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"American Cinema of The 1930s: Themes & Variations" [2007] Edited by Ina Rae Hark Rutgers Univ Press pb [9/2007] for $22.95 Rutgers Univ Press hardcover [9/2007] for $68.00 |
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"Movies of The 30s" [2006] by Jürgen Müller Taschen 10x8¼ pb [10/2006] for $26.39 |
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"Film Posters of The 30s: The Essential Movies of The Decade" [2003] Edited by Tony Nourmand & Graham Marsh Aurum Press 11¾x9¾ pb [10/2003] for $15.72 |
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"The 1930s: American Popular Culture Through History" [2002] by William H. & Nancy K. Young Greenwood Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2002] for $54.10 |
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"Hollywood's Best: The '30s" [1997]
artists include Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Allan Jones, Ruby Keeler, Jeanette MacDonald, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers & James Stewart, and the orchestras of Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw Rhino Records/W.E.A. music CD [10/97] 16 tracks for $10.99 |
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"Grand Design: Hollywood As A Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939" [1993] by Tino Balio (History of The American Cinema, Vol. 5) Univ CA Press 10x7 pb [1/96] for $23.70 Scribner's 10½x7½ hardcover [2/93] for $99.00 |
NOTE: The Academy Award year was Summer to Summer from 1927-28 to 1931-32;
the 1934 Academy Awards were given for August 1932 to December 1933;
Academy Awards were given for calendar year thereafter.
complete listings of Nov 1931 Academy Awards for films of Aug 1930 to July 1931
or go to the prior page: 1927-1931
1931-32
complete listings of Nov 1932 Academy Awards for films of Aug 1931 to July 1932
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"Grand Hotel" [M.G.M. April 1932]
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"Arrowsmith"
[Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists Dec 1931]
Directed by John Ford [1894-1973]; based on the 1923 Sinclair Lewis novel; starring Ronald Colman,
Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson, Clarence Brooks & Myrna Loy; Oscar nominations
for Best Picture, Best Script/Adaptation, Best Cinematography & Best Art Direction
full credits from IMDb
"Bad Girl" [Fox Aug 1931]
full credits from IMDb
"The Champ" [M.G.M. Nov 1931]
Co-produced & directed by King Vidor; script by Frances Marion [1886-1973]; starring Wallace Beery,
Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich & Roscoe Ates; won Oscars for Best Actor (Beery) & Best Original Script,
nominated for Best Picture & Best Director;
full credits from IMDb
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
[Paramount Dec 1931]
full credits from IMDb
"The Guardsman" [M.G.M. Nov 1931]
Directed by Sidney Franklin; based on a Ferenc Molnár play; starring Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne
(Oscar nominated for Best Actor & Best Actress), with Roland Young & Zasu Pitts
full credits from IMDb
"The Music Box" short subject
[Hal Roach/M.G.M. April 1932]
Produced by Hal Roach, directed by James Parrott; starring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, with Billy Gilbert;
won Oscar for Best Comedy Short, listed at National Film Registry (1997)
full credits from IMDb
"Shanghai Express" [Paramount Feb 1932]
Directed by Josef von Sternberg; starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland &
Eugene Pallette; Oscar nominated for Best Picture & Best Director, won Oscar for Best Cinematography
full credits from IMDb
"The Sin of Madelon Claudet"
[M.G.M. Oct 1931]
full credits from IMDb
"What Price Hollywood?"
