Awards presented February 27, 1941
The nominees were ...
And the Oscar went to ...
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| Anne Bauchens |
Women have had a better time of it making a name as film editors than they have as directors or cinematographers. Barbara McLean at 20th Century-Fox and Margaret Booth at MGM were revered figures, though the latter never won an Oscar and the former won hers (for
Wilson) only after five previous nominations. Bauchens was Cecil B. DeMille's right-hand woman, editing every one of his films from 1918 through 1956. This was the second of her four nominations -- all of them for DeMille pictures -- and her only win. In
North West Mounted Police, a Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) teams up with the Mounties to catch the bad guy. It's silly stuff, without the jaw-dropping extravagance of DeMille's biblical epics, so there's not much left to recommend it except a watchable cast including Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Walter Hampden, Lon Chaney Jr., and Robert Ryan.
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| Gary Cooper and Lynne Overman captured by Indians in North West Mounted Police |
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