WUTHERING HEIGHTS Screening
The 1939 Best Picture nominee Wuthering Heights, directed by William Wyler, and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The Wuthering Heights screening will take place on Monday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Starting at 7 p.m., the feature will be preceded by the fourth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the animated short The Pointer, starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto.
According to Samuel Goldwyn biographer A. Scott Berg, Wuthering Heights was the producer’s favorite among his films. [...]
by Andre Soares | June 3, 2009
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Best Films – 1935
Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas
FILM
Alice Adams
d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner
China Seas
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness
The Gay Deception
d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman
A Tale of Two Cities
d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman
The Whole Town’s Talking
d: John Ford; scr: Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin
Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones in A Night at the Opera
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Broadway Melody of 1936
d: Roy Del Ruth; scr: Jack McGowan, Sid Silvers
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
d: Henry Hathaway; scr: Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
d: Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle; scr: Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr.
A Night at the Opera
d: Sam [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Night at the Opera, A Tale of Two Cities, Alice Adams, Alison Skipworth, Amphitryon, Anna Karenina, Becky Sharp, Best Films, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Chester Lyons, China Seas, Classic Movies, David Copperfield, Dorothy Yost, Edna May Oliver, Edward G. Robinson, Ernestine Schuman-Heink, Ernst Toch, Frances Dee, Genevieve Tobin, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Glenda Farrell, Gold Diggers of 1935, Gregg Toland, Greta Garbo, Hal Mohr, Hattie McDaniel, Henry Hathaway, Herbert Marshall, Herbert Stothart, Here's to Romance, If You Could Only Cook, Jack Conway, James K. McGuinness, Jean Arthur, Jo Swerling, John Ford, Jules Furthman, Katharine Hepburn, Les Miserables, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Mad Love, Max Reinhardt, May Robson, Miriam Hopkins, Oliver T. Marsh, Peter Ibbetson, Peter Lorre, Ramon Novarro, Rendezvous, Robert Donat, Robert Riskin, Ronald Colman, Rosalind Russell, S. N. Behrman, Sam Wood, Tay Garnett, The Gay Deception, The Night Is Young, The Whole Town's Talking, W. P. Lipscomb, William Dieterle, William H. Daniels, William Wyler
