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...OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
Walter de Havilland, 69, father of Cine-stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (1941 Oscar winner), turned up in Denver with his Japanese second wife, Yoki, looking for a job. Saying that neither of his daughters would have anything to do with him because of Yoki, he added wistfully: "I guess Olivia is worth about four million dollars...
...Thurber's hopelessly human hero is a blurting young English professor (Henry Fonda) who gets branded a Red because he wants to read one of Vanzetti's (of Massachusetts' Sacco & Vanzetti) letters to his class. The battle is joined when one of his wife's (Olivia de Havilland) old football-playing beaux, Joe the Twirler (Jack Carson), arrives at Midwestern U. for the big game...
...things he was busy about was a new series of Plays for Americans, to be broadcast by NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4:30. For the first in the series, produced last Sunday, voluble, begoggled, little Arch Oboler went to Manhattan with fair Olivia de Havilland, the leading lady. Although protesting that he was being made a fall guy in the Garbo matter, Arch was meditative about the state of his radio...
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...