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Ah, a historical film, or at least one loosely based on history. MGM’s “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1935) was adapted from a novel by the same named written by Charles...

Now we are up to 1934, when “It Happened One Night” was up against 11 other films for the Best Picture of the year. It would be another 10 years...

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”,...

1932’s Best Picture winner was Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg and directed by Edmund Goulding. It was the first film to feature an all-star cast: Greta Garbo, as Grusinskaya,...

The Best Picture Oscar winner at the 4th Academy Awards was RKO’s “Cimarron,” a 1931 western based upon the 1929 Edna Ferber novel of the same name. What Ferber got...

The winner of the third Best Picture Oscar was Universal’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” a 1930 American war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel, “Im Westen...

This MGM musical starred Eddie Kearns and Anita Page, known as “The Girl with the Most Beautiful Face in Hollywood,” and Bessie Love, who was nominated for Best Actress for...

Here is a review of “Wings”, a 1927 film that won the first Academy Award for “Outstanding Picture”, as the Best Picture award was then known. The award ceremony was...