John Barrymore (Dinner At Eight) Edward Everett Horton (Trouble In Paradise and Design For Living) Edgar Kennedy (here with Harpo Marx) (Duck Soup) Guy Kibbee (here with Joan Blondell) (Gold Diggers of 1933, Lady For A Day and Footlight Parade) Adolphe Menjou (A Farewell To Arms)
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
1 comment:
I'll have to go back and watch a few movies if I want to offer any meaningful comment to this post
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but I can tell ya:
E. Kennedy offers more bang for the buck [payoff : screen time] than anybody I can imagine.
Not just on this list -- I mean anybody.
The hats should also get co-supporting awards. . . .
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