GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS Screening
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson, 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” on Monday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Juliet Mills, daughter of John Mills, who has a supporting role in the film, will introduce the program.
The evening will begin at 7 p.m., with a screening of the seventh chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the MGM Oscar-nominated cartoon Peace on Earth.
Robert Donat, who could be a truly excellent actor [...]
by Andre Soares | June 25, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Greer Garson, Los Angeles Screenings, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Robert Donat, Romantic Movies, Sam Wood
Best Films – 1941
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
FILM
Cheers for Miss Bishop
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Sheridan Gibney, Adelaide Heilbron
Citizen Kane
d: Orson Welles; scr: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
The Devil and Miss Jones
d: Sam Wood; scr: Norman Krasna
Dumbo
d: Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Joe Grant, Dick Huemer and others
The Great Lie
d: Edmund Goulding; scr: Lenore J. Coffee
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
d: Alexander Hall; scr: Seton I. Miller, Sidney Buchman
The Lady Eve
d, scr: Preston Sturges
The Little Foxes
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Manpower
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Richard Macauley, Jerry Wald
The Sea Wolf
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Robert Rossen
Sara Allgood, Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley
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La Fille du puisatier / The Well-Digger’s Daughter
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
How Green Was My Valley
d: John Ford; scr: Philip Dunne
Meet John Doe
d: [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
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Tags: A Woman's Face, Alexander Hall, All That Money Can Buy, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, Bernard Herrmann, Best Films, Bette Davis, Blood and Sand, Carl Benton Reid, Charles Dingle, Cheers for Miss Bishop, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Constance Bennett, Dumbo, Edmund Goulding, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Ward, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernest Haller, Ernest Palmer, Gary Cooper, Greer Garson, Gregg Toland, Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Herman J. Mankiewicz, How Green Was My Valley, Jean Arthur, Jerry Wald, Joan Crawford, John Ford, John Huston, Lillian Hellman, Major Barbara, Manpower, Marie Lohr, Martha Scott, Mary Astor, Michael Curtiz, Norman Krasna, Orson Welles, Patricia Collinge, Peter Lorre, Philip Dunne, Preston Sturges, Raimu, Ray June, Ray Rennahan, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Macaulay, Rita Hayworth, Robert Montgomery, Robert Morley, Robert Planck, Robert Rossen, Seton I. Miller, Simone Simon, Sol Polito, Spring Byington, Sydney Greenstreet, Tay Garnett, Teresa Wright, The Great Lie, The Lady Eve, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Sea Wolf, Thomas Mitchell, Tony Gaudio, Two-Faced Woman, Vivien Leigh, Walter Lang, William Wyler
Best Films – 1940
Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
FILM
The Blue Bird
d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal
The Grapes of Wrath
d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson
Kitty Foyle
d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo
The Letter
d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch
The Mark of Zorro
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth
Pinocchio
d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Ted Sears, Otto Englander and others
Pride and Prejudice
d: Robert Z. Leonard; scr: Aldous Huxley, Jane Murfin
Rebecca
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Waterloo Bridge
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: S.N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, George Froeschel
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday
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Busman’s Honeymoon / Haunted Honeymoon
d: Arthur B. Woods; scr: Monckton Hoffe, Angus MacPhail, Harold Goldman
His Girl Friday
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer
The Long Voyage Home
d: John [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
