I believe this was the year that Rosalind Russell was expected to win Best Actress. The "shoo-in" was so strong that, allegedly, Rosalind Russell was rising from her seat just before Loretta Young's name was announced as the winner.
If anyone has actually seen the 1947 film with Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra you can see why she lost this one. The whole film is boring, slow, full of bad acting including Russell's. It has a ridiculous storyline, is hard to sit through, ponderous and overacted by the entire cast especially the character played by Michael Redgrave(Vanessa Redgrave's father). Russell in an interview said she hated making the film. Yet Rosalind Russell was the favorite for the Oscar that year. She lost to Loretta Young in the Farmer's Daughter. If you seen this movie you can see why she won. She is excellent in this film which is funny, enjoyable, light hearted and deserved to win. This is the total opposite of Rosalind Russell's film which is hard to watch. I feel though that Rosalind Russell did get robbed though when she lost on her last nomination in 1958 for her wonderful performance as Auntie Mame where she should have beaten the winner Susan Hayward.
@@MothGirl007 keep in mind that the Oscars were not televised until 1953...people listened to it on the radio or went to a theater to see this film of it
What a stunning beauty Loretta Young was in her heyday. The legendary James Baskett winning his Oscar would only live for 4 more months after this dying in July 1948. Very sad.
@Jay Cee Yes. I admire that she, a devoted Catholic, decided against aborting the product of her rape by Gable, and pursued raising the baby, which is an admiring thing, considering the common trend on killing the babies when they're inconvenient. That she created a charade in order to save face...? True. That she did the most honorable, human thing by not killing her baby..? You better believe so.
@Jay CeeLoretta Young was an elegant and glamourous actress anyhow. Those were different days, and in her private life she behaved the way she thought the best to have both her daughter and her bright career. Ok, she was not irreprehensible but, to me, she was strong and brave. Yes, I most certainly do admire her :)
@Jay Cee oh yes, I can agree with you, but actually I don't like to judge her private life, which is none of my business. Sticking to her screen/stage presence, I love her talent, class, elegance and glamour. She is one of my favourite actresses, together with Sylvia Sidney :)
Ronald Colman was such a class act with the most beautiful voice ever. He was beautiful in Random Harvest with the beautiful Greer Garson. This is such a time that will never return to us sadly. Today, I can't even watch the morons in the award shows !
Sadly, Mr. James Baskett died shortly after becoming the first black male performer to receive an Academy Award to honor his performance as Uncle Remus in 'Song of the South' which co-starred Ms. Hattie McDaniel who was the first black female actress to win an Oscar for her performance in 'Gone with the Wind'. Also sadly, the world can no longer enjoy 'Song of the South' and the performances of these two iconic African-Americans...
Doris Day sang her nominated song, "It's Magic" from her first film, 'Romance on the High Seas," at that year's program. Wish they would post it on RU-vid.
Do note the "honorary award" presented to James Baskett (after Colman and before Gwenn). Read up on him and the motion picture for which he received the award, his final film role. Then try to view that motion picture.
It's so wonderful to see the footage of James Baskett receiving his honorary Oscar for his performance as Uncle Remus in Walt Disney's "Song of the South"! The first Oscar (though non competitive) given to a Black actor. Too bad his beautiful, sensitive and touching performance is now mostly shunned and hidden from view.
This comment has been up for 3 months and I'm surprised no one has commented or corrected it. The FIRST African American to win an Oscar (in 1940) was Hattie McDaniel for her Performance as Mammy in the 1939 production--GONE WITH THE WIND!
@@StevenTorrey why should they call me on it? It was the truth. Unlike today in 1948 there were Actors and Actresses. I stated he was the first Actor to receive an Oscar, though it was honorary not competitive. Not sure why you are taking such issue with this.
@@Danielevanssmith When someone catches a misstatement of fact that I have made, I usually say something like, "Thank you for pointing out my mistake. Mea culpa. I have amended my response to take into account your correction. Thank you." But hey,...
If only the Oscars would return to this type of awards ceremony, where we watch actors graciously receive something they only dream of, while everyone watching shares in their joy of achievements. Unfortunately, we now get to witness a bunch of sanctimonious, self-righteous, blow-hards spouting their personal opinions that no one in the REAL world gives a shit about. It is fucking sad.
and it explains why viewing figures are falling off a cliff. Most people do not need to be lectured by anti wall anti gun leftists who live in gated communities protected by armed guards.
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I agree with all comments. It was a different time and era and people thought differently, particularly in the post war years. In our current day and age we cannot envision life without 24 hour cable news, smart phones, GPS, and home computers. But I love watching these old newsreels and the old stars like Coleman and Young, not to mention Kris Kringle himself Edmund Gwenn.
1:19 a black guy accepts an award in 1948. Goes to show that the racism narrative that has been created by people who benefit from the racism narrative financially like lawyers and the media is nonsense. They were very respectful towards him. Note that the Oscars channel doesn’t even mention his name James basket in the description because they also benefit from the racism narrative and they know this counters the idea that black peoples were suffering until recently. Makes it more interesting for viewers - attention equals money.
O yeah.... The glorious time when black people were made to sit outside and homosexuals were stripped of their careers.... I'm sure everybody appreciated it....
That man is James Baskett. He won for "Song of the South". Isn't it nice hearing how lovely stars behaved back then, instead of the smug virtue signalers they've so many become? :)
James Baskett, first African American actor to win for Song of the South and it is ridiculous that they wont show his and Disney's movie today , this was acting, it was make believe , he was great in the picture
Well, at least you asked what, not who. I find the subliminal advertising for designers, who get rich enough off of designs only the rich can afford, without free advertising, pretty sickening. The first time I heard, "Who are you wearing?" I expected to see a dress designer clinging to the actress, like Olive Oyl on Popeye's back. In any case, I think Jada Pinkett Smith inherited Loretta's gown. By the way, AMPAS, if you want to avoid further embarrassing Oscar moments like last year's, seat everyone in a theater, with clear separation between stage and seating, where no one can take up 50 sq. ft. of space with a gown and be seated within fifteen feet of a boorish comedian who decides he has to make gratuitous jokes about someone's body to be funny. I wonder if Will Smith would have done what he did if he had had to push past his wife sitting on the aisle and walk twenty feet and up a dozen steps. Aside from what Smith chose to do, the problem was that it was too easy for him to do, that there was virtually no separation between performer and audience. Rock's remark seemed therefore very personal, not like a dumb joke among all the other dumb jokes during an Oscar ceremony. (Indeed, why do you hire writers to pen dumb jokes for presenters to deliver halfheartedly and waste time? Funny how the Oscar producers have time for that in the broadcast, but cut off acceptance speeches.)
