Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most provocative picture of 1941, Citizen Kane, was conspicuously overlooked by Hollywood in its annual kudos-giving.* Upstart Welles, though he and his first picture had been nominated by the members for nine Academy Awards (far more than any other star or picture), was awarded half an Oscar (for the best original screen play; co-authored by Herman J. Mankiewicz...
...also settled down (as writer, assistant producer, etc.) to learn the business. He once had a derby-hatted wooden Oscar made for himself, with the inscription: "In honor of Nunnally Johnson [astute producer and Hempstead crony] and David Hempstead, who are exactly 22½ years ahead of their time." Says he: "Oscar is to remind me I'm good; the derby hat to keep me from getting swell-headed about...
Marlene Dietrich, after twelve years of Hollywood, decided to try the U.S. stage, picked Oscar Wilde's The Ideal Husband, planned to start rehearsals in March...
Meanwhile the German transocean news agency announced in a Berlin dispatch that Spains Generalissimo Francisco Franco, accompanied by Spanish Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, was expected to leave Madrid Wednesday for Seveille to meet President Antonio Oscar de Fragose Carmnoa and Premier Antino de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal...
There are only two similarities between Oscar Straus' original "Chocolate Soldier" and M.G.M.'s dolled-up film of the same name: they have some of the same music, and neither of them is any good. Since a few of the songs aren't bad, the first point of resemblance may not bother you. As far as the second one is concerned, it just serves to show you two unbeatable ways to save your money...