Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1942)

February 7, 1942 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 43 VOTING ON FOR THE OSCARS, WILLKIE TO HAND EM OUT Banquet Plan Restored; Informal Affair To Be $10 Instead of $25 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will hold its annual awards banquet after all, having obtained a release from the U. S. Army orders prohibiting "mass public concentration" in the Pacific war zone. The banquet will be held on February 26th at the Biltmore Bowl in Hollywood. Wendell L. Willkie has been asked to be the No. 1 guest of honor, principal speaker, and official "Oscar" bestower. Walter Wanger, president of the Academy, announcing over the weekend that the Army had withdrawn its objections to the meeting, said the affair was being planned with an eye to war economy. Tickets will be $10 each, instead of the customary $25. "There will be no white ties or black ties ; men will wear business clothes. There will be no formal evening gowns and no dancing," Mr. Wanger decreed. The banquet is the 14th annual affair given by the Academy to announce winners of the coveted Oscars for motion picture production, direction, acting and writing of the year. Voting on nominations for the awards was to be completed on Wednesday and the names of nominees are expected to be made public on February 9th. There are 200 pictures in competion for the accolade of "best picture of the year." There are a total of 444 leading roles from which will be chosen the best actor and actress performances. Of this figure, 185 are women and 258, men. There are 1,092 supporting players listed, with men again far outnumbering the women. The 200 films of more than 400 features selected as being eligible for the award of "best picture of the year," to be voted on by members of the screen Actors, Directors and Writers Guilds, and all members of the Academy, are as follows (listed alphabetically) : COLUMBIA Adam Had Four Sons, Adventure in Washington, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Ladies in Retirement, Our Wife, Penny Serenade, She Knew All the Answers, Texas, The Men in Her Life, The Runaways of St. Agil, They Dare Not Love, This Thing Called Love, You Belong to Me and You'll Never Get Rich. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Andy Hardy's Private Secretary, The Bad Man, Barnacle Bill, The Big Store, Billy the Kid, Blonde Inspiration, Blossoms in the Dust, The Chocolate Soldier, Come Live With Me, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Kildare's Crisis, Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day, Down in San Diego, The Feminine Touch, Flight Command, Free and Easy, Gallant Sons, The GetAway, H. M. Pulham, Esq., Honky Tonk, I'll Wait for You, Keeping Company, Lady Be Good, Life Begins for Andy Hardy, Love Crazy, Maisie Was a Lady, Married Bachelor, Men of Boys Town, The Penalty, The People vs. Dr. Kildare, Rage in Heaven, Ringside Maisie, Shadow of the Thin Man, Smilin' Through, The Stars Look Down, They Met in Bombay, The Trial of Mary Dugan, Two OSCARS FOR 1941 ACHIEVEMENTS At the Academy banquet in Hollywood, February 26th, Oscars will be awarded for achievements in 1941 in the following classifications: Most outstanding picture of the year; best performance by an actor; best by an actor in support; best performance by an actress; best by an actress in support; best in directing; best written screenplay; best original; best art direction of a blackand-white production; best of a color production; best photography in black-and-white; best for color; best achievement by a studio sound department. An award will be given jointly for the outstanding shorts selected in three classifications: cartoons, 1,000subjects, and shorts between 1 ,000 and 3,000 feet. Other awards: film editing; outstanding work in music in motion pictures: (a) best scoring of a musical picture; (b) best scoring of a dramatic film, and (c) best original song; best achievement in special effects. Faced Woman, Unholy Partners, Washington Melodrama, When Ladies Meet, Whistling in the