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Sunday, April 12th, 2020 6:57 PM

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P.S.: Who was Dudley Nichols and What was His Best Movie

The list page: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls094464381/ I had learned from a question on Trivia Genius that Dudley Nichols (1895 -1960) was the first person to refuse the Oscar award. From the IMDb, I had learned that he was a screenwriter who written the screenplay for or adapted many classic movies. In fact, I was a bit star struck when I had seen the list of his movies. And the reason why he refused the Oscar for The Informer (1935) was, according to the INDb, “Refused to accept his award because of the antagonism between several industry guilds and the academy over union matters. This marked the first time an Academy Award had been declined. Academy records show that Dudley was in possession of an Oscar statuette by 1949.” (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629580/a....) Starting with with the movies he was nominated for awards for and the movies the IMDb was him most remembered him for and then on from there, which one of the films that he ether wrote the orginnal screenplay for, co-wrote or adapted from another source, is your favorite. (Warning, he has a lot of good films to his credit.)

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I can't say I know who he is or that I've seen any of these films. But, your title is a bit to functional and lacks pithiness. Maybe trim it down to "Who was Dudley Nichols?" The latter half of the title is redundant. Leaving it a question brings an air of mystery and intrigue.EDIT: I did see Bringing Up Baby (1938). So? That.

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Done but I had to leave out the question mark. The IMDb doesn’t like punctuation in the titles. What!?! You haven’t seen “Stagecoach”! The movie that made John Wayne John Wayne? The landmark western that was thought to have been lost until someone found a copy of it in John Wayne’s garage? (No joke about that. That was the story I was told!) I would recommend watching that and “The Bells of St Mary’s”.