Ida Lupino won the Best Actress kudo from the New York Film Critics Circle for playing a tough and demanding role in the dark, backstage melodrama, “The Hard Way,” directed by Vincent Sherman.
Hard Way, The (1943): Vincent Sherman’s Melodrama, Starring Ida Lupino (Best Actress Winner, NYFCC)
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942): Michael Curtiz Patriotic Biopic, Starring Jimmy Cagney in his Oscar-Winning Performance, with Walter Huston, Joan Leslie
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Happy Fourth of July Weekend
Michael Curtiz's rousing biopicture of patriotic showman George M. Cohan, which features the perfectly cast Jimmy Cagney in his Oscar-winning performance, was extremely popular at the time.
