Cavalcade Articles

CAVALCADE (1933) Direction: Frank Lloyd Cast: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Lindsay Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien; from Noel Coward's 1931 play Oscar Movies, Pre-Code Movies Herbert Mundin, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Cavalcade Synopsis: Upstairs, Robert and Jane Marryot (Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard), and downstairs, Alfred and Ellen Bridges [...]

Frank Lloyd (below the camera), Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Einar Hanson in Children of Divorce Frank Lloyd III: Silent Films Any movies Frank Lloyd wanted to make, but that he wasn't able to? What were his biggest financial and/or critical hits? His biggest flops? I am not aware of any films that Lloyd wanted desperately to make but could not. Certainly, he would [...]

Pauline Frederick in Madame X Frank Lloyd: Q&A with Anthony Slide – Part I Frank Lloyd's greatest strengths as a filmmaker? His greatest weaknesses? I have partly answered this question above. And I suppose, in a way, one might argue that his greatest strength — as a studio director — is also his greatest weakness. He put the studio first. He seldom went over-budget. He [...]

Like many other Hollywood filmmakers of the studio era, Frank Lloyd (1886-1960) is hardly remembered today despite his numerous box-office successes — e.g., The Sea Hawk (1924), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Wells Fargo (1937) — and no less than two Best Director Academy Awards, for The Divine Lady (1929) and Cavalcade (1933). With Frank Lloyd: Master of Screen Melodrama (BearManor Media, 2009), author and [...]