Oscar 1934 Articles

THE MERRY WIDOW (1934) Direction: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway Screenplay: Ernest Vajda and Samson Raphaelson; from Franz Lehár's operetta Oscar Movies Highly Recommended Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, The Merry Widow The Merry Widow is neither one of Ernst Lubitsch's most discussed nor best-liked films. Film critics and historians generally tend to [...]

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) Direction: Frank Capra Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns Screenplay: Robert Riskin; from Samuel Hopkins Adams' short story "Night Bus" Oscar Movies Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: It is a very rare thing when a light-hearted comedy, something that is quintessentially the stuff of a "good movie," breaches into [...]

Bette Davis, OF HUMAN BONDAGE – Part I: Biggest Oscar Snubs #1 "The air was thick with rumors," Bette Davis later recalled in her memoirs. "It seemed inevitable that I would receive the coveted award. The press, the public and the members of the Academy who did the voting were sure I would win! Surer than I!" According to Mason Wiley and Damien Bona's Inside [...]

Bette Davis in John Cromwell's Of Human Bondage Steven Spielberg – THE COLOR PURPLE: Biggest Oscar Snubs #2 Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Leonardo DiCaprio, Audrey Hepburn, Gordon Willis, Christopher Nolan The Director, and James Cameron The Screenwriter have all faced major Oscar "snubs," but those have been nothing compared to what took place in early 1935. Even if James Cameron The Director had been snubbed [...]