02 Tuesday Jun 2015
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Directed: Edmund Goulding
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Actress – Nancy Carroll
Plot in 25 Words: A gold-digger marries a rich man for his money, but finds that she really love shim and wants to keep him despite his family’s disapproval.
02 Tuesday Jun 2015
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Directed: E. Mason Hopper
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Actress – Norma Shearer
Plot in 25 Words: A fairly modern seeming take with love, lies, and mistaken identities. Romance and a near death experience lead to everyone getting a happily ever after.
01 Monday Jun 2015
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Directed: Hobart Henley
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Actor – Maurice Chevalier
Plot in 25 Words: A Euro dandy crosses the big pond to be with his heiress lover. Her family haze, test and grow to respect him, til he kidnaps!
01 Monday Jun 2015
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Directed: Dorothy Arzner
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Actress – Ruth Chatterton
Plot in 25 Words: A child custody disagreement in a world where apparently kidnapping barely registers. Women still have no rights and all rich children are spoiled to ruin.
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