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A list of American films released in 1939.
Gone with the Wind won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
$1,000 a Touchdown |
James P. Hogan |
Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
20,000 Men a Year |
Alfred E. Green |
Randolph Scott, Preston Foster, Margaret Lindsay |
Drama |
Cosmopolitan Productions
|
6,000 Enemies |
George B. Seitz |
Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly, Nat Pendleton |
Crime drama |
MGM
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Across the Plains |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Addison Randall, Frank Yaconelli |
Western |
Monogram
|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Richard Thorpe |
Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley |
Drama |
MGM
|
The Adventures of Jane Arden |
Terry O. Morse |
Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Alfred L. Werker |
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino |
Mystery |
20th Century Fox
|
Adventures of the Masked Phantom |
Charles Abbott |
Monte Rawlins, Betty Burgess |
Western |
B. F. Zeidman Productions [1]
|
All Women Have Secrets |
Kurt Neumann |
Virginia Dale, Joseph Allen, Jeanne Cagney |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Allegheny Uprising |
William A. Seiter |
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders, Brian Donlevy |
Adventure, Western |
RKO
|
Almost a Gentleman |
Leslie Goodwins |
James Ellison, June Clayworth |
Comedy |
|
The Amazing Mr. Williams |
Alexander Hall |
Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb, Ruth Donnelly |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Ambush |
Kurt Neumann |
Lloyd Nolan, Gladys Swarthout |
Crime |
Paramount
|
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden |
Comedy |
MGM
|
The Angels Wash Their Faces |
Ray Enright |
Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly, Leo Gorcey |
Drama |
First National Pictures
|
Another Thin Man |
W. S. Van Dyke |
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger |
Crime |
MGM
|
The Arizona Kid |
Joseph Kane |
Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Sally March |
Western |
Republic
|
Arizona Legion |
David Howard |
George O'Brien, Laraine Day, Carlyle Moore Jr., Chill Wills |
Western |
RKO
|
The Arizona Wildcat |
Herbert I. Leeds |
Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
Arrest Bulldog Drummond |
James P. Hogan |
John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny |
Adventure |
Paramount
|
At the Circus |
Edward Buzzell |
Marx Brothers, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice, Eve Arden, Margaret Dumont |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Babes in Arms |
Busby Berkeley |
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee |
Musical |
MGM, Based on 1937 stage show
|
Bachelor Mother |
Garson Kanin |
Ginger Rogers, David Niven |
Comedy |
RKO
|
Back Door to Heaven |
William K. Howard |
Wallace Ford, Aline MacMahon |
Crime |
Vernon Steele Productions
|
Bad Boy |
Herbert Meyer |
Johnny Downs, Rosalind Keith |
Crime |
Gateway Productions Inc.
|
Bad Lands |
Lew Landers |
Robert Barrat, Douglas Walton |
Western |
RKO
|
Bad Little Angel |
Wilhelm Thiele |
Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee |
Drama |
MGM
|
Balalaika |
Reinhold Schünzel |
Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan |
Musical |
MGM
|
Barricade |
Gregory Ratoff |
Alice Faye, Warner Baxter |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Beau Geste |
William A. Wellman |
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Beauty for the Asking |
Glenn Tryon |
Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles |
Drama |
RKO
|
Behind Prison Gates |
Charles Barton |
Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop |
Crime |
Columbia[2]
|
Beware Spooks! |
Edward Sedgwick |
Joe E. Brown, Mary Carlisle, Clarence Kolb |
Comedy |
Columbia[3]
|
The Big Guy |
Arthur Lubin |
Victor McLaglen, Jackie Cooper, Ona Munson |
Crime |
Universal
|
Big Town Czar |
Arthur Lubin |
Barton MacLane, Tom Brown, Eve Arden |
Mystery |
Universal
|
Birthright |
Oscar Micheaux |
Carman Newsome |
Drama |
|
Blackmail |
H. C. Potter |
Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart |
Crime drama |
MGM
|
Blackwell's Island |
William C. McGann |
John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell, Victor Jory |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
Blind Alley |
Charles Vidor |
Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak |
Crime |
Columbia
|
Blondie Brings Up Baby |
Frank R. Strayer |
Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Blondie Meets the Boss |
Frank R. Strayer |
Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Blondie Takes a Vacation |
Frank R. Strayer |
Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Blue Montana Skies |
B. Reeves Eason |
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette |
Western |
Republic
|
Boy Friend |
James Tinling |
Jane Withers, Arleen Whelan |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Boy Slaves |
P. J. Wolfson |
Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel |
Drama |
RKO
|
Boy Trouble |
George Archainbaud |
Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Boys' Reformatory |
Howard Bretherton |
Frankie Darro, Grant Withers |
Crime |
Monogram
|
Bridal Suite |
Wilhelm Thiele |
Annabella, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen |
Musical comedy |
MGM
|
Broadway Serenade |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres |
Musical |
MGM
|
The Bronze Buckaroo |
Richard C. Kahn |
