"The Miniver Story The Miniver Story is a 1950 film sequel to the successful 1942 film ""Mrs. Miniver"". Like its predecessor, it was made by MGM and starred Greer Garson in the title role, but it was filmed on location in England. The film was directed by H.C. Potter and produced by Sidney Franklin, from a screenplay by George Froeschel and Ronald Millar based on characters created by Jan Struther. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and Herbert Stothart, with additional music by Daniele Amfitheatrof (from ""Mrs. Miniver"") (uncredited) and the cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Greer Garson (Kay), Walter"
"It was shortly after this incident that the Academy set forty-five seconds as the allotted time for an acceptance speech and began to cut the winners off after this time limit. The shortest Oscar speech was given by Patty Duke at the 35th Academy Awards after she was named Best Supporting Actress for 1962 for ""The Miracle Worker"". Duke, age 16, was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category. Her acceptance speech was, simply, two words ""Thank you"" after which she walked off the stage. Oscar speech An Oscar speech is a"
"and sentimental American film, ""Mrs Miniver"", released in 1942, which won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. By 1942, Struther had herself gone to America as a lecturer. In the 1940s she was a frequent guest panelist on the popular American radio quiz show ""Information Please"", where she provided a warm and witty presence. She was one of the few women panelists to appear repeatedly on the program. An apocryphal story, attributed to fellow panelist Oscar Levant, tells that her appearances on the show stopped abruptly after she answered a question by referring to Agatha Christie's book ""Ten Little Niggers"","
"that ""someone should salute England. And even if we lose $100,000, that'll be okay."" Mayer wanted British actress Greer Garson, his personal discovery, to star, but she refused to play a matronly role. Mayer implored her ""to have the same faith in me"" that he had in her. He read from the script, having her visualize the image she would present to the world, ""a woman who survives and endures. She was London. No, more than that, she was ... England!"" Garson accepted the role, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. ""Mrs. Miniver"" won six Academy Awards and became"
"Greer Garson Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British-American actress popular during the Second World War, being listed by the ""Motion Picture Herald"" as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, including a record-tying five consecutive nominations for acting, all in the Best Actress category (1941–1945), winning the award for ""Mrs. Miniver"" (1942). Greer Garson was born on 29 September 1904 in Manor Park, East Ham, then in Essex, now part of London, the only"
"Olivier had his eyebrows scorched."" When America entered the World War II in December 1941, Wilcoxon enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, supposedly ""leaving his home twenty minutes after the announcement that the States had declared war and proceeding to enlist then and there."" He served with the Coast Guard until 1946, gaining the rank of Lieutenant. During his period of service, he had three films released in 1942, among them ""Mrs. Miniver"", which received considerable public acclaim, as well as six Academy Awards. Wilcoxon, in his role as the vicar, ""wrote and re-wrote"" the key sermon with director"
"expectations, grossing $5,358,000 in the US and Canada (the highest for any MGM film at the time) and $3,520,000 abroad. In the United Kingdom, it was named the top box office attraction of 1942. The initial theatrical release made MGM a profit of $4,831,000, their most profitable film of the year. Of the 592 film critics polled by American magazine ""Film Daily"", 555 named it the best film of 1942. ""Mrs. Miniver"" won six Academy Awards in 1943. Notes The fifth episode of season 1 of ""Downton Abbey"" copies the scene of Lady Beldon giving her award away at a"
"ever to win a Best Actor Oscar, until Anthony Hopkins win for his appearance in the 1991 film ""The Silence of the Lambs"", which is a little over 16 minutes. He was also a co-host of the 30th, 31st, and 46th Academy Awards ceremonies. After Niven had won the Academy Award, Goldwyn called with an invitation to his home. In Goldwyn's drawing room, Niven noticed a picture of himself in uniform which he had sent to Goldwyn from Britain during the Second World War. In happier times with Goldwyn, he had observed this same picture sitting on Goldwyn's piano. Now"
