CLIP: Call From JFK / Riding Shotgun with an Oscar

0.189 - 26.805 George Stevens, Jr.

I went with my father to the 1952 Academy Awards in Hollywood. A Place in the Sun had just been released. And we sat next to one another at the Pantages Theater. And Joseph Mankiewicz, a great director, had won the Oscar the year before for the Lady Eve, I believe. And he came out and read the nominations. And it was John Huston for The African Queen, William Wyler for Detective Story,