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ss drama winner mae clarke waterloo bridge nominees constance bennett what price hollywood joan crawford grand hotel marlene dietrich shanghai express greta garbo susan lenox her fall and rise mata hari grand hotel and as you desire me helen hayes the sin of madelon claudet and arrowsmith barbara stanwyck the miracle woman dorothea wieck mädchen in uniform actress comedy musical winner norma shearer private lives nominees joan blondell blonde crazy claudette colbert the smiling lieutenant lynn fontanne the guardsman jean harlow platinum blonde and red headed woman director drama winner tod browning freaks nominees edmund goulding grand hotel howard hawks scarface rouben mamoulian dr jekyll and mr hyde james whale frankenstein and waterloo bridge director comedy musical winner rené clair à nous la liberté nominees sidney franklin the guardsman and private lives ernst lubitsch the smiling lieutenant and one hour with you yasujirô ozu i was born but james parrott the music box supporting actor drama winner george raft scarface nominees boris karloff frankenstein lewis stone the sin of madelon claudet mata hari and grand hotel supporting actor comedy musical winner roland young the guardsman and one hour with you nominees raimu marius supporting actress drama winner miriam hopkins dr jekyll and mr hyde nominees ann dvorak scarface aline macmahon five star final anna may wong shanghai express supporting actress comedy musical winner thelma todd monkey business nominees miriam hopkins the smiling lieutenant una merkel private lives and red headed woman screenplay winner ben hecht continuity and dialogue by seton i miller john lee mahin and w r burnett from a novel by armitage trail scarface nominees rené clair à nous la liberté frances marion story leonard praskins dialogue continuity and wanda tuchock additional dialogue the champ garrett fort and francis edward faragoh screenplay adaptation by john l balderston from the novel frankenstein or the modern prometheus by mary shelley and the play frankenstein an adventure in the macabre by peggy webling frankenstein christa winsloe and friedrich dammann as f d andam from the play by christa winsloe mädchen in uniform s j perelman and will b johnstone screenplay arthur sheekman additional dialogue monkey business special awards lee garmes shanghai express and scarface cinematography c roy hunter frankenstein sound charles d hall and kenneth strickfaden frankenstein art direction set decoration jack pierce and pauline eells frankenstein makeup wally westmore dr jekyll and mr hyde special effects posted by mythical monkey at 12 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1931 1932 alternate oscars fredric march greta garbo helen hayes joan crawford john barrymore lionel barrymore oscar history review wallace beery saturday january 10 2026 howard hawks a baker s dozen british film historian david thomson once opined that if he could only save ten movies from a sinking ship he d take ten by howard hawks and leave the rest to the ocean deep me i d reserve room for a dvd on boat building and another on edible plants but i understand the sentiment hawks more than any other director covered the waterfront westerns comedies crime war action sci fi musicals straight up drama and even silent movies and he didn t just make entertaining movies he made genre defining classics hawks gave john wayne his first great acting showcase taught katharine hepburn how to play comedy and lauren bacall how to whistle helped define 1930s gangster movies 1940s film noir and 1950s sci fi spectacles and put marilyn monroe in a slinky pink dress as she sang her signature song diamonds are a girl s best friend that he also directed two of the greatest westerns in history well that s just showing off so what are my favorite howard hawks movies glad you asked in chronological order scarface 1932 although hawks had been directing since 1926 including 1928 s a girl in every port which put louise brooks on the map and the first best version of the dawn patrol in 1930 scarface was the first indispensable movie of his career i ve written about scarface at length here here and here and i won t rehash any of that except to note that along with little caesar and the public enemy this is one of the three great gangster pictures of its era brian de palma remade it in 1983 with al pacino bringing up baby 1938 some people such as the aforementioned david thomson would include hawks s 1934 comedy twentieth century here but although it made a star of carole lombard to me it s more shrill than funny instead i ll list hawks s other screwball classic bringing up baby in which a batty katharine hepburn and her pet leopard fall in love with a very goofy college professor played by cary grant now it isn t that i don t like you susan because after all in moments of quiet i m strangely drawn toward you but well there haven t been any quiet moments this was hepburn s first comedy it wouldn t be her last only angels have wings 1939 starring cary grant jean arthur and a young rita hayworth this one explores one of hawks s favorite themes men of action behaving according to a professional code and the women who learn to love them grant plays a pilot trying to get a fledgling air mail service off the ground arthur is a showgirl stranded at his hotel for fun take a drink every time somebody says calling barranca you ll be in the hospital by the end of the first act a personal favorite his girl friday 1940 a superior remake of the comedy the front page this one stars cary grant as a hilariously ruthless newspaper editor rosalind russell as his star reporter and ex wife and ralph bellamy as the man she intends to marry one look at grant and bellamy and you know how this one s going to turn out but what a wild ride getting there with a very modern moral to boot a woman s place is in the office not the kitchen career best performances by all three leads