It took Gregory Peck and "To Kill A Mockingbird" to beat out Jack Lemmon for Best Actor that year.

I watched that scene on "ET" about 20 years ago. Still couldn't believe it.

Aubrey was the studio CEO who all but killed MGM in the early 1970s. Instead of cutting back at the studio, he gutted it. The famous or (infamous) studio prop sale in 1971 was his idea. His nickname at the time was "The Smiling Cobra".