![]() ![]() ![]() And dive through archives, and pester historians, and email unsuspecting biographers. On such occasions, it becomes necessary to defrost the keyboard. Once more we’re flooded with the tale of John Wayne and the Six Security Men, the lousy variety act many people believe played the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion back in 1973. She is scheduled to give a talk at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Sept. Now, the Academy has issued an official apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, which may be read here (and has no reference to any incident involving John Wayne). Here’s an array of more tweets that come up in a search. The accusation rapidly spread to online tabloid-type venues-I’m not linking, but they’re easy to find. She remained calm, by all accounts, when she reached the press room. Throughout the night, Littlefeather was dignified and tranquil, which can’t be said for everyone in the Oscar audience. The time elapsed from when Brando’s name was read, to Littlefeather’s exit, was about one minute forty seconds. To the sound of some applause, and a smattering of boos, foot-stamps, and catcalls, she explained that she was refusing the Oscar at Brando’s behest, due to “the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry…and on television in movie reruns, and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee.” 1 After her brief speech, Littlefeather left the stage. Her name was Sacheen Littlefeather, and up until that moment, no one save her and Brando (wherever he was) knew what she was going to say she had refused to be specific with the producers before she took her seat. ![]() A young woman clad in a beaded Native American dress walked up to the podium and gracefully brushed back Moore’s hand as he tried to hand her the statuette. The name that Ullmann read was Marlon Brando, for The Godfather. On the night of March 27, 1973, Liv Ullmann and Roger Moore stepped onstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles to present the Academy Award for Best Actor of 1972. ![]()
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