Hattie McDaniel. Hattie McDaniel: First black performer to win an Academy Award One of the best and, despite nearly 100 film appearances, most poorly utilized actresses of the studio era was Hattie McDaniel, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” featured player today, Aug. 20.…
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1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, that year’s eventual winner. 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees on TCM Turner Classic Movies’ homage to the 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees continues this evening, Feb. 12, ’11, with three more entries: Victor…
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I Remember Mama with Irene Dunne, Philip Dorn, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Brown: George Stevens immigrant family drama. George Stevens’ film series on Turner Classic Movies continues tonight with a potpourri of films: the romantic drama Alice Adams (1935), the period comedy Quality Street (1937),…
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Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Jones, the widow of both Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick and industrialist Norton Simon, will have a number of her belongings auctioned. Jones, who died last year at the age of 90, was best known for her…
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How long is Gone with the Wind? Long enough for Clark Gable to watch Vivien Leigh grow from teenage belle to womanly Civil War survivor. “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…