As the Depression, now its third year, ground on with no end in sight, movie goers and Oscar voters alike flocked to a big budget spectacl...

One of the most enduring tropes of the early sound era is that of the silent film star who finds his career in ruins when his voice prove...

What do you need to know about 1932? (1) Ernst Lubitsch made movies that seemed to float in magnums of cold champagne and the floatiest of...

Best Picture of 1932 Best Actor of 1932 Best Actress of 1932 Best Director of 1932 Best Supporting Actor of 1...

Best Picture of 1932

We've been on a bit of a Lyle Talbot kick here at the Monkey lately, reviewing (and recommending) his daughter Margaret's very fi...

Margaret Talbot, author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century , will be introducing the best of her fat...

In 1933, the Academy finally got wise to itself and decided to stop with the silly split-award year business. Starting with 1934, the film ...