It was the third film of producer-director George Stevens"" so-called "American rilogy" positioned afterA Place in he Sun (1951)(an "American tragedy") and the mythic westernShane (1953).It""s like these falls.BackgroundThe Court Jester(1955) is Paramount""s Vista-Vision comedy film starring Danny Kaye (in his best-known performance)." After they pulled away in the wedding vehicle, there was a prominent close-up of a church notice board (shaped like a tombstone) - a warning to be righteous and sinless in order to avoid fear and condemnation:BE JUST AND FEAR NOTAfterwards in the adjoining church cemetery, the couple stood before ahousing development ad on a billboard, illustrated with an arrow through a red heart (advertising "DENTON - The Home of Happiness").Baravelli replies: "We always hang around here." Wagstaff says: "Well, that""s all I want to know," and he signs Baravelli and Pinky as his football players.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.