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Cavalcade (1933) Diana Wynyard, Clive BrookDirector: Fr ank LloydCo- stars: Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer, Margaret Lindsay110 minutes, Black and WhiteDVD- R: Region ALLThe only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film adaptation of the pageant-like stage hit by Noel Coward. The film concentrates on the years 1901 through 1933, as seen through the eyes of an upper-class British family and its servants. Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard portray the upstairs Marryots, while Herbert Mundin and Una O'Connor represent the downstairs Bridges (the incidents and characterizations in Cavalcade are very, very close to those seen in the popular 1970s BBC series Upstairs, Downstairs). The triumphs and tragedies of both... Less