| Plot | : | +The program originates from the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lana Turner, Greer Garson, Frances Scully (ABC Fashion and Movie Commentator), Dinah Shore, Dick Haymes, Pat McGeehan (announcer), Leo Forbstein and His Orchestra, Ken Carpenter (announcer), Jean Hersholt (President of the Academy), Gordon Hollingshead (producer, best short subject), Rex Harrison, Morris Stoloff (best scoring, music), Ann Sheridan, Arthur Miller (best cinematography, black and white), Charles Rosher (best cinematography, color), Leonard Smith (best cinematography, color), Arthur Arling (best cinematography, color), Van Johnson, Hoagy Carmichael, Andy Russell, Robert Montgomery, Clemence Dane (best original story), Shirley Temple, Claude Jarman, Harold Russell (special award, a second award for best supporting actor), Mervyn LeRoy, Ernst Lubitsch (special award), Ronald Reagan (introduces a film called, "The Academy Cavalcade," the film is shown upside down and backwards at first!), Carey Wilson (writer, narrator of the film), Billy Wilder, William Wyler (best director), Jack Benny (m. c., but is not heard until 1 1/2 hours into the program), Buddy Twiss (announcer), Eric Johnson, Samuel Goldwyn (accepts the award for "The Best Years Of Our Lives" as best picture, accept the Thalberg Award), Donald Nelson, Anne Baxter, Joan Fontaine, Olivia De Havilland. |
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