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Marlee Matlin Was 'Afraid' of Accepting Oscar From Boyfriend William Hurt
Marlee Matlin won the 1987 Oscar for best actress, but was afraid to take the award from William Hurt, who she knew ‘wasn’t happy’
“I was afraid as I walked up the stairs to get the Oscar,” she recalls in Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, a new documentary about her life that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this month. The documentary also features Matlin’s sign language interpreter Jack Jason, who recounted an incident with the two on a private plane. Celebrity memoir fans received an enormous bounty in 2023, with stars including Britney Spears, Prince Harry and Barbra Streisand dropping books packed with juicy recollections.
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