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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Clive Brook</title>
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		<title>CAVALCADE &#8211; Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Cavalcade (1933)
Direction: Frank Lloyd
Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien; from Noel Coward&#8217;s play
Cast: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin, Una O&#8217;Connor,  Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Lindsay
&#160;

Synopsis:

Upstairs (Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard) and downstairs (Herbert Mundin, Una O&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNDERWORLD Screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook in Underworld

Josef von Sternberg&#8217;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&#8216; 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 &#8212; or at least the most notable precursor &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
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