- Akim Tamiroff, For Whom The Bell Tolls, 1942. There was a veritable A List for important support roles: Edward Arnold, Wallace Beery, Lee J Cobb, Charles Laughton, Thomas Mitchell and Edward G Robinson. Plus two graduates of Vienna’s Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts: Oscar Homolka and Fritz Kortner – and the Spanish-born opera singer-playwright-novelist-composer Fortunio Bonanova. Which is why he remains best known as Susan Alexander’s luckless singing tutor, Signor Matist, in Citizen Kane, 1941
- Jerome Cowan, The Song of Bernadette, 1943. Bonanova and Mona Maris played Emperor Louis Napoleon and Empress Eugenie – before their scenes were reshot with Cowan and Patricia Morison Although eligible for the 1943 Oscars, the film – about the French girl who had a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes – was never fully released until 1945.
- Bill Edmunds, It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946.
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