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...

Much celebrated in her day, Norma Shearer's name is now met by many with derision — including, once upon a time, by the sock monkey w...

August 1, 1930-to-July 31, 1931, was one of those movie years where the list of the Academy's nominees and winners would give you a ...

In Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar , Lon Chaney is crippled in a quarrel with his wife's lover (Lionel Barrymore) and takes his rev...

Eugene Pallette—best known for his froggy bass voice, this veteran of such films as My Man Godfrey and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington made h...