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1. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Passed | 176 min | Drama, Musical

The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan

Votes: 8,990

2. White Zombie (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Horror

A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer

Votes: 11,651

3. Love Me Tonight (1932)

Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 4,626

4. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady

Votes: 2,958

5. Naughty Marietta (1935)

Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.

Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 1,537

6. Street Girl (1929)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks

Votes: 475

7. Lillian Russell (1940)

Passed | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold

Votes: 580

8. They Call It Sin (1932)

Passed | 69 min | Drama

Marian moves to New York to make it big in the chorus and becomes involved in a love triangle.

Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Loretta Young, George Brent, Una Merkel, David Manners

Votes: 759

9. The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

Directors: William K. Howard, Sam Wood | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 471 | Gross: $0.99M

10. Housewife (1934)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday

Votes: 1,138

11. Dixiana (1930)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.

Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey

Votes: 423

12. So Ends Our Night (1941)

TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War

Story about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford

Votes: 648

13. The Taming of the Shrew (1929)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance

In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong... See full summary »

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 646 | Gross: $2.40M

14. Bright Lights (1935)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out ... See full summary »

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ann Dvorak, Patricia Ellis, William Gargan

Votes: 261

15. Blondie Johnson (1933)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama

The story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Directors: Ray Enright, Lucien Hubbard | Stars: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins, Earle Foxe

Votes: 786

16. One Rainy Afternoon (1936)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An absurd ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young

Votes: 314

17. Made on Broadway (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama

Jeff is the supreme press agent who has his own private club where the rich and powerful meet and drink for free. It is free until they need him and he charges a bundle. Jeff has power, ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Sally Eilers, Madge Evans, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 185

18. Grand Slam (1933)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy

Because the Stanislavsky method of playing bridge has no rules, it promotes marital harmony for those who stick with it.

Directors: William Dieterle, Alfred E. Green | Stars: Paul Lukas, Loretta Young, Frank McHugh, Glenda Farrell

Votes: 363

19. Music in the Air (1934)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.

Director: Joe May | Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery, June Lang

Votes: 1,026

20. Broken Dreams (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Drama

Medical intern Robert is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue medicine.

Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Randolph Scott, Martha Sleeper, Beryl Mercer, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 111

21. Kiki (1931)

87 min | Musical

Kiki, a French chorus girl is desperate to get into and be someone in show business, come what may.

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Reginald Denny, Joseph Cawthorn, Margaret Livingston

Votes: 350 | Gross: $0.43M

22. Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Unscrupulous agent Rush makes singing waiter Clayton a big radio star while Peggy, who has lost her own radio show, helps Clayton.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Ginger Rogers, The Mills Brothers

Votes: 452

23. Maybe It's Love (1935)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Ross Alexander, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly

Votes: 176

24. Page Miss Glory (1935)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

A chambermaid impersonates the fictional subject of a composite photo that won a beauty contest, with whom a famed aviator falls in love.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor

Votes: 1,419

25. The Princess and the Plumber (1930)

72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.

Directors: Alexander Korda, John G. Blystone | Stars: Charles Farrell, Maureen O'Sullivan, H.B. Warner, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 23

26. Whistling in the Dark (1933)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster who hopes to get the writer's help in devising the "perfect crime."

Directors: Elliott Nugent, Charles Reisner | Stars: Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold, John Miljan

Votes: 348

27. Peach O'Reno (1931)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Zelma O'Neal

Votes: 300

28. Young and Beautiful (1934)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A press agent convinces his boss to sign his girlfriend, June Dale to a studio contract. His relentless publicity stunts to brighten her star drive her into the arms of a wealthy admirer.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: William Haines, Judith Allen, Joseph Cawthorn, Ted Fio Rito Orchestra

Votes: 328

29. Sweet Adeline (1934)

Approved | 87 min | Musical, Romance

In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks

Votes: 317

30. Dance Hall (1929)

Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A dance-trophy-winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe that he's in love with her.

