Cimarron
1931 film by Wesley Ruggles · Released February 9, 1931
Cimarron is a 1931 American pre-Code epic Western film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles. Released by RKO Radio Pictures, it won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Howard Estabrook and based on Edna Ferber's 1930 novel Cimarron), and Best Production Design (by Max Rée). It is the first of four Westerns to ever win the top honor at the Academy Awards, being followed almost 60 years later by Dances With Wolves in 1990, Unforgiven in 1992, and No Country for Old Men in 2007. Both Dix and Dunne were nominated for their leading roles, and Edward Cronjager for Best Cinematography, but did not win.
Cast ages when filming began (1930)
- Richard Dix, as Yancey Cravat: 36–37
- Irene Dunne, as Sabra Cravat: 31–32
- Estelle Taylor, as Dixie Lee: 35–36
- George E. Stone, as Sol Levy: 26–27
- William Collier Jr., as The Kid: 27–28
- Edna May Oliver, as Tracy Wyatt: 46–47
- Eugene Jackson, as Isaiah: 13–14
- Judith Barrett, as Donna Cravat: 20–21
- Nance O'Neil, as Felice Venable: 55–56
- Robert McWade, as Louis Hefner: 57–58
- Roscoe Ates, as Jesse Rickey: 34–35
- Stanley Fields, as Lon Yountis: 46–47
- Dennis O'Keefe: 21–22