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07 Sunday Sep 2014

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Best Picture:

  • Wings
  • The Racket
  • 7th Heaven

Best Director:

  • Frank Borzage for 7th Heaven
  • Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Knights
  • Herbert Brenon for Sorrell and Son
  • King Vidor for The Crowd
  • Ted Wilde for Speedy

Best Actor

  • Emil Jannings for The Last Command
  • Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh
  • Richard Barthelmess – The Noose
  • Richard Barthelmess – The Patent Leather Kid

Best Actress

  • Janet Gaynor – 7th Heaven
  • Janet Gaynor – Street Angel
  • Janet Gaynor – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • Louise Dresser – A Ship Comes In
  • Gloria Swanson – Sadie Thompson

I haven’t heard of any of the films so I’m looking forward to all of them

In the beginning…

07 Sunday Sep 2014

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This week someone sent me an annoying link on Facebook. Yes, this is hardly news but it wasn’t for a stupid cartoon game, nor was it for some app that my retro (possibly geriatric) phone wouldn’t (couldn’t) support. It was a list. You’ve seen them. How Many Counties Have You Been To? How Many of the BBC Best-Reads Have You Read? How Many of These ‘Naughty’ Things Have You Done? The list of lists goes on.

So when I read the first few words ‘How Many…’ my soul died a little. How many what? How Many Colours Do I Know? How Many Different Haircuts Have I Had? How Many List Quizzes Have I Taken? It saddens me that the answer to the last is quite high. I love a good list!

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