Category: When Oscar Shit the Bed
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Going My Way (1944)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Going My Way (1944)One of these days, hopefully while I still remain above ground, someone will write the definitive tale of why, for what appeared to be a period of several decades from World War II forward, Hollywood was utterly, hopelessly, and reverentially obsessed with Catholicism.
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gigi (1958)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: Gigi (1958)1958’s Gigi, winner of 9 Academy Awards, is a stunning, sumptuous, Fabergé egg of a movie, albeit one in service of a great, unmitigated evil. You knew this, given Maurice Chevalier’s name in the opening credits
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When Oscar Shit the Bed: King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
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Read more: When Oscar Shit the Bed: King Solomon’s Mines (1950)Now imagine that what follows is a 103-minute motion picture where, for a good 102 of those minutes, no mines are seen. Not a Solomon in sight, let alone a King.