15th Academy Awards 15th Academy Awards The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles honoring the films of 1942. Best Picture honors went to the film "Mrs. Miniver". The ceremony is most famous for the speech by the film’s Oscar-winning actress Greer Garson. Garson’s acceptance speech as Best Actress ran nearly 6 minutes and is generally considered to be the longest acceptance speech at an Academy Awards ceremony. "Mrs. Miniver" was the second film (after "My Man Godfrey" in 1936) to receive nominations in all four acting categories, as well as the first film
Tom Conway Man of Borneo" (1941). He had a bigger part in "The Trial of Mary Dugan" (1941) then was back to small parts in "Free and Easy" (1941), "The Bad Man" (1941), "The People vs. Dr. Kildare" (1941), and "Lady Be Good" (1941). Conway was a villain in "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (1941), "Mr. and Mrs. North" (1941) and "Rio Rita" (1942). He was a murder suspect in "Grand Central Murder" (1942) and had an uncredited bit in "Mrs. Miniver" (1942). At RKO, Conway's brother George Sanders had starred in three popular "B" movies as "The Falcon". Sanders was getting sick of