Revisiting the 14th Academy Awards

In this episode, we revisit the 14th Academy Awards. How Green Was My Valley, directed by John Ford, won for Best Picture. Most film scholars and enthusiasts believe Citizen Kane should have taken the trophy. What do you think? We also talk about th Best Actor and Best Actress awards. Did the Academy get any of these right? Click and listen! 🎥🎥🎬🎬

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Hello everyone and welcome to Cinema Chat with David Heath. And I am the host, David Heath. Isn't it odd that it's some strange coincidence that the name of the show has my name in it too? And I am the host. All right. Well hey, thanks so much for listening. And uh I appreciate all of the people that have given me good reviews recently. Got a couple of good reviews on iTunes and or Apple to Apple Podcasts or whatever it is, and um uh on a couple other uh spots I I saw some good reviews, but in any case, uh keep them coming. Give me five stars and give me a nice review, and uh make sure and subscribe to the show so you can help the show trend. And uh we have been doing an ongoing series, uh recurring series on the Academy Awards. And if you've listened to our previous ones, this we are now on the 14th. What we do is we break down the the the big three awards of every year of the Academy Awards. Uh so the the best picture, or you know, they call it most outstanding production uh at this point. In 1941, we'll be covering the movies that came out in 1941. We cover the best picture, we cover the best actor and best actress. And then all we do is we break it down and decide if the right candidate won for each of those three slots. Uh, we you get into some of the best supporting and and uh you know best director and score and stuff like that. Uh, but realistically, um uh it is I I commit myself to watching or re-watching in some in most cases, but in a few cases just watching it for the first time, and there were a couple on the list that I had seen for the first time for 1941, and it seems like that keeps happening somehow. Um, but I'm excited to say that I rewatched all of the Academy Award-nominated films, at least the ones in the big three categories. And um, and so what we do is we yeah, we break it down, we we tell you who won, and we tell you maybe who should have won. And then we also will uh go over, you know, maybe ones that we think might have been snubbed with nominations or even wins. So uh any questions? Okay, well, let's get started. Uh so we are at the 14th Academy Awards, it's held at the Biltmore Hotel, and it is hosted by Bob Hope, who uh hosts who hosted many of these ceremonies. Um but uh what we'll do first is we'll do best picture and then we'll do best actor and best actress. And of course, uh technically it's called most outstanding production. Uh, but let's get started and we'll um do a short synopsis on what we think uh on each film and uh start figuring it all out. Uh so the the what the film production that won was How Green Was My Valley, uh 20th Century Fox film, uh directed by the great John Ford, uh produced by Daryl Zanik, uh starring Walter Pigeon, Maureen O'Hara, and Donald Crisp and Anna Lee, and a nearly recogn unrecognizable Rodney McDowell. Uh, as he was uh the young child in the film. Uh he is our protagonist, and and he takes us to show how he grew up in uh a mining town, and he is uh some he lives a pretty much a sheltered, sheltered life, and the movie kind of depicts a little bit of him needing to uh fit or feel the need to turn into uh you know sort of a tough guy. Uh it takes place uh during the Victorian era, and uh it is uh an American film, but it takes place in in Britain. Uh but How Green Was My Valley is the production that won Best Picture or Most Outstanding Production. And uh let's talk about uh the next one, which is Blossoms in the Dust. Another movie with Walter Pigeon, uh, but the star of this movie is Greer Garson, and she gives an incredible performance. The film discusses um the uh the the kind of uh bad nature of having a child out of wedlock and and just how d devastating that was for uh people at the time. At the beginning of the movie, uh we see Greer Garson's sister uh commit suicide uh because uh it was too much to bear. The the level of guilt. Uh but what a lot of people really like about this film is it depicts Greer Garson as uh a true heroine. Uh she plays a strong-willed woman, a strong woman, a someone that is determined uh to make change uh in society. And uh, she gives a great performance. Uh the film is in lavish uh color. It's an MGM production, and it definitely looks it. Uh and it's directed by Mervyn LeRoy, who uh is a versatile director, had all kinds of really great uh productions uh to his credit. And we may do a podcast concentrating on him at some point. Uh, but uh the next one is Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane starring and starring Orson Wills, who is in uh his first production as a director. And uh, you know, of course, uh everybody's