Word: belinda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your statement that Johnny Belinda was produced over the protests of Mr. Jack Warner is completely erroneous. Mr. Warner encouraged me in making Johnny Belinda, as well as every other picture I have produced for Warner Bros. For your information, no material for production here is purchased, prepared or actually produced without his okay and enthusiastic support...
...Sierra Madre brought three awards to one family: two to John Huston, for his direction and screen play, and one to his father, Walter Huston, for the best male supporting performance, as Treasure's garrulous old roustabout prospector. Jane Wyman, the deaf-mute of Warner's Johnny Belinda, was named the year's best actress. Claire Trevor got an Oscar for the best supporting performance by an actress, in the Huston-directed Key Largo. Bustling Warner Producer Jerry Wald got the Irving Thalberg Award for "top achievement in production...
State of the Cinema. For Boss Jack Warner, the triumph was edged with irony. It was no secret that Warner had allowed Johnny Belinda to be made only over his protests and that he had parted company with its director, Jean Negulesco, when the picture was finished. It was also well known that Warner had thoroughly disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow...
Stealing a one-week march on the Academy Awards, Hollywood's Foreign Correspondents' Association named 1948's best screen performers: Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) and Sir Laurence Olivier (Hamlet...
...Hollywood's best films of last year have been put together to form one delightful double bill in midtown Boston. These are "Johnny Belinda" and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," both out of Warner Brothers...