Herb Jeffries, Lucius Brooks |
Western |
Hollywood Pictures
|
Buck Rogers |
Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind |
Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore |
Science fiction |
Universal
|
Bulldog Drummond's Bride |
James P. Hogan |
John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny |
Mystery |
Paramount
|
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police |
James P. Hogan |
John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny |
Mystery |
Paramount
|
Buried Alive |
Victor Halperin |
Beverly Roberts, Robert Wilcox |
Crime |
Producers Pictures [4]
|
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor |
Edward Sedgwick |
Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton |
Drama |
MGM
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Cafe Society |
Edward H. Griffith |
Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross |
Romantic comedy |
Paramount
|
Call a Messenger |
Arthur Lubin |
Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle |
Crime drama |
Universal
|
Calling All Marines |
John H. Auer |
Don "Red" Barry, Helen Mack |
Action |
Republic
|
Calling Dr. Kildare |
Harold S. Bucquet |
Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton, Lana Turner |
Drama |
MGM
|
Captain Fury |
Hal Roach |
Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang |
Adventure |
Hal Roach Studios Inc.
|
Career |
Leigh Jason |
Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Samuel S. Hinds |
Drama |
RKO
|
The Cat and the Canary |
Elliott Nugent |
Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery, Gale Sondergaard |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island |
Norman Foster |
Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Cesar Romero |
Crime |
20th Century Fox
|
Charlie Chan in City in Darkness |
Herbert I. Leeds |
Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari |
Crime |
20th Century Fox
|
Charlie Chan in Reno |
Norman Foster |
Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks, Slim Summerville |
Crime |
20th Century Fox
|
Charlie McCarthy, Detective |
Frank Tuttle |
Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Robert Cummings, Constance Moore |
Comedy |
Universal[5]
|
Chasing Danger |
Ricardo Cortez |
Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Wally Vernon, Henry Wilcoxon |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox
|
Chicken Wagon Family |
Herbert I. Leeds |
Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Weaver, Spring Byington |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
A Child Is Born |
Lloyd Bacon |
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George, Gale Page, Spring Byington |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Chip of the Flying U |
Ralph Staub |
Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Doris Weston |
Western |
Universal
|
The Cisco Kid and the Lady |
Herbert I. Leeds |
Cesar Romero, Marjorie Weaver |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
Coast Guard |
Edward Ludwig |
Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Code of the Cactus |
Sam Newfield |
Tim McCoy, Ben Corbett, Dorothy Short |
Western |
Victory Pictures Corporation
|
Code of the Fearless |
Raymond K. Johnson |
Fred Scott, Claire Rochelle |
Western |
Atlas Productions [6]
|
Code of the Secret Service |
Noel M. Smith |
Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr., Moroni Olsen |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
Code of the Streets |
Harold Young |
Harry Carey, Frankie Thomas |
Crime |
Universal
|
Colorado Sunset |
George Sherman |
Gene Autry, June Storey, Patsy Montana |
Western |
Republic
|
Confessions of a Nazi Spy |
Anatole Litvak |
Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Conspiracy |
Lew Landers |
Allan Lane, Linda Hayes |
Drama |
|
Convict's Code |
Lambert Hillyer |
Sidney Blackmer, Anne Nagel |
Crime |
|
The Cowboy Quarterback |
Noel M. Smith |
Bert Wheeler, Marie Wilson |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Crashing Thru |
Elmer Clifton |
James Newill, Jean Carmen, Warren Hull |
Western |
Monogram
|
Dancing Co-Ed |
S. Sylvan Simon |
Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw, Ann Rutherford |
Romantic comedy |
MGM
|
Danger Flight |
Howard Bretherton |
Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone |
Drama |
|
Dark Victory |
Edmund Goulding |
Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan |
Drama |
Warner Bros.; Academy Award nomination Best Picture
|
Daughter of the Tong |
Bernard B. Ray |
Evelyn Brent, Grant Withers |
Drama |
Metropolitan
|
Daughters Courageous |
Michael Curtiz |
John Garfield, Claude Rains, Fay Bainter |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
The Day the Bookies Wept |
Leslie Goodwins |
Betty Grable |
Comedy |
RKO
|
Day-Time Wife |
Gregory Ratoff |
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell |
Romantic comedy |
|
Death of a Champion |
Robert Florey |
Virginia Dale, Donald O'Connor |
Mystery |
|
Death Rides the Range |
Sam Newfield |
Fay McKenzie, Ken Maynard |
Western |
|
Destry Rides Again |
George Marshall |
Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart |
Western |
Universal
|
Devil's Island |
William Clemens |
Boris Karloff, James Stephenson |
Suspense |
|
Dick Tracy's G-Men |
William Witney |
Ralph Byrd, Jennifer Jones |
Serial |
Republic
|
Disbarred |
Robert Florey |
Gail Patrick, Robert Preston |
Drama |
|
Disputed Passage |
Frank Borzage |
Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Dodge City |
Michael Curtiz |
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh |
Western |
Warner Bros.
