Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's sweepstakes, proper timing is essential. Many Oscar contenders released earlier this year (e.g., Ivanhoe, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Carrie) are commonly regarded as already too old to get an Academy nod. This strange tradition of fast-fading eligibility has produced an equally strange custom: year-end "prerelease" of most of the brightest Oscar hopefuls...
This week, on the eve of Oscar post time, the moviemakers were busily grooming their hottest entries and preparing to trot them out. Along Beverly Hills's Wilshire Boulevard and in several art theaters in the year's last week, marquees will blaze with a flurry of top-fated (by their makers) new titles. The leading entries...
...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox), co-starring Newcomer Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, who is hopeful of a third best-actress Oscar (previous awards: 1946, 1949). The studio's dark horse: Stars and Stripes Forever, with Clifton Webb playing the late John Philip Sous'a (see below...
...Member of the Wedding (Stanley Kramer; Columbia), the story of an unhappy twelve-year-old girl and her sympathetic Mammy, with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters (both top-actress hopefuls) in their original Broadway parts (see below). Director Fred Zinnemann, himself a good Oscar prospect, might lose out, paradoxically, if the vote for him is split between Member and his High Noon, whose star, Gary Cooper, is in the running for his second Oscar (his first: in 1941, for Sergeant York...
...Hans Christian Andersen, Sam Goldwyn's bid for every Oscar in the Academy's trophy case...