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2 days ago · On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. The prayers of his family and friends reach Heaven, where guardian angel second class Clarence Odbody is assigned to save George in order to earn his wings. Clarence is shown flashbacks of George's life.
4 days ago · The song then reached a new generation in the 1946 Al Jolson biopic The Jolson Story and, in 1948, via Art Mooney’s version. Having made its mark post-World War I, on audiences during World...
4 days ago · The first winner was German actor Emil Jannings for his roles in The Last Command (1928) and The Way of All Flesh (1927). [1] The most recent winner is Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023), who simultaneously became the first Irish-born actor to win this award.
4 days ago · Woody Guthrie (born July 14, 1912, Okemah, Oklahoma, U.S.—died October 3, 1967, New York, New York) was an American folk singer and songwriter whose songs, many of which are now classics, chronicled the plight of common people, especially during the Great Depression.
3 days ago · Steve McQueen, Bounty (detail), 2024. Courtesy: Dia Art Foundation, New York and ©Steve McQueen; photography: Don Stahl. The totalizing vibration of the sound, paired with the auratic hold of the lights, loosens one’s grip on space and time, on presence itself. It engulfs the body with a wholeness that can be likened to the experience of a ...
4 days ago · 7. 1946's "The Jolson Story" was a biopic of Al Jolson, the man who said the first words in film history. Which of the following actors was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Al Jolson?
16 hours ago · Back in the 1920s, a comedy called "Abie's Irish Rose," about a Jewish boy married to a Catholic girl and the havoc that plays among their families, ran for more than five years on Broadway in ...