[R.K.O. Pathé June 1932]
full credits from IMDb
1932-33
complete listings of March 1934 Academy Awards for films of Aug 1932 to December 1933
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"Cavalcade" [Fox Jan 1933]
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"42nd Street" [Warner Bros. March 1933]
Directed by Lloyd Bacon; choreography by Busby Berkeley; starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels,
George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, Ned Sparks & Dick Powell;
Oscar nominated for Best Picture & Best Sound, listed on the National Film Registry (1998)
full credits from IMDb
"A Farewell to Arms" [Paramount Dec 1932]
full credits from IMDb
"I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang"
[Warner Bros. Nov 1932]
full credits from IMDb
"Lady For A Day" [Columbia Sept 1933]
Directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Robert Riskin, based on a Damon Runyon story; starring
Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Jean Parker,
Nat Pendleton, Hobart Bosworth, Robert Emmett O'Connor & Halliwell Hobbes; Oscar nominations for
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script/Adaptation & Best Actress (MR)
full credits from IMDb
"Little Women"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures Nov 1933]
full credits from IMDb
"Morning Glory"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures Aug 1933]
full credits from IMDb
"The Private Life of Henry VIII"
[London Film / United Artists Sept 1933]
full credits from IMDb
"The Prizefighter and The Lady"
[M.G.M./Loew's Nov 1933]
Produced & directed by W.S. Van Dyke; co-written by Frances Marion [1886-1973]; starring Myrna Loy,
Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, Walter Huston & Otto Kruger; Oscar nomination for Best Original Script
full credits from IMDb
"Rasputin and The Empress"
[M.G.M. March 1933]
Directed by Richard Boleslawski; script by Charles MacArthur; starring John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore,
Lionel Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Tad Alexander, C. Henry Gordon, Edward Arnold & Mischa Auer;
Oscar nomination for Best Original Script
full credits from IMDb
"Smilin' Through" [M.G.M. Sept 1932]
full credits from IMDb
"State Fair" [Fox Feb 1933]
full credits from IMDb
1934
complete listings of February 1935 Academy Awards for films of 1934 calendar year
"It Happened One Night"
[Columbia Feb 1934]
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the first Oscar 'grand slam': won best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress & Best Script 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters [dot] com The father of a spoiled, spunky socialite annuls her marriage, so she jumps off his yacht and runs away. An out-of-work reporter realizes he has a choice story when he meets her on a cross-country bus, and he trades his silence and help for an exclusive. But during their travels together, they reluctantly fall in love – though neither is able to admit it. Produced & directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Robert Riskin, based on the Samuel Hopkins Adams novel "Night Bus"; starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas, Alan Hale & Ward Bond; listed on National Film Registry (1993) Sony b&w DVD [12/99] for $18.99 Sony b&w VHS [6/94] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
[M.G.M. Sept 1934]
full credits from IMDb
"Cleopatra" [Paramount Oct 1934]
full credits from IMDb
"The Gay Divorcee" [R.K.O. Radio Oct 1934]
full credits from IMDb
"Imitation of Life" [Universal Nov 1934]
full credits from IMDb
"Manhattan Melodrama"
[M.G.M./Loew's May 1934]
full credits from IMDb
"Of Human Bondage" [R.K.O. Radio July 1934]
full credits from IMDb
"The Thin Man" [M.G.M. May 1934]
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Directed by W.S. VanDyke; script by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich; starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Asta, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell & Cesar Romero; Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script & Best Actor
Warner b&w DVD keepcase [8/2005] for $17.98 Warner b&w DVD snapcase [10/2002] for $17.97 Warner b&w VHS [7/2001] for $14.95 full credits from IMDb "The Complete Thin Man Collection" boxed set Warner b&w DVD [8/2005] 7 disks for $44.99 |
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based on "The Thin Man" novel [1934] by Dashiell Hammett [1894-1951] Vintage 8x5 pb [8/92] for $8.80 Otto Penzler hardcover [7/96] for $39.95 |
"Thin Man" movie videos at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
purchase "Thin Man" movie posters at AllPosters.com
"Viva Villa!" [M.G.M. April 1934]
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Directed by Jack Conway & Howard Hawks; starring Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo & Fay Wray; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Script, Best Sound, won for Best Asst Director
Warner Video b&w VHS [4/93] for $14.95 full credits from IMDb |
1935
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"Mutiny On The Bounty" [M.G.M. Nov 1935] full credits from IMDb |
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
[Warner Bros. Oct 1935]
Co-directed by William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt; starring James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell,
Mickey Rooney, Victor Jory, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Olivia de Havilland, Frank McHugh,
