Grand Hotel is a drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. It is the only film to 
have won an Academy Award for Outstanding Production (Best Picture) without 
it or its participants being nominated in any other category.

Wings is a silent film portraying World War l fighter pilots, produced by
Lucien Hubbard, and directed by William A. Wellman. It was the first film,
and the only silent film to win the Academy Award for, what was then 
called Outstanding Picture. The name Best Picture was first used in
1962 when the winner then was Lawrence of Arabia.

  
       
        Ann Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) 

Actress Ann Sheridan worked regularly from 1934 until her death at age
51 from cancer, first in film and later in television. Notable roles include
Angles With Dirty Faces (1938), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942),
Kings Row (1942) and I was a Male War Bride (1949).

Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan in Kings Row

1948

Cybill Lynne Shepherd is a actress, singer and former model. Her best
known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show (1971)
and as Betsy in Taxi Driver (1976).

Robert De Niro and Cybill Shepherd from Taxi Driver

John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 1990)

Arthur Kennedy got his big break when he was discovered by James
Cagney. His first film role was of Cagney’s younger brother in City for
Conquest in 1940. He appeared in many Western films and police
dramas, equally adapting as hero or villain.

Kennedy won a Tony Award for best supporting actor for his stage
portrayal of Biff in Death of a Salesman in 1949. His role in Trial
(1955) won him a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor
and his part as the newspaper reporter in Elmer Gantry (1960)
gained him a Film Daily Award and a Limelight Award.   

1952

Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, and James Stewart from Bend of the River

 
Arthur Kennedy as seen in Elmer Gantry