Jean Hersholt presents Special Awards in 1949

Jean Hersholt presents Special Awards at the 21st Academy Awards® in 1949. Hosted by Robert Montgomery. Presented to Ivan Jandl, for the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as 'Karel Malik' in "The Search," accepted by Fred Zinnemann; to Sid Grauman, master showman, who raised the standard of exhibition of motion pictures; to Adolph Zukor, a man who has been called the father of the feature film in America, for his services to the industry over a period of forty year; to Walter Wanger for distinguished service to the industry in adding to its moral stature in the world community by his production of the picture "Joan of Arc;" and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Jerry Wald.

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Fred Zinnemann, the director of "The Search", which was filmed by MGM in Germany in 1947, accepted Ivan Jandl's Oscar on the boy's behalf because by the time that the award had been announced, the communists had taken over Czechoslovakia and wouldn't allow Ivan to travel to the United States to receive his award. This totally reprehensible and vindictive act effectively killed what could well have been a very promising film career in Hollywood for the very talented Ivan.

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For technical reasons, my original screen name, darrenburnfan, has since been changed to David Rayner.

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Interesting and sad story. He died from complications of diabetes at age 50. Heartbreaking!