Mirabilia (mirabilia) wrote, @ 2008-01-01 12:24:00

Academy seeks to take back Pickford's Oscars
From the Internet Movie Database:

"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is attempting to
prevent the sale of three Oscars that were awarded to Mary Pickford
and her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers, the Associated Press reported
Sunday. Rogers's second wife Beverly had indicated that she intends to
sell the statuettes, but the Academy claims that under its rules it
has the right to buy them back for $10 each. A judge on Friday ordered
mediation of the lawsuit. In 2004 another judge ruled that the academy
had no right to the Oscar that Orson Welles received for Citizen
Caine, thereby allowing his daughter to proceed with a sale of the
statuette. Pickford won a best actress Oscar in 1930 for Coquette and
an honorary Oscar in 1976. Rogers received an Oscar for humanitarian
work in 1986."

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