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...with much the best of it. Its Treasure of the Sierra Madre brought three awards to one family: two to John Huston, for his direction and screen play, and one to his father, Walter Huston, for the best male supporting performance, as Treasure's garrulous old roustabout prospector. Jane Wyman, the deaf-mute of Warner's Johnny Belinda, was named the year's best actress. Claire Trevor got an Oscar for the best supporting performance by an actress, in the Huston-directed Key Largo. Bustling Warner Producer Jerry Wald got the Irving Thalberg Award for "top achievement...
Both pictures are notable for fine acting performances. Jane Wyman, as a deaf-mute in a rugged seacoast town, has already received a garden of critical orchids. Walter Houston, as the old prospector leading two hot young bloods to a fortune in gold, creates a wonderful character who dances at the sight of gold dust...
...Prospector. In Superior, Wis., Ernest Smith pleaded guilty to stealing his ex-wife's dentures and selling the gold in the upper plate...
When he came home he worked his laundry route like a prospector working a gravel bar. He made good money-more than $100 a week. He got himself elected business agent of Laundry Driver's Local 566, made speeches in Seattle's down-at-the-heels labor temple at every opportunity. He took extension courses in economics, law, business administration, and English...
...Canada's only proved source of uranium. Toronto investors were willing to bet big money that the new strike was the real thing. By week's end, shares in Campbell's syndicate, which he peddled last spring for $25 apiece, were bringing bids of $1,000. Prospector Campbell and his backers were not selling...