|
Drums Along the Mohawk |
John Ford |
Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
Dust Be My Destiny |
Lewis Seiler |
John Garfield, Priscilla Lane |
Drama |
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Each Dawn I Die |
William Keighley |
James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
The Escape |
Ricardo Cortez |
Amanda Duff, Kane Richmond, June Gale |
Action |
20th Century Fox
|
Escape to Paradise |
Erle C. Kenton |
Kent Taylor, Joyce Compton |
Drama |
|
Espionage Agent |
Lloyd Bacon |
Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, George Bancroft |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Eternally Yours |
Tay Garnett |
Loretta Young, David Niven |
Comedy |
|
"Everybody's Baby" |
Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker) |
Shirley Deane |
Comedy |
|
Everybody's Hobby |
William C. McGann |
Irene Rich, Jackie Moran |
Comedy |
|
Everything Happens at Night |
Irving Cummings |
Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Ex-Champ |
Phil Rosen |
Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey |
Sports drama |
[7]
|
Exile Express |
Otis Garrett |
Anna Sten, Alan Marshal |
Drama |
Grand National Films Inc.
|
The Family Next Door |
Joseph Santley |
Hugh Herbert, Joy Hodges, Eddie Quillan, Ruth Donnelly |
Comedy |
Universal Pictures
|
Fast and Furious |
Busby Berkeley |
Ann Sothern, Franchot Tone |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Fast and Loose |
Edwin L. Marin |
Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Fifth Avenue Girl |
Gregory La Cava |
Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale |
Comedy |
RKO
|
The Fighting Gringo |
David Howard |
George O'Brien, Lupita Tovar |
Western |
|
First Love |
Henry Koster |
Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette |
Musical |
Universal
|
First Offenders |
Frank McDonald |
Beverly Roberts, Walter Abel |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Five Came Back |
John Farrow |
Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie |
Drama |
RKO
|
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew |
Charles Barton |
Edith Fellows, Charles Peck, Tommy Bond, Jimmy Leake, Dorothy Ann Sease |
Family |
Columbia Pictures
|
Fixer Dugan |
Lew Landers |
Lee Tracy, Peggy Shannon |
Comedy |
|
Flight at Midnight |
Sidney Salkow |
Phil Regan, Jean Parker |
Drama |
Republic
|
The Flying Deuces |
A. Edward Sutherland |
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker |
Comedy |
RKO
|
The Flying Irishman |
Leigh Jason |
Douglas Corrigan |
Biographical |
RKO
|
Four Wives |
Michael Curtiz |
Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Frontier Marshal |
Allan Dwan |
Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
Frontiers of '49 |
Joseph Levering |
Wild Bill Elliott, Luana Alcañiz, Charles King |
Western |
Columbia
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Geronimo |
Paul Sloane |
Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine |
Western |
Paramount
|
The Girl and the Gambler |
Lew Landers |
Tim Holt, Steffi Duna |
Western |
RKO
|
The Girl from Mexico |
Leslie Goodwins |
Lupe Vélez, Leon Errol |
Comedy |
RKO
|
Golden Boy |
Rouben Mamoulian |
Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Gone with the Wind |
Victor Fleming |
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen |
Drama |
MGM, Academy Award Best Picture; 10 Oscars, 13 nominations
|
Good Girls Go to Paris |
Alexander Hall |
Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell |
Comedy |
|
The Gorilla |
Allan Dwan |
Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Patsy Kelly |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
The Gracie Allen Murder Case |
Alfred E. Green |
Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew |
Mystery |
Paramount
|
Grand Jury Secrets |
James P. Hogan |
Gail Patrick, John Howard |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
The Great Commandment |
Irving Pichel |
Albert Dekker, John Beal |
Biblical |
20th Century Fox
|
The Great Man Votes |
Garson Kanin |
John Barrymore, Virginia Weidler |
Drama |
RKO
|
The Great Victor Herbert |
Andrew L. Stone |
Mary Martin, Allan Jones |
