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It Happened One Night

16 Thursday Jun 2016

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1934, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Frank Capra

Year: 1934

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Capra, Best Actor – Clark Gable, Best Actress – Claudette Colbert

Won: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Capra, Best Actor – Clark Gable, Best Actress – Claudette Colbert

Plot in 25 Words: A zany, road trip love story. A newspaper reporter and heiress are forced together on a cross-country expedition. Hilarious multi-Oscar winner –  deserved more.

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Cavalcade

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Frank Lloyd

Year: 1933

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Lloyd, Best Actress – Diana Wynyard

Won: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Lloyd

Plot in 25 Words: An awesome trip through time and the memories of the Marryot family. Marriages, deaths and tragedies are all visited. A great Hollywood great with true class.

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Smilin’ Through

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Film

Directed: Sidney Franklin

Year: 1932

Nominated: Best Film

Plot in 25 Words: The era’s first ghost story? A tragic love story that ends in – wait for it – death! Crossing spiritual plains and time lines to cause tears.

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I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang

10 Sunday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Actor, Best Film

Directed: Mervyn LeRoy

Year: 1932

Nominated: Best Film, Best Actor – Paul Muni

Plot in 25 Words: A Soldier ends up on a chain gang before escaping and becoming a minor celebrity. He ends up back on the gang and again escapes.

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The Private Life of Henry VIII

10 Sunday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Actor, Best Film

Directed: Alexander Korda

Year: 1933

Nominated: Best Film, Best Actor – Charles Laughton

Won: Best Actor – Charles Laughton

Plot in 25 Words: Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.  A slightly more sympathetic view of history’s greatest womaniser. At times  both funny and sad. A wonderfully alternative story.

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Little Women

10 Sunday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: George Cukor

Year: 1933

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – George Cukor

Plot in 25 Words: A classic piece of literature gets the Hollywood treatment. Wonderfully to the book with only some minor squabbles missing. A wonderful film with wonderful acting.

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A Farewell To Arms

10 Sunday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Film

Directed: Frank Borzage

Year: 1932

Nominated: Best Film

Plot in 25 Words: A no good Italian ruins a romantic love story on the front lines. The war goes on, and everybody dies. Bleak and miserable as standard.

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42nd Street

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Film

Directed: Lloyd Bacon

Year: 1933

Nominated: Best Film

Plot in 25 Words: I can’t remember a single thing about this film aside from the title song. It’s a good song with a romping dance number. Top marks!

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Lady For A Day

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film

Directed: Frank Capra

Year: 1933

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Frank Capra, Best Actress – May Robson

Plot in 25 Words: An elderly fruit vendor enlists several unsavoury characters to perform a class-adjusting charade.

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She Done Him Wrong

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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1932/33, Best Film

Directed: Lowell Shermann

Year: 1933

Nominated: Best Film

Plot in 25 Words: My first of double entendre riddled performance of Mae West. An undercover Carey Grant tries to bring some order to the proceedings. It doesn’t go well.

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