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Honorin
ON the following pages you will read about the film stars and motion pictures you, America’s movie-goers, have chosen as your favorites for 1948.
It was in 1919 that Photoplay first awarded Gold Medals, the high honors you, the public, make possible, to those who provide the finest entertainment.
As in the past, the winners will receive their awards at the Photoplay Gold Medal dinner. February 14 is the date, the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel the glittering scene.
This year also marks the award of a special plaque of honor which goes to Darryl F. Zanuck, vice-president in charge of production at Twentieth Century-Fox, for “Gentleman’s Agreement,” one of the year’s ten most popular pictures, and the film which courageously attacks thq urgent problem of anti-Semitism.
The inscription on the plaque reads:
“Presented by Photoplay Magazine to Darryl F. Zanuck — Twentieth Century-Fox. The Photoplay Achievement Award for ‘Gentleman’s Agreement.’ Among the most popular films of 1948 as recorded in the annual poll by Photoplay Magazine.
“His courage and skill brought great popular appeal to the presentation of a national problem.”
On February 14, before the dinner, the Lux Radio Theatre will carry the complete dramatic presentation of “Sitting Pretty,” judged the most popular film of the year. The original cast will be starred in this outstanding radio event.
In the following weeks you will see the Fox Movietone and Paramount newsreels of the presentation of the Gold Medal Awards. You also will see the entire dinner, as recorded by Columbia Pictures Screen Snapshots, produced and directed by Ralph Staub.
Thus Photoplay again takes special pleasure in honoring those stars and those producers who have provided moviegoers with the finest in motion picture entertainment.
Darryl F. Zanuck, winner of ihe Photoplay Achievement Award for 1948
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