Biographical |
Paramount
|
Gulliver's Travels |
Dave Fleischer |
Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer |
Animated |
Paramount
|
Gunga Din |
George Stevens |
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe |
Adventure |
RKO
|
The Hardys Ride High |
George B. Seitz |
Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Hawaiian Nights |
Albert S. Rogell |
Constance Moore, Johnny Downs |
Romance |
|
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence |
Ricardo Cortez |
Glenn Ford, Jean Rogers, Ward Bond |
Drama |
Columbia
|
Hell's Kitchen |
Ewald André Dupont, Lewis Seiler |
Dead End Kids, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Ronald Reagan |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Here I Am a Stranger |
Roy Del Ruth |
Richard Dix, Richard Greene |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Henry Goes Arizona |
Edwin L. Marin |
Frank Morgan, Virginia Weidler, Guy Kibbee |
Western |
MGM
|
Heroes in Blue |
William Watson |
Dick Purcell, Bernadene Hayes |
Drama |
|
Hollywood Cavalcade |
Irving Cummings, Malcolm St. Clair |
Alice Faye, Don Ameche |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Homicide Bureau |
Charles C. Coleman |
Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence |
Action |
Columbia
|
Honeymoon in Bali |
Edward H. Griffith |
Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
The Honeymoon's Over |
Eugene Forde |
Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Honolulu |
Edward Buzzell |
Eleanor Powell, Burns and Allen |
Musical |
MGM
|
Hotel for Women |
Gregory Ratoff |
Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison |
Drama |
Cosmopolitan Productions/20th Century Fox
|
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Sidney Lanfield |
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene |
Mystery |
20th Century Fox
|
The House of Fear |
Joe May |
William Gargan, Irene Hervey |
Horror |
|
The Housekeeper's Daughter |
Hal Roach |
Joan Bennett, John Hubbard |
Comedy |
|
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
William Dieterle |
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara |
Drama |
RKO
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
The Ice Follies of 1939 |
Reinhold Schünzel |
Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone |
Musical |
MGM
|
Idiot's Delight |
Clarence Brown |
Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold |
Comedy |
MGM
|
I'm from Missouri |
Theodore Reed |
Bob Burns, Gladys George, Patricia Morison |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
In Name Only |
John Cromwell |
Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis |
Drama |
RKO
|
Indianapolis Speedway |
Lloyd Bacon |
Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, John Payne |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Intermezzo |
Gregory Ratoff |
Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman |
Romantic drama |
United Artists; Bergman's American film debut
|
The Invisible Killer |
Sam Newfield |
Grace Bradley, Roland Drew, William Newell |
Mystery |
PRC
|
Invisible Stripes |
Lloyd Bacon |
George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
Invitation to Happiness |
Wesley Ruggles |
Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charlie Ruggles |
Drama |
Paramount
|
I Stole a Million |
Frank Tuttle |
George Raft, Claire Trevor |
Crime |
Universal
|
It Could Happen to You |
Alfred L. Werker |
Gloria Stuart, Stuart Erwin |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
It's a Wonderful World |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton |
Romantic comedy |
MGM
|
I Was a Convict |
Aubrey Scotto |
Barton MacLane, Beverly Roberts |
Crime |
Republic
|
Jesse James |
Henry King |
Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President |
Robert B. Sinclair |
Ann Sothern, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan |
Comedy |
MGM
|
The Jones Family in Hollywood |
Malcolm St. Clair |
Spring Byington, June Carlson |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Juarez |
William Dieterle |
Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains |
Biopic |
Warner Bros.
