Cavalcade: 1933 Best Picture

Nine other films besides “Calvalcade” were up for the top prize at the 6th Academy Awards: “42nd Street”, “A Farewell to Arms”, “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang”, “Lady for a Day”, “Little Women”, “The Private Life of Henry VIII”, “She Done Him Wrong”, “Smilin’ Through” and “State Fair”. Oddly enough, however, only 3 directors were nominated: Frank Lloyd won for “Cavalcade” over Frank Capra, “Lady for a Day” and George Cukor for “Little Women”.

Throughout the last 30 years, Jeopardy! has paid little attention to “Cavalcade” except for two clues that want to know the name of the man who wrote the play that the film is based on.

GOING FOR “WARD” $1000: “Cavalcade” & “Conversation Piece” are 2
of his most popular plays
SCREEN PLAYS $2000: 1933’s “Cavalcade”, based on a drama — not a comedy — by this urbane British wit, won a Best Picture Oscar.

Here’s the 1933 film that got the most love from the cluewriters:
KING KONG $800: In its last line the 1933 film stressed that “it wasn’t the airplanes, it was” this that “killed the beast”
NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $800: Director Merian Cooper disliked the noisy EL trains, so he had this beast tear one down in 1933
FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $800: If you think about it, you’ve really got to wonder what he saw in Fay Wray in 1933…I mean, think about it
CLASSIC FILM MONSTERS $100: In a 1933 film this big ape was brought to America from his island home on a huge raft
LAST LINES FROM MOVIES $400: This 1933 title character was eulogized with “It wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.”
FILMS OF THE ’30s: 1933 film inspired by William Burden’s 1926 Dutch East Indies trip & capture of the world’s largest lizard
MOVIE QUOTES $200: As Carl Denham, Robert Armstrong calls this 1933 title character “The Eighth Wonder of the World”
NAME THE MOVIE $200: 1933: “Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.”

More 1933 movie clues:
THE MOVIES $400: In 1933’s “Flying Down to Rio”, Fred Astaire teamed with this lady for the first of 10 films
STUPID ANSWERS $600: Dolores Del Rio was one of the stars of the 1933 musical “Flying Down to” here
SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In 1933 Will Rogers & Janet Gaynor starred in a non-musical version of this film set at the Iowa state fair
WE LOVE BROADWAY $200: Introduced in a 1933 film, this song heard here has become a toe-tapping favorite on Broadway
FROM MOVIE TO MUSICAL $400: This musical based on a 1933 film is currently tapping away on the NYC thoroughfare of the same name
OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1600: 1933: Henry VIII
EARLY BRITISH CINEMA $800: In 1933 Brit cinema enjoyed a boost with Alexander Korda’s film “The Private Life of” this king
ME TARZAN $800: MGM rejected this Olympic swimmer for the role in 1931; in 1933 he played it for another film company
THE “WEST” WING $500: Her films include 1933’s “I’m No Angel”
SAY IT AIN’T SO $1000: It’s the “devilish” denial that’s the title of a 1933 Mae West movie
ROME-ANTIC MOVIES $1600: Rent the 1933 comedy “Roman Scandals” to see this beauty play a captive princess decades before “Titanic”
1930s CINEMA $800: (Film critic Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) “Three Little Pigs”, a Disney Silly Symphony of 1933, introduced this song that became an anti-Depression anthem
YOU’RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $600: 1933: Claude Raines

List of Best Picture Oscars (20s-40s)