Arthur Treacher, Billy Barty & Anita Louise; Oscar nominations for Best Picture & Best Assistant Director,
won Oscars for Best Cinematography & Best Editing
full credits from IMDb
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival at Magic Lantern
"Broadway Melody of 1936"
[M.G.M. Sept 1935]
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Directed by Roy Del Ruth; won Oscar for Best Dance Direction, nominated for Best Picture & Best Original Script
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"Captain Blood" [Warner Bros. Dec 1935]
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A British surgeon is wrongly condemned to slavery in the Caribbean; he escapes and steals a ship and becomes a pirate. Directed by Michael Curtiz; based on the 1922 Rafael Sabatini novel; starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee & J. Carrol Naish; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Score
Warner b&w DVD [4/2005] for $14.98 Warner b&w VHS [5/2001] out of stock/used RCA filmscore by Korngold CD [6/91] for $10.99 Soundtrack Factory CD [7/2000] for $13.98 full credits from IMDb |
Pirate Film Festival at Magic Lantern
"David Copperfield" [M.G.M. Oct 1935]
Directed by George Cukor; starring Freddie Bartholomew, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Hugh Walpole,
Basil Rathbone, Fay Chaldecott, Una O'Connor, Lionel Barrymore, Violet Kemble Cooper, Elsa Lanchester,
Jean Cadell, W.C. Fields, Roland Young, Lewis Stone, Frank Lawton, Madge Evans, Hugh Williams &
Maureen O'Sullivan; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Assistant Director & Best Editing
full credits from IMDb
"Gold Diggers of 1935"
[Warner Bros./First National March 1935]
full credits from IMDb
"The Informer"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures May 1935]
Directed by John Ford [1894-1973]; starring Victor McLaglen
full credits from IMDb
"The Lives of A Bengal Lancer"
[Paramount Jan 1935]
full credits from IMDb
"The Scoundrel" [Paramount April 1935]
Co-written & co-directed by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur; won Oscar for Best Original Script
full credits from IMDb
"Top Hat"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures Sept 1935]
full credits from IMDb
1936
complete listings of March 1937 Academy Awards for films of 1936 calendar year
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"The Great Ziegfeld" [M.G.M. March 1936] full credits from IMDb |
"A Tale of Two Cities"
[M.G.M. Dec 1936]
full credits from IMDb
"Anthony Adverse" [Warner Bros. Aug 1936]
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy; won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (GS), Best Cinematography, Best Editing,
Best Music Score, nominated for Best Picture, Best Assistant Director, Best Art Direction
full credits from IMDb
"The Charge of The Light Brigade"
[Warner Bros. Oct 1936]
full credits from IMDb
"Dodsworth"
[Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists Sept 1936]
full credits from IMDb
"Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"
[Columbia April 1936]
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A small-town tuba player inherits a fortune from a distant relative; he moves to the big city and fends off a stream of city slickers, embezzlers, moochers & phonies, and a greedy opera committee. Then a hot-shot female reporter gets him in her sights...
Produced & directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Robert Riskin, based on a story by Clarence Budington Kelland; starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, H.B. Warner, Ruth Donnelly & George 'Gabby' Hayes; won Oscar for Best Director, nominated for Best Picture, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Sound
Sony b&w DVD [2/2000] for $17.99 Sony b&w VHS [5/2002] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"Romeo and Juliet" [M.G.M. Sept 1936]
Directed by George Cukor; starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver,
Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Andy Devine, Henry Kolker, Robert Warwick & Reginald Denny;
Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (NS), Best Supporting Actor (BR), Best Art Direction
full credits from IMDb
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival at Magic Lantern
"San Francisco" [M.G.M. June 1936]
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Directed by W.S. Van Dyke; starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy & Jack Holt; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor (Tracy), Best AD, won for Best Sound
Warner Video color VHS [11/90] for $14.95 Great Music Themes soundtrack CD [11/97] out of print/used full credits from IMDb |
"The Story of Louis Pasteur" [Warner Bros. Feb 1936]
full credits from IMDb
"Theodora Goes Wild" [Columbia Nov 1936]
full credits from IMDb
1937
complete listings of March 1938 Academy Awards for films of 1937 calendar year
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"The Life of Emile Zola" [Warner Bros. Aug 1937] full credits from IMDb |
"A Star Is Born"
[Selznick/United Artists April 1937]
Produced by David O. Selznick; co-written & directed by William A. Wellman; starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March,
Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, Owen Moore, Peggy Wood, Elizabeth Jenns, Edgar Kennedy,
J.C. Nugent & Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams; won Oscar for Best Original Story & Honorary Oscar for color photography;
Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (FM), Best Actress (JG), Best Assistant Director
full credits from IMDb
"The Awful Truth" [Columbia Oct 1937]
Directed by Leo McCarey; won Oscar for Best Director; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Screenplay,
Best Actress (ID), Best Supporting Actor (RB), Best Editing; listed on National Film Registry (1996)
full credits from IMDb
"Black Legion" [Warner Bros. Jan 1937]
Directed by Archie Mayo; starring Humphrey Bogart & Ann Sheridan; Oscar nom for Best Original Story
full credits from IMDb
"Camille" [M.G.M. Jan 1937]
full credits from IMDb
"Captains Courageous" [M.G.M. June 1937]
full credits from IMDb
"Dead End"
[Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists Aug 1937]
Directed by William Wyler; written by Lillian Hellman, from a play by Sidney Kingsley; starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea,
Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan,
Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell & Bernard Punsly; Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (CT),
Best Cinematography (Gregg Toland) & Best Art Direction
full credits from IMDb
source of the spin-off "Dead End Kids" series and "Bowery Boys" series
"The Good Earth" [M.G.M. Aug 1937]
full credits from IMDb
"The Grand Illusion" [France 1937]
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Complex, profound and heartbreakingly human look at the illusions inherent in war & heroism, social class & individual character, romantic love, religion – all are trapped in illusion.
Co-written & directed by Jean Renoir; starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim & Marcel Dalio; nominated for Best Picture Oscar
Criterion b&w DVD w/English subtitles [11/99] for $34.76 TimelessVideo b&w VHS w/English subtitles [8/97] for $14.99 Criterion b&w VHS w/English subtitles [11/99] for $29.95 full credits from IMDb |
"In Old Chicago" [Fox Dec 1937]
full credits from IMDb
"Lost Horizon" [Columbia March 1937]
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A British author-diplomat-adventurer is kidnapped to an isolated Himalayan valley where inhabitants live for centuries.
Produced & directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Robert Riskin, based on James Hilton's novel; starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, H.B. Warner, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo & Isabel Jewell; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best A.D., Best Supporting Actor {HBW), Best Music (Dimitri Tiomkin) & Best Sound; won Oscars for Best Art Direction & Best Film Editing
Sony b&w DVD [8/99] for $24.88 Sony b&w VHS [6/97] out of prodn/used Soundtrack Factory soundtrack CD [1/99] for $11.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Lost Horizon: The Haunting Novel of Love In Shangri-La" [1933] by James Hilton [1900-54] chosen to be the first novel published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1 Pocket mass pb [1/88] for $6.99 Harper 8x5½ pb [6/2004] for $9.97 Amereon 8¾x6 hardcover [6/93] for $24.95 Reader's Digest hardcover [1/90] out of prodn/many used book entry at Wikipedia; book/movie fansite |
"One Hundred Men and A Girl"
[Universal Sept 1937]
Deanna Durbin hires unemployed friends to form a symphony orchestra.
Directed by Henry King; Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Original Story, Best Editing, Best Sound,
won Oscar for Best Music Score;
full credits from IMDb
"Stage Door" [R.K.O. Radio Pictures Oct 1937]
full credits from IMDb
1938
complete listings of February 1939 Academy Awards for films of 1938 calendar year
"You Can't Take It With You"
[Columbia August 1938]
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The son of a wealthy, snobbish family plans to marry the lovely daughter of a free-spirited & loving family presided over by a wise grandfather.
Produced & directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Robert Riskin, based on the hit Broadway play {below}; music by Dimitri Tiomkin; starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Spring Byington, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Samuel S. Hinds, Donald Meek, H.B. Warner, Halliwell Hobbes, Dub Taylor, Mary Forbes, Lillian Yarbo & Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson; won Oscars for Best Picture & Best Director, Oscar nominated for Best Script, Best Supporting Actress (SB), Best Cinematography, Best Editing & Best Sound
Sony b&w DVD [2/2003] for $26.99 Sony b&w VHS [6/97] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
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"The Adventures of Robin Hood"
[Warner Bros. May 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
[Fox Aug 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"Angels With Dirty Faces"
[First National/Warner Bros. Nov 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"Boys Town" [M.G.M. Sept 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"The Citadel" [M.G.M. Nov 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"Four Daughters"
[First National/Warner Bros. Aug 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"The Grand Illusion"
[France June 1937, U.S.A. Sept 1938]
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Complex, profound and heartbreakingly human look at the illusions inherent in war & heroism, social class & individual character, romantic love, religion – all are trapped in illusion.
