ALTERNATE ESSENTIALS of AMERICAN CINEMA -- 1930s

NINOTCHKA (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939, Howard Hawks)

THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939, Raoul Walsh)

YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (1939, John Ford)

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938, Micheal Curtiz)

HOLIDAY (1938, George Cukor)

THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937, Leo McCarey)

MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937, Leo McCarey)

STELLA DALLAS (1937, King Vidor)

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (1937, Fritz Lang)

NOTHING SACRED (1937, William Wellman)

DODSWORTH (1936, William Wyler)

FURY (1936, Fritz Lang)

MY MAN GODFREY (1936, Gregory La Cava)

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935, James Whale)

THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN (1935, Josef von Sternberg)

TOP HAT (1935, Mark Sandrich)

THE WEDDING NIGHT (1935, King Vidor)

THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934, Mark Sandrich)

THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934, Josef von Sternberg)

THE THIN MAN (1934, WS Van Dyke)

TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934, Howard Hawks)

42ND STREET (1933, Lloyd Bacon)

BABY FACE (1933, Alfred Green)

THE BITTER TASTE OF GENERAL YEN (1933, Frank Capra)

DINNER AT EIGHT (1933, George Cukor)

GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933, Mervyn LeRoy)

HALLELUJAH I’M A BUM! (1933, Lewis Milestone)

FREAKS (1932, Tod Browning)

LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932, Rouben Mamoulian)

SCARFACE (1932, Howard Hawks)

TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)

FRANKENSTEIN (1931, James Whale)

THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931, William A. Wellman)

TABU (1931, FW Murnau)

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930, Lewis Milestone)

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