Marty and the 28th Academy Awards

The Worthy boys are calling up some dates as we are discussing the 1955 melodrama, Marty! In our opening, we discuss how Marty feels like the last stop of our grandparent's Hollywood, and then we enter into our parent's Hollywood. Marty was the only film based on a TV drama to ever win Best Picture and at 90 minutes long, this is the shortest of all films that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

We even discuss how Marty received the first Palme d'Or ever awarded and how this was the first movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture that was produced by an actor, Burt Lancaster, who does not appear in the film. It also wouldn’t be a conversation about Marty without Marty himself Mr. Ernest Borgnine who dominates the screen with his gentle yet powerful performance. 

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