|
Judge Hardy and Son |
George B. Seitz |
Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden |
Comedy |
MGM
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
The Kansas Terrors |
George Sherman |
Robert Livingston, Duncan Renaldo, Julie Bishop |
Western |
Republic
|
The Kid from Kokomo |
Lewis Seiler |
Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Joan Blondell |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
The Kid from Texas |
S. Sylvan Simon |
Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Jessie Ralph, Buddy Ebsen |
Western |
MGM
|
King of the Turf |
Alfred E. Green |
Adolphe Menjou, Dolores Costello, Roger Daniel |
Drama |
United Artists
|
King of the Underworld |
Lewis Seiler |
Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
Konga, the Wild Stallion |
Sam Nelson |
Fred Stone, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Fiske |
Western |
Columbia
|
Lady of the Tropics |
Jack Conway |
Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut |
Romantic drama |
MGM
|
The Lady's from Kentucky |
Alexander Hall |
George Raft, Ellen Drew, Hugh Herbert |
Drama |
|
Laugh It Off |
Albert S. Rogell |
Johnny Downs, Constance Moore |
Musical, Comedy |
|
Law of the Pampas |
Nate Watt |
William Boyd, Steffi Duna, Sidney Toler |
Western |
Paramount
|
Let Freedom Ring |
Jack Conway |
Nelson Eddy, Virginia Bruce, Victor McLaglen, Lionel Barrymore |
Musical |
MGM
|
Let Us Live |
John Brahm |
Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy |
Crime thriller |
Columbia
|
The Light That Failed |
William A. Wellman |
Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Ida Lupino |
Drama |
based on novel by Rudyard Kipling
|
The Little Princess |
Walter Lang |
Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt |
Peter Godfrey |
Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth |
Mystery |
Columbia
|
Love Affair |
Leo McCarey |
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer |
Drama |
RKO; Remade in 1994
|
Lucky Night |
Norman Taurog |
Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor |
Drama |
MGM
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Made for Each Other |
John Cromwell |
James Stewart, Carole Lombard, Charles Coburn |
Romance |
Selznick, United Artists
|
The Mad Empress |
Miguel Contreras Torres |
Conrad Nagel, Medea de Novara |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
The Magnificent Fraud |
Robert Florey |
Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Patricia Morison |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Main Street Lawyer |
Dudley Murphy |
Anita Louise |
Drama |
Republic
|
Maisie |
Edwin L. Marin |
Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey |
Comedy |
MGM, first of 10 "Maisie" films
|
Man About Town |
Mark Sandrich |
Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
The Man in the Iron Mask |
James Whale |
Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William |
Adventure |
United Artists
|
Man of Conquest |
George Nicholls Jr. |
Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine |
Biography |
Republic
|
The Man They Could Not Hang |
Nick Grinde (as Nick Grindé) |
Boris Karloff |
Horror |
Columbia
|
The Man Who Dared |
Crane Wilbur |
Jane Bryan, Charley Grapewin |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
The Marshal of Mesa City |
David Howard |
George O'Brien, Virginia Vale |
Western |
RKO
|
Mexicali Rose |
George Sherman |
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette |
Western |
Republic
|
Midnight |
Mitchell Leisen |
Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore |
Romantic comedy |
Paramount
|
Million Dollar Legs |
Nick Grinde |
Betty Grable, Buster Crabbe, Donald O'Connor |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Miracles for Sale |
Tod Browning |
Robert Young, Florence Rice |
Mystery |
MGM
|
Missing Daughters |
Charles C. Coleman |
Richard Arlen, Rochelle Hudson, Marian Marsh, Isabel Jewell |
Crime drama |
Columbia
|
Missing Evidence |
Phil Rosen |
Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Inez Courtney |
Drama |
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|
Moon Over Harlem |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
Bud Harris, Cora Green |
Drama |
|
Mr. Moto in Danger Island |
Herbert I. Leeds |
Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt |
Mystery |
20th Century Fox
|
Mr. Moto's Last Warning |
Norman Foster |
Peter Lorre, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Field |
Mystery |
20th Century Fox
|
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation |
Norman Foster |
Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Virginia Field |
Mystery |
20th Century Fox
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
Frank Capra |
James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains |
Drama |
Columbia; 11 Academy Award nominations
|
Mr. Wong in Chinatown |
William Nigh |
Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers |
Mystery |
Monogram
|
My Son Is a Criminal |
Charles C. Coleman (as C.C. Coleman Jr.) |
Alan Baxter, Julie Bishop, Gordon Oliver, Willard Robertson |
Crime |
Columbia
|
My Son Is Guilty |
Charles Barton |
Bruce Cabot, Glenn Ford |
Drama |
Columbia
|
The Mysterious Miss X |
Gus Meins |
Mary Hart |
Suspense |
Republic
|
The Mystery of Mr. Wong |
William Nigh |
Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree |
Mystery |
Monogram
|
Mystery of the White Room |
Otis Garrett |
Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Joan Woodbury |
Mystery |
Universal
|
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase |
William Clemens |
Bonita Granville, John Litel |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.