Co-written & directed by Jean Renoir; starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim & Marcel Dalio; Oscar nominated for Best Picture
Criterion b&w DVD w/English subtitles [11/99] for $34.76 TimelessVideo b&w VHS w/English subtitles [8/97] for $14.99 Criterion b&w VHS w/English subtitles [11/99] for $29.95 Sound Track Factory audio CD [9/2000] for $13.28 full credits from IMDb |
"Jezebel" [Warner Bros. March 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"Marie Antoinette" [M.G.M./Loew's Aug 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"Pygmalion" [M.G.M. Dec 1938]
full credits from IMDb
"Test Pilot" [M.G.M. April 1938]
full credits from IMDb
1939
complete listings of February 1940 Academy Awards for films of 1939 calendar year
"Gone With The Wind"
[Selznick/M.G.M. Dec 1939]
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Beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara loses her first love, and takes up with renegade Rhett Butler at the start of the War Between The States; she refuses to admit her love for Rhett and eventually loses him and her beloved Tara plantation.
Produced by David O. Selznick; directed by Victor Fleming; starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Evelyn Keyes, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond & Yakima Canutt; won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Color Cinematography, Best Actress [VL], Best Supporting Actress [HM], Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Honorary Oscar for "outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood"; Oscar nominations for Best Actor [Gable], Best Supporting Actress [OdH], Best Special Effects, Best Music Score [Max Steiner] & Best Sound; listed on National Film Registry (1989) Warner Collector's Edition color DVD set [11/2004] 4 disks for $27.99 Warner Special Edition color DVD [1/2006] 2 disks for $13.99 Warner color VHS [3/2000] 2 tapes - out of prodn/many used Rhino/WEA soundtrack CD [6/97] for $11.98 full credits from IMDb official movie site |
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based on Margaret Mitchell's novel [Scribner Sept 1936]
awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) Warner Books mass pb [8/93] for $7.99 Warner Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/99] for $10.85 Scribner 8½x6 hardcover [facsimile] for $17.82 Margaret Mitchell [1900-49] entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Filming of Gone With The Wind" [1983] by Herb Bridges Mercer Univ Press 12¼x9 pb [8/98] for $21.90 Mercer Univ Press 12¼x9¼ hardcover [11/83] out of print/used screenplay, with critical text by Herb Bridges [1989] Delta 9x6 pb [11/89] out of print/used |
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"Gone With The Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of The Book, The Movie & The Legend" [1989] by Herb Bridges & Terryl C. Boodman Fireside 11x8½ pb [10/89] for $14.04 S&S hardcover [10/89] out of print/used |
'Gone With The Wind' posters & photos at AllPosters.com
G.W.T.W. Ring on RingSurf
Dawn's G.W.T.W. fansite
"Dark Victory"
[First National/Warner Bros. April 1939]
full credits from IMDb
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
[M.G.M. July 1939]
full credits from IMDb
"Gunga Din" [R.K.O. Jan 1939]
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11"x17" poster available at AllPosters [dot] com
In XIXth Century India, three happy-go-lucky British sergeants and a native water-bearer stand off an army of Thugee rebels at Khyber Pass. Directed by George Stevens; story by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, based loosely on the Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936] poem; script by Joel Sayre & Fred Guiol; starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Sam Jaffe; Oscar nomination for Best B&W Cinematography, listed on National Film Registry (1999) Warner b&w DVD [12/2004] for $14.99 Turner b&w VHS [5/93] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"Love Affair"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures March 1939]
Produced, co-written & directed by Leo McCarey; starring Irene Dunne,
Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn & Maurice Moscovitch; Oscar nominations for Best Picture,
Best Original Script, Best Actress (ID), Best Supporting Actress (MO), Best Original Song, Best Art Direction
full credits from IMDb
"Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"
[Columbia Oct 1939]
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11"x17" poster available at AllPosters.com
A classic struggle between good & evil: A naive Boy Scout leader is appointed U.S. Senator on a lark; threatened by his idealism, the corrupt system in Washington first tries to bribe him, then manufactures a scandal. Directed by Frank Capra [1897-1991]; script by Sidney Buch- man, based on a story by Lewis R. Foster; starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, H.B. Warner & William Demarest; won an Oscar for Best Original Story, nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor, two Best Supporting Actors (Rains & Carey), Best Music [Dimitri Tiomkin], Best Art Direction, Best Editing & Best Sound; listed on National Film Registry (1989) Sony b&w DVD [2/2000] for $19.99 Sony b&w VHS [2/2000] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"Ninotchka" [M.G.M. Oct 1939]
