Love Letters: Dear Thomas Mitchell

Love Letters: Dear Thomas Mitchell

by | Dec 16, 2018 | 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Academy Awards, Blogathons, Charles Coburn, Charles Laughton, Classic movies, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Jean Arthur, John Barrymore, John Ford, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell

“I didn’t know I was that good” ?what you said upon accepting your Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Stagecoach (1939) Dear Tom, or Dear Kid Dabb (Only Angels Have Wings, 1939) …Diz Moore (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939) …Doc Boone...
A Viewer’s Guide: How to Watch Grand Hotel (1932)

A Viewer’s Guide: How to Watch Grand Hotel (1932)

by | Jul 10, 2016 | 1930s, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blogathons, Cinematographers, Classic movies, Edmund Goulding, Greta Garbo, Irving Thalberg, John Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, MGM, Pre-Code films, Producers, Romance, Studios, Vicki Baum, Wallace Beery, William Daniels

Grand Hotel, always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens. courtesy Pre-Code.com Grand Hotel took home the Best Picture Oscar for MGM in 1933, beating another MGM release,The Champ, as well as Samuel Goldwyn’s Arrowsmith, Fox’s Bad Girl, First...