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Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1940 · Nominated
Academy Award Art Direction 1940 · Nominated
Academy Awards, USA. 1940 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Brian Donlevy. 1940 Nominee Oscar. Best Art Direction.
Beau Geste: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy. Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- William A. Wellman
- 1939-07-24
Mar 26, 2012 · Oscar Awards: None. Oscar Context: The winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar was Thomas Mitchell for “Stagecoach. The Interior Decoration Oscar went to “Gone With the Wind,” which swept most of the awards in 1939. Note “Beau Geste” was restored by the American Film Institute (AFI) in the late 1980s. Running time: 114 Minutes.
12th Academy Awards (1940) - Movies from 1939. nom. Best Supporting Actor (Brian Donlevy) nom. Best Production Design (Hans Dreier, Robert Odell)
Beau Geste (1939) Director William A. Wellman reunited with Gary Cooper, one of the stars of Wings (1927), for this remake of the Ronald Colman silent adventure classic. As the eponymous hero, Gary Cooper defends a beleaguered fort against Arab attackers.
Beau Geste, American action-adventure film, released in 1939, that was based on the 1924 novel of the same name by Percival C. Wren. Its acclaimed cast featured four future winners of Academy Awards for best actor or actress: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, and Broderick Crawford.
Beau Geste is the first movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor/Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cooper, Milland, Hayward, and Broderick Crawford) prior to any of them receiving the award.