The Academy was still accepting write-ins and indicating who placed second and third. Sherry Shourds, a write-in candidate, came in second for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Joseph Newman placed third for David Copperfield.
The nominees were ...
- Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
- Joseph Newman, David Copperfield
- Sherry Shourds, A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Eric Stacey, Les Misérables
And the Oscar went to ...
Clem Beauchamp and Paul Wing, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. |
| Clem Beauchamp |
Beauchamp had started out as a stuntman in 1918, then became an actor under the name Jerry Drew. He also directed a few short films. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was the first film on which he was credited as an assistant director. He spent the later part of his career as a production manager in films and in television, where he oversaw the "Superman" TV series. Wing worked at Paramount as a manager and producer, but has few documented film credits other than this one. He served in both World War I and World War II, and was a survivor of the Bataan death march. His daughters, Toby and Pat, both became actresses, mostly as chorus girls in '30s musicals. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a swashbuckler in which Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Richard Cromwell save the British Raj from the evil Mohammad Khan, who really does say, "We have ways of making men talk." It was reportedly one of Adolf Hitler's favorite films.
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| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
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