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“Smash” star Katharine McPhee was the least shy of the batch.

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Julianne Moore, who arrived in a custom Tom Ford gown with shoulders covered, still showed curves.

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“The Good Wife” star Julianna Margulies combined sex with danger in her purple lace Emilio Pucci dress.

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Nicole Kidman’s fitted McQueen gown showed a swath of midriff.

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Jessica Chastain’s seafoam Calvin Klein gown puckered and bunched in all the wrong places.

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Halle Berry’s “Mad Max”-style gown showed us that even Hollywood’s most beautiful can have an off night.