holds the record for the fastest dialogue in movie history must see ball of fire 1941 another comedy typically in hawks s dramas women must prove worthy of the men they love in his comedies the formula is reversed here barbara stanwyck is a showgirl on the run from her gangster boyfriend gary cooper is the virginal professor who gives her shelter when the film s writer billy wilder who would later win oscars directing the lost weekend and the apartment confessed he didn t understand the plot hawks told him it s a remake of snow white and the seven dwarfs bingo to have and have not 1944 set in french martinique during world war ii harry morgan humphrey bogart has retreated from the messy political world into a cocoon of isolationism so complete he s willing to ignore the fascists in charge even as they are shooting his clients and pushing his friends around marie slim browning lauren bacall in her first film role teaches him how to whistle and forces him to realize that no matter how much he thinks he s successfully avoided sticking his neck out his neck is out there a loose adaptation of ernest hemingway s novel the screenplay is by william faulkner to date the only time a nobel prize winner has written a screenplay based on the work of another nobel prize winner the big sleep 1946 bogart and bacall again this time bogart is raymond chandler s famous private detective philip marlowe while bacall draws his eye as the beautiful spoiled daughter of a rich client the plot is incomprehensible even chandler didn t know whodunit but the sparks fly and the dialogue sets some sort of record for sexual innuendo loads of fun red river 1948 one of the greatest westerns ever made john wayne and his adopted son montgomery clift lead a cattle drive along the chisholm trail basically a retelling of mutiny on the bounty with wayne as captain bligh after seeing the movie director john ford who had cast wayne in the classic stagecoach way back in 1939 exclaimed i didn t know the big son of a bitch could act boy could he the thing from another world 1951 based on john campbell s classic novella who goes there this is the story of soldiers and scientists in the arctic circle fighting an invader from outer space and sometimes each other hawks is credited only as the film s producer but those who were there insisted he directed as well sure seems like it remade in 1982 by john carpenter this science fiction classic is full of danger and paranoia but also humor camaraderie and a good looking no nonsense hawksian woman margaret sheridan gentlemen prefer blondes 1953 based on the novel by the immortal anita loos gold digger lorelei lee marilyn monroe and her no nonsense pal dorothy shaw jane russell in her best role set sail for france with a boatload of handsome olympians a rich eligible bachelor aged seven and a private eye determined to catch lorelei in flagrante delicto features marilyn monroe s signature song diamonds are a girl s best friend one of the best musicals of the 1950s gentlemen prefer blondes as much as anything proves howard hawks was the master of any genre rio bravo 1959 ostensibly the story of a border town sheriff john wayne who squares off against a rich rancher and his army of hired goons rio bravo is really a study of a professional doing his job and doing it well despite the imminent threat of death an idealized code of conduct hemingway called grace under pressure this is hawks at his most compassionate not an attribute i would always associate with his brusque heroes and no nonsense women but john wayne watches over his ragged crew a drunk a cripple and later a girl a young gunslinger and even the manager of the local hotel like a mother hen with a love that is sometimes tough and sometimes tender but always genuine with dean martin walter brennan and angie dickinson the best howard hawks movie and my all time favorite western and you know how much i love a good western man s favorite sport 1964 the least well known of all the movies on this list but a personal fave this is a comedy about an expert fisherman rock hudson who confesses to the woman who s organized a tournament in his honor that he s never fished in his life never even touched a fish paula prentiss in the best performance of her career takes him in hand and teaches him everything he needs to know some of it having to do with a rod and reel el dorado 1966 a loose comedic remake of rio bravo with john wayne again robert mitchum as the drunk and james caan as a poetry spouting gambler in a funny hat caan has the best line in the movie while wrasslin the voluptuous michele carey in a hay barn hey you re a girl no kidding jimmy and if that s not enough you might also try sergeant york 1941 which won gary cooper an oscar i was a male war bride 1949 with ann sheridan and cary grant in drag monkey business 1952 no not the marx brothers cary grant and marilyn monroe and hatari 1962 john wayne basically playing a macho marlin perkins and if you understand that reference boy are you old in 1974 hawks received an honorary oscar as a giant of the american cinema whose pictures taken as a whole represent one of the most consistent vivid and varied bodies of work in world cinema and that undersells him in 1996 entertainment weekly ranked hawks fourth on the list of the 50 greatest directors of all time in 2007 total film also ranked him fourth on its list of the 100 greatest directors of all time and me i have him on the mount rushmore of hollywood film directors along with alfred hitchcock billy wilder and steven spielberg a first among equals in my book put that in your pipe and smoke it posted by mythical monkey at 11 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cary grant howard hawks humphrey bogart john wayne katharine hepburn lauren bacall marilyn monroe paula prentiss review older posts home subscribe to posts atom vote for alternate oscars 1888 to 1909 1910s 1920s 1930s 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