Upon winning the wring Oscar for George Cukor’s 1940 masterpiece, The Philadelphia Story, starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, Donald Ogden Stewart said: “I envy the boys who get the technical awards. They don’t have to get nervously drunken before. There has been so much niceness here tonight, that I am happy to say that I am entirely–and solely–responsible for the success of ‘The Philadelphia Story.'”
Oscar Speeches: Stewart, Donald Ogden–Scribe of The Philadelphia Story
January 28, 2018 by
