"During the pitched, ferocious battle, as Susan and Lucy were leaving the Stone Altar, they felt rumblings in the Earth as the Altar cracked in half and Aslan vanished, but was soon resurrected in the bright sunlight.Popular matinee idol Ray Milland, cast against type, won the Best Actor award for his greatest career role as the hopelessly-obsessed drunkard, and the film also captured the Best Picture Oscar, defeating nominees including Hitchcock""sSpellboundand Leo McCarey""sThe Bells of St.While awaiting his execution in jail, he comforts the child of this stormy union, his daughter Pearl, telling her that he has arranged for her to go to live in Texas with his second cousin and ex-fiancee, Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), now married o a senator and wealthy cattle baron.When he suggested: "I can think of a thousand reasons why we should try again," she answered: "I""ve got about seven billion things to do.