ONLY THE BEST returns with the second half of the Best Picture Oscar-nominees of 1934! There were twelve nominees, and in this episode we dive into "Imitation of Life," "One Night of Love," "The Thin Man," "Viva Villa!," "The White Parade" and the winner, one of the most influential comedies ever made, Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night."
It's a strange ensemble of radically different movies, including progressive social dramas, creepy Opera romances, drunken murder mysteries, Mexican war epics, serious nursing school dramas and wacky road trips!
And it's a veritable "who's who" of classic Hollywood, with performances by the great Claudette Colbert, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Wallace Beery, Loretta Young, Clark Gable and, well, Claudette Colbert (again)!
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ONLY THE BEST is back with a deep dive into the Best Picture nominees of 1934! There were twelve nominees at the 7th Academy Awards, and film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold take you back in time to review the first six: "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "Cleopatra," "Flirtation Walk," "The Gay Divorcee," "Here Comes the Navy" and "The House of Rothschild!"
It's a cavalcade of iconic Golden Age Hollywood stars, including Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Norma Shearer, Charles Laughton, Claudette Colbert, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, George Arless, Loretta Young, James Cagney and Gloria Stuart!
Only The Best is a Patreon-exclusive podcast, and you can listen right now for a $10 monthly pledge! You'll also get more bonus podcasts, the chance to vote for future episodes and the power to assign articles to Witney Seibold and William Bibbiani!
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It's an all-new episode of Only The Best, the podcast where William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review every single nominee for Best Picture, in chronological order!
In this Patreon-exclusive podcast, Bibbs and Witney look back at the second annual Academy Awards, and review the Oscar-nominated crime thriller "Alibi," the all-star concert movie "The Hollywood Revue of 1929," the singing cowboy western "In Old Arizona," and the Best Picture winner "The Broadway Melody," an all-singing, all-dancing backstage melodrama.
Plus, our hosts also delve into the history of "The Patriot," the last silent film nominated for Best Picture in the 20th Century, which has been lost to history. Bibbs and Witney tracked down as much footage as they could, and also review the classic Josef von Sternberg/Marlene Dietrich epic "The Scarlet Empress," which incorporated footage from "The Patriot" into its montages.
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It's the newest podcast from the creators of Critically Acclaimed and Canceled Too Soon! Only the Best reviews every single Oscar-nominated Best Picture, in order, year by year.
You've heard the pilot episode, which covered all the Best Picture nominees from the first-ever Academy Awards. In the second installment, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review all the other nominees for Best Picture at the first annual Oscars, the only year in history where the category was split into two.
The nominees include "Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness" (a hunting documentary from the future directors of "King Kong"), "The Crowd" (King Vidor's experimental drama about the plight of the everyman), and "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" (F.W. Murnua's expressionist allegory about the beauty and danger at the heart of a marriage).
