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'''''Cavalcade''''' is a 1933 American [[drama film]] directed by [[Frank Lloyd]]. The screenplay by [[Reginald Berkeley (writer)|Reginald Berkeley]] and [[Sonya Levien]] is based on the 1931 [[Cavalcade (play)|play of the same title]] by [[Noël Coward]].
'''''Cavalcade''''' is a 1933 American [[drama film]] directed by [[Frank Lloyd]]. The screenplay by [[Reginald Berkeley (writer)|Reginald Berkeley]] and [[Sonya Levien]] is based on the 1931 [[Cavalcade (play)|play of the same title]] by [[Noël Coward]].

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Cavalcade
Original poster
Directed byFrank Lloyd
Written byReginald Berkeley
Sonya Levien
Based on the play by Noël Coward
Produced byFrank Lloyd
Winfield R. Sheehan
StarringDiana Wynyard
Clive Brook
Una O'Connor
Herbert Mundin
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byMargaret Clancey
Music byPeter Brunelli
Louis De Francesco
Arthur Lange
J.S. Zamecnik
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
April 15, 1933 (1933-04-15)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,180,280

Cavalcade is a 1933 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 play of the same title by Noël Coward.

Plot

Offering a view of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 through New Year's Day 1933, the film is presented from the point of view of well-to-do London residents Jane and Robert Marryot. Several historical events serve as background for the film, including the Second Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and World War I.

Production

Fox Movietone newsreel cameramen were sent to London to record the original stage production as a guide for the film adaptation.

The soundtrack includes "Girls of the C.I.V.," "Mirabelle," "Lover of My Dreams," and "Twentieth Century Blues" by Noël Coward, "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" by Harry von Tilzer, "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" by John Glover Kind, "Take Me Back to Yorkshire" by Harry Castling[1] and Fred Godfrey, "Nearer My God, To Thee" by Lowell Mason, "Your King and Country Want You" by Paul Rubens, "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams, "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile" by Felix Powell and George Asaf, "Keep The Home Fires Burning" by Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford, "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" by Nat Ayer and Seymour Brown, "Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo (Mad'moiselle from Armentieres)" by Irwin Dash, Al Dubin, and Joe Mittenthal, and "Over There" by George M. Cohan.

The film premiered in New York City on January 5, 1933 but did not go into general theatrical release until April 15.

Principal cast

Critical reception

Mordaunt Hall of the New York Times called the film "most affecting and impressive" and added, "In all its scenes there is a meticulous attention to detail, not only in the settings ... but also in the selection of players ... It is unfurled with such marked good taste and restraint that many an eye will be misty after witnessing this production."[2]

However, modern audiences have often found the film stilted and overacted.[3]

Awards and nominations

Cavalcade won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Frank Lloyd won the Academy Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award for Best Art Direction went to William S. Darling.[4] Diana Wynyard was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress but lost to Katharine Hepburn for Morning Glory.

Cavalcade is the first film produced by the Fox film studio to win the Best Picture Oscar.

DVD release

The film is, at present, the only Best Picture Oscar winner not currently available on a solitary DVD in Region 1 (with Wings released on January 24, 2012). Cavalcade was released on DVD December 7, 2010, as part of the three-volume "Twentieth Century Fox 75th Anniversary Collection", a collection that sells for well over four hundred dollars. [5] Fox has no plans to release Cavalcade separately.

References

  1. ^ "Harry Castling (1865–1933)". Fredgodfreysongs.ca. Retrieved 2012-07-12.
  2. ^ New York Times review
  3. ^ "Flicks - Jan 2000". Cinescene.com. Retrieved 2012-07-12.
  4. ^ "NY Times: Cavalcade". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
  5. ^ Fox 75th Anniversary Collection. "Fox 75th Anniversary Collection: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Tom Skerritt, Alexander Payne, Andrew Marton, Baz Luhrmann, Bernhard Wicki, Billy Wilder, Bob Fosse, Bobby Farrelly, Brian De Palma: Movies & TV". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-07-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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