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Five Star Final Overview:

Five Star Final (1931) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Hal B. Wallis.

Academy Awards 1931/32 --- Ceremony Number 5 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best PictureFirst NationalNominated
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Five Star Final BlogHub Articles:

Five Star Final (1931): Edward G. Robinson and Yellow Journalism

By 4 Star Film Fan on Apr 20, 2022 From 4 Star Films

Five Star Final has its place among a bevy of real-world Journalism movies as perpetuated by Hollywood in the Pre-Code era. Probably equally important is director Mervyn Leroy, who at this point in his career was about to be tackling some of his most pointed material including I Am a Fugitive From a... Read full article

REMAKE AVENUE: Five Star Final, 1931 and Two Against the World, 1936

on Jun 22, 2020 From Caftan Woman

Mythologized, demonized, revered, and lampooned, the gentlemen of the press make for good copy. From real-life crusader Nellie Bly who became as famous as her exposes to the fictional Charles Foster Kane who thought it would be fun to run a newspaper, audiences are as fascinated with the purveyors o... Read full article

The Pre-Code Blogathon: FIVE STAR FINAL

By Dan Day Jr. on Mar 31, 2015 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

The "Pre-Code" era in Hollywood--which ran approximately from 1930 through most of 1934--has now become so legendary that just about any movie made in that period is looked upon as a classic. Most of the attention given to Pre-Code features revolves around their presumed salacious content, rather th... Read full article

The Pre-Code Blogathon: FIVE STAR FINAL

By Dan Day Jr. on Mar 31, 2015 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

The "Pre-Code" era in Hollywood--which ran approximately from 1930 through most of 1934--has now become so legendary that just about any movie made in that period is looked upon as a classic. Most of the attention given to Pre-Code features revolves around their presumed salacious content, rather th... Read full article

Breaking News: Journalism in Classic Film Blogathon - Five Star Final (1931)

By Caftan Woman on Sep 21, 2013 From Caftan Woman

Spoilers abound in this look at Warner Brothers Five Star Final for Breaking News: Journalism in Classic Film Blogathon sponsored by Comet Over Hollywood and Lindsay's Movie Musings. Mervyn LeRoy 1900 - 1987 Mythologized, demonized, revered and lampooned, the gentlemen of the press make fo... Read full article

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Five Star Final Quotes:

Arthur Goldberg: Sufferin' Moses, but Mr. Randall's got a lot of women!
Miss Taylor: They're goyem. Ain't you got no religion?
Arthur Goldberg: Either way you say that, I ought to change my name.
Miss Taylor: Don't do it, kid. New York's too full of Christians as it is!
Ziggie Feinstein: [Pointing his finger at her] Say, on the level, don't you know where the boss is?
Miss Taylor: [Sticking her finger in his stomach] On the level, I don't, but you might try Corcoran's or maybe you've been thrown out of that speakeasy.
Ziggie Feinstein: They don't throw you out of speakeasies... they carry you out!
Miss Taylor: I think you can always get people interested in the crucifixion of a woman.
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Five Star Final Facts
In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interestin First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930's, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
The play "Five Star Final" by Louis Weitzenkorn opened at the Cort Theatre in New York on 30 December 1930 and closed in June 1931 after 175 performances. The opening night cast included Arthur Byron as Randall, Berton Churchill as Hinchecliffe , Frances Fuller as Jenny Townsend and Allen Jenkins as Ziggie Feinstein.
The Evening Gazette is based on the real-life New York Evening Graphic, the most sensational of all the Front Page-era tabloid papers. (Critics called it the Porno-Graphic.) The paper, owned by Bernarr Macfadden, published from 1924 to 1932. At the time this film was made, the Graphic had been losing circulation, because its new editor had been trying to make it a more respectable paper, just like in the film. The paper was best known for its "composographs," composite photographs used to create an otherwise unobtainable illustration.
Vitaphone production reels #4931-4940.
Aline MacMahon's motion picture debut.
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