"had died by the subject's cultural impact; the applause has since been muted during the telecast, and the audience is discouraged from clapping during the segment and giving silent reflection instead. In terms of broadcast length, the ceremony generally averages three and a half hours. The first Oscars, in 1929, lasted 15 minutes. At the other end of the spectrum, the 2002 ceremony lasted four hours and twenty-three minutes. In 2010, the organizers of the Academy Awards announced winners' acceptance speeches must not run past 45 seconds. This, according to organizer Bill Mechanic, was to ensure the elimination of what"
"she would retain use of his surname for the remainder of her career. In 1939, Wyman starred in ""Torchy Plays With Dynamite"". In 1941, she appeared in ""You're in the Army Now"", in which she and Regis Toomey had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds. Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film noir ""The Lost Weekend"" (1945). She was nominated for the 1946 Academy Award for Best Actress for ""The Yearling"" (1946), and won two years later for her role as a deaf-mute rape victim in ""Johnny Belinda"" (1948). She was the first"
"the top box office hit of 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill both loved the film, said historian Emily Yellin, and Roosevelt wanted prints rushed to theaters nationwide. The Voice of America radio network broadcast the minister's speech from the film, magazines reprinted it, and it was copied onto leaflets and dropped over German-occupied countries. Churchill sent Mayer a telegram claiming that """"Mrs. Miniver"" is propaganda worth 100 battleships."" Bosley Crowther (1960 biographer of Mayer, below), wrote in his ""New York Times"" review that ""Mrs. Miniver"" was the finest film yet made about the war,"
"Teresa Wright Muriel Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress. She was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: in 1941 for her debut work in ""The Little Foxes"", and in 1942 for ""Mrs. Miniver"", winning for the latter. That same year, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in ""The Pride of the Yankees"", opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943) and William Wyler's ""The Best Years of Our Lives"" (1946). Wright"
"49th Academy Awards The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty. This Academy Awards ceremony is notable for Peter Finch becoming the first posthumous winner of an Oscar for acting, a feat matched only by fellow Australian Heath Ledger 32 years later; Finch had suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-January. Beatrice Straight set another record by becoming the actor with the shortest performance ever in a film to win an acting Oscar, with"
"film role was in the 1923 silent film, ""The Last Moment"", in a supporting role. In his career Allen appeared in over 100 films, mostly in supporting and smaller roles. Some of the more notable films he appeared in include: ""Of Human Bondage"" (1934), starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard; the Marx Brothers' classic, ""A Night at the Opera""; the original ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" (1935), starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable; William Wyler's 1942 Academy Award-winning film, ""Mrs. Miniver"", starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright; ""Jane Eyre"" (1944), starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine; the Mickey Rooney"
"(1941), and ""The Devil Pays Off"" (1941). The latter film was released in November 1941 when she was pregnant with her second child. She did not return to the screen. Even before the United States entered the war, her husband was an outspoken advocate for the defense of Great Britain. His first Oscar-winning film, ""Mrs. Miniver"" (1942), was a sympathetic portrayal of an English family enduring the Battle of Britain. After completing that film, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and flew in missions over Europe in order to make documentaries about them. At the 1943 Academy"
"took a public position sided with the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. Walter Pidgeon Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor. He earned two Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his roles in ""Mrs. Miniver"" (1942) and ""Madame Curie"" (1943). Pidgeon also starred in many films such as ""How Green Was My Valley"" (1941), ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952), ""Forbidden Planet"" (1956), ""Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"" (1961), ""Advise & Consent"" (1962), ""Funny Girl"" (1968), and ""Harry in Your Pocket"" (1973). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in"
