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AWARD WINNERS
hich movie did you enjoy most 1951?
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What performances were your favorites?
The votes you cast for the most popular movie and performances, all through the past year, have been tabulated so that Photoplay’s treasured Gold Medals may go to the most enjoyed movie and to the man and the woman who gave the most enjoyed performances.
The Gold Medal picture is:
“Show Boat.”
The Gold Medal performances are:
Doris Day in “Lullaby of Broadway.”
Mario Lanza in “The Great Caruso.”
Hollywood receives many annual tributes. There are the Oscars which go to the motion picture and the stars chosen, on artistic merits, by all those engaged in the studios. Other awards are given by newspaper critics and magazine editors. Still others come from foreign lands. But Photoplay’s Gold Medals are the only awards which represent the choice of the American movie-going public, those for whom movies are made.
Actually, the movie and the stars winning the Gold Medals reflect the public’s preferences so faithfully that they might be regarded as something of a national barometer. This year, for instance, both the winning picture and the winning performances illustrated the need all of us knew for entertainment that would make us forget our -troubles. In every instance your votes indicated a preference for music and romance and the nostalgic American scene.
“Show Boat,” a story of the Mississippi, features the long loved songs with which Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern enriched the original Edna Ferber story — “Old Man River,” “Can’t Help Loving That Man,” “Only Make-Believe,” “Bill.”
Doris Day in “Lullaby of Broadway” was as appealing, hopeful and young as the favorite songs she sang: “Lullaby of Broadway,” “Somebody Loves Me,” and “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart.” And in this movie, as well as
scores again for “The Great Caruso” role
BETTE DAVIS came back into high favor with public in “All About Eve”
AVA GARDNER, for her hauntingly beautiful Julie in musical “Show Boat”
SHELLEY WINTERS, for poignant performance in “A Place in the Sun”
FOR 1951
BING CROSBY, a favorite, marches ahead with “Here Comes the Groom”
HOWARD KEEL sang his way into all hearts as gay Ravenal in “Show Boat”
GREG PECK — on last year’s lists — repeats again with “David and Bathsheba”
RICHARD WIDMARK, for convincing realism of his role in “The Frogmen”
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