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James Stewart (Best Actor)

Ginger Rogers (Best Actress)

Jane Darwell (Best Supporting Actress)

Walter Brennan (Best Supporting Actor)

1941

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Vivien Leigh  (Best Actress)

Hattie McDaniel (Best Supporting Actress)

Thomas Mitchell (Best Supporting Actor)

Robert Donat (Best Actor)

1940

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Barry Fitzgerald (Best Supporting Actor)

Ingrid Bergman (Best Actress)

Bing Crosby (Best Actor)

Ethel Barrymore (Best Supporting Actress)

1945

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James Dunn (Best Supporting Actor)

Anne Revere (Best Supporting Actress)

Ray Milland (Best Actor)

Joan Crawford (Best Actress) not present

1946

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Paul Lukas (Best Actor)

Jennifer Jones (Best Actress)

Katina Paxinou (Best Supporting Actress)

Charles Coburn (Best Supporting Actor)

1944

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Claire Trevor (Best Supporting Actress)

Jerry Wald (Thalberg Award)

Jane Wyman (Best Actress)

Walter Huston (Best Supporting Actor)

Laurence Olivier (Best Actor) not present

1949

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Van Heflin (Best Supporting Actor)

Greer Garson (Best Actress)

James Cagney (Best Actor)

Teresa Wright (Best Supporting Actress)

1943

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Olivia de Havilland (Best Actress)

Harold Russell (Best Supporting Actor)

Cathy O'Donnell accepts an award for

Fredric March (Best Actor) not present 

Anne Baxter (Best Supporting Actress)

1947

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Edmund Gwenn (Best Supporting Actor)

Loretta Young (Best Actress)

Ronald Colman (Best Actor) 

Celeste Holm (Best Supporting Actress)

1948

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Gary Cooper (Best Actor)

Joan Fontaine (Best Actress)

Mary Astor (Best Supporting Actress) 

Donald Crisp (Best Supporting Actor)

1942

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Candid of the Week

Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire have a little

fun on the set of "You'll Never Get Rich", 1941

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Jennifer Jones congratulates good friend Best Actress winner Ingrid Bergman ("Gaslight"). Jones won the year before ("The Song of Bernadette") when she went up against Bergman for her work in "For Whom the Bell Tolls", 1945

25 Best Christmas Films

25) MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

Director: George Seaton

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, Edmund Gwenn, 

John Payne, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Thelma Ritter

Year: 1947

In this 1947 heart-felt film, Kris Kringle takes a job as the Santa at Macy's. Before long, he is a hit with everyone... except the event director Doris Walker (O'Hara), who doesn't believe in fairy-tales. This is a great family film, which will win you over with it's compassion and endearment, not to mention the cutest performance by a 9-year-old Natalie Wood.

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22) IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Director: Frank Capra

Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, 

Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell

Year: 1946

This film, which has inspired tons of sitcom Christmas episodes, stars James Stewart as a compassionate man who contemplates suicide (after a business debacle) on Christmas eve. While standing on the town bridge preparing to jump, an angel stops him and helps him see what life would be if he had never been born. It's inspiring and thought-provoking and will give you that warm, Christmas feeling (and maybe even a tear or two). The most memorable part of the movie: George runs home wishing everyone and everything he sees a 'Merry Christmas'.

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."

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25 Best Christmas Films

21) MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Actors: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, 

Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Tom Drake

Year: 1944

In another classic movie, Judy Garland shines with charisma and beauty. She stars as the eldest daughter in a family that finds out they must move from their childhood home in St. Louis to New York. Garland's famously amazing rendition of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' is one of the sweetest (and best) parts of this lovely film. Also, you'll fall in love with adorable 7-year-old Margaret O'Brien (who was one of the best child actors of the 40s).

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25 Best Christmas Films

11) LITTLE WOMEN

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Actors: June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh,

Margaret O'Brien, Peter Lawford, Mary Astor

Year: 1949

A once-prominent family, comprised of four daughters, struggles during Christmas, but still manages to help others and enjoy the holidays. This movie has been made several times (most notably in 1994 with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon), but this is the very best version, mainly because of spunky actor June Allyson as 'Jo' and a uniquely hilarious performance by Elizabeth Taylor as 'Amy'.

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Family Ties

Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland were sisters. They are the only sisters to have won acting Oscars. Apparently the two did not get along well and spent many of their famous years not speaking.

***Joan is best known for her roles in "Rebecca", "The Women", and "Jane Eyre". Olivia is famous for "Gone with the Wind", "The Snake Pit", and "Devotion".

Performance of the Day

Actor: ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Film: "Little Women"

Character: Amy

Year: 1949

Before she was known more for her scandalous lifestyle as opposed to her tremendous acting ability, Elizabeth Taylor starred as 'Amy' in the 1949 version of "Little Women" (the best one). She is hilarious as the snotty and slightly ignorant younger sister of June Allyson's 'Jo'. I've never seen Taylor (who donned a blonde wig) so funny and her comedic timing is perfect. I highly recommend this film.

Performance of the Day

Actor: JAMES STEWART

Film: "The Philadelphia Story"

Character: Macaulay Connor

Year: 1940

In one of the best films of 1940, Jimmy Stewart almost stole the show (from Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant) as tabloid reporter 'Mike'. When heiress Tracy (Hepburn) decides to marry, she has to deal with her ex-husband (Grant), who seems willing to do anything to stop her. Mike shows up to get a story of the heiress and her new 'love' for his magazine. The funniest scene in the film has to be drunk Stewart trying to help drunk Hepburn back to her house.

Flick of the Day

Film: THE HARVEY GIRLS

Director: George Sidney

Actors: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger, Cyd Charisse

Year: 1946

Synopsis: A young woman travels West as a mail-order bride and discovers that things don't always go according to plan. She soon takes a job as a 'Harvey girl' and tries to run the town casino out of business.

Judy Garland is at her best in this fun musical, featuring a beautiful, sultry Angela Lansbury (a leap from her 'Murder She Wrote' days), nearly a decade after "The Wizard of Oz". This classic film re-pairs "Oz" pals Garland and Bolger, and showcases the popular Oscar-winning song 'On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe'.