Today's question: What Oscar-related fact provides the common bond among Myrna Loy, Edward G. Robinson, Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Maureen O'Hara, Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Donald Sutherland, and Richard Gere?
Pictured: The Third Man (1949), my favorite Joseph Cotten film (slightly ahead of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt). Put this film noir thriller in your Netflix queue if you've never seen it. Be prepared for a most unusual musical score!
I don't know the answer, but Gaslight is my favorite Joseph Cotton movie (with Shadow of a Doubt a close second). I will be interested to see how he is portrayed in Me and Orson Welles when it hits Netflix.
Posted by: Colin Miller | February 10, 2010 at 12:35 PM
None of these individuals have won an Academy Award.
Posted by: Fre | February 10, 2010 at 02:29 PM
Or even been nominated.
Posted by: Lance McMillian | February 10, 2010 at 02:36 PM
Lance offers the answer I sought. Shocking, isn't it (at least in some cases)? The current issue of Entertainment Weekly (Feb. 12/19) at pages 72-73 (sorry, no link) places these and others on a list of twenty notable stars who never earned an Oscar nomination. Christopher Plummer probably would have been on the list, but for his nomination this year (THE LAST STATION)!
I was most surprised by Maureen O'Hara. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. MIRACLE ON 34th STREET. THE QUIET MAN (!!!!). THE PARENT TRAP. Wow. And don't you deserve a nomination for playing John Candy's mother???? (ONLY THE LONELY)
Posted by: Tim Zinnecker | February 10, 2010 at 03:15 PM
The Third Man is a brilliant movie and among my personal favorites, not least for the lilting theme song -- the best-selling recording of Zither music ever!
Posted by: Eric Fink | February 10, 2010 at 05:25 PM