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1
Frank Capra • Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Comedy • Newspaper Film • Pre-Code Hollywood
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2
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
3
Leo McCarey • Starring: Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Farce
4
James Whale • Starring: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
5
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
6
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Raymond Smith, George "Slim" Summerville, Lew Ayres
Action • Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
7
Tod Browning • Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
Drama • Horror • Melodrama
8
Victor Heerman • Starring: Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
9
Tod Browning • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Gothic Film
10
Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Sports Comedy
11
William A. Wellman • Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Action • Crime Drama • Crime
12
Merian C. Cooper • Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Adventure • Horror • Jungle Film
13
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson • Starring: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
14
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Drama • Message Movie • Pre-Code Hollywood
15
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
16
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
17
James Whale • Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Gothic Film
18
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
19
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, Aline MacMahon
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Musical
20
Edmund Goulding • Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
21
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
22
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
23
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
24
Karl Freund • Starring: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Horror • Monster Film • Pre-Code Hollywood
25
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
26
Edgar G. Ulmer • Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Adventure • Crime Thriller • Crime
27
Alfred E. Green • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Drama • Melodrama • Pre-Code Hollywood
28
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Guy Kibbee, James Cagney, Joan Blondell
29
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy
Comedy • Musical Romance • Musical
30
George Cukor • Starring: Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Edmund Lowe
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
31
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
32
Frank Borzage • Starring: Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
33
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: John Gilbert, Elizabeth Young, Greta Garbo
34
William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, Joan Blondell
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
35
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
36
Cedric Gibbons • Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton
Action • Adventure • Jungle Film
37
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Fay Wray
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Gothic Film
38
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
39
Frank Capra • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori
Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
40
Tay Garnett • Starring: William Powell, Warren Hymer, Kay Francis
41
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith
Action • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
42
Robert Florey • Starring: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Crime
43
Lowell Sherman • Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
44
John Cromwell • Starring: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee
45
Victor Fleming • Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
46
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
47
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy
Horror • Mystery • Pre-Code Hollywood
48
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Buddy Film • Crime • Crime Drama
49
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Joan Blondell, Anne Dvorak, Bette Davis
50
Frank Capra • Starring: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
51
Thornton Freeland • Starring: Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien
52
William Dieterle • Starring: William Powell, Kay Francis, Alan Mowbray
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
53
Clarence Brown • Starring: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion
54
James Whale • Starring: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd
55
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
56
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Crime
57
Victor Fleming • Starring: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Showbiz Comedy
58
Jack Conway • Starring: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone
59
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert
Drama • Epic • Pre-Code Hollywood
60
Dorothy Arzner • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen
Addiction Drama • Comedy Drama • Drama
61
Howard Bretherton, William Keighley • Starring: Preston S. Foster, Dorothy Burgess, Robert McWade
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
62
Wesley Ruggles • Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
63
George Cukor • Starring: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton
Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood • Showbiz Drama
64
George Fitzmaurice • Starring: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore
Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-a-True-Story
65
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford
Comedy Drama • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
66
Charles Brabin • Starring: Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley
Adventure • Crime • Horror
67
Stephen Roberts • Starring: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
68
Clarence Brown • Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford
69
Clarence Brown • Starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore
70
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth
Action • Drama • Musical
71
William A. Wellman • Starring: Frankie Darro, Dorothy Coonan, Rochelle Hudson
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
72
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
73
William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot
74
Lowell Sherman • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou
75
Frank Tuttle • Starring: Lily Damita, Roland Young, Charles Ruggles
Comedy • Farce • Pre-Code Hollywood
76
William A. Wellman • Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young
Drama • Melodrama • Message Movie
77
William A. Wellman • Starring: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Crime Drama
78
Frank Capra • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman
79
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
80
Wesley Ruggles • Starring: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill
81
Frank Borzage • Starring: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell
82
Nick Grinde • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, ZaSu Pitts
83
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
84
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Diana Wynyard
Costume Romance • Drama • Family Drama
85
King Vidor • Starring: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
86
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson
87
Lionel Barrymore • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley
88
Archie Mayo • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy
Action • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
89
Richard Boleslawski • Starring: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
90
Archie Mayo • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
91
Edward Buzzell • Starring: Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Ward Bond
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
92
Dudley Murphy • Starring: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
93
William Dieterle • Starring: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh
Comedy Drama • Musical • Musical Comedy
94
William A. Wellman • Starring: Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot Tone
95
William A. Wellman • Starring: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
96
William A. Seiter • Starring: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott
Comedy Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
97
William J. Cowen • Starring: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Horror
98
John Francis Dillon • Starring: Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd
Comedy Drama • Melodrama • Pre-Code Hollywood
99
Charles Brabin • Starring: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
100
George Cukor • Starring: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman
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