heard of Citizen Kane. Everybody everybody knows that Citizen Kane is an excellent production. Uh it's got so many so many qualities about it that made things uh unique uh about it. Or or or I don't know by unique, but uh it became a trailblazer for close-up shots, long shots, um, you know, uh uh just excellent some cinematography. And um uh so Citizen Kane on the list for nominations for best picture. Uh and the next one we have is Here Comes Mr. Jordan. And uh the this is a sort of a fantasy um romantic comedy uh starring Robert Montgomery and uh Evelyn Keys and the great Claude Raines, uh who uh Claude Lorraine caught Claude Raines lifts every picture that he is in. He's just he's just such an incredible actor, and he's wonderful on this. Um, but the funny thing is, is I I when I was re-watching this, uh I re-watched it off of TCM and uh I heard Ben Mankowitz explain how complicated uh this movie is in a sense, because uh this is a original production and it was um remade by Warren Beatty in 1978 called Heaven Can Wait. But it's not to be confused with the Heaven Can Wait movie that was made around the same time as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, starring Don and Michi. The the two are uh the two stories are unrelated, and but yet you've got a saw a movie called Heaven Can Wait, and you've got another movie called Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Um, and then the remake for Here Comes Mr. Jordan is called Heaven Can't Wait. It's all very convoluted and crazy. Uh but Here Comes Mr. Jordan is the first of the of those two. And it was also remade again uh with uh starring Chris Rock um years later. But in any case, um the Here Comes Mr. Jordan, uh it basically it's about a boxer uh who prematurely dies. He ends up he ends up going to a holding station uh after his death, and they determine that oh it wasn't your time. We gotta get you back to to uh to earth, but you can't be in your old body because your old body's incremated. Uh so they gotta find a body for him. And um, no, this isn't uh one this isn't a hilarious movie, uh, but it it is fun and it is funny. Um and um I I really really like it. Really like it a lot. Um and to ask me uh, do I like this better or Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty better? I um that's a tough one, but I you know Warren Beatty directed a really good movie uh in Heaven Can't Wait in 1978. Um but here comes Mr. Jordan is really great too. And Claude Rains is just absolutely just uh fantastic in it. I I what was so great about him, he was just he was just so fantastic. I just love him. And uh I'm not gonna say fantastic again. And our next one is uh entitled All This in Heaven 2 uh uh production that was the starred Betty Davis and Charles Boyer, and it is a pretty intense film. Uh it starts off fairly light, um, but as the production goes on, uh we see more and more drama and uh really, really heavy melodrama. Uh, but Betty Davis uh is hired to be uh basically a nanny, and uh Charles Boyer's wife gets jealous and uh gets insanely and intensely jealous, and uh there are lots of problems that uh occur because of it. Uh some really great performances by Boyer and Betty Davis. Of course, you you'd expect that from the both of them, uh, but just a really great melodrama. And uh let's see, the next one uh is the Little Foxes. And the Little Foxes also stars Betty Davis uh and stars uh Herbert Marshall, who just uh I'm not gonna say that word again, the EF word again. You know, F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C. Herbert Marshall always was that way. Um directed by William Weiler. Uh it's just a wonderful director. Uh the film, uh this one has Betty Davis in a not so nice role. And of course, she's very capable of doing roles like that, right? In this movie, it uh takes place uh at 19 uh well at the turn of the century in 1900, uh roughly uh it depicts a rich family, of which Betty Davis is the is the central character, the the and um she is uh just absolutely ruthless and uh willing to go as far as uh murder. Uh so yeah, that's all I'm gonna say about that, but but Bay Davis and this movie, just like wow, just cold, heartless. Um, you know, was she acting? Uh just kidding. Um, but no, she was just absolutely just fantastic. Oh, I said it again. Fantastic. Wow, okay. I said I wouldn't say that word again, and there it comes out. But uh she is deliciously evil in this movie uh and uh just really incredible performance. Speaking of incredible performances, that would definitely describe our next film, The Maltese Falcon, which gives several wonderful performances. Um it's just um a movie that is uh unlike uh most of the other noirs. Uh and and it is a noir film starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, Peter Lurie, and Sidney Greenstreet, all worthy and memorable performances. And uh the supporting cast is also incredible. Uh, directed by John Houston, and uh the the film basically shows what people what links people will go to uh out of greed and to get