Word: hersholt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warning was sounded last fortnight at the annual handing-out of Oscars (TIME, April 4), but no one paid much attention. Jean Hersholt, retiring as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, told the audience: "There have been voices in the industry raised against the academy. [They] say . . . 'We don't want academy standards foisted upon us. We want to make commercial pictures unhampered by considerations of artistic excellence...
...turned out that Actor Hersholt was not just orating. Last week he announced that the major studios, prodded by their New York headquarters, were withdrawing their financial support from the Oscar derby, one of Hollywood's best publicity-getters since 1928. Said Hersholt: "They say it wouldn't take so long to make a movie if the actors, directors, writers and technicians weren't so concerned with making it artistic and winning awards." Even this year's Oscars, Hersholt conceded, were not supported by three companies-Columbia, Republic and Universal-International (which released the top prizewinner...
Keynoter Jean Hersholt rose to announce that "We are sentimental people. . . ." But the 6,000-odd movie colonists assembled in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium gave only one sign of out-&-out sentiment during the whole evening. That was a cheery huzzah for cheery Edmund Gwenn, who won an Oscar as the best supporting actor for his very human, slightly balmy Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Celeste Holm was named the best supporting actress for her acid other-womanizing in Gentleman's Agreement...
Screen Guild Players (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter and Jean Hersholt in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith...
...simple message of To the People: syphilis can be stamped out, and the first step toward its eradication is individual blood tests. Says the Doctor, who is played gratis by Jean Hersholt: "Yes-I mean you. The need for a blood test means you and me, as well as the village idiot...