The Golden Globes website trivia page gets it slightly wrong. There were in fact six, not five categories at the first ceremony in 1944. The inaugural event was held on the 20th Century Fox lot where, coincidentally, the big winner (with three awards) was that studio’s biographical drama The Song of Bernadette. Winners received scrolls.
The production scale of the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association kudos remained modest the following year, when the ceremony was moved to The Beverly Hills Hotel:
The fledgling group’s funds were so tight that Joan Bennett’s gardener was tapped to supply the flowers for the tables.
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