| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Art Direction Mitchell Leisen No official nominees had been announced this year. |
MGM
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Socialite Kay Johnson stands to lose her inheritance unless she gets married within the week. She's in love with a married man whose wife won't give him a divorce, so she gets hitched to Charles Bickford who is about to be hanged for murder. After Bickford's name is cleared, his moral upbringing won't allow him to get divorced so he tries to stick it out with Johnson despite their obvious incompatibilities. The fight and bicker, so he moves back home to a small town and works in the coal mines. Johnson soon follows, and eventually her fiance, leading to a ludicrous finale in a coal mine. Somehow manages to be entertaining despite all of the melodrama, Cecil B. made sure of that.
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