Thank the Academy

In this episode we discuss the eleventh Best Picture Winner, You Can’t Take It With You, Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, Pygmalion, and George Bernard Shaw! 

Other topics include: Walt Disney, Snow White, producer Hal B. Wallis, Kaufman and Hart, Robert Riskin, Ann Miller, the Motion Picture Production Code, Joseph Breen, film history, old Hollywood

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In this episode we discuss the tenth Best Picture Winner, The Life of Emile Zola, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Dreyfus Affair, and anit-Semitism in 1930’s Hollywood!

Other topics include: Walt Disney, animated feature films, film history, Paul Muni, Alfred Dreyfus, Joseph Schildkraut, Los Angeles flood of 1938, Luise Rainer, comedian Bob Burns, rise of the Nazi regime, racism in Hollywood

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In this episode we discuss the ninth Best Picture Winner, The Great Ziegfeld, the first and one of the best Hollywood biopic musicals, the career of Florenz Ziegfeld, and the death and funeral of legendary Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg!

Other topics include: George Jessel, musician and songwriter Spike Jones, Walt Disney, William Powell, Billie Burke, William Wyler, Irving Thalberg, costumes by Adrian, A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, film history

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In this episode we discuss the eighth Best Picture Winner, Mutiny on the Bounty, the importance of stunt and dance choreography in films, the Hollywood rumor mill, and getting stranded at sea!

Other topics include: Nordhoff and Hall, novel adaptation, Shirley Temple, 20th Century Fox, RKO Picutres, the Great Depression, film history, director John Ford

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In this episode we discuss the seventh Best Picture Winner, It Happened One Night, the first Big Five Oscars winner, Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert on the rise to superstardom, and more Oscar award controversy!

Other topics include: Frank Capra, romantic comedy, film history, Shirley Temple, Columbia Pictures, and the origins of Bugs Bunny

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In this episode we discuss the sixth Best Picture Winner, Cavalcade, the sweeping Hollywood epic, Noel Coward, and Academy Awards announcement mixups!

Other topics include: Walt Disney, the Titanic, World War I, 42nd Street, King Henry VIII, Katherine Hepburn, and film history. 

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In this episode we discuss the fifth Best Picture Winner, Grand Hotel, the impact of Irving Thalberg on the film industry, and the first star-studded blockbuster in Hollywood!

Other topics include: MGM studios, Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Cedric Gibbons, Walt Disney, big budget blockbusters, film history, director Edmond Goulding, and the Great Depression.

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In this episode we discuss the fourth Best Picture Winner, Cimarron, RKO Pictures, Hollywood during the Great Depression, and the history of the Oklahoma Territory!

Other topics include: Hollywood westerns, Native American mistreatment, film history, the Great Depression, author Edna Ferber, Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, George E. Stone, The Front Page, Skippy, and director Lewis Milestone.

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In this episode we discuss the third Best Picture Winner, All Quiet on the Western Front, Director Lewis Milestone, World War I, and the early 20th Century German American immigrant experience!

Other topics include: Lew Ayres, Carl Laemmle, Universal Studios, author Erich Maria Remarque, film history, war films, and racism in America.

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In this episode we discuss the second Best Picture Winner, The Broadway Melody, the creation of the Hollywood musical, Pre-Code films, and the invention of the talkie!

Other topics include: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Jack Warner, film history, Hollywood musicals, and musical theater.

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