The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting of the English Conversation Film Club

The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting of the English Conversation Film Club

This Thursday, at our English conversation film club, we’ll revisit the films that won the Academy Awards long ago — at the 13th ceremony in 1940. It was a year when Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford competed for Best Director; Charlie Chaplin, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda were nominated for Best Actor; the spectacular effects-driven fantasy of the year was The Thief of Bagdad; the leading animated film was Pinocchio; and the costume drama Pride and Prejudice, starring Laurence Olivier, captivated audiences.