19 Friday Jun 2015
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Directed: Josef von Sternberg
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Director – Josef von Sternberg, Best Actress – Marlene Dietrich
Plot in 25 Words: A cabaret singer falls for a soldier in the foreign legion. She agrees to marry a rich diplomat before following her soldier into the desert.
18 Thursday Jun 2015
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Directed: Wesley Ruggles
Year: 1931
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Wesley Ruggles, Best Actor – Richard Dix, Best Actress – Irene Dunning
Won: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: Epic film spanning 30 years, two generations and the creation of cities. A fortune seeker drags and abandons his family all over the wild west.
18 Thursday Jun 2015
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Directed: George W. Hill
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Actress – Marie Dressler
Won: Best Actress – Marie Dressler
Plot in 25 Words: A hardened battleaxe takes in the daughter of a prostitute and gives her a better life and sacrifices everything to give her a better future.
07 Sunday Jun 2015
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Directed: Edmund Goulding
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Actress – Gloria Swanson
Plot in 25 Words: A presumed gold-digger marries a rich man, gets pregnant, and gets dumped all in one day. Luck, fate and bullshit, bring them all back together.
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: 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.
29 Friday May 2015
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Directed: Clarence Brown
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Director – Clarence Brown, Best Actress – Greta Garbo
Plot in 25 Words: Love across the classes, across the years, and across the language barrier. Betrayal by friends and lovers but ultimately love should win out overall eventually.
06 Monday Apr 2015
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Directed: Clarence Brown
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Director – Clarence Brown, Best Actress – Greta Garbo
Plot in 25 Words: A disgraced woman stays with her father on his barge. She rescues and falls in love with a washed up sailor. Admits her prostitute past!
15 Sunday Mar 2015
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Directed: Robert Z. Leonard
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Robert Z. Leonard, Best Actress – Norma Shearer
Won: Best Actress – Norma Shearer
Plot in 25 Words: A group of friends engage in wife-swapping, hypocrisy, and double standards. But finally, women wearing trousers, working and playing the field like men.
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