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  Alternate Oscars – By Danny Peary – 1993 (Why not Night of the Hunter?) One Critic’s Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress—From 1927 to the Present A Delta Book Published by Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1540 Broadway New York, New York 10036 1955 BEST PICTURE WINNER: Marty (Hecht-Lancaster/United Artists; Delbert Mann) Other Nominees: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Mister Roberts, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo THE BEST CHOICE: The Night of the Hunter (United Artists; Charles Laughton) Award-Worthy Runners-L’p: The Blackboard Jungle (Richard Brooks), East of Eden (Elia Kazan), Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich), Mister Roberts (John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy), Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) The Night of The Hunter The Night of the Hunter – 1955 In 1955 Hollywood was still trying to lure viewers away from their television sets with big-budgeted, wide-screen color productions, yet the Academy selected a black-and-white film as ...

  The M-G-M Story – By John Douglas Eames (1975) The MGM story : the complete history of fifty roaring years The M-G-M Story The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years By John Douglas Eames – 1975 Irving G. Thalberg, Lillian Gish, Louis B. Mayer 1927 The period covered is from 1924 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officially came into being on May 17, but Mayer couldn’t wait and inaugurated his studio on April 26) to 1974. During that half-century some titles underwent a sea-change when crossing the Atlantic: they have been noted in each case, the original title appearing first; both versions are listed in the index. The films are grouped according to year of completion, including post-production work. Each year has a short introduction giving a run down on the competition and the industry’s most popular products. There follows an independent description and il¬ lustration of every film completed in that year. Ross Verlag 3424/1 – Lillian Gish in La Boheme – Mimi – German Postcard MGM LILLIAN...

  Lillian Gish visits Berlin Germany -1928- Miss Gish spent six months abroad conferring with Reinhardt and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian poet-playwright, who wrote the play for Miss Gish. Raimund von Hofmannsthal, son of the author, is accompanying the party to the west coast. Lillian Gish continues to keep her diminutive person in the playgrounds of Europe, but she has her eye and her mind on her work. We learn that she is deep in the throes of working on a scenario, written for her by Hugo von Hoffmanstal and Max Reinhardt. Upon Joseph Schenck’s recent arrival in Europe, Professor Reinhardt, who will direct Miss Gish’s next production, gave a dinner party for his future star, at Schloss Leopoldskron, whereafter the wizard of Leopoldskron took occasion to settle much of the speculation as to the future plans of himself and Miss Gish. Lillian Gish 1928 – Suddeutsche Zeitung Munich “I hope to be able to start on the screening of Miss Gish’s picture in Hollywood, in the early part...

  Still Moving – Steven Higgins (MoMA) 1996 The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art Produced by the Department of Publications The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1996 “My task which I am trying to achieve is… before all, to make you see.” In 1935 The Museum of Modern Art established the Film Library, the first department in an American art museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of film as an art form. For at least a decade before that, the Museum’s founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., had been deeply engaged in film culture, attending screenings whenever possible and meeting and corresponding with filmmakers in the United States and across Europe. As a result of this activity, Barr recognized early on that motion pictures were central to the modern experience, and he was determined to include them in any museum of art with which he might be associated. With the hiring of Iris Barry—a British film critic whose work Barr knew and respec...