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The Bridge on the River Kwai - Wikipedia  The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and starring William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa. Based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivire Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle, the ... He confesses he is not an officer, but merely had appropriated an officer's...
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JEOPARDY! Game - March 30, 2004  Isaac Hayes won an Oscar for the theme from this 1971 flick. (-$400) - David. (10) These .... (14) 1933's "Cavalcade", based on a drama -- not a comedy -- by this urbane British wit, won a Best Picture Oscar. (-$2000) - Valerie. (19) In 1978 the...
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It Happened One Night - Wikipedia  It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball ... The plot is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel ... One Night was the first movie to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, ... Although Ellie has no desire to be with Westley, she believes Peter has...
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Nol Coward - IMDb  An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was ... My Favorite or Most Admired Comedy Actors in Movies .... 1966 Falne engler (TV Movie) (based on play - as Noel Coward) .... 1933 Cavalcade (play - uncredited).
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IMDb: Best Picture Academy Award Winners - a list by faltskog9  May 27, 2013 ... Wings was the first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, ..... Cavalcade was a film based on a stage play by Noel Coward. .... I'm not sure what I was expecting, but for a Best Picture winner, I guess I ..... It had comedy, drama, romance, big name actors, a good message, ..... It is a very British trait.
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1973 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  The 1973 Best Picture winner was a foregone conclusion - the entertaining, stylish, ... The film had an entertaining, good-natured twisting-plot about two con artists ... Producer Julia Phillips was both the first woman nominated for and awarded a ... win, his second Oscar, made him the first recipient of both a Best Actor and a...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Americanization of Emily  Hollywood movies were becoming increasingly adventurous in the early 1960s, tackling a wide ... This attitude does not intially endear Charlie to Emily (Julie Andrews), a military driver ..... Using this, Chayefsky (working from William Bradford Huie's novel), fashions a terrific .... Garner's facial expressions told the story to me.
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James Hilton (novelist) - Wikipedia  Hilton, who lived and worked in Hollywood beginning in the mid-1930s, won an Academy Award in 1942 for his work on the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver, based...
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Article - "An Affair to Remember" - The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages  An Affair to Remember ... She Done Him Wrong (1933) and I'm No Angel (1933), she was right, but in the wider sense her assessment was .... CHARADE (1963)
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Academy Awards Best Actor - Greatest Films  (See the complete list of all Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor winners here) .... Victory (1951); Cliff Robertson won the Best Actor Oscar for his title role as .... James Stewart's win for Best Actor (his first and sole award) for his role in .... Puerto Rican-born Jose Ferrer was nominated as Best Actor for Moulin Rouge (1952).
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Screwball Comedies of the Silver Screen | Story Matters | Toledo ...  His Girl Friday Movie Still 2. My favorite type of film has to be the Screwball Comedy. ... Starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and John Howard. ... An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in...
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Revisiting Robert Aldrich's Hag Cinema: Part II  I wouldn't piss on ...  Jul 13, 2013 ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte when Joan Crawford saw that Bette Davis was ... Bette Davis was filming Dangerous 1935 a role that would win her first Best Actress Oscar. ... Allegedly Joan shoved Bette aside to grab the coveted statue at the .... When Bette Davis turned down the part of Mildred Pierce, Crawford...
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BFI Screenonline: Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)  Charles Laughton stars as Henry VIII in British cinema's first US smash hit. ... Life and loves of the larger-than-life English king. ... The second release from Alexander Korda 's newly constituted London Films , The Private Life of Henry VIII...
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Movie Review - - ' The Man Who Came to Dinner,' With Monty ...  Just in time to slip under the wire as the niftiest comedy of 1942 (to date), the Warners' ... of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart play, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," kept an ... and pealed off more concentrated merriment than did the New Year's bells. ... Ann Sheridan, too, as an actress of definitely feline breed, gives a tartly...
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Farcical Humour by stephanie nguyen on Prezi  Apr 3, 2014 ... Georges Feydeau was one of the first to use this in La Puce a l'oreille (A Flea in Her Ear) Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest
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Movie Music - When Movies Were Movies  The first winner for "Best Song" was "The Continental" by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson. ... The song which won the Oscar in 1935 was written by one of the most prolific song writers the movies ever produced...Harry Warren. ... Oscar. The Big Broadcast of 1938 was Bob Hope's first feature film. .... 1944 Swingin' On a Star.
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - IMDb  Comedy...
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films - Charles Beem Tudor Historian  family. Katharine Hepburn won her third Oscar (a tie with Barbra Streisand!) for ... Henry V (1945): this first filmed version appeared just in time to provide a ... Thomas More (Paul Scofield) and Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) over the King's Great ... Nine Days Queen of England. Helena Bonham Carter, darker and smokier than
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jeopardy/245_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  OSCAR NIGHT 2005 | Acknowledged for making such great movies as "Equus", "The Verdict" & "12 Angry Men", he received an honorary award | Sidney Lumet.
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Anna Christie (1930) - Rotten Tomatoes  Sep 5, 2005 ... Garbo received her first Oscar nomination for this second version of the play, which MGM advertised as Garbo Talks! Her first line of dialogue is...
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The Broadway Melody: 1929 Best Picture - Fikkle Fame  Jul 12, 2014 ... EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $200: Hitchcock's Blackmail of 1929 was Britain's first feature film of this type. FILM DIRECTORS: In his 1929 film...