1932 Milstead Movie Awards
BEST PICTURE
FREAKS
MGM; Tod Browning, Dwain Esper, Harry Rapf, Hildegarde
Stadie & Irving Thalberg
GRAND HOTEL
MGM; Irving Thalberg
HORSE FEATHERS
Paramount; Herman J. Mankiewicz
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Warner Bros; Hal B. Wallis
LOVE ME TONIGHT
Paramount; Rouben Mamoulian
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
RKO; David O. Selznick, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest
Schoedsack
THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Universal; Carl Laemmle, Jr.
SCARFACE
United Artists; Howard Hawks & Howard
Hughes
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
Paramount; Adolph Zukor
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Paramount; Ernst Lubitsch
Also Considered:
BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING (Michel Simon); FANNY (Marcel
Pagnol & Roger Richebé); A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Frank Borzage); THE MUSIC BOX (Hal Roach); ONE HOUR WITH YOU (Ernst Lubitsch); RED DUST (Hunt Stromberg & Irving Thalberg); SMILIN'
THROUGH (Albert Lewin & Irving Thalberg); VAMPYR (Carl Theodor Dreyer & Julian West); WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? (Pandro S. Berman & David O. Selznic); WOODEN CROSSES (credit
unknown)
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
George Arliss as "Montgomery Royle" - THE MAN WHO PLAYED
GOD
John Barrymore as "Hilary Fairfield" - A BILL OF
DIVORCEMENT
Maurice Chevalier as "Dr. Andre Bertier" - ONE HOUR WITH
YOU
Ronald Colman as "Jim Warlock" - CYNARA
Clark Gable as "Dennis Carson" - RED DUST
Herbert Marshall as "Gaston Monescu" - TROUBLE IN
PARADISE
Paul Muni as "James Allen" - I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A
CHAIN GANG
Paul Muni as "Tony Camonte" - SCARFACE
William Powell as "Dan Hardesty" - ONE WAY
PASSAGE
Michel Simon as "Priape Boudu" - BOUDU SAVED FROM
DROWNING
Also Considered:
John Barrymore (ARSENE LUPIN); Pierre Blanchar (WOODEN
CROSSES); Eddie Cantor (THE KID FROM SPAIN); Maurice Chevalier (LOVE ME TONIGHT); Gary Cooper (A FAREWELL TO ARMS); Walter Huston (LAW AND ORDER); Fredric March (SMILIN' THROUGH); Raimu
(FANNY); Lowell Sherman (WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?); Spencer Tracy (20,000 YEARS IN SING SING)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Constance Bennett as "Mary Evans" - WHAT PRICE
HOLLYWOOD?
Marlene Dietrich as "Shanghai Lily" - SHANGHAI
EXPRESS
Marie Dressler as "Emma Thatcher" - EMMA
Kay Francis as "Joan Ames" - ONE WAY PASSAGE
Greta Garbo as "Grusinskaya" - GRAND
HOTEL
Jean Harlow as "Vantine Jefferson" - RED
DUST
Miriam Hopkins as "Lily Vautier" - TROUBLE IN
PARADISE
Jeanette MacDonald as "Princess Jeanette" - LOVE ME
TONIGHT
Jeanette MacDonald as "Colette Bertier" - ONE HOUR WITH
YOU
Edna May Oliver as "Mrs Livingston Baldwin Crane" - LADIES
OF THE JURY
Also Considered:
Clara Bow (CALL HER SAVAGE); Bette Davis (THE MAN WHO
PLAYED GOD); Orane Demazis (FANNY); Marlene Dietrich (BLONDE VENUS); Irene Dunne (BACK STREET); Kay Francis (ONE WAY PASSAGE); Helen Hayes (A FAREWELL TO ARMS); Katharine Hepburn (A BILL
OF DIVORCEMENT); Norma Shearer (SMILIN' THROUGH); Barbara Stanwyck (SO BIG)
BEST DIRECTOR
Raymond Bernard - WOODEN CROSSES
Frank Borzage - A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Tod Browning -
FREAKS
Carl Theodor Dreyer - VAMPYR
Howard Hawks - SCARFACE
Mervyn LeRoy - I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Ernst Lubitsch - TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Ruben Mamoulian - LOVE ME TONIGHT
Josef Von Sternberg - SHANGHAI EXPRESS
James Whale - THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Also Considered:
Marc Allegret (FANNY); George Cukor (WHAT PRICE
HOLLYWOOD?); Michael Curtiz (DOCTOR X); Victor Fleming (RED DUST); Karl Freund (THE MUMMY); Edmund Goulding (GRAND HOTEL); Ernst Lubitsch (ONE HOUR WITH YOU); Norman Z. McLeod (HORSE