money, to get their hands on an object that is incredibly valuable. And of course, this object is the Maltese falcon, uh, and which is just a statue basically. Uh and what's uh what's interesting is this does qualify as a MacGuffin. You know, it's like the w even though they there seems to be uh uh a value to it, um what we're really interested in are the stories of of what what people will do to get their hands on it. And Sydney Green Street goes through all kinds of different scenarios and uh just a performance for the ages. Um and really you could say the same thing about uh Bogart and Mary Astor uh as well, and and of course Peter Laurie, just uh this cast is just off the hook, and they are they deliver here big time. Uh let's see, and uh our next one is One Foot in Heaven. Uh this one was one of the um, you know, uh actually, actually, it was the only one that I hadn't seen. Uh no, I hadn't seen Hold Back to Dawn either. Uh so I I I didn't I never had seen that before. Um, but I had seen all the others, and when I watch One Foot in Heaven uh uh starring Frederick Marsh and uh Martha Scott, uh I just get real disappointed. Um I've never watched a Frederick Marsh movie where I was disappointed. Never. Um it basically it depicts uh a uh a man who gives up of uh what looks like a promising huge financial future, uh, and he wants to marry um the woman he loves and who is part of a wealthy family, and to their chagrin, he decides um that he wants to be a minister. And um uh the movie uh you know applauds his decision throughout. Um and uh I I don't have a huge problem with any of the um depictions uh per se of this film. I was reading reviews on Letterboxd, and I uh I don't violently disagree with with uh a lot of those opinions, but but I do a little maybe so more more than moderately. Um but having said that um the movie's just kind of boring and it doesn't um um I mean it takes you places. Uh they basically uh shows the long-suffering wife who um you know is very supportive and you know, but she is uh uh at her wit's end because she thought she was going to live a wealthy life like her her mother did, and and that's just not happening. They end up in they end up in Iowa and when you know the the families from Toronto, which are uh yeah, Toronto, I I think uh Canada anyway. Um, but you know, but in any case, I really was taken aback with how how dull it was. That's that's uh all for me there. Uh Sgt. York is the next one on the list. Um, and this movie delivers delivers really well. Um it uh depicts Gary Cooper as a you know country bumpkin type, and the and when you watch this movie, which I didn't notice it until this time, uh I think this is my probably my third time seeing Sergeant York, maybe fourth, um, at least three. But I never noticed it before, but there's a little bit of like you can see Forrest Gump um drawing from Sergeant York, uh, because you have this country bumpkin who becomes a war hero, and he was reluctant to join uh in the first place because um he didn't like the fact that he would have to kill somebody. And that was uh, you know, against the good book. And um he starts off the movie as a rascal and just a real uh can you know, kind of cantankerous, but but mostly just a uh you know, a wild guy, you know, drinking every night kind of thing. And and then he goes uh to to church and uh and he um converts and um you know and then the the last act of the film is showing his heroism in the in battle and how uh now this man actually w was a real person and and um uh a lot of information leads us to believe that um this is pretty accurate. And um, you know, as a matter of fact, this movie wasn't uh wasn't supposed to be made because uh um the the real Sergeant York York did not want it to be made, um, but he realized how much good he he he could do uh with um the money um he uh wanted to build build something for his church and realized that his take on this could pay for that. So that's why he agreed to to the um uh the biograph movie. But um in any case, um Sergeant York, really fantastic. Uh I said it again. I gotta stop saying that word. Stop saying the F-word, David. Um in any case, it is a marvelous film. Great performance by Gary Cooper. And the thing about Gary Cooper is is to me, um, I don't necessarily love all of his performances. I know um a lot of people really, really love Gary Cooper. Um, I think he was a really good actor. Um, maybe we'll call him a great actor. He was definitely a great movie star. Um, you know, but many times he looked like he wasn't trying really hard, but I think that it may just be that he was just a natural um guy. I mean, I I I I I guess when what a lot of people criticize Harrison Ford um for not really acting very much, I guess that's kind of what I'm saying about Gary Cooper a little bit. And this might be getting this might get me in trouble with some people that love Gary Cooper. And I know people listen to the show. There are a couple of them that I know love Gary Cooper, but uh, it isn't that I don't like