He was no James Dean. Shit, even James Dean didn’t get an Oscar for Jett Rink in Giant. That Oscar belonged to Josh Brolin.
See that’s the problem with the Academy - it’s all a popularity vote these days, you look back to the 30s and 40s - especially in that 1939 year, Bette Davis made: Dark Victory, Juarez, The Old Maid, The Private Lives Of Elizabeth and Essex!
She was nominated for Dark Victory but out of that aersenal of fantastic films she didn’t get jack shit!
If Bette were alive in this day and age she would win every year, that’s how terrible this generation of films are.