FEATHERS); Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack (THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME); Jean Renoir (BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING)
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Leslie Banks as "General Zaroff" - THE MOST DANGEROUS
GAME
Lionel Barrymore as "Otto Kringelein" - GRAND
HOTEL
Charles Butterworth as "Count de Savignac" - LOVE ME
TONIGHT
Fernand Charpin as "Honore Panisse" - FANNY
Charles Granval as "Edouard Lestingois" - BOUDU SAVED FROM
DROWNING
Charles Laughton as "Phineas V. Lambert" - IF I HAD A
MILLION
George Raft as "Guino Rinaldo" - SCARFACE
Charles Ruggles as "The Major" - TROUBLE IN
PARADISE
Henry Stephenson as "John Tring" - CYNARA
Roland Young as "Professor Olivier" - ONE HOUR WITH
YOU
Also Considered:
Humphrey Bogart (THREE ON A MATCH); Richard Cromwell
(EMMA); Harry Earles (FREAKS); Leslie Howard (SMILIN' THROUGH); Boris Karloff (THE OLD DARK HOUSE); Charles Laughton (THE SIGN OF THE CROSS); Frank McHugh (ONE WAY PASSAGE); Adolphe Menjou (A
FAREWELL TO ARMS); Gene Raymond (RED DUST); Charles Ruggles (LOVE ME TONIGHT)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary Astor as "Barbara Willis" - RED
DUST
Joan Crawford as "Flaemmchen" - GRAND HOTEL
Anne Dvorak as "Cesca Camonte" - SCARFACE
Myrna Loy as "Countess Valentine" - LOVE ME
TONIGHT
Aline MacMahon as "Betty" - ONE WAY PASSAGE
Mary Philips as "Helen Ferguson" - A FAREWELL TO
ARMS
May Robson as "Mary Walker" - IF I HAD A
MILLION
Genevieve Tobin as "Mitzi Olivier" - ONE HOUR WITH
YOU
Thelma Todd as "Connie Bailey" - HORSE
FEATHERS
Anna May Wong as "Hui Fei" - SHANGHAI
EXPRESS
Also Considered:
Cicely Courtneidge (JACK'S THE BOY); Daisy Earles
(FREAKS); Glenda Farrell (I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG); Kay Francis (TROUBLE IN PARADISE); Elissa Landi (THE SIGN OF THE CROSS); Eva Moore (THE OLD DARK HOUSE); Karen Morley (SCARFACE);
Maureen O'Sullivan (TARZAN, THE APE MAN); Mae West (NIGHT AFTER NIGHT); Fay Wray (THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTATION)
BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING
Jean Renoir & Albert Valentin
FANNY
Marcel Pagnol
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Benjamin Glazer & Oliver H.P. Garrett
GRAND HOTEL
William A. Drake
LOVE ME TONIGHT
Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion, Jr. & Waldemar
Young
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
James Ashmore Creelman
ONE HOUR WITH YOU
Samson Raphaelson
RED DUST
John Lee Mahin
SCARFACE
Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin & W.R.
Burnett
TROUBLE IN
PARADISE
Samson
Raphaelson
Also Considered:
ARSENE LUPIN (Carey Wilson); CYNARA (Frances Marion &
Lynn Starling); FREAKS (Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon); I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (Howard J. Breen, Brown Holmes & Sheridan Gibney); LAW AND ORDER (John Huston & Tom
Reed); THE OLD DARK HOUSE (Benn W. Levy & R.C. Sherriff); POIL
DE CAROTTE (Julien Duvivier); THE SIGN OF FOUR (W.P. Lipscomb); SMILIN' THROUGH (Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart & James B. Fagan); WOODEN CROSSES (Raymond Bernard &
André Lang)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
HORSE FEATHERS
Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S.J. Perelman, Harry Sheekman &
Will B. Johnstone
KUHLE WAMPE
Bertolt Brecht & Ernst Ottwald
MOVIE CRAZY
Vincent Lawrence
THE MUSIC
BOX
H.M.
Walker
ONE WAY PASSAGE
Robert Lord, Wilson Mizner & Joseph Jackson
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES
H.M. Walker, Stan Laurel & Ray McCarey
ROME EXPRESS
Clifford Grey
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
Jules Furthman & Harry Hervey
THREE ON A MATCH
Lucien Hubbard
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?
Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, Jane Murfin, Adela
Rogers St. John & Louis Stevens
Also Considered:
AMERICAN MADNESS (Robert Riskin); BLONDE VENUS (Josef Von
Sternberg, Jules Furthman & S.K. Lauren); EMMA (Frances Marion & Leonard Praskins); I WAS BORN, BUT... (Akira Fushimi, Geibei Ibushiya & Yasujiro Ozu); IF I HAD A MILLION (Joseph
L. Mankiewicz, Grover Jones & William Slavens McNutt); THE KID FROM SPAIN (William Anthony McQuire, Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby); ME & MY GAL (Philip Klein, Barry Conners &
Arthur Kober); MILLION DOLLAR LEGS (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Henry Myers & Nick Barrows); NO MAN OF HER OWN (Maurine Dallas Watkins & Milton H. Gropper); TOWED IN A HOLE (Stan
Laurel)
BEST ART DIRECTION
DOCTOR X
Anton Grot
A FAREWELL TO
ARMS
Roland Anderson & Hans
Dreier
FREAKS
Cedric Gibbons & Merrill Pye
LOVE ME TONIGHT
Hans Dreier
MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
Charles D. Hall
THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Charles D. Hall
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
Hans Dreier
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Mitchell Leisen
TARZAN, THE APE MAN
Cedric Gibbons
VAMPYR
Hermann Warm
Also Considered:
ARSENE LUPIN (Cedric Gibbons); BACK STREET (Charles Hall);
GRAND HOTEL (Cedric Gibbons); ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (Hans Dreier); THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (Carroll Clark & Thomas Little); THE MUMMY (Willy Pogany); ONE HOUR WITH YOU (Hans
Dreier); RED
DUST (Cedric Gibbons); SCARFACE (Harry Oliver); WOODEN CROSSES (Jean Perrier)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
DOCTOR X
Ray Rennahan
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Charles Lang
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Sol Polito
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Henry Gerrard
THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Arthur Edeson
SCARFACE
Lee Garmes & L.W. O'Connell)
SHANGHAI
EXPRESS
Lee Garmes & James Wong
Howe
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Karl Struss
VAMPYR
Rudolph Maté
WOODEN CROSSES
Jules Kruger & Rene Ribault
Also Considered:
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (George Folsey); THE BEAST OF THE CITY
(Norbert Brodine); FREAKS (Merritt B. Gerstad); GRAND HOTEL (William H. Daniels); ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (Karl Struss); LOVE ME TONIGHT (Victor Milner); THE MUMMY (Charles Stumar); ONE HOUR
WITH YOU (Victor Milner); RED DUST (Harold Rosson); TARZAN, THE APE MAN (Clyde de Vinna & Harold Rosson)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Travis Banton
GRAND HOTEL
Adrian
LOVE ME TONIGHT
Travis Banton & Edith Head
THE MASK OF FU MANCHU
Adrian
THE MUMMY
Vera West
ONE HOUR WITH YOU
Travis Banton
ROME EXPRESS
Gordon Conway
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
Travis Banton
THE SIGN OF THE
CROSS
Mitchell
Leisen
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Travis Banton
Also Considered:
BACK STREET (Vera West); BIRD OF PARADISE (credit
unknown); BLONDE VENUS (Travis Banton); CALL HER SAVAGE (Rita Kaufman); THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (Walter Plunkett); ONE WAY PASSAGE (Orry-Kelly); RED DUST (Adrian); RED-HEADED WOMAN
(Adrian); SCARFACE (credit unknown); TARZAN,
THE APE MAN (credit unknown)
BEST FILM EDITING
FREAKS
Basil Wrangell
GRAND HOTEL
Blanche Sewell
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
William Holmes
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Archie Marshek
THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Clarence Kolster
ONE HOUR WITH YOU
William Shea
ONE WAY PASSAGE
Ralph Dawson
SCARFACE
Edward
Curtiss
TARZAN, THE APE MAN
Tom Held & Ben Lewis
WOODEN CROSSES
Lucienne Grumberg
Also Considered:
AIR MAIL (Harry W. Lieb); CYNARA (Hugh Bennett); DOCTOR X
(George Amy); FANNY (Raymond Lamy & Jean Mamy); A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Otho Lovering & George Nichols, Jr.); LOVE ME TONIGHT (Rouben Mamoulian & William
Shea); THE
MUMMY (Milton Carruth); RED DUST (Blanche Sewell); SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Frank Sullivan); VAMPYR (Tonka Taldy)
BEST MAKEUP
ISLAND OF LOST
SOULS
Charles Gemora & Wally
Westmore
THE MASK OF FU MANCHU
Cecil Holland
THE MUMMY
Jack Pierce
THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Otto Lederer & Jack Pierce
THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
James Collins
Also Considered:
DOCTOR X (Perc Westmore & Ray Romero); FREAKS (credit
unknown); THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (Wally Westmore); SCARFACE (credit unknown); WHITE ZOMBIE (Jack Pierce & Carl Axzelle)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Bernhard Kaun
LOVE ME TONIGHT
John Leipold
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Max Steiner
THE MUMMY
James Dietrich
THE OLD DARK
HOUSE
David
Broekman
ONE HOUR WITH YOU
W. Franke Harling & Oscar Straus
SCARFACE
Adolph Tandler
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
W. Frank Harling
VAMPYR
Wolfgang Zeller
WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?