|
Nancy Drew... Reporter |
William Clemens |
Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.
|
Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter |
William Clemens |
Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel |
Mystery |
|
Naughty but Nice |
Ray Enright |
Dick Powell, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page |
Comedy |
|
Never Say Die |
Elliott Nugent |
Martha Raye, Bob Hope |
Romantic comedy |
Preston Sturges, Paramount
|
New Frontier |
George Sherman |
John Wayne, Jennifer Jones |
Western |
|
News Is Made at Night |
Alfred L. Werker |
Preston Foster, Lynn Bari |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Nick Carter, Master Detective |
Jacques Tourneur |
Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull |
Crime |
MGM
|
The Night of Nights |
Lewis Milestone |
Pat O'Brien, Olympe Bradna, Roland Young |
Drama |
|
The Night Riders |
George Sherman |
John Wayne, Ray Corrigan |
Western |
|
Night Work |
George Archainbaud |
Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor |
Comedy |
|
Ninotchka |
Ernst Lubitsch |
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi |
Romantic comedy |
MGM; 4 Academy Award nominations
|
No Place to Go |
Terry O. Morse |
Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson |
Comedy |
|
North of the Yukon |
Sam Nelson |
Charles Starrett |
Western |
Columbia
|
Nurse Edith Cavell |
Herbert Wilcox |
Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver |
Biographical |
RKO
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Off the Record |
James Flood |
Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Of Mice and Men |
Lewis Milestone |
Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr. |
Drama |
Hal Roach Studios, United Artists
|
The Oklahoma Kid |
Lloyd Bacon |
James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp |
Western |
Warner Bros.
|
Oklahoma Terror |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Virginia Carroll, Addison Randall |
Western |
|
The Old Maid |
Edmund Goulding |
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
On Borrowed Time |
Harold S. Bucquet |
Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel |
Comedy |
MGM
|
On Dress Parade |
William Clemens |
The Dead End Kids |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
On Your Toes |
Ray Enright |
Eddie Albert, Vera Zorina, Queenie Smith |
Musical |
Warner Bros.
|
Only Angels Have Wings |
Howard Hawks |
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth |
Drama |
Columbia
|
On Trial |
Terry O. Morse |
John Litel, Margaret Lindsay |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
...One Third of a Nation... |
Dudley Murphy |
Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson, Myron McCormick, Hiram Sherman |
Drama |
Paramount
|
The Oregon Trail |
Ford Beebe |
Johnny Mack Brown, Louise Stanley |
Serial |
Universal
|
Our Neighbors – The Carters |
Ralph Murphy |
Fay Bainter |
Comedy |
|
Outlaws' Paradise |
Sam Newfield |
Tim McCoy, Joan Barclay |
Western |
|
Outpost of the Mounties |
Charles C. Coleman |
Charles Starrett |
Western |
Columbia
|
Outside These Walls |
Ray McCarey |
Dolores Costello, Virginia Weidler |
Drama |
|
Overland Mail |
Robert F. Hill |
Jack Randall, Vince Barnett, Dennis Moore |
Western |
Monogram
|
Pacific Liner |
Lew Landers |
Victor McLaglen, Wendy Barrie |
Drama |
RKO
|
Panama Lady |
Jack Hively |
Lucille Ball, Allan Lane |
Comedy |
|
Paris Honeymoon |
Frank Tuttle |
Bing Crosby, Shirley Ross |
Musical |
|
Persons in Hiding |
Louis King |
Patricia Morison, Lynne Overman |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Pirates of the Skies |
Joseph A. McDonough |
Kent Taylor, Rochelle Hudson, Regis Toomey |
Drama |
Universal
|
Private Detective |
Noel M. Smith |
Jane Wyman, Dick Foran |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.
