![]() Screenings will be held at the Academy’s New York headquarters, the Lighthouse on East 59th, starting June 15. It’s interesting which now-classics didn’t make the cut that year, among them “Gunga Din,” “The Women,” “Intermezzo: A Love Story,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” and “Beau Geste.” Smith Goes to Washington,” “Love Affair,” “Of Mice and Men,” “Ninotchka” and “Stagecoach.” Speaking of the Academy Awards - and who isn’t these days? - the New York branch of the Academy will salute Oscar’s best picture nominees from that glorious year of 1939 with archival-print, 35mm screenings during a two-week period in June.īack in that era, there were 10 nominees in the category annually, so on the docket will be the year’s Terrific 10: “Gone With the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Wuthering Heights,” “Goodbye, Mr. It piled up a bundle of nominations for its four principal actors in both the legit and film versions, but one of the co-stars in the Broadway original, George Grizzard, didn’t squeeze in. ![]() It’s also a surprise that “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” doesn’t make it. (Oscar-wise, Brando, Malden and Hunter were nominated for the 1951 film version, as was Vivien Leigh, who played the Tandy role onscreen. You might think “A Streetcar Named Desire” would qualify, but in those days (1948), only the winners in the Tony categories were announced, and no records exist about whether Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter were nominated for their towering stage performances - only that fellow player Jessica Tandy won.
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