HOW AWARD WAS NAMED “OSCAR.”
The time was 1935, the occasion the annual dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and (Sciences. Bette Davis had been presented with the foot-and-a-half-liigh bronze statuette for having given the best performance of the year in “Dangerous”—she later received it again for “Jezebel”—-and it was then that she remarked in the caustic, comical way typical of her, “So this is Oscar!” And “Oscar” he has been from that day to this. *
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 42, 29 November 1940, Page 3
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