coffeedan1927
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You're right, Mongo -- it was Stanwyck, not Holden, who got the special award that year. I do remember her mentioning that both of them knew about the award before Holden died. But those two moments were powerfully emotional -- I was tearing up just writing that last post!
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I remember sometime in the early 1970s that William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck were co-presenters for one of the awards, and they prefaced it by telling how Stanwyck had helped Holden through his first starring role in GOLDEN BOY. Holden related that he was a very scared, nervous kid, wondering how he would do in his first important picture, and that Stanwyck was very generous and helpful throughout that time. They remained close friends ever since.
Stanwyck responded that she knew she was working with a real talent, and also mentioned them working again in EXECUTIVE SUITE fifteen years later, telling him she knew how far he would go. There was obviously a lot of genuine affection between them -- they looked at each other frequently, and held hands during the last words of their mutual tribute.
Fast forward to 1982, when Stanwyck accepted Holden's special Oscar after his death the previous year. (Before his death, both of them knew he would be getting the award.) Her acceptance speech was very emotional -- she was really fighting to keep herself together -- and by the end, when she called Holden "my golden boy," I started crying the same time she did, remembering what I had seen about a decade before.
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It's from the 1932 Warner Brothers film CABIN IN THE COTTON.
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As of this week, Anita Page is still very much with us. I visited the Ramon Novarro site a few days ago, and a member who had spoken with her caregiver said Ms. Page is still in good health and spirits, but will no longer be making public appearances. I know she's suffered a series of strokes in recent years, and I guess they've taken their toll. But she still loves to talk about the good old days and the people she worked with to anybody who will listen!
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Yup, you got it right, minatonga! Good job!
As samkqboro mentioned above, Fitzgerald lost out to Bing Crosby for Best Actor, but won for Best Supporting Actor. Plus GOING MY WAY won five more Oscars, including Best Picture, for a total of seven.
Okay, time to step off the mound and throw my glove to Mongo . . . See you all on Monday!
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Yesterday's answer: Alice White, who played showgirl Dixie Dugan on screen and starred with such Warner luminaries as James Cagney and Warren William, got her first job in Hollywood as a secretary to Mary Pickford. After a few months on the job, Pickford fired her for wearing a sleeveless dress to work!
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Very good guess, minatonga! You are correct!
I got this from the source. Several years ago, I got to talk with Ruth Warrick when she came to the radio station I worked at for an studio interview. She told me that, one day on the set of CITIZEN KANE, Orson Welles and the rest of the cast held a little ceremony making her and Dorothy Comingore honorary members of the Mercury Theatre. Welles made a speech, made some "knightly gestures" over both of them, and said, "You're one of the company now."
She was quite effusive in her praise of Welles, adding that he was one of the most charming and talented gentlemen she had ever met. Both she and Comingore worked with Welles on radio many times after CITIZEN KANE.
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Brad, you're in first with the right answer! Good job!
Everyone in this group was a cartoonist at some time before (and in at least one case, during) their time in Hollywood.