SHORT TAKES : Oscar Returned After 15 Years
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CHICAGO — An Oscar awarded to Czechoslovakia-born cinematographer Karl Freund for the 1937 movie “The Good Earth” has been returned to his family 15 years after it was stolen.
Police said they recovered the golden statue after a Chicago woman advertised it for sale in a Los Angeles newspaper for $20,000.
The unidentified woman said the statue had been given to her some years ago and she did not know it was stolen. Freund died in 1969 and the Oscar was stolen from his son-in-law’s home in Chicago in 1975.
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