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Marcia Davenport

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Marcia Davenport (June 9, 1903 – January 16, 1996) was an American author and music critic. [1]

49 relations: Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Awards, Alexander Woollcott, Alma Gluck, Arturo Toscanini, Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Collyer brothers, Czechoslovakia, Czernin, Dan Duryea, Donald Crisp, East Side, West Side (1949 film), Efrem Zimbalist, Fortune (magazine), Gladys Cooper, Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Homer & Langley, Ironworks, James Mason, Jan Masaryk, Jerry Yulsman, Jessica Tandy, Lionel Barrymore, List of Friends schools, Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metropolitan Opera, Monterey, California, My Brother's Keeper (Davenport novel), Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Prague, Preston Foster, Reginald Owen, Rex Stout, Russell Davenport, Shipley School, The New Yorker, The Valley of Decision, The Valley of Decision (novel), Université Grenoble Alpes, University of Pittsburgh Press, Van Heflin, Wellesley College, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Alexander Woollcott

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.

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Alma Gluck

Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-born American soprano.

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Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor.

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Ava Gardner

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress and singer.

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model, and dancer.

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Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Bryn Mawr (pronounced; from Welsh for "Big hill") is a census-designated place (CDP) located across Radnor and Haverford Townships in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia along Lancaster Avenue (US-30) and the border with Delaware County.

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Collyer brothers

Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Czernin

The Czernin family (Černínové z Chudenic, Czernin von und zu Chudenitz) is a Czech noble family that was one of the oldest and most prominent noble families in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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Dan Duryea

Dan Duryea (January 23, 1907 – June 7, 1968) was an American actor in film, stage, and television.

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Donald Crisp

Donald Crisp (born George William Crisp, 27 July 188225 May 1974) was an English film actor.

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East Side, West Side (1949 film)

East Side, West Side is a 1949 melodramatic crime film, starring Barbara Stanwyck as a wronged wife and Ava Gardner in one of her earliest roles, along with James Mason and Van Heflin.

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Efrem Zimbalist

Efrem Zimbalist Sr. (April 21, 1889 – February 22, 1985) was a concert violinist, composer, teacher, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Gladys Cooper

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.

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Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996), was a British-American actress popular during the Second World War, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-ten box office draws from 1942 to 1946.

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor, one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Homer & Langley

Homer & Langley is a novel by American author E. L. Doctorow published in September 2009.

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.

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James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.

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Jan Masaryk

Jan Garrigue Masaryk (14 September 1886 – 10 March 1948) was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948.

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Jerry Yulsman

Jerry Yulsman (born February 8, 1924 – August 6, 1999) was an American novelist and a photographer best known for his photographs of Jack Kerouac, notably the cover illustration on Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters.

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Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy (born Jessie Alice Tandy; 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American stage and film actress.

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Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.

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List of Friends schools

Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

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Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917)

Marsha Hunt (born Marcia Virginia Hunt; October 17, 1917) is a retired American actress, model, and activist.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Monterey, California

Monterey is a city located in Monterey County in the U.S. state of California, on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on California's Central Coast.

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My Brother's Keeper (Davenport novel)

My Brother's Keeper is a novel by Marcia Davenport based on the true story of the Collyer brothers.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Preston Foster

Preston Stratton Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970), was an American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades.

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Reginald Owen

John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor.

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Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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Russell Davenport

Russell Wheeler Davenport (1899 – April 19, 1954) was an American publisher and writer.

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Shipley School

The Shipley School is a coeducational, independent, college-preparatory day school with approximately 850 students in pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Valley of Decision

The Valley of Decision (1945) is a film set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in the late 19th century, based on the Marcia Davenport novel.

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The Valley of Decision (novel)

The Valley of Decision is an historical novel by the American writer Marcia Davenport (1903–1996).

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Université Grenoble Alpes

The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "Grenoble Alps University") is a public research university in Grenoble, France.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American university press, part of the University of Pittsburgh.

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Van Heflin

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. (December 13, 1908 – July 23, 1971) was an American theatre, radio and film actor.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Davenport

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