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Tags: Aldous Huxley, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Newman, Anita Loos, Basil Rathbone, Bella Spewack, Bess Meredyth, Best Films, Bette Davis, Busman's Honeymoon, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Chaplin, Charles Lederer, Classic Movies, Constance Cummings, Edna May Oliver, Ernest Haller, Florence Bates, Frieda Inescort, George Barnes, Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, Herbert Marshall, Herbert Stothart, His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Howard Koch, Irene Dunne, Irving Pichel, Jack Oakie, James Stephenson, Jane Darwell, Jane Murfin, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Joan Harrison, Joel McCrea, John Ford, Judith Anderson, Karl Freund, Kitty Foyle, Laurence Olivier, Leo McCarey, Marjorie Main, Mary Boland, Max Steiner, Melville Cooper, Mervyn LeRoy, Micheline Presle, Nunnally Johnson, Pinocchio, Pride and Prejudice, Ray Rennahan, Rebecca, Robert E. Sherwood, Robert Montgomery, Robert Z. Leonard, Rosalind Russell, Rouben Mamoulian, Roy Webb, Sam Spewack, Sam Wood, Susan and God, The Blue Bird, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, The Man I Married, The Mark of Zorro, The Philadelphia Story, Tyrone Power, Virginia City, Vivien Leigh, Walter Lang, Waterloo Bridge, William Wyler
Honorary Oscars & Women II
Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in Mrs. Miniver (top); Don Ameche, Claudette Colbert in Midnight (middle); Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi in The Divine Lady (bottom)
Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Part I
Among the distinguished female film professionals in Hollywood and elsewhere — some of whom dating back to the early days of cinema — who have gone to the Great Beyond without receiving the Academy’s career achievement Oscar are actresses Greer Garson, Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Audrey Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, Marlene Dietrich, Alida Valli, Simone Signoret, Joan Crawford, Anna Magnani, Susan Hayward, Dolores del Río, Norma Talmadge, Anne Baxter, Joan Bennett, Lilli Palmer, Constance Bennett, and Kay Francis.
Also, Ann Sheridan, Constance Talmadge, Irene Dunne, Colleen Moore, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Jean Arthur, [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Classic Movies, Claudette Colbert, Constance Talmadge, Corinne Griffith, Film Awards, Greer Garson, Honorary Oscar, Lauren Bacall, Lois Weber, Norma Talmadge, Rita Hayworth, Susan Hayward
Best Films – 1943
Set in a 17th-century Danish village, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful Vredens dag / Day of Wrath is a stark, but deeply felt indictment against religious fanaticism and intolerance. Moving performances by ingénue Lisbeth Modin and accused witch Anna Svierkier add a touch of humanity to the horrors shown on screen. It is not a coincidence that Vredens Dag was made in 1943, a time when Denmark was under Nazi occupation. The parallels — and the interconnectedness — between political and religious control are made quite clear in this harrowing masterwork.
FILM
Northern Pursuit
d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Frank Gruber, Alvah Bessie
This Land Is Mine
d: Jean Renoir; scr: Dudley Nichols
Vredens dag / Day of Wrath
d: Carl Theodor Dreyer; scr: Carl Dreyer, [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: Akim Tamiroff, Alvah Bessie, Anna Svierkier, Arthur C. Miller, Best Films, Busby Berkeley, Carl Andersson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Carmen Miranda, Charles Coburn, Charles Laughton, Charles Van Enger, Classic Movies, Curt Siodmak, Dame May Whitty, Dashiell Hammett, Day of Wrath, Dudley Nichols, Edward Cronjager, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Frank Gruber, Gary Cooper, Gene Tierney, George Seaton, Greer Garson, Harry Stradling, Heaven Can Wait, Helmut Dantine, Henry King, Herbert Selpin, Herbert Stothart, Herman Shumlin, I Walked with a Zombie, Ingrid Bergman, J. Carroll Naish, Jacques Tourneur, Jean Arthur, Jean Renoir, Jennifer Jones, Joel McCrea, John F. Seitz, Joseph A. Valentine, Joseph Ruttenberg, Katina Paxinou, Kim Hunter, L'Eternel Retour, Laird Cregar, Lassie Come Home, Lisbeth Modin, Madame Curie, Max Steiner, Northern Pursuit, Patricia Collinge, Paul Lukas, Raoul Walsh, Rex Ingram (actor), Roger Hubert, Sahara, Samson Raphaelson, Shadow of a Doubt, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, So Proudly We Hail, Teresa Wright, The Eternal Return, The Gang's All Here, The Human Comedy, The Lady Takes a Chance, The More the Merrier, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Seventh Victim, The Song of Bernadette, This Land Is Mine, Titanic, Una O'Connor, Veronica Lake, Vredens Dag, Walter Bullock, Watch on the Rhine, Werner Klingler
