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...year's best male performance and radio's Mercedes McCambridge, playing her first screen part, took the Oscar for the best job by a supporting actress. The Academy voted the best-actress award (her second) to Olivia de Havilland for playing the jilted wallflower in The Heiress, and recognized a bald Dean Jagger's retread adjutant in Twelve O'Clock High as the best male supporting performance...
...Bicycle Thief" and "Devil in the Flesh" are tied as the best foreign films of 1949, according to the results of a poll released last night by Ivy Films. "Fallen Idol" was cited as the best English speaking film, and "The Heiress" as the best American film the opinion of its 160 members...
Ralph Richardson carried off double honors in the poll. He was judged the best leading actor in "Fallen Idol," and the best supporting actor in "The Heiress." Olivia deHavilland, also for her performance in "The Heiress," won first place in the poll's competition for the best leading actress. The best supporting actress was Mercedes McCambridge named for her role in "All the King...
...Bohlen und Halbach, 79, owner through both World Wars of the giant Krupp works in Essen, Germany (70% destroyed by Allied bombs during World War II); after long illness; in Salzburg, Austria. Gustav Halbach, born in The Hague, The Netherlands, changed his name when he married Bertha Krupp, heiress to the huge Ruhr steel and ammunition works. In World War I he built the famed long-range German cannon that bombarded Paris (the Allies called it "Big Bertha" after his wife). An early supporter of Hitler, he was indicted as a top war criminal, escaped trial when a medical examination...
...Heiress. Producer-Director William Wyler's highly polished film about a jilted wallflower, with Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson (TIME...