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...individual awards themselves--a quick glance over the past 20 years will show some selections which should even embarrass some of the moguls. However, that can be said of any group which insists on awarding prizes to its contemporaries. Of Hollywood's handful of geniuses--Garbo, Chaplin, Disney, Welles, The Marx Brothers, and W.C. Fields--only Disney has been recognized by the Academy. And the real joke about that is that Disney's awards have always been "Special Awards." This puts him in the same weird position as was Olivier in 1946 when he was given a "Special Award...
Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...
...entertained some illusions. The U.S. sponsoring committee was studded with the well-intentioned, the gullible, the confused, and salted with Communists. The committee was headed by Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long had red stars in his eyes. Besides such unsurprising names as Henry A. Wallace and Charles Chaplin, the roster included Physicist Albert Einstein, Novelist Thomas Mann. What was really surprising at this late date was that such supposedly well-informed people as Vassar President Sarah Gibson Blanding and Columbia Philosopher Irwin Edman had agreed to sponsor the Communists' show and ducked out only at the last...
Under the leadership of several able and active resident toutors, discussion groups in everything from American history and literature to more advanced scientific problems are conducted throughout the year. A closed series of early American film comedies has been especially attractive this year, what with Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbucklo...
This spring's program will include "Shoe Shine," "Odd Man Out," "Ivan the Terrible," "The Long Voyage Home," "Topper," "Grand Illusion," and several Chaplin films...