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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