| Show Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper Win Oscars For Outstanding Film Performances in 41 By FREDERICK C. C OTHMAN HOLLYWOOD UP UP Fifteen Fifteen hundred movie makers in mufti multi at t the annual academy awards ewards dinner early Friday cheered Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper as the best motion picture players of 1941 Miss Fontaine in black like most of her banqueting sisters in inthe inthe inthe the girl business and Cooper in a e. business suit and a wide grin won their plated gold-plated Oscars for their performances re respectively re- re in Suspicion and Sergeant York How Green Was Vas My Valley was named best picture while John Ford who directed it and who now is serving with the navy at sea in in the far east received at J the prize for the best directing 3 job Orson Welles the man from fromi i Mars who had been nominated in Mers nearly all the award classifications classifications classifications received only half an Oscar as as s coauthor of his one-man one movie Citizen Kane C Crisp Wins Vins Award Best supporting player was Donald Donald Donald Don Don- ald Crisp for his part in How Green while best supporting actress actress actress ac ac- ac- ac tress was the red haired Mary Astor As As- tor she tor-she she of diary fame for fame for her work i in The Great Lie The war put a crimp in the customary customary customary cus cus- tomary award festivities There was no x a dancing No evening gowns No 0 full dress suits and no ribbons across shirts The folks who paid their 11 per plate for steak and pink Ice cream who listened to Wendell Willkie make the principal speech and who sat through hours of Oscar-hand- Oscar outing Ing-outing looked hardly at all like the handsomest collection Of people people peo peo- pIe in the world They resembled rather without their fine feathers the diners at any Rotary club banquet in any prosperous American town Almost Almost Al Al- most alP all the women wore black dresses The men leaned toward double-breasted double suits of blue serge 5 Black an and l Slinky There There w was was s Rosalind Russell in in ina a slinky K black gown with th th three ee strands of pearls around h her neck to introduce Ginger Rogers last years year's winner in another black dress who handed their prizes to the Misses Astor and F Fontaine i e. e The movie movie manufacturers received received received re re- re- re a particular kic kick fo from Miss Fontains Fontain's award Four years ago she was was' fired by R-K-O R because the man management gement at that tinie said shed she'd never be a first class actress Yet it was at R-K-O R that she functioned under Director Alfred Hitchcock to make Suspicion and to garner the most coveted award a picture actress can get Among the cheerers was Olivia de le Havilland her sister who herself herself herself her her- self had received an award nomination nomination nomination nom nom- for her role in Hold Back the Dawn Lieutenant Stewart Steuart P Presides Lieutenant Jimm Jimmy Jimmy Stewart wearing his is army uniform uniform handed out the masculine awards to the widely grinning Cooper and the graying Crisp who also wore khaki His uniform was that of the California state guard Walt Valt Disney whose associates had received received a pile of Oscars for their music in and Fantasia Fantasia Fantasia Fan tasia blushed when David O. O handed him the special Irving Thalberg memorial award for distinguished service to the movie industry Another blusher was Jack Benny who obtained an Oscar i with a red skirt It is a special award to the best smoking cigar-smoking sweater girl of 1941 explained Master of Ceremonies Ceremonies Ceremonies Cere Cere- monies Bob Hope Benny won it for his work in Charlies Aunt butI but butI I understand he wont won't do any eny more female impersonating now for a awhile while while because because the government took away his girdle j Sweepstakes Winner Vinner How Green Was My Valley the of Richard Llewellyn's Llewellyn's Llewellyn's Llew Llew- ellyn's best selling novel of the Welsh coal fields was sweepstakes winner It took four statuettes for best picture best director best supporting actor and best black and white photography Blood and Sand was named best color job The surprise hit concerning fun in the hereafter Here Comes Mr Jordan took t two o writing prizes The speechmaking by most of the movie bigwigs the Chinese ambassador and Republican standard standard standard stand stand- ard bearer Willkie took hours Willkie who defended the movie ma makers ers before a congressional committee last fall on charges of devoting too much of their time to antinazi propaganda caused a hush when he said times do change Wants Offensive Action I only wish that they had made more many more of these antinazi antinazi antinazi anti anti- nazi pictures he said He swung then into a fighting address in which he deplored the use of the word defense an and said The American people want the navy out seeking the enemy no not hugging our shores We want our armies penetrating every active front We want our fighting planes leading our bombers to their goal It sickens men to think of America iI in ill terms of de de- The dinner ended at 1 a. a m m. Bob Hope got the last word H He turned to a photographer who was wa shooting flash after flash an and d said If you get me with my mouth open e en l dub b in some teeth 0 0 q e Joan Fontaine She won wan wona wana a plated gold Oscar Oscar at atthe atthe a a r the annual motion picture academy award banquet for her r performance in In Suspicion Interesting is the fact F that a studio once fired her and told fold old her that t S i shed she'd never be a ay 3 first-class first y e actress I j Y t C. C 5 J d y Is U v a S r d k r rS rS S S l p. p cG s d |
