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x The Sheik The Sheik Oct 30, 1921 George Melford A photoplay of tempestuous love between a madcap English beauty and a bronzed Arab chief!
The Sheik is a 1921 silent movie produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres and Adolphe Menjou. It was based on the bestselling romance novel The Sheik by Edith Maude Hull. Lady Diana...
George Fitzmaurice
x The Love Parade The Love Parade 1929 Ernst Lubitsch Paramount introduces the beautiful, sensational, Jeanette MacDonald! Charming! Sexy! Funny! Romantic! Great entertainment!
The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) and her new husband, Count Alfred (Maurice Chevalier). Though Count Alfred promises to be a docile husband at...
x Hallelujah! Hallellujah 1929 King Vidor  
Hallelujah! is an 1929 MGM musical directed by King Vidor, starring Daniel L. Haynes and the then unknown Nina Mae McKinney. Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and narrating the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson (Haynes) and his...
x Voice of the City   1929 Willard Mack  
Voice of the City is a 1929 film by Willard Mack modeled on a stage play. It is not related to the story of the same name by O. Henry. A young man is accused of murder and a master detective is set to track him down and uncover conclusive evidence...
x The Wolf Song   1929 Victor Fleming  
The Wolf Song is a 1929 silent film with a synchronized score and sound effects directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez.
x The Broadway Melody BroadwayMelodyy1929 Feb 1, 1929 Harry Beaumont Dramatic Sensation.
The Broadway Melody is a 1929 musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals...
The pulsating drama of Broadway's bared heart speaks and sings with a voice to stir your soul!
The new wonder of the screen!
ALL TALKING ALL SINGING ALL DANCING.
x Redskin /wikipedia/images/en_id/6052148 Feb 23, 1929 Victor Schertzinger  
Redskin is a 1929 feature film with a synchronized score and sound effects that was photographed partially in Technicolor. Color film was used for the scenes taking place on the Indians' land, while black and white was used only in the scenes set in...
x The Godless Girl Godless Girl Mar 31, 1929 Cecil B. DeMille  
The Godless Girl (1929) is a film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film. However, the UCLA Film and Television Archive restored the film's dialogue scenes that were added during the transition of films from...
x The Desert Song DesertSong1929PP Apr 8, 1929 Roy Del Ruth Warner Brothers' spectacular SINGING success
The Desert Song is a 1929 musical operetta film photographed partly in Technicolor. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production. It was based on the hit musical play...
x Alibi Alibi Apr 20, 1929 Roland West  
Alibi (1929) is a American crime film written by Elaine Sterne Carrington, J.C. Nugent, C. Gardner Sullivan, Roland West and John Griffith Wray from the stage play, Nightstick, by Carrington, Nugent and Wray. The film was directed by Roland West....
x The Cocoanuts The Cocoanuts May 3, 1929 Robert Florey Paramount's All Talking Musicomedy Sensation.
The Cocoanuts (1929) is the first feature-length Marx Brothers film, produced by Paramount Pictures. The musical comedy stars the four Marx Brothers, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton and Margaret Dumont. Produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Robert Florey...
Joseph Santley Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit!
x The Trial of Mary Dugan   Jun 8, 1929 Bayard Veiller    
x Our Modern Maidens Posterourmodx Aug 24, 1929 Jack Conway  
Our Modern Maidens is a 1929 silent film directed by Jack Conway. Starring Joan Crawford in her last silent film role, the film also stars Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Anita Page. Out Modern Maidens is the second of three film where...
x Gold Diggers of Broadway Gold Diggers of Broadway Oct 5, 1929 Roy Del Ruth  
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) is a Warner Bros. comedy/musical film which is historically important as the second talkie (a term used early in the sound-film era to describe a film with synchronized speech) photographed entirely in Technicolor. It...
x Applause Applause DVD Oct 7, 1929 Rouben Mamoulian Is Kitty a mother?
Applause is a 1929 black and white "backstage" musical film, shot during the early years of sound films. Based on a novel by Beth Brown, the film was staged and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The film stars Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr...
She gave youth and beaty for Applause
x Glorifying the American Girl GAG1929 Dec 7, 1929 John W. Harkrider 100% All Talking
Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film (which was filmed in early Technicolor) is basically a Follies production, with cameo...
Millard Webb
x Sunny Side Up Poster for the film. Dec 29, 1929 David Butler the screen's first original all talking, singing, dancing musical comedy
Sunny Side Up (1929) is a musical film set in New York City and starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The romantic comedy was directed by David Butler. The film was released by Fox Film Corporation on 29 December 1929 with sequences shot in...
x Little Caesar Little Caesar 1930 Mervyn LeRoy  
Little Caesar is a 1930 crime film made during the Pre-Code era which tells the story of a man who works his way up the ranks of the mob until he reaches its upper heights. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Glenda Farrell. The...
x Romance   1930 Clarence Brown  
Romance (1930) is a film which tells the story of a bishop sharing a cautionary tale with a young man, who is going against the wishes of his family, of the dangers of falling in love with "fallen women," by using a story of naivete from his past....
x Der blaue Engel Der blaue Engel 1930 Josef von Sternberg  
The Blue Angel (German: Der blaue Engel) is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene...
x All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone At last....the motion picture!