Dark, The Wild Man of Borneo, A Woman's Face and Ziegfeld Girl. MONOGRAM Bowery Britzkrieg, King of the Zombies, Murder by Invitation, Roar of the Press, and Top Sergeant Mulligan. PARAMOUNT Aloma of the South Seas, Among the Living, Birth of the Blues, Caught in the Draft, Hard Boiled Canary (There's Magic in Music), Hold Back the Dawn, I Wanted Wings, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, The Lady Eve, Louisiana Purchase, The Night of January 16th, Nothing But the Truth, One Night in Lisbon, The Parson of Panamint, Reaching for the Sun, Road to Zanzibar, The Shepard of the Hills, Skylark, Texas Rangers Ride Again, Victory and Virginia. PRODUCERS RELEASING CORP. Billy the Kid's Round-Up, Desperate Cargo. The Lone Rider Ambushed, Mr. Celebrity. Paper Bullets and South of Panama. RKO RADIO All That Money Can Buy, Ball of Fire, Citizen Kane, Dumbo, Fantasia, The Little Foxes, The Devil and Miss Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, My Life with Caroline, The Reluctant Dragon, Sunny and Tom, Dick and Harry. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX Belle Star, Blood and Sand, Blue, White and Perfect, Cadet Girl, Charley's Aunt, The Great American Broadcast, Great Guns, Hot Spot, How Green Was My Valley, Man Hunt, Michael Shayne, Private Detective, Moon Over Her Shoulder Moon Over Miami, Remember the Day, Rise and Shine, Sun Valley Serenade, Swamp Water, Tall, Dark and Handsome, That Night in Rio, Tobacco Road, A Very Young Lady, Week-end in Havana, Western Union, Wild Geese Calling and A Yank in the R.A.F. UNITED ARTISTS Blackout, Cheers for Miss Bishop, Hay Foot, Lydia, Major Barbara, Pot o' Gold, So Ends Our Night, Son of Monte Cristo, Sundown, Tanks a Million, That Hamilton Woman and That Uncertain Feeling. UNIVERSAL Appointment for Love, Back Street, Badlands of Dakota, The Black Cat, Buck Privates, The Flame of New Orleans, Hold That Ghost, The Invisible Woman, Keep 'Em Flying, The Lady from Cheyenne, The Man Who Lost Himself, Model Wife, Nice Girl, San Antonio Rose, Sing Another Chorus, This Woman is Mine, Tight Shoes and Unfinished Business. WARNER BROTHERS The Bride Came C.O.D., Dive Bomber, Footsteps in the Dark, The Great Lie, High Sierra, International Squadron, the Maltest Falcon, Manpower, Meet John Doe, Million Dollar Baby, Navy Blues, One Foot in Heaven, Out of the Fog, The Sea Wolf, Sergeant York, The Strawberry Blonde, They Died With Their Boots On, Underground and The Wagons Roll at Night. FOREIGN The Devil is an Empress, French ; 40,000 Horsemen, S. S. Krellberg, Australian; La Charette Fantome, French; Of Human Passions, French ; Pepe Le Moko, French ; Personal Column, French; Proud Valley, Associated British, University ; Quiet Wedding, British ; They Met on Skis, French and Volga-Volga, Artkino, Russian. The Academy announced the following productions were nominated for the black-andwhite art direction award: Citizen Kane, Flame of New Orleans, Hold Back the Dawn, How Green Was My Valley, Ladies in Retirement, The Little Foxes, Sergeant York, Sis Hopkins, Son of Monte Cristo, Sundown and When Ladies Meet. The following for the color direction award : Blood and Sand, Blossoms in the Dust and Louisiana Purchase. SHORT SUBJECTS Twenty-two cartoons and shorts were entered in three divisions for short subject Academy awards, last week in Hollywood. They are Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B, Universal ; Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, Warners ; How War Came, Columbia ; The Night Before Christmas, M-G-M ; Rhapsody in Rivets, Warners ; The Rookie Bear, M-G-M ; Rhythm in the Ranks, Paramount, Superman No. 1, Paramount; two Walt Disney films as yet unnamed. One reel entries : Army Champions, M-G-M ; Beauty and the Beach, Paramount ; Forty Boys and a Son," Warners; Kings of the Turf, Warners ; Of Pups and Puzzles, M-G-M : Sagebrush and Silver, 20th-Fox ; Down on the Farm, Paramount. In addition, British and American Government-produced shorts were entered in the race for the best documentary film, a new classification presented by the Academy this year.