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I believe this picture was taken the day after Susan won the Oscar as the caption under my picture reads "reading congratulatory telegrams April 7th after Oscar win April 6th".
I agree with you that this is not a good photo of Susan. I think it was retouched by someone with a heavy hand at the newspaper. I remember they used to do this quite a bit in the old days, particularly if a photo was too light and the facial features faded out. The results of this ill-advised technique were always disastrous.