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4A. 53rd Annual Academy Awards (Spring 1981) (delayed because of Reagan assassination attempt). *
Host: Johnny Carson. (Commercials:Garner & Hartley for Polaroid) Ronald Reagan speech (taped prior to assassination attempt), Lucie Arnaz, Mary Tyler Moore, Jack Lemmon, Timothy Hutton, Willie Nelson, Lily Tomlin, Alan Arkin, Margot Kidder, Lesley Anne-Down, Richard Chamberlain, Peter O'Toole, Sissy Spacek, Irene Cara, Sigourney Weaver, Nastassja Kinski, Jack Valenti, Billy Dee Williams, Bernadette Peters (Commercials: Magic Johnson for Buick, "Bosom Buddies") Dolly Parton, Francois Truffaut, Brooke Shields, Nicholas Brothers, Richard Pryor, Jane Seymour, Donald Sutherland, Diana Ross,Mary Steenburgen, Dionne Warwick, Luciano Pavarotti, Angie Dickinson, Peter Ustinov (commercials: Barbara Walters with Brooke Shields & Ringo, Brooke for Calvin Klein), Robert Redford pays tribute to Henry Fonda, Steve Martin, Blythe Danner, King Vidor, George Cukor, Sally Field, Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Sissy Spacek, Lillian Gish.
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