Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures, accepting the Academy Award for Best Picture for It Happened One Night from Irvin Cobb, author, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures, accepting the Academy Award for Best Picture for It Happened One Night from Irvin Cobb, author, Los Angeles, 1935

Author

Cobb, Irvin S. $q (Irvin Shrewsbury), $d 1876-1944

Director

Capra, Frank, $d 1897-1991

Producer

Columbia Pictures

Date Created

[February 27, 1935]

Date

1935-02-27

Collection

Columbia Pictures stills and key books

Notes

Description

The seventh Academy Awards were held in the Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 1935.

Caption

Text from negative enclosure: Academy Awards.
On back of photo: [Press tag:] Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures Corporation, thanks Irvin Cobb, master of ceremonies at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences banquet for the statuette which acclaims Columbia’s “It Happened One Night” the finest production of 1934. A veritable sweepstakes for Columbia, which won eight out of eleven first places in the Academy awards.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic print

Medium

b&w photograph

Keywords

Genre

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

Names

Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cohn, Harry, 1891-1958

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Academy Awards (Motion pictures)
It happened one night (Motion picture)