GEORGE JESSEL MAKES A THEOLOGICAL REFERENCE TO GOD AFTER WINNING HUMANITARIAN AWARD 1969 OSCARS

"Year: 1969 (42nd) Academy Awards

Category: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Winner: George Jessel

Presenter: Bob Hope

Date & Venue: April 7, 1970; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

GEORGE JESSEL:
I came out a little too soon. I was listening though just now and for a minute I thought I was dead. But this is the closest I've been to an Academy [Award] since I carried Zanuck's coat for "Gentlemen's Agreement" years ago. But I'm very, very grateful. At my time of life one is grateful not only for this reward of the Oscar but also for a broken umbrella. I'll take anything that's going on. I want to thank the Hersholt family, the Academy, and you, sir [presenter Bob Hope]. And I've waited a long time but it shows that God's delay does not mean God's denial. Thank you so much.

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