Hollywood’s Greatest Year in New York City
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom)
Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest screening series, "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939," on Saturday, June 20, at 12:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Theater in New York City. Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne will host the event.
"Hollywood’s Greatest Year" will continue through mid-October, showcasing all 10 Best Picture nominees from 1939. Screenings will take place on Monday at 7:30 p.m., [...]
by Andre Soares | June 10, 2009
| Subscribe / Syndicate
Tags: Academy Awards, Academy Theater, Bette Davis, Buck Rogers, Buster Crabbe, Clark Gable, Classic Movies, Constance Moore, Dark Victory, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939, Laurence Olivier, Love Affair, Merle Oberon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, New York Screenings, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Robert Osborne, Stagecoach, TCM, The Wizard of Oz, Turner Classic Movies, Vivien Leigh, Wuthering Heights
Bette Davis’ DARK VICTORY Screening
The Bette Davis vehicle and 1939 Best Picture nominee Dark Victory will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fifth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the Warner Bros. cartoon Dangerous Dan McFoo, directed by Tex Avery.
Adapted by Casey Robinson from a play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, Dark Victory is one of Bette Davis’ [...]
by Andre Soares | June 10, 2009
| Subscribe / Syndicate
Tags: Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bette Davis, Buck Rogers, Buster Crabbe, Casey Robinson, Classic Movies, Constance Moore, Dangerous, Dangerous Dan McFoo, Dark Victory, Edmund Goulding, Ernest Haller, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939, Humphrey Bogart, Jezebel, Los Angeles Screenings, Max Steiner, Melodrama, Now Voyager, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Ronald Reagan, Tallulah Bankhead, Tex Avery, That Certain Woman, The Old Maid, Vivien Leigh, Warner Bros.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS Screening
The 1939 Best Picture nominee Wuthering Heights, directed by William Wyler, and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The Wuthering Heights screening will take place on Monday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Starting at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fourth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the animated short The Pointer, starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto.
According to Samuel Goldwyn biographer A. Scott Berg, Wuthering Heights was the producer’s favorite among his films. [...]
by Andre Soares | June 3, 2009
| Subscribe / Syndicate
Tags: A. Scott Berg, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Alfred Newman, Ben Hecht, Buck Rogers, Buster Crabbe, Charles MacArthur, Charlotte Brontë, Classic Movies, Constance Moore, David Copperfield, David Niven, David O. Selznick, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Emily Brontë, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Gregg Toland, Greta Garbo, James Basevi, Jane Eyre, John Gilbert, Laurence Olivier, Little Women, Los Angeles Screenings, Merle Oberon, Mickey Mouse, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Myron Selznick, Oscar 1939, Pluto, Queen Christina, Robert Newton, Samuel Goldwyn, Sylvia Sidney, The Pointer, Vivien Leigh, William Wyler, Wuthering Heights