Let's Discuss Best Actress 1929 - Part One

Was it fixed from the beginning of the race? Let's discuss the very first Academy Awards, specifically the Best Actress Race. This is so big it needs two parts, but I've got the two titians in the first video - Gloria Swanson for Sadie Thompson, and Janet Gaynor for Sunrise: A Story of Two Humans. What's special about the very first academy awards is that it is a time capsule for the end of the silent era. Let's discuss the politics, the films, and the performances.
Sadie Thompson: • Sadie Thompson (1928) ...
Sunrise: • Friedrich Wilhelm Murn...
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