Max Steiner
Also Considered:
CYNARA (Alfred Newman); DOCTOR X (Bernhard Kaun); FANNY
(Vincent Scotto); A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Herman Hand, W. Frank Harling, Bernhard Kaun & John Leipold); GRAND HOTEL (William Axt & Charles Maxwell); MOVIE CRAZY (Alfred Newman); THE MUSIC
BOX (Harry Graham & Marvin Hatley); PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (Marvin Hatley); ROME EXPRESS (Leighton Lucas); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (W. Frank Harling)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Here Lies Love" - THE BIG BROADCAST
Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin
"Isn't It Romantic?" - LOVE ME TONIGHT
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
"One Hour With You"
- ONE HOUR WITH YOU
Richard Whiting & Leo
Robin
"Trouble In Paradise" - TROUBLE IN
PARADISE
W. Franke Harling & Leo Robin
"You've Got What Gets Me" - GIRL CRAZY
George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
Also Considered:
"The Country Needs A Man" - THE PHANTOM PRESIDENT (Richard
Rodgers & Lorenz Hart); "I'll Stay With You" - THERE GOES THE BRIDE (Fred Raymond & Clifford Grey); "In The Moonlight" - THE KID FROM SPAIN (Harry Ruby & Bert Kalmar); "Love Me
Tonight" - LOVE ME TONIGHT (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart); "Mimi" - LOVE ME TONIGHT (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
BEST SOUND
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Franklin Hansen & Harold Lewis
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
Nathan Levinson
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
Loren L. Ryder
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Clem Portman & Murray Spivack
THE MUMMY
Joe Lapis
SCARFACE
William Snyder
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
Harry D. Mills
TARZAN, THE APE
MAN
Douglas
Shearer
VAMPYR
Hans Bittmann & Paul Falkenberg
WOODEN CROSSES
Antoine Archimbaud
Also Considered:
THE BEAST OF THE CITY (Douglas Shearer); THE BIG BROADCAST
(Jack Goodrich); FREAKS (Douglas Shearer); GRAND HOTEL (Douglas Shearer); HORSE FEATHERS (Gene Merritt); LOVE ME TONIGHT (M.M. Paggi); MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (C. Roy Hunter); THE OLD DARK
HOUSE (C. Roy Hunter); ONE WAY PASSAGE (Robert B. Lee); RED DUST (Douglas Shearer)
BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE MUMMY
John P. Fulton
TARZAN, THE APE MAN
Warren Newcombe
VAMPYR
Henri
Armand
Also Considered:
A FAREWELL TO ARMS (Farciot Edouart & Loyal Griggs);
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (Gordon Jennings); THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (Lloyd Knechtel & Vernon L. Walker)
Most Wins:
2 - Freaks
1 - A Farewell To Arms; Grand Hotel; I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang; Island Of Lost Souls; The Most Dangerous Game; The Music Box; The Old Dark House; One Hour With You; Red Dust; Scarface; Shanghai Express; The Sign Of The Cross; Tarzan, The Ape Man; Trouble In Paradise; Vampyr
Most Nominations:
10 - Love Me Tonight; Scarface; Shanghai Express
9 - One Hour With You
8 - Trouble In Paradise
7 - A Farewell To Arms; Grand Hotel; I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang; The Most Dangerous Game; The Old Dark House
6 - Vampyr
5 - The Mummy