Word: hersholt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian. Veteran Jean Hersholt feels that the public would tire of kindly Dr. Christian if they had to look at him on TV week after week. He will do television, but on film, and no more than once or twice a month...
...President Jean Hersholt announced that no further awards would be made until...
...were the original motives of the founders of the Academy Awards back in 1928, but even the most casual observer of Hollywood can see that it is today nothing more than a crass publicity device which even a solemn-toned, pipe-smoking, God-fearing President like lovable, old Jean Hersholt can not conceal. (And I want it understood that I am not saying one unkind word against the man who brought the darling Dionne Quintuplets into this world. I've got cockles like the next guy.) Nevertheless, President Hersholt has stated that the Academy subsidy has been withdrawn because...
President Hersholt is now in the East conferring with the Columbia University officials who annually award the Pulitzer prizes, with the idea of having the cinema included. This would possibly be an improvement, but it should be remembered that the Pulitzer prizes are awarded to works that "best present the wholesome atmosphere of American Life, (the capitals are Mr. Pulitzer's), and the highest standards of American manners and mankind...
Withdrawal of support did not mean that the studios would stop lobbying for their own pictures. And, as Hersholt quickly pointed out, an Oscar was not just an artistic laurel but a box-office lure as well. At week's end, apparently reconciled to the latest twist of the tightened Hollywood economy, the academy's board of governors decided that the money would have to be scraped up somewhere else, but the Oscars would carry...