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4 days ago · 1943: Van Heflin ( Johnny Eager) 1944: Charles Coburn ( The More the Merrier) 1945: Barry Fitzgerald ( Going My Way) 1946: James Dunn ( A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) 1947: Harold Russell ( The Best Years of Our Lives) 1948: Edmund Gwenn ( Miracle on 34th Street)
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2 days ago · A very accomplished actor, Van Heflin brought life to every role he played. For his turn as Robert Taylor's alcoholic best friend in 1942's "Johnny Eager" he received his only nomination and duly won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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2 days ago · 5. One of the best mysteries on old-time radio was one which ran from 1947 to 1951, starring first Van Heflin and then Gerald Mohr. Who was this main character, a hard-boiled detective originally created by Raymond Chandler?
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3 days ago · Dick Van Dyke may still get flack for his Mary Poppins Cockney accent, but he talks of one group that doesn’t that he believes should.
3 days ago · Vivien Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Leigh had also played Blanche in the London stage production that had been directed by her then-husband Laurence Olivier. Other Best Actress nominees that year were Katharine Hepburn for The African Queen (Hepburn's 5th Best Actress Nomination), Eleanor Parker for Detective Story, Shelley ...
4 days ago · 8. Johnny Eager (1943) Answer: Van Heflin. At the fifteenth Academy Awards ceremony, Van Heflin won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role as erudite gangster underling Jeff Hartnett in "Johnny Eager". It was his only Academy Award nomination.
4 days ago · One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit 'Panama.' Here's how it came to be.
