her performance as " just about the greatest one-woman show in modern movie history " . Garland won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the role
27th Academy Awards
27th Academy Awards
Judy Garland