"person in the sound era to win an acting Oscar without speaking a line of dialogue. In an amusing acceptance speech, perhaps poking fun at some of her long-winded counterparts, Wyman took her statue and said only, ""I accept this, very gratefully, for keeping my mouth shut once. I think I'll do it again."" The Oscar win gave her the ability to choose higher-profile roles, although she still showed a liking for musical comedy. She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on ""Stage Fright"" (1950), Frank Capra on ""Here Comes the Groom"" (1951), and Michael Curtiz on ""The Story"
"and Roosevelt wanted prints rushed to theaters nationwide. The Voice of America radio network broadcast the minister's speech from the film, magazines reprinted it, and it was copied onto leaflets and dropped over German-occupied countries. Churchill sent MGM head Louis B. Mayer a telegram claiming that """"Mrs. Miniver"" is propaganda worth 100 battleships."" Bosley Crowther wrote in his ""New York Times"" review that ""Mrs. Miniver"" was the finest film yet made about the war, ""and a most exalting tribute to the British."" Between 1942 and 1945 Wyler volunteered to serve as a major in the United States Army Air Forces"
"tears with her doleful demeanor, as well as laughs. Having been extensively edited prior to release—the final theatrical cut ran just over two hours—the movie failed initially at the box office, but has since been restored to over four hours and is considered one of the greatest films ever made. Based on her performance, von Stroheim labeled Pitts ""the greatest dramatic actress"". He also featured her in his films ""The Honeymoon"" (1928), ""The Wedding March"" (1928), ""War Nurse"" (1930) and ""Walking Down Broadway"", released as ""Hello, Sister!"" (1933). Pitts enjoyed her greatest fame in the early 1930s, often starring in"
"had planned to read a 15-page speech written by Brando. The Best Actor award was presented by actors Liv Ullmann and Roger Moore. After giving brief remarks and announcing the five nominees, they declared Brando to be the winner. Littlefeather walked on stage and raised her hand to decline the Oscar trophy that Moore offered her. Deviating from the prepared speech she clutched, she said the following: Moore escorted Littlefeather off-stage, past several people critical of her, and to the press. Backstage, actor John Wayne was outraged by her speech, and six security guards held him back from Littlefeather. At"
"for roles in ""Born Yesterday"" (1950) and ""A Place in the Sun"" (1951), Hughes refused and instead made her do a supporting role in ""Macao"" (1952). Despite only appearing for a little over nine minutes on screen, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in MGM's ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (also 1952); she long held the record for the shortest performance on screen to win an acting Oscar until Beatrice Straight won for Network with her 5 minutes and 2 seconds of performance. Other memorable roles included the scheming Irene Neves in ""Sudden Fear"" (also 1952), the"
"35th Academy Awards The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of the long-running feud between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. They had starred together for the first time in ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"", a surprise hit the previous summer. Davis was nominated for her role as the title character, a faded child star who humiliates the wheelchair-bound sister who eclipsed her fame in adulthood, while Crawford"
"and with Tatiana Maslany as Diana and Tony Goldwyn as Max Schumacher. ""Network"" won three of the four acting awards. Only one other film, ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" in 1951, has won in three acting categories. Finch died before the 1977 ceremony and was the only performer to win a posthumous Academy Award until Heath Ledger won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009. The statuette itself was collected by Finch's widow, Eletha Finch. Straight's performance as Louise Schumacher occupied only five minutes and two seconds of screen time, making it the shortest performance to win an Oscar (as of"
"to 93 minutes. ""Stage Door Canteen"" was named one of the ten best motion pictures of 1943 in a ""Film Daily"" poll of 439 newspaper and radio reviewers. The film received two Academy Award nominations—for the original score by Fred Rich, and for the original song, ""We Mustn't Say Goodbye"", by James V. Monaco (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). Bosley Crowther, film critic for ""The New York Times"", prefaced his remarks on the film by stating his aversion to the contemporary trend toward all-star spectacles, which he called ""cheap showmanship"": But for once, we've got to make a frank concession."
