Best Actor 1929-1930

Time to play catch-up! I've avoided covering the Best Actor nominees from Oscar's first four years because 1) I was lazy, 2) the nominees were a little harder to find, and 3) my passion for the Best Actor category isn't nearly as strong as it is for Best Actress. But mostly I was lazy, and I figured before doing 1939 I'd go back and cover these bastards once and for all. That said, these profiles will be very short and sweet...because I'm lazy. I've toyed with the idea of going back and giving the ladies of 1927-1930 individual profiles but...that'll have to be another time. So here goes--I'm starting with my least anticipated year, 1929-1930!

and the nominees were: 

George Arliss, Disraeli

Wallace Beery, The Big House

Maurice Chevalier, The Big Pond

Maurice Chevalier, The Love Parade

Ronald Colman, Bulldog Drummond

Ronald Colman, Condemned

plus...

George Arliss, The Green Goddess 

(which I cannot find for the life of me. I guess when I was in Los Angeles I was too occupied trying to see Betty Compson and Jane Wyman that I didn't stop to think about any male nominees. So...I'm putting him on an indefinite delay lest there be an angel somewhere who can hook me up.)

and...

Lawrence Tibbett, The Rogue Song

(which is presently a lost film and only exists in fragments. Oscargasms prays to the Movie Gods that someday the film will be found, but until then...RIP to what could have been.)