the Oscars regularly mixing these two up – something stilted, beginning with “C”. They must be among the two least-watched winners in modern times, for a host of reasons apparent if you try: declamatory acting, stiff dialogue, hoary emotionalism.
Adapted from Noël Coward’s play, Frank Lloyd’s Cavalcade contained some very mild profanity that bothered the Hays Office, but it looks the definition of stuffy now.
Heaven only knows why it beat the sparkling 42nd Street or the genuinely irreverent The Private Life of Henry VIII. Ask anyone which Frank Capra comedy snagged Oscars, and nine out of 10 times, you’ll hear all about his screwball masterpiece It Happened One Night (1934), which swept the board.
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