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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
Robert Florey, Joseph Santley • Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
29
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Guy Kibbee, James Cagney, Joan Blondell
30
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy
Comedy • Musical Romance • Musical
31
George Cukor • Starring: Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Edmund Lowe
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
32
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
33
Frank Borzage • Starring: Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
34
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: John Gilbert, Elizabeth Young, Greta Garbo
35
William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, Joan Blondell
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
36
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
37
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane
Comedy • Musical • Musical Romance
38
Cedric Gibbons • Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton
Action • Adventure • Jungle Film
39
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Fay Wray
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Gothic Film
40
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant
41
Frank Capra • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori
Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
42
Tay Garnett • Starring: William Powell, Warren Hymer, Kay Francis
43
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith
Action • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
44
Robert Florey • Starring: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Crime
45
Lowell Sherman • Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
46
John Cromwell • Starring: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee
47
Victor Fleming • Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
48
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
49
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy
Horror • Mystery • Pre-Code Hollywood
50
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Buddy Film • Crime • Crime Drama
51
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Joan Blondell, Anne Dvorak, Bette Davis
52
Frank Capra • Starring: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
53
Thornton Freeland • Starring: Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien
54
William Dieterle • Starring: William Powell, Kay Francis, Alan Mowbray
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
55
Clarence Brown • Starring: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion
56
James Whale • Starring: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd
57
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
58
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Crime
59
Victor Fleming • Starring: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Showbiz Comedy
60
Jack Conway • Starring: Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone
61
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert
Drama • Epic • Pre-Code Hollywood
62
Dorothy Arzner • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen
Addiction Drama • Comedy Drama • Drama
63
Howard Bretherton, William Keighley • Starring: Preston S. Foster, Dorothy Burgess, Robert McWade
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
64
Harry Beaumont • Starring: Bessie Love, Charles King, Anita Page
Comedy • Musical • Pre-Code Hollywood
65
Wesley Ruggles • Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
66
George Cukor • Starring: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton
Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood • Showbiz Drama
67
George Fitzmaurice • Starring: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore
Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-a-True-Story
68
King Vidor • Starring: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Drama • Melodrama • Musical
69
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford
Comedy Drama • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
70
Charles Brabin • Starring: Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley
Adventure • Crime • Horror
71
Stephen Roberts • Starring: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
72
Sam Taylor • Starring: Mary Pickford, John St. Polis, William Janney
73
Clarence Brown • Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford
74
Clarence Brown • Starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore
75
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
Drama • Musical • Musical Drama
76
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth
Action • Drama • Musical
77
William A. Wellman • Starring: Frankie Darro, Dorothy Coonan, Rochelle Hudson
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
78
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
79
William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot
80
Lowell Sherman • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou
81
Frank Tuttle • Starring: Lily Damita, Roland Young, Charles Ruggles
Comedy • Farce • Pre-Code Hollywood
82
William A. Wellman • Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young
Drama • Melodrama • Message Movie
83
William A. Wellman • Starring: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Crime Drama
84
Frank Capra • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman
85
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
86
Wesley Ruggles • Starring: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill
87
Roland West • Starring: Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Crime Thriller
88
Frank Borzage • Starring: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell
89
Nick Grinde • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, ZaSu Pitts
90
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
91
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Diana Wynyard
Costume Romance • Drama • Family Drama
92
King Vidor • Starring: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
93
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson
94
Lionel Barrymore • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley
95
Archie Mayo • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy
Action • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
96
Richard Boleslawski • Starring: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
97
Archie Mayo • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
98
Edward Buzzell • Starring: Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Ward Bond
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
99
Dudley Murphy • Starring: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
100
William Dieterle • Starring: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh
Comedy Drama • Musical • Musical Comedy
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