Ryan, Craig and I discuss the 6th annual Academy Awards, hosted by Will Rogers and held in March of 1933. It was the longest span of time between Oscar ceremonies — almost a year and a half — in order to get the Oscars in sync with a Jan-Dec calendar year and end the strange midyear Aug-July eligibility period that had been established in the first 5 years. One of the interesting things about 1934 was that the effects of the Depression raging through Hollywood had caused salary disputes that ended up creating the Screen Actors and Writers Guilds. It was also the year The Wrong Frank jumped up to accept Best Director, Mae West saved Paramount from financial ruin, and Katharine Hepburn became an overnight sensation just by sighing.
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