Produced & directed by Ernst Lubitsch, written by Melchior Lengyel, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & Walter Reisch;
starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman & Felix Bressart; Oscar nominations for
Best Picture, Best Original Story, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Garbo), listed on National Film Registry (1990)
full credits from IMDb
"Of Mice & Men" [Hal Roach 1939]
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Directed by Lewis Milestone; starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele & Noah Beery Jr.; nominated for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Music (Aaron Copland), Best Sound
Image Ent b&w DVD [3/2001] for $17.99 Image Ent b&w VHS [3/2001] for $29.98 full credits from IMDb |
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based on the novel [Covici-Friede Feb 1937] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
Penguin 8.4x5½ pb [1/2002] for $8.80 Penguin ABR audio [10/92] 2 tapes read by Gary Sinise for $12.76 |
"Stagecoach" [United Artists Feb 1939]
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Passengers on a stagecoach – the famous Ringo Kid, a drunken doctor, a pregnant woman, a crooked bank manager & others – learn that Geronimo is on the warpath.
Co-produced & directed by John Ford [1894-1973]; script by Dudley Nichols from the short story by Ernest Haycox; starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt & Tim Holt; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best B&W Cinema- tography, Best Art Direction, won Best Music, Best Supporting Actor (Mitchell); listed at National Film Registry 1995 Warner Video b&w VHS [6/97] for $14.95 Warner Video b&w DVD [10/97] for $15.99 full credits from IMDb "Stagecoach" [1939] posters at AllPosters [dot] com |
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"John Ford's Stagecoach" [2002] Edited by Barry Keith Grant Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/2002] for $22.99 "Stagecoach" [1992] critical text by Edward Buscombe British Film Institute 7½x5½ pb [9/92] for $10.17 |
"The Wizard of Oz"
[M.G.M./Loew's Aug 1939]
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A cyclone picks up a house, a girl, and her dog Toto and transports them to the strange land of Oz, where she meets a Tin Woodsman, a Cowardly Lion, and a Scarecrow. They travel together along the Yellow Brick Road, fighting witches & flying monkeys to get to the Emerald City, where they finally confront the terrible Wizard of Oz.
Produced by Mervyn LeRoy, directed by Victor Fleming; based on the novel by L. Frank Baum; starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin & Terry {as Toto}; won Oscars for Best Music Score & Best Song, Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Color Cinematography, Best Special Effects & Best Art Direction, Juvenile Award for Judy Garland; listed on National Film Registry (1989)
Warner Collector's Edition color DVD pkg [10/2005] 3 disks for $36.99 Warner Special Edition color DVD set [10/2005] 2 disks for $19.99 Warner/Turner color DVD [10/99] out of prodn/many used M.G.M. color clamshell VHS [9/96] out of prodn/many used M.G.M. color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/many used Rhino/W.E.A. Special Edition soundtrack CD [9/98] for $18.98 Rhino/W.E.A. Deluxe Edition soundtrack CD [7/95] for $22.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Wuthering Heights"
[Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists April 1939]
full credits from IMDb
"Young Mr. Lincoln"
[Fox June 1939]
Directed by John Ford
[1894-1973]; script by Lamar Trotti; starring Henry Fonda {as Abe}, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver,
Arleen Whelan, Eddie Collins, Pauline Moore, Richard Cromwell, Donald Meek, Judith Dickens, Eddie Quillan, Milburn
Stone, Spencer Charters & Ward Bond; Oscar nomination for Best Original Script; listed on National Film Registry (2003)
full credits from IMDb
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complete listings of February 1941 Academy Awards for films of 1940 calendar year
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"Rebecca" [Selznick/United Artists March 1940] Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel; starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny & C. Aubrey Smith; won Oscars for Best Picture & Best B&W Cinematography, Oscar noms for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor [LO], Best Actress [JF], Best Supporting Actress [JA], Best B&W Art Direction, Best Music Score, Best Special Effects & Best Film Editing full credits from IMDb |
"Abe Lincoln In Illinois"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures Feb 1940]
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"All This, and Heaven Too"
[Warner Bros. July 1940]
full credits from IMDb
"Foreign Correspondent"
[Walter Wanger/United Artists Aug 1940]
full credits from IMDb
"The Grapes of Wrath" [Fox 1940]
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John Ford's movie remains an unforgettable experience even 60 years later.
