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Cavalcade (film)
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| Cavalcade | |
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| Directed by | Frank Lloyd |
| Produced by | Frank Lloyd Winfield R. Sheehan |
| Written by | Noel Coward (play) Reginald Berkeley Sonya Levien |
| Starring | Diana Wynyard Clive Brook Una O'Connor Herbert Mundin |
| Music by | Peter Brunelli Louis De Francesco Arthur Lange J.S. Zamecnik |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Editing by | Margaret Clancey |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | January 5, 1933 |
| Running time | 110 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,180,280 (estimated) |
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| IMDb profile | |
Cavalcade is a 1933 film that takes a historical view of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 through New Years Day 1933. It is told from the point of view of well-to-do Londoner residents Jane and Robert Marryot (played by Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook). The film chronicles events including the Second Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War. It used the tagline "The march of time measured by a mother's heart!" The film was directed by Frank Lloyd; Reginald Berkeley wrote the screenplay based on the original play by Noel Coward. Fox Movietone newsreel cameramen were sent to London to record the original stage production as a guide for the film version, which may account in part for the faithfully stagy nature of the final film.
Winner of three 1933 Academy Awards, for best picture, best director (Frank Lloyd), and best art direction (William S. Darling). Diana Wynyard was also nominated for best leading actress for her role in this picture. Despite being a Best Picture Oscar winner and widely spoken of as one of the finest films ever made at the time, as well as being influential on later Upstairs, Downstairs-type dramas including Forever and a Day and Coward's own This Happy Breed, the film version of Cavalcade has fallen into obscurity.
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| Preceded by Grand Hotel |
Academy Award for Best Picture 1932-33 |
Succeeded by It Happened One Night |
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1927–28: Wings, Sunrise · 1928–29: The Broadway Melody · 1929–30: All Quiet on the Western Front · 1930–31: Cimarron · 1931–32: Grand Hotel · 1932–33: Cavalcade · 1934: It Happened One Night · 1935: Mutiny on the Bounty · 1936: The Great Ziegfeld · 1937: The Life of Emile Zola · 1938: You Can't Take It with You · 1939: Gone with the Wind · 1940: Rebecca †From 1927 to 1933, the Academy Awards did not follow a calendar year. Complete List · Winners (1941–1960) · Winners (1961–1980) · Winners (1981–2000) · Winners (2001– ) |
Categories: 1933 films | Best Picture Academy Award winners | Films whose director won the Best Director Academy Award | Romantic musical films | Drama films | English-language films | Black and white films | Romantic period films | Films set in the 1900s | Films set in the 1910s | Films set in the 1920s | American films | Musical film stubs