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A master Kazan and rare revivals
Times Staff WriterThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art's four-week Elia Kazan retrospective continues Friday and Saturday with the director's 1954 masterwork, "On the Waterfront," as well as the rarely revived "Panic in the Streets," "Boomerang!" and "Viva Zapata!" "Panic...Tags: Theater, Cannes Film Festival, Epidemics and Plagues, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Academy Awards
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Film Art Winners Named
From The Times: April 4, 1930
Mary Pickford and Warner Baxter gave the outstanding performances in motion pictures during the year ending July 31, 1929. The awards were announced last night at the annual merit award banquet of the Academy of Motion...Tags: Frank Lloyd, Theater, Warner Baxter, Arizona, Academy Awards
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Oscar Audience Sheds Real Tears — It's Smog
From The Times: March 28, 1957 Last night was the hottest in memory, if not in the 29 years, of any to mark the presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards at Pantages Hollywood Theater. When it was over, so many of the guests...Tags: Rock Hudson, Theater, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Carroll Baker
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'Annie Hall' Named Best Film
Times Staff WriterFrom The Times: April 4, 1978 Diane Keaton, Richard Dreyfuss and "Annie Hall" won top honors in the 50th annual Academy Awards ceremonies Monday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards were...Tags: John Barry, Theater, Kirk Douglas, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Academy Awards
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Fay Wray, King Kong's darling, dead at 96
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFay Wray, who screamed her way into movie history as the apple of King Kong's eye, has died. She was 96. Wray died Sunday night at her home in New York City, according to Rick McKay, a close friend. No cause of death was reported. "She was fairly active...Tags: Theater, Gary Cooper, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Laurence Olivier, Cinema Industry
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The First Year
When: May 16, 1929 Where: Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Host: Academy President Douglas Fairbanks and William C. DeMille Winners Best picture: "Wings"; best actress: Janet Gaynor for "Sunrise," "Seventh Heaven" and "Street Angel";...Tags: Academy Awards, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals, Lewis Milestone, Awards and Prizes
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Reunion for a gold man group
Times Staff WriterIf anybody knows the whereabouts of the Oscar statuette for "Wings," the first film to win the best picture honor back on Feb. 17, 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would love to hear from you. The academy wanted the early Oscar for...Tags: Theater, Academy Awards, Walt Disney, Cinema Industry, Film Festivals
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Top winners from 1937
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Charles Boyer as Napoleon Bonaparte in CONQUEST MGM Fredric March as Norman Maine (Alfred Hinkel) in A STAR IS BORN Selznick International Pictures; UA Robert Montgomery as Danny in NIGHT MUST...Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Thomas Mitchell, Joseph Schildkraut, Greta Garbo, Paul Muni
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Top winners from 1927-1928
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Richard Barthelmess as Nickie Elkins in THE NOOSE First National Richard Barthelmess as The Patent Leather Kid in THE PATENT LEATHER KID First National Emil Jannings as General Dolgorucki/...Tags: First National Corporation, Emil Jannings, Paramount, Gloria Swanson, Celebrity
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Silent summer
Are you an old movie buff? We're talking really, really old movies. If so, the Silent Film Society of Chicago's Silent Summer Film Festival at the Gateway Theatre, 5216 W. Lawrence Ave., ought to provide you with plenty of thrills, chills and guffaws --...Tags: Theater, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Movies, Film Festivals
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