[1937]
DIRECTED BY: Henry King
RELEASE DATE: 26.02.2007
AWARDS: Won 2 Oscars® including Alice Brady for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
STARRING:
Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other a lawyer (Ameche). One of the most expensive films of its time ($1.8 million).
Alice Brady won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her role in this film. Brady wasn't present at the award ceremony, but a man walked up and accepted the award on her behalf. After the show, he and the Oscar were never seen again.
MGM had originally planned to "loan out" Jean Harlow to Twentieth Century Fox for the role of Belle Fawcett (ultimately played by Alice Faye), in exchange for acquiring Shirley Temple to play the role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). The deal fell through when Harlow died in June 1937.
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