The V.I.P.s
Rutherford played the absent-minded, impoverished, pill-popping Duchess of Brighton, the only comedy relief, in Terence Rattigan's "The V.I.P.s" (1963), a film featuring a star-studded cast led by Dame Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. For her performance, she won an Academy Award and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress. At the time she set a record for the oldest women and last born in the nineteenth century to win an Oscar.