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Tag Archives: 1930s
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936) Stephen Roberts, William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
Relations between Dr. ‘Brad’ Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. Read More »
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) Robert Z. Leonard, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt
Susan, an orphan, lives the life of Cinderella with rustic relatives. Read More »
Two Sinners (1935) Arthur Lubin, Otto Kruger, Martha Sleeper, Minna Gombell
Kruger is an ex-convict who gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. Read More »
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life – including playing the tuba in the town band. Read More »
Married Before Breakfast (1937) Edwin L. Marin, Robert Young, Florence Rice, June Clayworth
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars Read More »
Juarez (1939) William Dieterle, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne
The newly-named Emperor Maximillian, the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire Read More »
Those Three French Girls (1930) Harry Beaumont, Erle C. Kenton, Fifi D’Orsay, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards
Three attractive young women cause misadventures for visiting Americans. Read More »
The 39 Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. Read More »
Anne of Green Gables (1934) George Nichols Jr., Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O.P. Heggie
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is adopted by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla Read More »
Toni (1935) Jean Renoir, Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Jenny Hélia
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in agriculture. Read More »
Meet the Missus (1937) Joseph Santley, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Anne Shirley
Mrs. Emma Foster of Fosterboro, Ohio loves to enter contests – which she never wins Read More »
Maisie (1939) Edwin L. Marin, Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey
Stranded, penniless in a small Wyoming town, Maisie Ravier flirts with Slim, the manager of Clifford Ames’ ranch. Read More »
Counterfeit (1936) Erle C. Kenton, Chester Morris, Margot Grahame, Lloyd Nolan
John Joseph Madden (Chester Morris), a T-Man special agent goes undercover to rescue a kidnapped Treasury Department Read More »
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Alfred L. Werker, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino
Professor Moriarity has a scheme for stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London. Read More »