Editing William Holden (section)

===''Stalag 17'' and peak of stardom===
Holden was reunited with Wilder in ''[[Stalag 17]]'' (1953), for which Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor. His acceptance speech at the [[26th Academy Awards]] was one of the shortest in Oscar history: "Thank you ... thank you."<ref>[http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/026-1/ William Holden Academy Awards Acceptance Speech], Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref>

His success in ''Stalag 17'' ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom.<ref name=obit /> He made a sex comedy with [[David Niven]] for [[Otto Preminger]], ''[[The Moon Is Blue (film)|The Moon Is Blue]]'' (1953), which was a huge hit, in part due to controversy over its content. At Paramount, he was in a comedy with [[Ginger Rogers]] that was not particularly popular, ''[[Forever Female]]'' (1953). A Western at MGM, ''[[Escape from Fort Bravo]]'' (1953) did much better, and the all-star ''[[Executive Suite (film)|Executive Suite]]'' (1954) was a notable success.<ref>{{cite web |title=Forever Female (1954) – Overview |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75413/forever-female |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=January 3, 2017}}</ref>