Clips from the Classics

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Nearly two dozen Academy Awards are represented among the great and memorable movies recalled by their stars and producers over half a century - plus a few that never won a second showing. Miss Ruth Chatterton is mistress of ceremonies at the celebration of "Covered Wagon," "Bridge on the River Kwai," "How Green Was My Valley," and "Gone With The Wind," as recalled by Janet Gaynor, Joanne Woodward, Zachery Scott, Jack Lemmon, Paul Newman, and Sessue Hayakawa, and producers Adolph Zukor and Jerry Wald, historian Arthur Mayer, writer Ben Hecht and maker of the first western movies, Bronco Billy Anderson.

Episode also known by variant title "Best Pictures."


WNYC archives id: 61012

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