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The Birth of a Nation - Wikipedia  Griffith on the set of The Birth of a Nation (1915) with actor Henry Walthall and others. The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama ... The film was a commercial success, though it was highly controversial for its .... Stoneman returns, causing Elsie to be placed in another room.
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All 87 Best Picture Oscar Winners Ranked - BuzzFeed  Feb 27, 2014 ... The other Oscars it won: Haggis and Moresco (Best Original ... It was almost two years after Wings was released. ... (It cost more than $1.4 million to make, which indie films can still make work today.) ... to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, the first modern movie musical, ...... Gone With the Wind (1939).
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Gone with the Wind (film) - Wikipedia  Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. It was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War ... It set records for the total number of wins and nominations at the time.
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The Sound of Music (film) - Wikipedia  The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert ... Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two .... Zanuck told him to tell Wyler to make the other film, and that they would move ..... Laurel Awards, General Entertainment, The Sound of Music, Won.
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An American in Paris: 1951 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 4, 2014 ... It won 5 other Oscars in writing, cinematography, art direction-set ... Alan Jay Lerner won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this 1951 musical about an ... BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Following Gone with the Wind, it would be another 12 years before a color film won again: this foreign-set musical
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'Gone With the Wind' turns 80 | - Bookmarks - Wilmington Star News  Jun 30, 2016 ... Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1937. ... Alice Randall wrote a scathing parody released in 2001, The Wind Done Gone, attacking the novel for its racism. ... what grabbed them was the notion that tomorrow is another day, that ... If the dust jacket is more or less intact, first edition GWTWs are...
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Gone With the Wind (1939) | Emanuel Levy  Apr 30, 2006 ... Forget it, Louis. No Civil War picture ever made a nickelIrving Thalberg to Louis B. Mayer. David Selznick thinks Gone With the Wind is art...
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Then Play Long: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK ...  Sep 7, 2008 ... Although the musical is set a generation after Carousel, it still seems ... the musical in terms of its original revolutionary impact on the 1943 ... and most disturbing song Rodgers and Hammerstein ever wrote. .... way, even if the film, as David Thomson remarked, seemed to strip the musical of its exclamation...
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Press - Evamere Entertainment -  Aug 29, 2012 ... A two-time Tony winner for starring roles in the musicals Catch Me If You Can and ... Screen To Stage Musical Transfer 'Once' Recoups In Record Time ... Over the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and .... others, the actor Christopher Plummer, who presented her with the award.
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Dances with Wolves (Comparison: Theatrical Version - Extended ...  Dec 9, 2010 ... It was nominated for 12 Oscars and in the end could win 7 of these prestigious ... The movie tells the story of lieutenant John Dunbar who serves as an officer for .... get to see a scene that was included later in the Theatrical Version. ..... I tried to believe that Wind In His Hair and Kicking Bird and all the other...
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1940 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences  You are here ... The 12th Academy Awards | 1940 ... Supporting Actress winner for Gone with the Wind, posing with an Oscar statuette ... Winners & Nominees.
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Pocahontas - Awards - IMDb  Pocahontas Awards and Nominations. ... For the song "Colors of the Wind". Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score ... Won Golden Globe, Best Original Song - Motion Picture Alan Menken (music) ... Won Annie, Best Animated Feature Walt Disney Feature Animation ... Awards Circuit Community Awards 1995...
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The Threepenny Opera celebrates its 75th Anniversary  ... century musical theater, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) will reach ... The opening night audience at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm didn't quite ... to expect when the curtain rose on The Threepenny Opera on August 31, 1928, ... stage productions of the work in the first year after the Berlin premiere.
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'America the Beautiful,' and 'Liberty's Journey': From Sea to Shining ...  Nov 14, 2004 ... IRVING BERLIN wrote his final show in 1962. ... and even "And crown thy good with brotherhood / from sea to shining sea" started out ... white, one of the few uses of color here) for the first line: "O beautiful for spacious skies.
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1939 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  The epic was obsessed producer David O. Selznick's romantic costume ... Gone With the Wind, a story of the Civil War South (from Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Pulitzer ... All the Best Picture nominated films were exceptional and unforgettable: ... of Oz (with six nominations and only two wins - Best Song Over the Rainbow...
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Rebecca: 1940 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Jul 24, 2014 ... Rebecca scored 11 nominations but only won for Best Picture and Best Cinematography (Black and .... COMPOSERS: When Fantasia was released in 1940, he was the only one of its composers still alive to hear his music.
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How the FIRST black Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel dealt with being ...  Feb 25, 2016 ... She was completely barred from the Civil War epic's world premiere ... Even in death Hattie McDaniel faced racism as Hollywood ... And it even followed her to the grave when Hollywood Cemetery denied her final wish to be buried there ... Seven years after Gone With The Wind she got her own radio series...
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Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind' Turns 75 : NPR  Jun 30, 2011 ... Gone with the Wind sold one million copies in its first six months, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, and ... In this clip from Atlanta's Book, Mitchell's childhood friends share their recollections. ... "She called it 'the dump,' " says Joanna Arietta, director of historic houses for .... After all ... tomorrow is another day.".
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On Karel Reisz's Adaptation of The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)  Oct 5, 2015 ... Yet the 1981 scenes do not form another movie within a movie; they are there to energize and elaborate our perceptions of the 1860s story,...
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The Color Purple (1985) - Rotten Tomatoes  Critic Consensus: A sentimental tale that reveals great emotional truths in American history ... A major box-office hit, The Color Purple was nominated for eleven Oscars. .... ...we can forgive Spielberg his indulgences when the outcome is so ... produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a...
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Print - | Music Theatre International  Two versions of this show exist: a complete two-act version and an abridged one-act .... and a woman tenderly comments on the many meanings of the word shalom ... Musical numbers include "And I Was Beautiful," "Before the Parade Passes By ... The Grand Tour (1979), A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine (1980),...