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Doughboys, 1930 Keaton's "most successful sound Picture" (opens the original)
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Doughboys is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was Keaton’s second starring talkie vehicle and has been called Keaton’s “most successful sound Picture.”Keaton had creative input in Doughboys, which was partly inspired by his own experience in World War I. Although the writers kept inserting puns and verbal jokes into the script, Keaton insisted that his dialogue, at least, be less “jokey.” Keaton felt that Doughboys was the best of the films he made for MGM.<a class
Street of Chance, 1930 (opens the original)
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Street of Chance is a 1930 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis and Regis Toomey. Howard Estabrook was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Achievement.<img alt="" clas
The 1st Academy Awards: the Oscar Winners of 1927 and 1928 (opens the original)
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The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, honoring films released between August 1, 1927, and July 31, 1928. Who won? Here is the list of the best of the best.The winning films and categories from that ceremony, with available matches on the Public Domain Movies Substack, are:Wings – Best Picture (Outstanding Production) and Best Engineering Effects:Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – Best Unique and Artistic Production, Best Actress (Janet Gaynor), and Best Cinematography:</p
Cartoon: The Merry Dwarfs, 1929 - Walt Disney (opens the original)
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The Merry Dwarfs is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1929.The short’s copyright was renewed in 1957, and as a published work from 1929 it entered the US public domain on January 1, 2025.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal"
Three Faces East, 1930 (opens the original)
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Three Faces East is a 1930 American pre-Code spy drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim. Produced by Daryl Zanuck and released by Warner Bros. Pictures it is based on a 1918 Broadway play about World War I spies, Three Faces East, by Anthony Paul Kelly.It was filmed as a silent in 1926. A later remake in 1940 starred Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay was titled British Intelligence.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subs
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