|
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex |
Michael Curtiz |
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp |
Romantic drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Quick Millions |
Malcolm St. Clair |
Jed Prouty, Spring Byington |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Racketeers of the Range |
D. Ross Lederman |
Marjorie Reynolds, Chill Wills |
Western |
|
Raffles |
Sam Wood |
David Niven, Olivia de Havilland |
Crime comedy |
|
The Rains Came |
Clarence Brown |
Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent, Nigel Bruce, Brenda Joyce |
Romantic drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Range War |
Lesley Selander |
William Boyd |
Western |
Sherman Productions
|
The Real Glory |
Henry Hathaway |
Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds |
Adventure drama |
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
|
Remember? |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Lew Ayres, Billie Burke |
Romantic comedy |
MGM
|
Reno |
John Farrow |
Gail Patrick, Anita Louise |
Drama |
|
The Return of Doctor X |
Vincent Sherman |
Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Humphrey Bogart |
Science fiction |
Warner Bros.
|
Rio |
John Brahm |
Basil Rathbone, Robert Cummings, Sigrid Gurie |
Drama |
Universal
|
The Roaring Twenties |
Raoul Walsh |
James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart |
Crime thriller |
Warner Bros.
|
Romance of the Redwoods |
Charles Vidor |
Charles Bickford, Jean Parker |
Adventure |
Columbia
|
Rose of Washington Square |
Gregory Ratoff |
Alice Faye, Tyrone Power |
Romantic comedy |
|
Rulers of the Sea |
Frank Lloyd |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Margaret Lockwood, Will Fyffe |
Historical drama |
Paramount
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
The Saint in London |
John Paddy Carstairs |
George Sanders, Sally Gray, Gordon McLeod |
Mystery |
RKO
|
The Saint Strikes Back |
John Farrow |
George Sanders, Wendy Barrie |
Crime |
RKO
|
Second Fiddle |
Sidney Lanfield |
Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallée |
Musical romance |
20th Century Fox
|
The Secret of Dr. Kildare |
Harold S. Bucquet |
Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill |
Drama |
MGM
|
Secret Service of the Air |
Noel M. Smith |
Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Ila Rhodes |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
Sergeant Madden |
Josef von Sternberg |
Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Laraine Day |
Crime |
MGM
|
She Married a Cop |
Sidney Salkow |
Jean Parker, Phil Regan |
Comedy |
|
Silver on the Sage |
Lesley Selander |
William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Russell Hayden |
Western |
|
Smashing the Money Ring |
Terry O. Morse |
Ronald Reagan, Margot Stevenson |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
Society Lawyer |
Edwin L. Marin |
Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo, Eduardo Ciannelli |
Crime |
MGM
|
Some Like It Hot |
George Archainbaud |
Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Gene Krupa |
Musical, Comedy |
Paramount
|
The Son of Frankenstein |
Rowland V. Lee |
Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff |
Horror |
Universal
|
Sorority House |
John Farrow |
Anne Shirley, James Ellison |
Drama |
RKO
|
S.O.S. Tidal Wave |
John H. Auer |
Ralph Byrd |
Crime |
|
Stagecoach |
John Ford |
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Berton Churchill, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Tim Holt |
Western |
Wanger Productions, United Artists; 7 Oscar nominations
|
Stand Up and Fight |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor |
Drama |
|
Stanley and Livingstone |
Henry King, Otto Brower |
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene |
Historical drama |
20th Century Fox
|
The Star Maker |
Roy Del Ruth |
Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell |
Musical |
Paramount
|
St. Louis Blues |
Raoul Walsh |
Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan |
Musical |
|
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle |
H. C. Potter |
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan |
Musical |
RKO
|
The Stranger from Texas |
Sam Nelson |
Charles Starrett, Lorna Gray |
Western |
Columbia Pictures
|
Stronger Than Desire |
Leslie Fenton |
Virginia Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Bowman, Rita Johnson, Ann Dvorak |
Drama |
MGM
|
Sudden Money |
Nick Grinde |
Charles Ruggles, Marjorie Rambeau |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
The Sun Never Sets |
Rowland V. Lee |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Basil Rathbone |
Drama |
|
Sunset Trail |
Lesley Selander |
William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Charlotte Wynters |
Western |
Paramount
|
Susannah of the Mounties |
William A. Seiter |
Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood |
Western |
20th Century Fox
|
Swanee River |
Sidney Lanfield |
Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds |
Biopic |
20th Century Fox
|
Sweepstakes Winner |
William C. McGann |
Marie Wilson, Johnnie Davis, Allen Jenkins |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Tail Spin |
Roy Del Ruth |
Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Nancy Kelly |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox
|
Tarzan Finds a Son! |
Richard Thorpe |
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield |
Adventure |
MGM
|
Television Spy |
Edward Dmytryk |
