Word: mccarey
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...year later the new group bestowed its first set of awards. During an informal ceremony at 20th Century Fox, The Song of Bernadette was named "Best Film," and its star, Jennifer Jones, "Best Actress." The following year marked the group's first gala social event, when Leo McCarey's Going My Way was named the best film of 1944. In 1950, the organization split momentarily into two competing groups - the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association and the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood. By the time these factions reunited as the HFPA in 1955, the Golden Globes looked very much as they...
...briskly recycled many of their properties. RKO filmed Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely as an episode of the low-budget Falcon series in 1942 and then remade it as an A picture (Murder, My Sweet) two years later. In predigital days, directors like Cecil B. DeMille, Leo McCarey and Alfred Hitchcock didn't go back and "improve" their old movies, as Lucas did with Star Wars or Spielberg with E.T. They simply remade them 15 or 20 years later...
There have also been productive interferences: The French New Wave loved American film noir; Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story takes off from Leo McCarey; Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo morphed into Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More...