Favourite Films: 1930-1939 Edition

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What are your favourite films from the 1930s? Mine are:

Modern Times
The Blue Angel
Grand Illusion
Bringing Up Baby
Duck Soup
A Day at the Races
A Night at the Opera
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Fury
Earth
Freaks
The Scarlet Empress
Gone With the Wind
City Lights
 
gk_891 said:
What are your favourite films from the 1930s? Mine are:

Modern Times
The Blue Angel
Grand Illusion
Bringing Up Baby YES
Duck Soup
A Day at the Races
A Night at the Opera
M
Fury
Earth
Freaks YES
The Scarlet Empress
Gone With the Wind YES
City Lights
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The Wizard of Oz
The Women
Stage Door
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Jezebel
Dark Victory
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
Dracula
Little Women
The Awful Truth
Camille
Love Affair
 
Forgot to mention Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. It's disturbing on so many levels but her skills as a director were absolutely amazing.
 
I happened across Gold Diggers of 1933 last month and enjoyed again Joan Blondell singing We're in the Money, come on my honey, we got a lot of what it takes to get along - in Pig Latin.
 
KatieC said:
I happened across Gold Diggers of 1933 last month and enjoyed again Joan Blondell singing We're in the Money, come on my honey, we got a lot of what it takes to get along - in Pig Latin.
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Ginger Rogers sings I'm in the Money, but I love the movie. Joan Blondell talks her way through Forgotten Man, while Etta Moten does the singing.

I love the movie for the ensemble acting and the Busby Berkeley production numbers.

A fabulous Joaan Blondell movie is Blonde Crazy. She and James Cagney play a pair of con artists. He was actually quite good at romantic comedy.
 
aliceanne said:
Ginger Rogers sings I'm in the Money, but I love the movie. Joan Blondell talks her way through Forgotten Man, while Etta Moten does the singing.
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:duh:Of course, I walked around with Forgotten Man in my head for a week. I like old movies. Another favourite was Stairway to Heaven (aka A Matter of Life and Death), but I think it was from the 40's.
 
Pretty sure the only movies I've seen from this time period are Gone With the Wind, Wizard of Oz, and Heidi, all of which I love.
 
First I think you take the "best film" nominees from 1939 and go from there. What an incredible year for film. Sometimes humor doesn't translate well over time. But William Powell, from the "Nick and Nora" movies can still make me laugh. So I would add "The Thin Man." But I want to think about this.
 
This is one of my favorite movie decades. Such a great decade for comedy!

All the Fred and Ginger musicals, my favorite being Carefree because of Fred's wonderful solo dance with golf clubs.
Vivacious Lady, I think (if it's the one where Ginger sticks a pin in a snooty rival's butt). :D
A couple of Barbara Stanwyck films, including William Wellman's Night Nurse :) and Stella Dallas. Night Nurse is very gritty. A young Clark Gable is an evil chauffeur and Stanwyck and Joan Blondell are nursing chums who learn a lot about life. Stanwyck has to knock a guy to the floor. Fun times!
My Man Godfrey with Carol Lombard in slinky palazzo pants looking for a "forgotten man" in a scavenger hunt. Of oourse she gets more than she bargained for.
Agree about The Awful Truth with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. I love her silvery laugh.
And Philadelphia Story as well as Bringing Up Baby with Hepburn and Grant.
Female (Michael Curtiz) with Ruth Chatterton as an auto company executive. Extremely unconventional until the ending.
Frank Capra: It Happened One Night and Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Mr Deeds Goes to Town (Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur)
I love British Hitchcock, esp The 39 Steps amd The Lady Vanishes, also The Man Wh Knew Too Much and Secret Agent, both with Peter Lorre.
I also love Peter Lorre's lighter Mr Moto films from the same era.
Two of Jean Renoir's greatest: Grand Illusion and the Rules of the Game

I will definitely have to look up Blonde Crazy, I love Joan Blondell!
 
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Two of Jean Renoir's greatest: Grand Illusion and the Rules of the Game
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Call me crazy but I hated The Rules of the Game with a passion. But I loved Grand Illusion. The two are so different that I ended up taking to one very well but not the other.
 
Renoir is a shape changer, his films are so different from one another. I can understand your loving GI but hating Rules of the Game?? To me it is Mozartian in its high-speed walking of the line between tragedy and comedy. (i am thinking of Figaro.) I would also be surprised if Bergman did not have it in mind when he made Smiles of a Summer Night, but that's just a guess. Oh well!

Thanks for starting these threads. i will get to the other decades soon!
 
I love Spencer Tracy and since I'm in Kansas I was thrilled to finally see "Test Pilot." He was Clark Gable's wingman in this and if someone has to take a fall it is not going to be Gable. Oh well.
So in addition to "Test Pilot":

The Lady Vanishes
Stage Door
King Kong
Duck Soup
The Women
Gunga Din
Goodbye Mr Chips
The Wizard of Oz
Gone With The Wind
 
Me too! Although last time I looked at her filmography (a couple days ago) I was surprised by how many of her films I haven't seen. They are not that easy to find. Do you like Night Nurse?
 
In no particular order:

Female
Red Dust
Baby Face
Dinner at Eight
Stage Door
The Women
Holiday
Jezebel
Mazurka
Shanghai Express
Bed of Roses
Mandalay
Ladies They Talk About
Gone with the Wind
Waterloo Bridge
 
Waterloo Bridge - I finally rented it on video years ago and sniffed for an hour after it ended.
 
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