The 1972 Movie and TV awards

I am not sure I watched the April 10, 1972 Academy Awards show or not.  I have a vague recollection about Charlie Chaplain (1889-1977), the silent film comedian, getting an Oscar from Jack Lemon (1925-2001), an Oscar winning comedian.  The eighty-three-year-old Chaplain received a twelve-minute standing ovation.  Betty Grable (1916-1973), a pin-up movie star from World War II, made her last public appearance.  Jane Fonda (1937-) and Gene Hackman (1930-) won as best actress and actor of the year for two different movies.  The big movies with multiple nominations were Fiddler on the Roof, The French Connection, Nicholas and Alexandra, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mary, Queen of Scots, A Clockwork Orange, Kotch, Summer of ’42, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Andromeda Strain, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Hospital, Klute, Sentinels of Silence, Shaft, Sometimes a Great Notion, and Tchaikovsky.  I may have watched the Emmy Show about the best in TV with Johnny Carson as the host.  The 24th Emmy Awards, were handed out on May 6, 1972.  The top shows of the night were “All in the Family” and “Elizabeth R.”  “All in the Family” became the first TV show to win six major awards.  Glenda Jackson also made history by receiving three acting nominations for the same performance as Queen Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth R,” the first non-American made show to win this award.  Other nominations included “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Odd Couple,” “Sanford and Son,” “Columbo,” “Mannix,” ‘Marcus Welby, M.D.,” “The Six Wives of Henry VIII,” “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Dean Martin Comedy Hour,” “The Flip Wilson Show,” “The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour,” “The Dick Cavett Show,” “The David Frost Show,” and “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”  I watched most of these shows occasionally.  My favorites were the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “All in the Family,” “Columbo,” and the variety shows.  I also liked the talk shows, especially, Dick Cavett.  Do you watch TV much?

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