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The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, [7] at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel [7] in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Conrad Nagel. [7] Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards. [7 ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 20,000 Years in Sing Sing: Michael Curtiz: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Louis Calhern: Drama: Warner Bros. [1] 70,000 Witnesses: Ralph Murphy: Dorothy Jordan, Phillips Holmes, Charlie Ruggles
Box office $879,000 [ 1 ] Tiger Shark is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama romantic film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Edward G. Robinson , Richard Arlen and Zita Johann .
The film was a success at the box-office in the United Kingdom. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 89% score, based on 45 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's consensus states: "Relying more on mood and atmosphere than the thrills typical of modern horror fare, Universal's The Mummy sets a masterful template ...
This 1932 release version led to bonafide box-office status and positive critical reviews. Hughes was successful in subsequent lawsuits against the boards that censored the film. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] Due to criticism from the press, Hays claimed the version shown in theaters was the censored film he had previously approved.
Box office $637,000 [ A ] Union Depot is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama film directed by Alfred E. Green for Warner Bros. , starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Blondell , and based on an unpublished play by Joe Laurie Jr. , Gene Fowler , and Douglas Durkin .
The film was a major box office success. An estimated $675,000 was spent on the production and the film grossed over $1,439,000 in the United States alone. [2] The film also proved to be a major critical success as the vast majority of film reviewers praised the picture highly. [5] Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller provided gags for the film. [6]
Smilin' Through is a 1932 American pre-Code MGM romantic drama film based on the 1919 play of the same name written by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin under the pseudonym of Allan Langdon Martin. It was adapted from the play by James Bernard Fagan , Donald Ogden Stewart , Ernest Vajda and Claudine West.