Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Rich, who won the Yale poetry award while an undergraduate, was the only woman listed among the nine recipients from the University scene. Both Richard P. Wilbur, assistant professor of English, and Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer in Slavic and Comparative Literature, also received Guggenheim Awards for a year's work in creative writing...
...couldn't find his hat because he was sitting on it." But when Laughton began to recite, he ceased to be a figure of fun: he held the room spellbound. For his portrayal of Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion, he won the academy's highest award. Shaw dropped in on one rehearsal and commented: "Young man, you were horrible as my Higgins, but nothing will stop you from getting to the top of the tree in a year...
...Special Award Winner Gene Kelly (who last November complained that academy "snobbism" would bar a musical from the laurels), for his acting-dancing "contribution" to the Technicolor musical, An American in Paris...
...Kelly needed further soothing, his musical got eight other top awards, for best picture, best story and screenplay, best musical score (in a musical), best sets, best (color) art direction, best (color) costume design, best color photography. Its Producer Arthur Freed won the prized Thalberg Award for merit...
Last year's award is especially delayed because the department, undergoing re-organization, temporarily lost track of Wheaton's whereabouts...