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Olive Borden, Arthur Lake, Ralph Emerson, Margaret Seddon

Votes: 115

31. Speakeasy (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Paul Page, Lola Lane, Henry B. Walthall, Helen Ware

Votes: 83

32. Sweet Music (1935)

Passed | 100 min | Musical

College band-leader "Skip" Houston keeps his band together after graduation, they turn professional, and they are a big hit on the radio and in nightclubs. He falls in love with Bonnie ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Ann Dvorak, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan

Votes: 132

33. Freshman Love (1935)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Musical

Frank McHugh is a college rowing coach, in a desperate attempt to acquire top rowers for his team, he enlists the assistance of pretty blonde Patricia Ellis to woo young hopefuls away from ... See full summary »

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull, Frank McHugh, Mary Treen

Votes: 151

34. The Last Gentleman (1934)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy

In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: George Arliss, Edna May Oliver, Janet Beecher, Charlotte Henry

Votes: 104

35. Harmony Lane (1935)

Passed | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Evelyn Venable, Adrienne Ames, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 124

36. The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

A government mail sack, missing for fifty years, is now being delivered. Stamp collector Julie Martin follows postal inspector Brennon on his delivery tour, hoping to find some rare stamps ... See full summary »

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Richard Travis, Brenda Joyce, Spencer Charters, Stanley Andrews

Votes: 32

37. Glamour (1934)

Approved | 74 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A married chorus girl falls in love with a composer.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Paul Lukas, Constance Cummings, Phillip Reed, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 72

38. Best of Enemies (1933)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

William H. Hartman, an American businessman who has contributed a lot of money to help bring about prohibition, visits the beer garden of his German-American neighbor, Gus Schneider, hoping... See full summary »

Director: Rian James | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Marian Nixon, Frank Morgan, Greta Nissen

39. Men Are Such Fools (1932)

64 min | Drama

An struggling Italian of American nationality decides to go back to US. His girlfriend, who was ready to ditch him for wealthier people, marries him to get to USA. There, she flirts and ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Vivienne Osborne, Una Merkel, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 78

40. Smart Girl (1935)

69 min | Drama

A young woman lands a job as a clerk at a hat company in danger of going broke. She befriends the owner and persuades him to try some of her more daring designs

Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Ida Lupino, Kent Taylor, Gail Patrick, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 41

41. Lazy River (1934)

Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Three ex-cons help save a mother and daughter's shrimp business from wicked slavers.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jean Parker, Robert Young, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 115

42. Hot Money (1936)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

A crafty salesman attempts to raise some quick cash to fund an inventor's development of a gasoline substitute.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Ross Alexander, Beverly Roberts, Joseph Cawthorn, Paul Graetz

Votes: 123

43. The Human Side (1934)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Doris Kenyon, Charlotte Henry, Reginald Owen

44. Crime Over London (1936)

Approved | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance

Things are getting too hot in New York City for "Joker" Finnigan and his gang, so they decide to move their activities to London. There, Inspector Gary of Scotland Yard is keeping a polite ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred Zeisler | Stars: Margot Grahame, Paul Cavanagh, Joseph Cawthorn, Rene Ray

Votes: 40

45. A Tailor Made Man (1931)

81 min | Comedy

The adventures of a trouser presser whose cheerful self-reliance enables him to mix with society people and assume the management of a big store.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Dorothy Jordan, Joseph Cawthorn, Marjorie Rambeau

Votes: 57

46. Very Confidential (1927)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

Madge Murphy, a fashion model in a sporting goods store, learning that Adelaide Melbourne, "a famous sportswoman, is to spend the Summer in Alaska, conceives the idea of impersonating her ... See full summary »

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Patrick Cunning, Mary Duncan, Joseph Cawthorn

47. Silk Legs (1927)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

Sales agents for rival hosiery concerns try to land an order, the boy for a while succeeding and putting on an exhibition. The girl makes the mannequins use her own brand of hose, flirts with the buyer and wins order away from her rival.

Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Madge Bellamy, James Hall, Joseph Cawthorn, Maude Fulton

48. The Runaround (1931)

82 min | Comedy, Romance

Although convinced that millionaire Fred White, who has been pursuing her avidly, is interested only in having an affair, chorus girl Evelyn tells fellow chorine Margy that she will ... See full summary »

Director: William James Craft | Stars: Geoffrey Kerr, Mary Brian, Johnny Hines, Marie Prevost

49. Two Girls Wanted (1927)

70 min | Comedy, Drama

Marianna Miller, dressing as a boy to seek employment in the city, becomes involved with a gang of ruffians; and when she hits Dexter Wright, a young businessman, with a tomato, he detects ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Glenn Tryon, Ben Bard, Joseph Cawthorn

50. Scatterbrain (1940)

Approved | 73 min | Comedy

Eddie MacIntyre is a press agent, talent scout and right-hand man to J.R.Russell, Producer/Director of Perfection Pictures, is planning a scheme in which he will "plant" his girl friend, ... See full summary »

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Judy Canova, Alan Mowbray, Ruth Donnelly, Eddie Foy Jr.

Votes: 54