Directed by John Ford [1894- 1973]; script by Nunnally Johnson; starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin & Dorris Bowdon; won Oscars for Best Director & Best Supporting Actress (Darwell), nominated for Best Picture, Best Script, Best Actor (Fonda), Best Editing, Best Sound; listed in National Film Registry (1989)
Fox b&w VHS [10/99] for $13.99 full credits from IMDb |
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based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning & best-selling novel [Viking April 1939]
by John Steinbeck [1902-68] When America was devastated by the 'Dust Bowl' drought, many farmers lost their land, and many of them migrated to California. Steinbeck's epic novel revealed to the world the plight of a family of 'Okies' (from Oklahoma), and caused society to make changes in 'The System'. The novel is listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005). Penguin 8.4x5½ pb [1/2002] for $12.00 Penguin UNABR audio [10/98] 12 tapes for $34.96 |
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"Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath 1938-1941" [1989] Edited by Robert Demott Penguin 7¾x5 pb [12/90] for $10.50 Viking hardcover [3/89] out of print/used |
"The Great Dictator"
[United Artists Oct 1940]
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Chaplin's first talkie; an amnesiac Jewish barber (Chaplin) is released from hospital unaware of a resemblance to his country's new dictator, Adenoid Hynkle (also Chaplin). Temporary favoritism of the Jews is soon replaced with shipment to concentration camps; the barber and a sympa- thetic officer escape and are captured by enemy forces, who believe that the barber is the dictator. The bogus dictator then delivers a lyrical six-minute radio speech advocating peace.
Written & directed by & starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell & Billy Gilbert; Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Script, Best Actor (CC), Best Supporting Actor (JO), Best Original Score; listed on the National Film Registry in 1997
Warner special edition DVD [7/2003] 2 disks for $26.99 Image Ent b&w DVD [4/2000] out of stock/used Creative Design Limited Edition DVD [7/2003] 3 disks / out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
"The Great McGinty"
[Paramount August 1940]
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A political boss turns a bum into a successful crooked politician; when McGinty marries an honest woman, his career is in jeopardy.
Written & directed by Preston Sturges; starring Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, Muriel Angelus, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest, Arthur Hoyt & Thurston Hall; won Oscar for Best Original Screenplay
Universal b&w VHS [3/92] out of prodn/used DVD as part of the Preston Sturges Collection box set Universal DVD box set [11/2006] 7 disks for $41.99 full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster available at AllPosters.com |
"Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures Dec 1940]
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"The Letter" [Warner Bros. Nov 1940]
full credits from IMDb
"The Long Voyage Home"
[Walter Wanger/United Artists Nov 1940]
Produced & directed by John Ford [1894-1973]; script by Dudley Nichols, based on stage plays by Eugene O'Neill;
starring John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick
& Ward Bond; Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best B&W Cinematography, Best Editing,
Best Special Effects, Best Original Score;
full credits from IMDb
"Our Town"
[Sol Lesser/United Artists May 1940]
full credits from IMDb
"The Philadelphia Story"
[M.G.M. Dec 1940]
full credits from IMDb
"The Westerner"
[Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists Sept 1940]
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Directed by William Wyler; starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone & Forrest Tucker; won Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Brennan), nominated for Best Script, Best Art Direction
MGM/UA b&w VHS [9/2001] for $9.94 HBO Video b&w DVD [9/98] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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