Judith Barrett, William Henry |
Drama |
|
Tell No Tales |
Leslie Fenton |
Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart |
Crime |
MGM
|
That's Right – You're Wrong |
David Butler |
Kay Kyser, Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball |
Musical comedy |
RKO
|
These Glamour Girls |
S. Sylvan Simon |
Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown |
Comedy |
MGM
|
They All Come Out |
Jacques Tourneur |
Rita Johnson, Tom Neal |
Drama |
MGM
|
They Made Me a Criminal |
Busby Berkeley |
John Garfield, Dead End Kids, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, May Robson, Gloria Dickson |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
They Shall Have Music |
Archie Mayo |
Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds |
Musical |
Samuel Goldwyn, United Artists
|
Those High Grey Walls |
Charles Vidor |
Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens |
Drama |
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|
The Three Musketeers |
Allan Dwan |
Don Ameche, Ritz Brothers, Gloria Stuart |
Musical comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Three Smart Girls Grow Up |
Henry Koster |
Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish |
Musical comedy |
Universal
|
Three Sons |
Jack Hively |
Edward Ellis, Katharine Alexander |
Drama |
RKO
|
Three Texas Steers |
George Sherman |
John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Carole Landis |
Western |
Republic
|
Thunder Afloat |
George B. Seitz |
Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Virginia Grey, Douglass Dumbrille |
War |
MGM
|
Torchy Blane in Chinatown |
William Beaudine |
Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.
|
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite |
Noel M. Smith |
Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.; 9th and last of series
|
Torchy Runs for Mayor |
Ray McCarey |
Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.
|
Tower of London |
Rowland V. Lee |
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil |
Historical |
Universal
|
Tropic Fury |
Christy Cabanne |
Beverly Roberts, Richard Arlen |
Drama |
Universal
|
Trouble in Sundown |
David Howard |
George O'Brien, Rosalind Keith |
Western |
RKO
|
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
Undercover Doctor |
Louis King |
Lloyd Nolan, Janice Logan |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Unexpected Father |
Charles Lamont |
Shirley Ross, Dennis O'Keefe |
Comedy |
Universal
|
Union Pacific |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff |
Western |
Paramount
|
Unmarried |
Kurt Neumann |
Helen Twelvetrees, Donald O'Connor, Buck Jones |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Waterfront |
Terry O. Morse |
Gloria Dickson, Dennis Morgan, Marie Wilson, Sheila Bromley |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Way Down South |
Leslie Goodwins |
Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Steffi Duna |
Musical |
RKO
|
We Are Not Alone |
Edmund Goulding |
Jane Bryan, Paul Muni |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
What a Life |
Theodore Reed |
Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, Janice Logan |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
When Tomorrow Comes |
John M. Stahl |
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer |
Drama |
Universal
|
Wife, Husband and Friend |
Gregory Ratoff |
Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Binnie Barnes |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
Wings of the Navy |
Lloyd Bacon |
George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Winner Take All |
Otto Brower |
Tony Martin, Gloria Stuart |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
Within the Law |
Gustav Machatý |
Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal |
Crime |
MGM
|
The Wizard of Oz |
Victor Fleming |
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Charley Grapewin, Margaret Hamilton |
Musical |
MGM; 6 Academy Award nominations
|
The Women |
George Cukor |
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Mary Boland, Ruth Hussey |
Comedy |
MGM; all-female cast
|
Women in the Wind |
John Farrow |
Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Wuthering Heights |
William Wyler |
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson |
Romantic drama |
Goldwyn Company; 8 Oscar nominations
|
Wyoming Outlaw |
George Sherman |
John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Raymond Hatton, Don 'Red' Barry |
Western |
Republic
|
Yes, My Darling Daughter |
William Keighley |
Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Roland Young, Fay Bainter |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man |
George Marshall |
W. C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy |
Comedy |
Universal
|
You Can't Get Away with Murder |
Lewis Seiler |
Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel |
Crime |
Warner Bros.
|
Young Mr. Lincoln |
John Ford |
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady |
Biopic, Drama, History, Western |
Cosmopolitan, 20th Century Fox
|
Zaza |
George Cukor |
Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
Zenobia |
Gordon Douglas |
Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
The Zero Hour |
Sidney Salkow |
Frieda Inescort, Otto Kruger |
Drama |
Republic
|
Zorro's Fighting Legion |
William Witney |
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy |
Serial |
Republic
|
American films of the 1930s |
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