Leo McCarey holding his Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth, Los Angeles, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Leo McCarey holding his Academy Award for Best Director for The Awful Truth, Los Angeles, 1938

Director

McCarey, Leo

Producer

Columbia Pictures

Date Created

[March 10, 1938]

Date

1938-03-10

Collection

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Notes

Description

The tenth Academy Awards were held in the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel on March 10, 1938.

Caption

Text from negative enclosure: Academy Awards.
On back of photo: [Press tag:] LEO McCAREY, winner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Award for the best direction of 1937, Columbia’s “The Awful Truth.” (1938 Academy – 2).

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic print

Keywords

Genre

portrait photographs
film stills
black-and-white photographs
comedy films

Names

Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
Awful truth (Motion picture : 1937)