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Monday, February 27th, 2023 8:58 AM

Live Poll: 1928 - 1939 Best Picture Leads

​ ​The first Oscar ceremony was in 1928 with a joint winner, so this poll has 13 leads rather than 10. Which lead character from the Best Picture winners of the 1928 - 1939 is your favorite?​
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https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564235301/​

https://www.imdb.com/poll/-BulaT0Lq40/

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1 year ago

FYC, two more.

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@urbanemovies​ I already have them in the list

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@Aris_Athanas​ Yes, but you only list one of the two co-leads in both. One stars a captain and his first officier, the another a married couple.

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@urbanemovies​ corrected

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@Aris_Athanas​ Thanks, you have an extra picture now, 14 images instead of 13 images.

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@urbanemovies​ corrected

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@Aris_Athanas

FYC, I think there are more leads that are not correctly listed on  polls in this series still. I think it would be worth your time to check them against some reliable secondary source that provides a listing of the stars for each movie and by extension who the lead characters are. It would catch a lot of the problems that seem to be slipping through.

ie. Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, based on the 1932 Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty

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@Aris_Athanas​ Thanks for responding so promptly and making the necessary edits

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It has been forever, since I saw either Wings and Broadway Melody. But, you might want to take another pass at them.  I am unsure on both, but have concerns about both and think you should take another look at them (I am unclear what qualifies as a lead character to you.)

Wings

In Wings, Clara Bow gets top billing and is its biggest star by far. She shows up throughout the movie and an essential character. Plus, the movie is described as an Action War Romance, which makes it hard to think of her not as the third lead character.  Clearly, the two flyers you have listed are the top two leads, but I wonder if she needs to be in that group too.

Broadway Melody
In Broadway Melody, it seems like the same situation, but now gender-flipped, a romantic musical that the male love interest gets left out in the cold, as a lead character. The other two leads you have listed are sisters. All three get top billing and the story revolves around all three. The kicker to me is third billed, Bessie Love get nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance. Any thoughts?

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@Aris_Athanas​ Thanks, I think that was the safer pick of the two. It seems like were more reasons that both belong in those group of threes, than reasons to leave them out.

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1 year ago

The first ceremony was in 1929.

https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1929

Since the first winners were from 1927, perhaps your title should be 1927-1939.

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@Peter_pbn​ done

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@Aris_Athanas​ 

In the text, I would still say "The first Oscar ceremony was in 1929". (They gave awards to movies from 1927 in 1929.)

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1 year ago

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/-BulaT0Lq40/

Congratulations Paok