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Gary Cooper took honors as top actor of the year (for Sergeant York) with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...
...Comment by a nameless observer on the regal bearing of RKO Actor-Producer-Writer-Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane): "There, but for the grace of God goes...
...Arthur Johnson, Jr. of Kane, Pennsylvania and Kane High; Stoughton Hall...
...rustle of women's clothes, warm darkness and music in the night. He sometimes deliberately blurred his narrative line, resulting now in effective suspense, now in mere teasing. Yet this fragment contains scenes of beauty and power. Completed, it might or might not have been a Citizen Kane about the movie industry...
This picture is one of Hollywood's better jobs, but its plot is not the reason. The real heroes of the production are Cameraman Gregg Toland, who recreates his subtle photographic touches of "Citizen Kane," and Patricia Collinge, who, as the garrulous and persecuted Birdie, gives to Miss Hellman's only real character-study, the same spirited portrayal that made it live on the stage. Always the artist, Mr. Toland makes brilliant use of the shadow and heightens the power of the climactic staircase scenes by shooting from unique angles...