him. It isn't because I do like him, and I like most of the movies Gary Cooper's in. Uh, most of them, I only can only think of a couple I've been I've now I don't really care for. Um, but um all that say this. Sergeant York, I think, is his best performance. That's my opinion, and uh we'll get to that later. Um, but of course he won for Best Actor, but we'll visit more about that later. I I I love Sergeant York, it is a really, really, really good movie. Um, and then we have uh Suspicion, uh, which stars Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. And in Suspicion, uh you've got Cary Grant, who is uh just really crazy about money, and it looks like he's very lazy, doesn't want to work, uh, doesn't mind getting huge into hugely into debt. Um, and he is married to Joan Fontaine, and she is you know all of a sudden skeptical of of everything about him. It's directed by Hitchcock, and um there are some people that would say this is Hitchcock's best film, and um I I don't even really think it's close to his best film, however, I I do think it's a really great film, and it has an excellent performance by Kerry Grant. Cary Grant is so good in this movie, I mean, so good. Uh he is able to be the normal charming guy that he is in all of his movies, but there is a level of you know fear uh here that he is exuding. Um and uh what lengths will he go to uh to preserve his financial uh his his financial wellness. And um, it's a very interesting movie. Um, and that's the last of the nominated ones. I I do want to have a few honorable mentions uh that maybe maybe got snubbed a little bit, but um, you know, one is um uh Dumbo. Um I I think it's fairly questionable um uh for a few reasons, but I but I but I think Dumbo is a fun movie, and I I think that it's one of um it's probably probably top eight at that time in uh or to uh of all the Walt Disney movies, the one when Walt was alive, um you know, I I I think this is yeah, probably num number eight or nine on the list. At some point I'm gonna give you a list of um all of my favorite Disney animated films, but I think Dumbo maybe uh could have received some consideration. I also uh high Sierra starring Humphrey Bogart. Um this is a movie that really put Bogey on the map. He'd been around for uh you know most of the 30s, but this is the movie that got everything kick-started. However, does it beat the Maltese Falcon? No, I don't think so. But I do think that I do want to give it an honorable mention, and as well as Sullivan's Travels uh with Joel McCrae and uh the uh everlasting beauty of Veronica Lake. Uh fun comedy. Uh, and I think that it definitely I don't I I don't want to say it definitely got snubbed, but I uh but I would have nominated it over I I like it better than probably seven of the movies I that we've already talked about. Um yeah, probably seven. Having said that, so Solomon's Travels doesn't reach the level of the ones that that uh um that I think are really in the running for uh the for best picture uh for according to me anyway. According to the show, just cinema chat. Um okay, so let's go over this uh this uh list again. Okay. Uh How Green Was My Valley actually is the one that won. Um oh and um I I bought some of the dust, really good movie. I'm gonna say no. Citizen Kane definitely uh is something that we have to consider. Here comes Mr. Jordan. Probably not. Uh hold back the dawn, probably not. The little foxes, no. Uh the Maltese Falcon, that's a consideration. Uh, one foot in Heaven, I'm gonna go no. Uh Sergeant York falls short of those other three. Uh and but it's still a really incredible movie. Suspicion, uh again, really good movie, but falls short of those three. So what we really have is How Green was My Valley and Citizen Kane and the Maltese Falcon. And uh so how do we do this? How Green was my valley, in my opinion, was not the best movie made in 1941. We're scrapping it. I mean, it it it sh it won, um, but there's 10 movies that were nominated. I I'm s I'm thinking it's probably my ninth favorite out of these ten. Maybe eighth, maybe eighth. Eighth. Let's go eighth. But then you have Citizen Kane and the Maltese Falcon. And uh um, and really what you're looking at is you're looking at um what's better uh this uh story uh that they both boy, they both depict greed. Uh, you know, Charles Kane is uh business, you know, greedy, greedy businessman, but also somebody that is pretty much unscrupulous. And um, you know, uh do you go with the movie that has the best shots, um a wonderful script, um and yeah, really brilliant pacing. Um, or you go with the Maltese Falcon, which is a linear film for the most part, anyway. Yeah, yeah. Um, but you know, I I'm I'm going to be dead said honest. Oh, if I'm going to re-watch a movie tomorrow um with um somebody that um I think is a mature person, but has not seen the movies, those two, um, I would show them the Maltese Falcon. Um, I really would. I and you know, I I think that I enjoy that movie better, and I think that my hypothetical friend would too. Having