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Is the movie Casablanca historically accurate? Why is Casablanca not noir? Perhaps it would have been a more exciting choice. In any case, Casablanca gets the nod over The Song of Bernadette for its brevity and efficiency.
This is an interesting mix of nominees given their relative strengths of screenplay. The More the Merrier , for example, its best attribute is probably its screenplay, which is a nice mix of the screwball comedy gone by, the modern romantic comedy, and a character driven drama.
For The Song of Bernadette , on the other hand, which is overall a better film than The More the Merrirer and was represented as such, the screenplay is one of its bigger flaws. These two particular films are even more interesting to pair given their extreme contrasts in what kind of story they are interested in telling. The More the Merrie r, which is essentially a screwball comedy, is extremely plot heavy while The Song of Bernadette leaves more to tone and themes for the viewer to ponder.
But are either The More the Merrier or The Song of Bernadette particularly memorable or [one way to think of a great screenplay] quotable? The story has become timeless for Hollywood, the characters iconic, their dialogue forever remembered. So while the nominees may be worth of their praise, there is only one choice that makes any sense here. Usually of all the various categories, Best Actor is among the most difficult to pick.
No matter the year, you can look back and usually see five noteworthy performances from some of the best actors in cinema history. Even this year you have Bogart, Cooper and Rooney, who would all be considered in the actor pantheon, with Pidgeon less remembered today but certainly important in the era.
For whatever reason, though, this is a particularly weak year. I can understand why the Academy chose Paul Lukas as Best Actor—he was a respected working actor with almost 30 years in the business who had never really received any recognition before. As the anti-fascist trying to protect and provide for his family, it is a meaty role. Lukas plays it with strength and grace as a figure that deserves our reverence. For the second straight year, Walter Pidgeon was nominated for Best Actor while being completely overshadowed by his co-star Greer Garson.
While their previous work Mrs. Miniver is a better work overall, Pidgeon gets a bit more to do in Madame Curie. As Pierre Curie, Pidgeon goes for the awkward and lonely aspects of the famous scientist which works within the semi-comic romance at the heart of the film.
Again, this has a lot to do with the enduring status of Casablanca and certainly Bogart has something to do with that. For The More the Merrier , this seems like a modest output considering the epic dramas he would later make. Like many of the awards, this is largely a pick between Casablanca and The Song of Bernadette. Miniver the Best Picture winner in the previous year , since it premiered in New York in November of that year.
However, it didn't show in Los Angeles until its general release that January, so it competed in With an inspired cast, As Time Goes By , a great director, and unexpected wartime publicity, the superior film told the story of an aloof American owner Bogart of a bar in Casablanca who rescues his old girlfriend Bergman and her Resistance husband Henreid from the clutches of Axis authorities.
In addition to the Best Picture winner, three of the other nine Best Picture nominees of were also war films with patriotic or sentimental themes:. Hungarian-born Paul Lukas with his sole career nomination won the Best Actor award - his first and only Oscar - for his role as Kurt Muller, a German engineer and anti-Nazi underground Resistance leader who flees the Nazis with wife Bette Davis to seek refuge in the US Washington and continue his freedom-fighting activities - until he is blackmailed - in Watch on the Rhine.
Unfortunately, Humphrey Bogart with his first of three career nominations , in his quintessential, signature role as disaffected cafe owner Rick Blaine in Casablanca lost the Oscar, but his nomination brought him recognition and status as a top actor.
In the Best Actress race, this was the first time in six years that Bette Davis didn't receive an Oscar nomination. She had been nominated as Best Actress for six consecutive years from , and had won in both and The Best Actress winner was twenty-four year-old Jennifer Jones with her first career nomination as the 14 year-old, 19th century French peasant girl of Lourdes named Bernadette in an adaptation of Franz Werfel's novel The Song of Bernadette.
Jones portrayed a young, saintly girl who became canonized after claiming to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary played by Linda Darnell, Darryl Zanuck's mistress while gathering firewood, and was inspired to dig a well at the spot. Selznick's protege and future wife in was, in all respects, appearing in her debut film, although she had been in a few minor low-budget pictures a few years earlier under her real name - Phyllis Isley.
The Best Actress win for Jennifer Jones also deprived other great actresses of awards:. The other four nominees were:.
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