"December 25, 1942 and closing January 2, 1943 after 11 performances. The title comes from a famous line in Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"": ""Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."" This film features a very early appearance by Robert Mitchum, who is briefly seen as a dying soldier. It also marks the final performance by Diana Lewis, who retired following her marriage to William Powell. ""This is the story of thirteen women. Only two of them — Captain Alice Marsh and Lieutenant Mary Smith — were members of the armed forces of the United States. The others were civilians"
"hours and twenty-three minutes, the telecast garnered nearly 42 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 74th Academy Awards were announced on February 12, 2002, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Frank Pierson, president of the Academy, and the actress Marcia Gay Harden. """" earned the most nominations with thirteen. It was the seventh film to earn that many nominations. ""A Beautiful Mind"" and ""Moulin Rouge!"" tied for second place with eight apiece. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 24, 2002. By virtue of its latest Best Picture victory"
"Award for Best Supporting Actress as the daughter-in-law of Greer Garson's character in ""Mrs. Miniver"". Wright is one of only nine players who have been nominated in both categories in the same year. Her three Academy Award nominations and one Academy Award in her first three films is unique. She remains the only performer to have received Academy Award nominations for her first three films. In 1943, Wright appeared in the acclaimed Universal film ""Shadow of a Doubt"", directed by Alfred Hitchcock, playing an innocent young woman who discovers her beloved uncle (played by Joseph Cotten) is a serial murderer."
"performer, Greer Garson, who also earned five consecutive nominations in the Best Actress category (1941-1945), including three years when both these actresses were nominated. In 1962, Bette Davis became the first person to secure 10 Academy Award nominations for acting. Since then only three people have surpassed this figure, Meryl Streep (with 21 nominations and three wins), Katharine Hepburn (12 nominations and four wins), and Jack Nicholson (12 nominations and three wins) with Laurence Olivier matching the number (10 nominations, 1 award). Steven Spielberg purchased Davis' Oscars for ""Dangerous"" (1935) and ""Jezebel"" (1938), when they were offered for auction for"
"""Mrs. Miniver"". He is tied with Frank Capra and behind John Ford, who won four Oscars in this category. He is also only director in Academy history to direct three Best Picture-winning films (the three for which he won Best Director), and directed more Best Picture nominees than anyone else (thirteen). He has the distinction of having directed more actors to Oscar-nominated performances than any other director in history: thirty-six. Out of these nominees, fourteen went on to win Oscars, also a record. He received the fourth AFI Life Achievement Award in 1976. Among those who thanked him for directing"
"""Terms of Endearment"", which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1984); and ""Lonesome Dove"", which became a popular television miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. In 2006, he was cowinner (with Diana Ossana) of both the Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Brokeback Mountain."" He accepted his Oscar wearing jeans and cowboy boots along with his dinner jacket, and used his speech to promote books by reminding his audience that ""Brokeback Mountain"" was a short story by E. Annie Proulx before it was a movie. In his Golden Globe acceptance"
"films that could be considered anti-Nazi were banned by the Hays Office. U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, Joseph Kennedy, told the studios to stop making pro-British and anti-German films. Kennedy felt that British defeat was imminent. But MGM producer Eddie Mannix disagreed, saying that ""someone should salute England. And even if we lose $100,000, that'll be okay."" ""Mrs. Miniver"" went on to win six Academy Awards, becoming the top box office hit of 1942. It was Wyler's first Academy Award for Best Director. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill both loved the film, said historian Emily Yellin,"
"the broadcast. Oscar-winning documentarian Lynne Littman assembled a montage highlighting women in film. There was a minor controversy when Snow White (Disney character) was presenting an award for Best Animated Short Subject. She was voiced by Mary Kay Bergman, Adriana Caselotti, the original voice of Snow White was not aware of this. She was reportedly offended that Disney didn't ask her to voice Snow White during the ceremony. Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony. Bill Conti served as conductor and musical supervisor for the ceremony. Choreographer Debbie Allen supervised the Best Song nominee performances and the"
"the master of ceremonies and with short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. Among the others in attendance were Ann Sothern, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Edward Arnold, William Bendix, and Walter Pidgeon. Barrymore registered for the draft during World War II despite his age and disability, to encourage others to enlist in the military. He loathed the income tax. Several sources argue that arthritis alone confined Barrymore to a wheelchair. Film historian Jeanine Basinger says that his arthritis was serious by at least 1928, when Barrymore made ""Sadie Thompson"". Film historian David Wallace says it"