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jul 13, 1929 - First awarded "Best Picture" academy award

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The first original film musical and the first musical/sound film to win the "Best Picture" Academy Award was MGM's The Broadway Melody (1929) starring Charles King, Anita Page, and Bessie Love. it was also MGM's first full-length musical feature (in a long succession of distinguished musicals) and the first widely-distributed sound feature.

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jul 13, 1929
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~ 96 years ago