However, 1939 was a banner year for great films, so its sole award went to Lewis R.Foster for his original story - originally a novel titledThe Gentleman from Montana.In 1940, Stewart was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for his lesser role inThe Philadelphia Story (1940), often considered a consolation prize for his loss in this year.[The series of reflective monologues are contained within a complex pattern of flashbacks, narrated in a softly-spoken and tender, but direct, staccato voice, often overlaid with lyrical, romantically-delirious Rachmaninoff music from the radio.At three-quarters of the way up, he pauses - a female relative from above comes down to him, cradles him, and tells the newly-orphaned boy of his father""s premature death:You must be brave now, little man.The bleachers dropped down to view the whale-sized creature from an underwater observatory vantage-point, as it continued to feed.He gracefully dances or jogs up and down - in slow-motion - in the dreamy sequence to the melancholy, haunting soundtrack of he "Intermezzo" fromCavalleria Rusticana(an opera by Pietro Mascagni).