The gifted actress Ann Harding stars in Frank Lloyd’s Victorian melodrama as a woman, who is deserted by her husband and lover, and then goes blind.
A woman’s picture, East Lynne was popular with audiences, though as a star vehicle, it didn’t do much for Harding.
Harding is still best known for the first screen version of Philip Barry’s “Holiday,” for which she won a Best Actress nomination.
(Holiday was remade with even greater success in 1938 by George Cukor with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in the leads).
Oscar Nominations: 1
Best Picture (Fox), produced by Winfield Sheehan (head of Fox)
Oscar Awards: None
Oscar Context
The Best Picture Oscar went to the Western, “Cimarron. The three other nominees were: “The Front Page,” “Skippy,” and “Trader Horn.”
Norman Taurog won the Director Oscar for “Skippy”; Lionel Barrymore the Actor Oscar for “A Free Soul”; Marie Dressler the Actress Oscar for “Min and Bill”; Floyd Crosby the Cinematography Oscar for “Tabu.”