Awards presented March 10, 1938
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
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Until the 1943 awards, supporting players
received plaques instead of statuettes |
Brady was born in a trunk, so to speak, the daughter of Broadway producer William A. Brady. She became a stage star while still very young, singing in operettas and acting in dramas. The movie producers in New York, which was then the center of filmmaking, discovered her, and she made her first movie in 1914, when she was twenty-two. After making scores of silent films, she returned to the stage in 1923, but the advent of sound brought her to Hollywood ten years later. She was as adept at comedy as at drama, and is probably better remembered as Ginger Rogers's Aunt Hortense in
The Gay Divorcee, as Gloria Stuart's meddling mother in
Gold Diggers of 1935, and as Carole Lombard's scatterbrained mother in
My Man Godfrey, than she is as Mrs. O'Leary, whose careless cow starts the great Chicago fire of 1871 in
In Old Chicago.
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| Tyrone Power, Alice Brady, and Don Ameche in In Old Chicago |
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