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Poll: 1927 - 1939 Best Picture Leads

The first Oscar ceremony was in 1929 with a joint winner, so this poll has 13 leads rather than 10. Which lead character from the Best Picture winners of the 1927 - 1939 is your favorite?

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    Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien in Sunrise (1927)

    The Man / The Wife
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    Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in Wings (1927)

    Jack Powell / David Armstrong / Mary Preston
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    Charles King, Bessie Love, and Anita Page in The Broadway Melody (1929)

    Eddie Kearns / Harriet 'Hank' Mahoney / Queenie Mahoney
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    "All Quiet on the Western Front" Lew Ayers 1930 Universal

    Paul
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    Irene Dunne and Richard Dix in Cimarron (1931)

    Yancey Cravat / Sabra Cravat
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    John Barrymore and Greta Garbo in Grand Hotel (1932)

    Grusinskaya / Baron Felix von Geigern
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    Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade (1933)

    Jane Marryot / Robert Marryot
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    Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)

    Peter Warne / Ellie Andrews
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    Clark Gable and Charles Laughton in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

    Fletcher Christian / Captain Bligh
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    William Powell and Luise Rainer in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

    Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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    Gloria Holden and Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

    Emile Zola
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    James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Irving Bacon, Mary Forbes, and Robert Greig in You Can't Take It with You (1938)

    Tony Kirby / Alice Sycamore
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    Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)

    Scarlett / Rhett Butler

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