said that, Citizen Game is it's gotta be the one that wins, you know, and How Green Was My Valley was it's a really good movie. Let's face it. Is it even top 10, top 20? John Ford? I don't know. I don't know if I don't know, it's not top 10, but is it top 20? Maybe I guess, but John Ford is just such a good director. Why why does have to win? Um uh as opposed to some others that he did. We'll we'll talk about those as the years go on, or as the episodes go on, as it were. But yeah, uh Citizen Kane is it's is uh one of the best movies ever made. Um and I think that uh when it comes to influence, um yeah, I mean it influenced David Lynch uh to do a lot of nonlinear stuff and a lot of cutaways, a lot of um great long shots, and and a lot of great close-ups. And you know, uh I would say uh Hitchcock got a little bit out of it too, for that matter, uh a more contemporary one. Um but Citizen Kane is just so influential and technically it's so fantastic. Oh, I said it again. Fantastic. Stop saying that word. Anyway, um, yeah, Citizen Kane has to has to be your best picture um for the 14th Academy Awards. And it it's really this is definitely a crime that How Green was My Valley won. I really like How Green Was My Valley, I think it's excellent film. Um I really enjoy the performances and I enjoy the the sets um and all that, you know. But I you know, Citizen King with the cinematography and the screenplay, it's just too good. You you gotta go with that. Uh so then we go to uh best actor. Um, and um now some of this is a little bit of a of a repeat of what we've talked about, which it seems to always happen. Uh, but Gary Cooper for Sergeant York got nominated. Uh and uh just I think that was his best performance. Uh I really do. Uh Cary Grant uh was nominated, not for suspicion, but for Penny Serenade, where he's kind of playing the same guy, only not scary. Um, he plays a guy that um is irresponsible with money and and generally um he's not totally lazy, but he's definitely irresponsible. And and his wife is like a little freaked out about how irresponsible he really is. Uh, this is his third movie with Irene Dunn. This is a drama, it's not really a comedy at all. Has a couple of comedic comedic moments from the wonderful Edgar Buchanan, but um, but Cary Grant uh did um marvelous performance here. I thought he was better in suspicion, but I I mean I don't know if he's better so much. I I think he needed to do more in suspicion and then he delivered. Um, you know, so I I think he was probably nominated for the wrong one. So I'm putting his name in for suspicion. For you know, because he didn't get nominated, but I'm nominating him. So that those are the rules for me. Uh Walter Houston, all that money can buy. Oh my goodness. In this movie, he plays the the devil, and he um, you know, try tries to outwit. Uh again, we have a country bumpkin uh who makes a deal with the devil and decides, uh, you know what, I want money and I want popularity. Um, you know, and even if it means that uh I'm selling my soul, and Walter Houston just delivers so well here. Yeah, it just knocks one out of the park. And and there are times where you think, oh, he's eating up the scenery and he's trying to seal every scene. Fact is he's doing what he's supposed to do. Um he's the devil. He's going to he's going to be a presence. Uh um just absolutely fabulous. Walter You said was so good in this. Um just just was. Um Robert Montgomery for Here Comes Mr. Jordan, uh, very good performance. Uh Orson Wells for Citizen Kane. Uh wow, what do you say about Orson Wells and Citizen Kane as uh Charles Kane? It just uh a marvel, a marvel and a half. I love Orson Wells in uh in that movie. Uh so let's let's let's narrow it down. Um Gary Cooper was the actual winner for Sergeant York, and again, I will repeat that was his best performance, in my opinion. Um and Cary Grant uh we threw out we thrown out Penny Serenade and said and tossed in suspicion. Um Rara Montgomery, for Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Um I really good performance, uh but no. Uh Orson Wells. Um I'm gonna be honest. Orson Wells delivered uh a performance of a lifetime, you know. Uh Orson Wells was such a good actor, obviously he was such a great director. Um, but he was a great actor, a really great presence on the screen. And nowhere is it more more evident than in Citizen Kane. Um Gary Cooper is the one that won. And I do believe that was his best performance, and I believe it was an absolutely knock out of the park performance. And when I when I come into these episodes, I have a slight bias. Uh uh, in other words, I I know who I think I'm going to go with, um, but I re-watch everything um just to make sure. And I went in thinking the same thing about Gary Cooper. I'm like, well, it's a no-brainer, you know. I obviously know Orson Wells is great, you know, but I thought it was a no-brainer. I thought I was gonna go Gary Cooper, but I'm gonna say no. He shorry, Gary Cooper fans, but I I'm gonna say no. Um but you know what? I'm