Musical-related Oscar trivia #2

Andy on Long Island · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 65

I saw "No Country for Old Men" today, but wasn't impressed. Before it
started, the audience was treated to some movie trivia on the movie screen,
two items of which I can share, neither of great difficulty (especially for
ratm).

Here's the second: Who is the only person to win an Oscar whose parents
(both of them) also were Oscar winners?

This one's no doubt old hat for ratm (or, as the kids say, SO old hat) that
it should be in an ratm FAQ.

Archived from group: rec>arts>theatre>musicals

stephen.farrow · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 60

On 11 Feb, 00:35, "Andy on Long Island"
wrote:
> I saw "No Country for Old Men" today, but wasn't impressed. Before it
> started, the audience was treated to some movie trivia on the movie screen,
> two items of which I can share, neither of great difficulty (especially for
> ratm).
>
> Here's the second: Who is the only person to win an Oscar whose parents
> (both of them) also were Oscar winners?

Liza Minnelli. Vincente Minnelli won a Best Director Oscar for "Gigi",
and Judy Garland won an Academy Juvenile Award in, I think, 1939.

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Stephen

BADDONIS · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 21

love the way they try to re-write history by saying anyone who is given
a special award is a winner

Liza Minnelli has never won a Grammy
Barbra Streisand has never won a Tony
Judy Garland has never won an Oscar

Andy on Long Island · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 65

Judy Garland never . . . . What? The movie screen lied when it said, Liza,
Judy, and Vincente were all Oscar winners?!

I'll never again trust the printed word on a movie screen.

"BADDONIS" wrote in message @storefull-3174.bay.webtv.net...
> love the way they try to re-write history by saying anyone who is given
> a special award is a winner
>
> Liza Minnelli has never won a Grammy
> Barbra Streisand has never won a Tony
> Judy Garland has never won an Oscar

BADDONIS · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 21

well she should have won an Oscar
for A STAR IS BORN
that goes without saying

"Ed\ · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 28

"BADDONIS" wrote in message @storefull-3174.bay.webtv.net...
> love the way they try to re-write history by saying anyone who is given
> a special award is a winner
>
> Liza Minnelli has never won a Grammy
> Barbra Streisand has never won a Tony
> Judy Garland has never won an Oscar

But Streisand received a Tony and Garland received an Academy Award.
>

Vince · Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 49

Ed(NY) wrote:

> "BADDONIS" wrote in message
> @storefull-3174.bay.webtv.net...
>
>>love the way they try to re-write history by saying anyone who is given
>>a special award is a winner
>>
>>Liza Minnelli has never won a Grammy
>>Barbra Streisand has never won a Tony
>>Judy Garland has never won an Oscar
>
>
> But Streisand received a Tony and Garland received an Academy Award.
>
>
>
Babbs got two Oscars one where (this has never happen before or since)
her and Kate Hepburn tied one year and one special Oscar.

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Steve Newport · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 1415

BADONIS@webtv.net (BADDONIS)
she should have won an Oscar
for A STAR IS BORN
---------------------------------
Perhaps she kept a few too many people waiting. And then there's Bacall.

BADDONIS · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 21

"babs got two Oscars......
and one was a special Oscar"

WRONG
her second Oscar was for songwriting
A STAR IS BORN "Evergreen" ?
and she won that - and - somebody lost

she was given a special TONY
so that makes her a Tony 'winner"
if you insist !!

Steve Newport · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 1415

BADONIS@webtv.net (BADDONIS)
Barbra Streisand has never won a Tony
-----------------------------------------
She lost to Phyllis Newman and Carol Channing.

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BADDONIS · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 21

and Judy lost to Grace Kelly and Rita Moreno-

EricV · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 6

On Feb 11, 1:21 am, NewportsRe...@webtv.net (Steve Newport) wrote:
> BADO...@webtv.net (BADDONIS)
> Barbra Streisand has never won a Tony
> -----------------------------------------
> She lost to Phyllis Newman and Carol Channing.
>
> http://community.webtv.net/NewportsRetro/Scrapbook
>
> http://community.webtv.net/NewportsRetro/Pets

The Streisand / Hepburn tie isn't the only one. Fredric March (Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Wallace Beery (The Champ) tied for Best Actor
in 1931.

Steve Newport · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 1415

BADONIS@webtv.net (BADDONIS)
Judy lost to Grace Kelly
-----------------------------------
Older men with hope voted for Grace after she slept with all her mature
co-stars. Imagine: a slim, gorgeous, classy blonde with a father
fixation. And that sexy Drama School accent!

robert armstrong · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 221

badonis/baddonis writes:

>well she should have won an Oscar for A STAR
>IS BORN that goes without saying

Well, Grace Kelly was awfully good in Country Girl...

Bob A

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Andy on Long Island · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 65

Ah, but I have since learned that Judy DID win an "Oscar" ("Oscar" in
quotes) after all: It was, yes, one of those "special Oscars," here an
"Honorary Juvenile Award" that is no longer given out
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Juvenile_Award) in 1939 "for her
outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year."

So the Loewe's movie screen I saw this on wasn't totally off the mark.

"BADDONIS" wrote in message @storefull-3178.bay.webtv.net...
> and Judy lost to Grace Kelly and Rita Moreno-

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