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While Harrison Ford was discovering how to stand up, The Academy gave a standing ovation to these movies and actors: 'Mrs. Miniver'- Directed by William Wyler won the Best Movie Academy Award in 1942. Also this year, the Academy Award for Best Actor went to James Cagney for his role in 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and the Best Actress Award went to Greer Garson for her role in 'Mrs. Miniver'.
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Harrison Ford picked as Best Movie President New York (AP) - Harrison Ford's president in "Air Force One" has been named the greatest movie president of all time. Maxim magazine picked 16 movie presidents and put them up against each other in six different rounds. Ford's James Marshall came out on top in the end, beating the presidents from such movies as "Independence Day," "The American President," "Dr. Strangelove" and "Head of State."
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A Harrison Ford image and a blurb about his scar and his earring appears on the mentalfloss.com site today (Dec 4). Were there any other "stories" in his movies about where he got the scar?
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Ford began the 1990s with Alan J. Pakula's courtroom thriller Presumed Innocent, which he followed with another Mike Nichols outing, Regarding Henry (1991). The film was an unmitigated flop with both critics and audiences, but Ford allayed his disappointment the following year when he signed an unprecedented 50-million-dollar contract to play CIA agent Jack Ryan in a series of five movies based upon the novels of Tom Clancy. The first two films of the series, Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), met with an overwhelming success mirrored by that of Ford's turn as Dr. Richard Kimball in The Fugitive (1993). Ford's next effort, Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of Sabrina, did not meet similar success, and this bad luck continued with The Devil's Own (which reunited him with Pakula), despite Ford's seemingly fault-proof pairing with Brad Pitt. However, his other 1997 effort, Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One, more than made up for the critical and commercial shortcomings of his previous two films, proving that Ford, even at 55, was still a bona fide, butt-kicking action hero. Stranded on an island with Anne Hesche for his next feature, the moderately successful romantic adventure Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), Ford subsequently appeared in the less successful romantic drama Random Hearts.
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In 1964, Ford moved to Los Angeles, California, where he signed a contract with Columbia Pictures for $150 a week in the studio's New Talent program, playing bit roles in films. His first known speaking-part on film was an uncredited role as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966). There is little record of his non-speaking roles (or "extra" work) in film, save for a brief foreground appearance on a train in The Great Escape (1963). His speaking roles continued next with Luv (1967) though he was again uncredited. In his next film he was credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the 1967 western,
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Ford spent much of 1996 filming The Devil's Own, an action oriented thriller, with Brad Pitt. In the film, Ford played Tom O'Meara, a New York City veteran cop who takes an Irishman (Pitt) into his home. The film was plagued by difficulties for the onset. The taping began without a finished script, and the movie took much longer than expected to complete. Brad Pitt ... complained publically about the trouble with the director and the script. Ford had nothing to do with Pitt's badmouthing of the film.
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