An Oscar for The Stranger?

[Store Hadji]

TCM is showing The Stranger on their "Best Original Story" day. Not that they always get their facts right, but I assume this means either a nomination or a win. Anyone know? I never heard of any Academy attention for this film before.

[RayKelly]

The Stranger was nominated in 1946 for Best Original Motion Picture Story. The other nominees were: Charles Brackett, To Each His Own; Clemence Dane, Vacation From Marriage;
Jack Patrick, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers; and Vladimir Pozner, The Dark Mirror.
Dane won that year for Vacation From Marriage.
I found conflicting titles for Dane's film on various web sites, but this is how it appeared on oscar.com

[Store Hadji]

Thanks, Ray.

Victor Trivas was nominated for The Stranger original story, but lost to Clemence Dane for the film Perfect Strangers (according to IMDb.)

[RayKelly]

Perfect Strangers was the title I found on one site and Vacation from a Marriage at oscar.com
I have never seen (either) film

[Store Hadji]

IMDb lists Vacation from Marriage as the title for the US release version, which was about 10 minutes shorter than the original version. Alexander Korda is credited as director, and it's listed as containing the film debut of Roger Moore.

[Glenn Anders]

VACATION FROM MARRIAGE was one of those little British films which tried to crack the American Market at the end of World War II. It had Robert Donat, who was remembered from GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPS, and Deborah Kerr and Glynis Johns, who would soon be much better known. It was thought to be a much more realistic take on marriage than American films of the time, and in a small way, it anticipated THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

It was not the cold splash of anti-fascist water from THE STRANGER, that threatened to awaken America to the coming of the Fourth Reich, fifty years before we began to stir to it.

Glenn