gonna throw a curveball. I think Walter Houston delivered the best performance as an actor. I think he easily could have been best supporting actor and blown out the role, the blown out the the win. But Walter Houston was so good in this. And right off the top of my head, who else was in that movie? Oh my goodness, the names aren't coming to my head. And I'm not looking at my phone, not looking at my notes. Um but guess what? I when I think of that movie, I'm always gonna think Walter Houston. Um this is another one of those that I had never seen before, um, and which I uh it's it's it's called all the all the that um money can buy, but it was actually called The Devil and Daniel Webster First. And they changed the name because um there was another movie that was gonna be released called The Devil and Miss Jones, which of course is a very famous uh movie, but the studio did not want the two movies to be confused with each other, so they changed the name to All the Money Can Buy, a much worse title. Um, and it's still referred to as the Daniel Webster in some circles and in some things you see online. Um, but um Walter Houston gave a performance, um did Orson Wells, but Walter Houston gave a performance that is so it's so different, and um, I gotta be honest. Uh now um I'm not going to tell you how this movie ends. Um, but his last moment in this movie is what won me over for him to give him this this award. Um so yeah, I I I went in thinking, I'm gonna go Gary Cooper. I started re-watching Citizen King. I'm like, uh I'm probably gonna go Orson Wells. Um, and but then I saw all the money can buy, and I'm going, oh my goodness. This is one of the most incredible performances I've ever seen. Um but wow, I was really I really surprised myself, but here we are with you know, handing Walter Houston the the trophy and and not Orson Wells and not Gary Grant and not Gary Cooper, um, but instead we're handing it to Walter Houston for um a role that was uh somewhat of a supporting role. He was not the protagonist, but uh you know, hey, he did have a lot of screen time, and enough so where you could be called, you know, where this could be that category. And um, I think if it's best supporting, he would have easily won. Um, but uh I I just I mean, watch that movie all that all the money can buy and tell me that wasn't an absolutely great performance. Just really, really super one. Very special. Um, let's go over the best actress. Uh, so best actress, uh, Joan Fontaine is the actress that won. She won for suspicion and a terrific performance, no question. About it. Uh Betty Davis in The Little Foxes. Betty Davis always did a little bit of a trick of trip performance. And then, of course, Jim Joan Fontaine's sister, Olivia De Havlin, um was nominated for Hold Back the Dawn. And uh Gir Garson was nominated for Blossoms in the Dust. And then Barbara Stanwyck. Yeah, you got the big curveball here. Ball of Fire. And that is exactly what Barbara Stanwyck is in this movie, Ball of Fire. Uh, thing about Barbara Stanwyck is she's not a what you would say is a is a like a classic beauty. Um you know, I uh you you put ten actresses from 1941 in a in a row. Um and you know, Barbara Stanwyck isn't gonna be the prettiest of them, but she's got some sort of amazing, high, amazingly high competence level that really lifts her and she where she lifts every production she is in. And um, there's something absolutely fabulous about Barbara Stanwyck. Of course, we talked extensively um uh to the Kelly or Idols people uh in our baby babyface episode about Barbara Stanwick. There's something very special about her, and it's not any less evident here than it is anywhere else, including double indemnity, uh, and including babyface. Um ball of fire, uh again, it also starts with Gary Cooper, um, but she is somebody that uh is a bad girl, and she's struggling with the idea like, do I want to be a bad girl? Or do I want to be with this really nice guy, Gary, this Gary Cooper character? You know, do I want to be with him or do I want to be with the with the the thug that is you know running from the law kind of thing? And of course, she uh has a performance on the stage here, uh, which is for the ages. Uh I I want I gotta say something about uh about Ball of Fire, okay? Um 1941. Tell me that what they're playing in that that and that and that number in the first act, tell me that is not rock and roll music. That's 1941, and they are playing, you know, heavy duty big band music, but um, you know, you got a big drum solo, um, you know, and and they they use a lot of they use a lot of lingo that's used like in the decade of the 50s, and and it's 1941. It's very uh I had seen that movie before, but there's sometimes you know when I watch a movie um and I'm not watching it for the podcast. I it's a different pair of eyes when I'm watching it for the podcast. Uh but I think Barbara Stanwick's performance here is just out of this world, just so great. Um, there are a lot of curveballs here. Um, I didn't really talk a whole