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film set on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander. All Quiet on the Western...
x Whoopee! /wikipedia/images/en_id/6184188 1930 Thornton Freeland  
Whoopee is an "All-Talking All-Color" musical comedy film from 1930 photographed in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film closely followed the stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928. The film was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and...
x Madam Satan MadamSatan 1930 Cecil B. DeMille  
Madam Satan (1930) was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille as a musical drama for MGM, one of the few films DeMille made for the Culver City studio. It has been called one of the oddest films DeMille made and certainly one of the oddest films...
x Anna Christie Anna Christie 1930 film Feb 21, 1930 Clarence Brown Garbo TALKS!
Anna Christie is a 1930 MGM drama film adaptation of the 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul Bern and Irving Thalberg as co-producers. The cinematography was by William H....
x Son of the Gods SonoftheGods1930 Mar 9, 1930 Frank Lloyd  
Son of the Gods (1930) is an All-Talking musical drama film with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from the novel (with the same title) by Rex Beach. The film only survives in black and white. One reel was originally in Technicolor but no color...
x Song of the West Song of the West Mar 15, 1930 Ray Enright  
Song of the West is a 1930 musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the 1928 musical play Rainbow by Oscar Hammerstein II and Laurence Stallings and was the first all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely...
x Hold Everything Hold Everything Mar 20, 1930 Roy Del Ruth  
Hold Everything (1930) is an early all-talking film. It was the first musical comedy film to be released that was photographed entirely in early two-color Technicolor. It was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical of the same name...
x Under a Texas Moon UnderTexasMoon3 Apr 1, 1930 Michael Curtiz  
Under A Texas Moon is a 1930 musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the novel Two-Gun Man (from 1929) which was written by Stewart Edward White. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be filmed...
x The Divorcee The Divorcee Apr 19, 1930 Robert Z. Leonard Do divorces have more fun? See for yourself!
The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, and based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director....
x Children of Pleasure Children of Pleasure Apr 26, 1930 Harry Beaumont  
Children of Pleasure is a 1930 American MGM musical comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont. An acclaimed singer Terry falls in love with a socialite girl Carlie who is just playing around. He doesn't realize that his girl-Friday is the one he really...
x The Bride of the Regiment Heraldbrideoftheregiment May 21, 1930 John Francis Dillon  
Bride of the Regiment is a 1930 American musical film directed by John Francis Dillon. The screenplay by Ray Harris and Humphrey Pearson is based on the book of the 1922 stage musical The Lady in Ermine by Frederick Lonsdale and Cyrus Wood, which...
x Song of the Flame 1930FlameSong May 25, 1930 Alan Crosland  
Song of the Flame (1930) is a musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the first color film to feature a widescreen sequence using a process called Vitascope the trademark name for Warner Bros.' widescreen process. The film...
x Our Blushing Brides Posterourbb Jul 19, 1930 Harry Beaumont  
Our Blushing Brides (1930) is a film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and Dorothy Sebastian. The film was a follow-up to Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and Our Modern Maidens (1929), and was a commercial success when it was...
x The Matrimonial Bed Matrimonialbed19302 Aug 2, 1930 Michael Curtiz  
The Matrimonial Bed (1930) is a Pre-Code comedy film produced and released by Warner Bros.. It was based on the French play by André Mouézy-Éon and Yves Mirande. The English version of the play, by Seymour Hicks, opened in New York on October 12,...
x Office Wife OfficeWife19302 Aug 23, 1930 Lloyd Bacon  
The Office Wife (1930) is an American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, released by Warner Bros., and based on the novel of the same name by Faith Baldwin. It was the talkie debut for Joan Blondell who would become one of the...
x Good News Good News (1930) Theatrical Poster Aug 23, 1930 Nick Grinde At Last The Great Broadway Hit Comes To The Talking Screen
Pre-code musical adapted from a hit Broadway Show of the late 1920's.
x Animal Crackers Animal Crackers Aug 28, 1930 Victor Heerman The maddest comics of them all!
Animal Crackers is a 1930 comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. The film was both a critical and commercial success upon initial...
x Sweet Kitty Bellairs   Sep 5, 1930 Alfred Green  
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930) is a musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. In contrast to usual historical costume dramas, the picture never takes itself seriously and is a delightful satire of the England of 1793 in the city of Bath...
x The Life of the Party The Life of the Party Oct 25, 1930 Roy Del Ruth The greatest comedy cast ever assembled for one picture!
The Life of the Party is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. The musical numbers of this film were cut out before general release in the United States because the public had grown tired of musicals by late 1930. Only one...
