The nominees were ...
- The Affairs of Cellini, United Artists Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
- Cleopatra, Paramount Studio Sound Department, Franklin B. Hansen, Sound Director
- Flirtation Walk, Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
- The Gay Divorcee, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, Carl Dreher, Sound Director
- Imitation of Life, Universal Studio Sound Department, Theodore Soderberg, Sound Director
- One Night of Love, Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director
- Viva Villa! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
- The White Parade, Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director
And the Oscar went to ...
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| John Livadary |
One Night of Love was designed by Columbia to make a movie star of Grace Moore, a Metropolitan Opera soprano. Before making her debut at the Met as Mimi in La Bohème in 1928, she had appeared on Broadway in musical comedies with songs by Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin. Blond, slim, and beautiful, which opera singers tend not to be, Moore was thought of as a rival to Jeanette MacDonald, who had just moved from Paramount to MGM. In fact, Moore had made three MGM pictures in 1930 and 1932, but was lured to Columbia with the promise of a big PR campaign. Her subsequent films were not successful in establishing Moore's stardom, however, and she returned to the operatic stage. She died in a plane crash in 1948, and her life story became an MGM musical, So This Is Love, in 1953, starring Kathryn Grayson, who had replaced Jeanette MacDonald as the movies' reigning soprano.
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| Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati in One Night of Love |
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| Moore in One Night of Love |
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