12 Thursday Mar 2015
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Directed: Lionel Barrymore
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Director – Lionel Barrymore, Best Actress – Ruth Chatterton
Plot in 25 Words: A cheating wife is cast aside by her scorned husband. Twenty years later her shameful past is used for blackmail. Her unknowing son forgives all.
08 Sunday Mar 2015
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Directed: Sam Taylor
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Actress – Mary Pickford
Won: Best Actress – Mary Pickford
Plot in 25 Words: Bland film about an incorrigible flirt who finds love against her father’s wishes. Her father prevents their marriage in a most deadly and suicidal fashion.
23 Monday Feb 2015
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Directed: Jean di Lemur
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Actress – Jeanne Eagels
Plot in 25 Words: A bored housewife takes a lover, and kills him. Tried for murder, she bribes her way out of a jail sentence while being incredibly evil.
12 Thursday Feb 2015
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Directed: Frank Lloyd
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Director – Frank Lloyd, Best Actress – Corrinne Griffith
Won: Best Director – Frank Lloyd
Plot in 25 Words: A poor girl becomes a rich trophy wife, and then lover to one of the most powerful men of the time. Mostly a true story.
19 Monday Jan 2015
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Directed: Harry Beaumont
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Harry Beaumont, Best Actress – Bessie Love
Won: Best Film
Plot in 25 Words: Sisters want to become Broadway stars. One sister’s man chooses the other, more attractive sister. The plain sister’s career is more successful, but she’s alone.
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Directed: William K. Howard
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Actress – Louise Dresser
Plot in 25 Words: Polish immigrants strive to gain admittance to America. Treated like garbage they become citizens. Wrongful imprisonment and the ultimate sacrifice complete the Polish family’s woes.
29 Monday Sep 2014
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Directed: Raoul Walsh
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Actress – Gloria Swanson
Plot in 25 Words: Prostitute on the run finds love and a judgmental minister on a south sea island. A mysterious and ambiguous ending to a different prostitute story.
29 Monday Sep 2014
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Directed: Frank Borzage
Year: 1928
Nominated: Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Won: Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Plot in 25 Words: Woman becomes prostitute by necessity. Escapes arrest and joins the circus. Falls in love. Her past catches up with her. Serves time, lives happily ever after.
16 Tuesday Sep 2014
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Directed: Frank Borzage
Year: 1927
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Won: Best Director – Frank Borzage, Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Plot in 25 Words: A man pretends a prostitute is his wife to prevent her arrest. Lies turn to love. Sadly war intervenes. Man returns alive but blind.
07 Sunday Sep 2014
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Directed: F. W. Murnau
Year Released: 1927
Nominated: Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Won: Best Actress – Janet Gaynor
Plot in 25 Words: Man cheats on wife. Mistress plots to kill wife. Wife finds out. Man and wife reconcile. Wife nearly dies. Man kicks mistress back to city.
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