The Jack

 

 Oakie

 

 Scholarship
 

Jack Oakie application packets are available in PCOH 112 (Fine and Performing Arts Office) and by download @ (TBA)

Deadline to submit is Monday, November 5, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.  Applications must be submitted to the switchboard (A building) by that deadline.

The Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Charitable Foundation has awarded the Fine and Performing Arts Division at College of the Canyons $11,000 per year which will be distributed to as many as eleven COC students as scholarship/trust awards in the amount of $500-$1,000 each (non-renewable). These awards, generally merit-based on an applicant’s COC academic record, COC artistic achievement, and written critical review (see below) will be awarded to students studying Performing Arts (Theatre, Dance, or Music) or Fine Arts (Animation, Art, Graphic and Multi Media Design, Photography, or Radio/Television/Film). Scholarship money is designated for expenses related to applicants’ studies.

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Applicant must be currently enrolled as a student at College of the Canyons.
  • Applicant must be currently enrolled in or have successfully completed a COC Fine or Performing Arts course within the past 12 months.
  • Applicant must watch a Jack Oakie and/or a Victoria Horne Oakie film and submit a one page typed critical review. (Please review the helpful hints for completing the Jack Oakie/Victoria Horne Oakie Critical Review)
For students’ convenience, both Jack and Virginia Oakie films can be checked out through the COC campus library.

There will also be an OAKIE FILM SERIES on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 from 6pm-9pm in Hasley 101. At this series, students can view an Oakie film, meet members of The Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Charitable Foundation and ask questions concerning the application process.
 

Completed applications (including the one-page critical review) must be submitted no later than Monday November 5th @ 5 PM to the Switchboard (A Building)

Students can apply for the following scholarships:

  • The Randy Haberkamp-Oakie Scholarship
  • The Jack Oakie Memorial Award for Excellence in Comedy Script or Screenwriting.
  • The Jack Oakie Memorial Award for Excellence in Directing a Film, Stage or Television Comedy.
  • The Jack Oakie “It’s All In Fun” Award for Excellence in Comedic Excellence in Theatre or Stage Acting, Comedic Improvisation, Singing, Dancing, etc.
  • The Jack Oakie “Double Take” for Excellence in Film, Stage or Television Acting.
  • The Victoria Horne Oakie “Myrtle Mae” Award for Performing Excellence in Voice, Dance, Stage, Film or Television. (Myrtle Mae was Mrs. Oakie’s character in the 1950 movie “Harvey”).
  • The Dr. Floyd Moos Scholarship for Excellence in the Fine and/or Performing Arts
DIRECTIONS:

Scholarship applicants will watch a Jack Oakie film and submit a one-page typed analytical review that will include the following:
  1. a brief synopsis of the film, and
  2. a critical analysis of what the applicant might have done similarly or differently had he/she been the screenwriter, director, specific actor, etc.
Students applying for the “Myrtle Mae” award are also encouraged to watch one of Victoria Horne Oakie’s films. The submitted copy of the critique will not be returned.

Jack Oakie came to Hollywood in 1927. His career by that time already included vaudeville, Broadway musicals and appearances in New York films. In Hollywood, he made 87 pictures, mostly comedies or musical comedies, over which period he perfected his trademark comic triple-take. His career included such films as "Once in a Lifetime," "Million Dollar Legs" and "It Happened Tomorrow." Oakie received an Academy Award nomination in the supporting role category for his satirical portrait of a Mussolini-like head of state in 1940's "The Great Dictator." Victoria Horne Oakie was an American character-actress, appearing in 49 films (uncredited in 25 of these) during the 1940s and 1950s. Some of the films in which she appeared included Blue Skies (1946), Forever Amber (1947, uncredited), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949), and Harvey (1950). Jack Oakie died in 1978 and his wife, Victoria Horne, died in 2003.

For more information about the scholarships, please contact Peggy Lotta, Administrative Assistant for the Fine and Performing Arts Division at 661-362-5013.