IT'S A KICK IN THE SHINS! You'll laugh till you cry At this glorious riot of fun!
x Kismet Kismet1930 Oct 30, 1930 John Francis Dillon  
Kismet (1930) is a costume drama photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Brothers called Vitascope. The film was based on Edward Knoblock's play, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also...
x Morocco Morocco1930 Nov 14, 1930 Josef von Sternberg  
Morocco is a 1930 film in which a Foreign Legionnaire meets and falls in love with a sultry seductress. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou. The story was adapted by Jules Furthman from...
x The Smiling Lieutenant The Smiling Lieutenant poster 1931 Ernst Lubitsch  
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 Paramount film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus (libretto by Leopold...
x The Public Enemy The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman  
The Public Enemy is a 1931 pre-Code American crime drama film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman. The movie relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America. The supporting...
x The Guardsman   1931    
The Guardsman is a 1931 movie based on the play Testőr by Ferenc Molnár. It stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young and ZaSu Pitts. It opens with a stage re-enactment of the final scene of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen, with Fontanne...
x Dracula Dracula 1931 Tod Browning The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!
Dracula is a 1931 United States horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which...
x The Secret Six   1931 George W. Hill  
For the DC comic book see Secret Six (comics). The Secret Six is a fast-paced 1931 gangster movie starring Wallace Beery as "Slaughterhouse Scorpio", a character very loosely based on Al Capone, and featuring Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown (billed...
x Bad Company   1931 Tay Garnett  
Bad Company is a drama film from 1931 directed by Tay Garnett and written by Jack Lait. It stars Helen Twelvetrees and Ricardo Cortez.
x Blonde Crazy Blonde Crazy 1931 Roy Del Ruth Jim's back! . . . with a brand new line!
Blonde Crazy is a 1931 film by Roy Del Ruth, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Ray Milland, and Guy Kibbee famous for Cagney's line, "That dirty, double-crossin' rat!"
x Dishonored Dishonored 1931 Josef von Sternberg  
Dishonored is a 1931 romantic spy film made by Paramount Pictures. It was co-written (with Daniel N. Rubin), directed and edited by Josef von Sternberg. The costume design was by Travis Banton. The film stars Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen,...
x Kiki Kiki 1931 poster 1931 Samuel Taylor  
Kiki (1931) is a romantic comedy starring Mary Pickford and Reginald Denny, directed by Sam Taylor. The film is a remake of the 1926 version starring Norma Talmadge. Kiki (Mary Pickford) is a hapless French chorus girl who has just been fired from...
Sam Taylor
x The Easiest Way Easiestway1931 Feb 7, 1931 Jack Conway  
The Easiest Way is a 1931 American MGM drama film directed by Jack Conway. The film stars Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, and Anita Page Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy...
x Dance, Fools, Dance V33492ikxgf Feb 21, 1931 Harry Beaumont  
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) is a pre-code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Lester Vail in a story about a reporter investigating the murder of a colleague. Story and dialogue were created by Aurania Rouverol,...
x Iron Man   Apr 30, 1931 Tod Browning  
Iron Man (1931) is a drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lew Ayres. Prizefighter Kid Mason (Ayres) loses his opening fight so wife Rose (Harlow) leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around, Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes...
x The Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon Jun 13, 1931 Roy Del Ruth  
The Maltese Falcon is a 1931 Warner Bros. crime film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Ricardo Cortez as private detective Sam Spade and Bebe Daniels in the role of Ruth Wonderly/...
x A Free Soul AFreeSoul Jun 20, 1931 Clarence Brown  
A Free Soul (1931) is a Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had...
x Goldie Goldie (1931) Poster Jun 28, 1931 Benjamin Stoloff  
Goldie is a 1931 black-and-white comedy film about a woman named Goldie, portrayed by Jean Harlow, pursued by two sailors, played by Spencer Tracy and Warren Hymer. The movie was written by Paul Perez and Gene Towne, and directed by Benjamin Stoloff...
x Night Nurse Night-nurse-barbara-stanwyck Jul 16, 1931 William A. Wellman  
Night Nurse (1931) is a Pre-Code, Prohibition-era, Warner Bros. crime drama and mystery film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell and Clark Gable. The film was considered risqué at the time of its...
x Waterloo Bridge Waterloo Bridge Sep 1, 1931 James Whale  
Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 American drama film directed by James Whale. The screenplay by Benn Levy and Tom Reed is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Robert E. Sherwood. The film was remade twice, under its original title in 1940 and as...
x Five Star Final Five Star Final Sep 26, 1931 Mervyn LeRoy  
Five Star Final is a 1931 American crime film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play by Louis Weitzenkorn, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The movie stars Edward G. Robinson,...
x Susan Lenox Susan Lenox Oct 10, 1931 Robert Z. Leonard  
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) is a 1931 film made by MGM. It was directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard from a screenplay by Leon Gordon, Zelda Sears and Edith Fitzgerald adapted by Wanda Tuchock from the novel by David Graham Phillips. The...
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