Was This Man Immortalized Forever As The Model For The Oscar Statuette?

Lore has it that a niche player in the very early years of Hollywood eventually became the model for the golden statue.

Last night, along with about a million montages ("remember movies???"), we saw a couple dozen golden Oscar statuettes handed out ceremoniously to this year's Academy Awards winners. There's always talk of history at the Oscars, but one element of film history received not a single mention: who is the Oscar statuette modeled after?

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