In the latest Oscar Podcast we discuss the 4th annual Academy Awards held at the Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Herbert Hoover’s vice president was in attendance. Prohibition didn’t keep attendees from bringing flasks. It isn’t the most exciting Oscars ever – Cimarron won after all – but there were many interesting tidbits about some of the winners. Have a listen! And if you’d like to check out the Academy’s own resources for that year, click on over.
Oscar Podcast Episode 83 – 4th Annual Academy Awards when Jackie Cooper Slept on Marie Dressler’s Lap
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Thanks again for a great podcast! As usual, I’m loving the look back at Oscar years past. One comment I would make about Cimmarron – it’s one distinction that holds up as at least a curiosity today would be the first 10 minutes. It opens with the mass migration west and the literal race to claim land. There were no special effects in those days, so the people, the wagons – and even a bicycle, are all real. The Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman movie, Far and Away, recreated the same event – but Cimmarron did it better, IMO.