lot about Hold Back to Dawn um uh Olivia with Olivia Haviland um and it got nominated for Best Picture. I I think I kind of skimmed over it. Um but you know, it has uh Olivia Haviland and Charles Boyer and uh in the film yeah I I think I skimmed over it completely, and I'm sorry about that. But I uh but it wasn't gonna win in my book. Um but um uh the the the film the film takes place in Mexico and uh Charles Boye is a guy that's trying to get over to America and um uh or to the US I should say. And um uh but it it it it's for as great of actors as those two are, um, and the fact that it was nominated for Best Picture, um, it's like one of those throw-ins. Um it's it's really good, and it definitely has two uh of the best actors that have ever walked the earth, Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havlin, but it's not very memorable. Um and um, you know, so so I I'm I can't give the award to uh Olivia de Havlin, one of my favorites. Um and Betty Davis uh a really fantastic performance in uh The Little Foxes, but I I'm not going with her on this one. Uh Joan Fontaine is the one that uh actually won. Um but it goes it go and and Greer Garson really excellent performance. Um and I'm gonna I'm gonna mention one other um Mary Astor, who actually was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, I I think you know maybe is pretty close to Best Actress. Um but uh having said that I I'm going Stanny with this one. And uh Joan Fontaine had a great a really great performance in Suspicion. Um, but Cary Grant was the better of those two performances, in my opinion. And it doesn't mean that Joan Fontaine wasn't wasn't uh absolutely terrific. Um it just Cary Grant was asked to do more, and he did do more. Um Barbara Stanwyck was asked to do a lot here. She was sad, she was happy, uh, she was angry a couple times, but um she I think sang. I think that was her singing. Um, but let's just give her benefit of the doubt on that. I really don't know if she sang or not. Um, some smarty pants is gonna know. Um, and hey, I appreciate you. I I just don't know. Um, but I'm going Stanley. I'm saying Barbara Stanwick should have won Best Actress for this particular year. Uh so uh to review we went against the ones that won on each of the three categories. Uh we're going with for best picture. Uh we're we're we're going with Citizen Kane instead of How Green Was My Valley, our best actor. We are going with Walter Houston for all the money can buy. And uh we are going with Best Actress with Barbara Stanwyck, who I think they may have considered to be an also ran at the time, but I think she was the best of I think she gave the best performance out of all of them. And uh let's you go over some of the other awards uh just for fun. Uh best directing uh John Ford won for How Green Was My Valley. Uh I have to disagree and give that to Orson Wells again, Citizen Kane. Um I think that was that may have been one of the two or three best directing jobs of all time. Uh best actor in a supporting role. Uh Donald Crisp won. Uh and uh you got Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, James Gleason, Sidney Greenstreet. Uh yeah, I'm giving it to Sydney Greenstreet, hands down, no question about it. Um should have won Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Mary Astor won, and I totally agree with the Academy there. Best writing uh screenplay uh Citizen Kane won. Herman Makewin uh wrote it, and I definitely agree there. Uh, but um anyway, so that is the basics of the 14th uh Academy Awards. Um really great year, lots of really worthy performance or performances, lots of worthy productions. Um and it was hard to come up with you know Citizen Kane, the Maltese Falcon. Um boy, such great performances. Um, which by the way, I I I I Helper Bogart really should have garnered some attention. Um I'd say for High Sierra, I suppose the Maltese Falcon, which is great in the Maltese Falcon, but but if he picked the two, um I uh you know I liked the film the Maltese Falcon uh a little better, but his runs in High Sierra is absolutely uh again, it's one of those things where he was asked to do more. And the Maltese Falcon, much like Casablanca, he he he's the lead lead actor, but um some of the others around him are so good, and and the director just lets them shine, and that's okay. Um, but uh anyway, what do you think? You think I'm crazy? You probably probably think that, but maybe not because of the things I've said today. Um, you know, rewatch the movies yourself and you know, tell me if I'm wrong. Um, but hey, I want to thank you for listening again. Don't forget to give me a good review. Um, I'm telling you, it really helps the show trend. It really does. I I you know I've seen spikes every time there's a good review. It's um but keep them coming. Don't uh don't stop rating, don't stop uh giving good reviews. If you well, if you haven't given a good review, please do so. Thank you for listening, most of all. If you do nothing else, I appreciate that. And I will see you later.