CAVALCADE – Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard

Cavalcade (1933)
Direction: Frank Lloyd
Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien; from Noel Coward’s play
Cast: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Lindsay
 

Synopsis:

Upstairs (Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard) and downstairs (Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor) in a British household, from 1900 to 1933.

The Pros:

Cavalcade won best picture and best director Oscars for the period 1932-33 (basically from Aug. 32-Dec. 33) and was reportedly the biggest box-office hit of the year. That makes it a historical curiosity.
Best actress Oscar nominee Diana Wynyard has one good moment, walking among armistice revelers but not feeling at all like celebrating after having lost a son to the Great War. (Noel Coward, for his part, called [...]

by Andre Soares | November 25, 2009   
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UNDERWORLD Screening

Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook in Underworld

Josef von Sternberg’s 1927 crime classic Underworld will be screened on Friday, June 19, at 8 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Alloy Orchestra will perform their score for the film, starring Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, and George Bancroft. This will be the Boston-based orchestra’s only Los Angeles performance of Underworld this year.
Underworld, called the precursor — or at least the most notable precursor — of the gangster genre of the 1930s, features a ruthless mobster (Bancroft), his mistress (Brent), and his lawyer (Brook). Inevitably, romance and bullets ensue.
In 1929, at the first Academy Awards ceremony, Underworld won an [...]

by Andre Soares | June 2, 2009   
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