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Best Actress winner for It Happened One Night, with presenter Shirley Temple
The 14th Academy Awards | 1942 Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel. Thursday, February 26, 1942 ... Writing (Original Story) - Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe
WRITING (Original Story) Ball of Fire – Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Harry Segall The Lady Eve – Monckton Hoffe Meet John Doe – Richard Connell, Robert Presnell Night Train – Gordon Wellesley. WRITING (Screenplay) Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller Hold Back the Dawn – Charles Brackett ...
director Michael Powell's British/Canadian film The Invaders (aka 49th Parallel) (with three nominations and one win - Best Original Story for Emeric Pressburger) about six Nazi U-boat survivors who are forced to land in Canada and then attempt to cross the border into the US; the film was made in 1941 and released in the US a year later [it was the first British-made film to receive a Best ...
The song was written by Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Bing Crosby's record topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks in 1942 and returned to the number one position again in December 1943 and 1944.
in the first year of the Academy Awards, 1927/1928, there were only two writing categories: Best Writing, Adaptation and Best Original Story; there was also a short-lived category termed Best Title Writing, discontinued after this year at the end of the silent era
Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing...
