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1. Personal Property (1937)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor

Votes: 1,110

2. The Women (1939)

Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama

A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland

Votes: 14,900 | Gross: $2.27M

3. Dark Victory (1939)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Votes: 12,400

4. Marie Antoinette (1938)

Passed | 149 min | Biography, Drama, History

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley

Votes: 3,284

5. Libeled Lady (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Votes: 8,909

6. It Should Happen to You (1954)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford, Michael O'Shea

Votes: 4,525 | Gross: $1.40M

7. Dodge City (1939)

Approved | 104 min | Western

A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 5,764

8. Studio One (1948–1958)

60 min | Drama

A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.

Stars: Betty Furness, Paul Branson, Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair

Votes: 328

9. Midnight (1934)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the night of the execution, his actions come back to haunt him.

Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull

Votes: 1,242

10. The Bank Dick (1940)

Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy

Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio

Votes: 7,803

11. Piccadilly Jim (1936)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

In London, an American street caricaturist falls in love with a young woman who suddenly disappears, prompting him to develop a comic strip based on a "From Rags to Riches" family, that he does not know is hers, causing her embarrassment.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore

Votes: 448

12. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)

60 min | Drama

A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.

Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan

Votes: 222

13. Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery

Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill, Victor Sen Yung

Votes: 1,477

14. The Mating Season (1951)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ellen McNulty loses her hamburger joint and goes to see her son, who marries a socialite at the same time. Due to her modest background and a case of mistaken identity, Ellen poses as the newlyweds' cook.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 1,970

15. She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem,... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger

Votes: 577

16. Goodyear Playhouse (1951–1957)

60 min | Drama

The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.

Stars: Walter Matthau, David White, Constance Ford, Kim Stanley

Votes: 111

17. I've Always Loved You (1946)

Approved | 117 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, Bill Carter, Maria Ouspenskaya

Votes: 368

18. On the Avenue (1937)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Broadway producer satirizes an important New York family. The family sues but their daughter falls in love with the producer.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers

Votes: 657

19. I Was an Adventuress (1940)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A pair of crooks (von Stroheim and Lorre) use a phony countess (Zorina) who winds up falling in love with one of their victims (Greene).

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre

Votes: 389

20. Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)

30 min | Drama

An anthology series which became the first successful filmed series on American television.

Stars: Gene Raymond, John Warburton, Nolan Leary, Dabbs Greer

Votes: 96

21. Just for You (1952)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway producer who has always been too busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. His girlfriend Carolina, a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to ... See full summary »

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Arthur

Votes: 408

22. Just Around the Corner (1938)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, Amanda Duff

Votes: 689

23. Quality Street (1937)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore, Fay Bainter

Votes: 1,315

24. Over 21 (1945)

Passed | 102 min | Comedy

A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Irene Dunne, Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Jeff Donnell

Votes: 403

25. Madame X (1937)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

Directors: Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen

Votes: 505

26. This Love of Ours (1945)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him--and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new... See full summary »

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Merle Oberon, Charles Korvin, Claude Rains, Carl Esmond

Votes: 159

27. The Night Angel (1931)

86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

American drama written and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film stars Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth and Alan Hale, Sr.. The film was released on July 18, 1931.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth

Votes: 88

28. Honeymoon for Three (1941)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling, loopy Danish girl Julie who is married to ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charles Ruggles, Osa Massen

Votes: 590

29. Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy

In 1940, Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a retired Army officer, returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia, and is disturbed at the lack of civic pride. He ... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 448

30. Young Widow (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance

A grieving war widow meets a young Lieutenant but spurns him for trying too hard to gain her affection. Will she give him a second chance when they meet again?

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Jane Russell, Louis Hayward, Faith Domergue, Marie Wilson

Votes: 340

31. Professor Beware (1938)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, William Frawley, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.80M

32. Tarnished Lady (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, Romance

Tarnished Lady is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on his short story, A Story of a New York Lady.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Phoebe Foster, Alexander Kirkland

Votes: 250

33. The Flying Irishman (1939)

Approved | 71 min | Biography, Drama

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded... See full summary »

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Douglas Corrigan, Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong, Gene Reynolds

Votes: 164

34. Follies Girl (1943)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Music

An Army private falls for his father's employee, a dress designer working on a burlesque show.

Director: William Rowland | Stars: Wendy Barrie, Doris Nolan, Gordon Oliver, Anne Barrett

Votes: 44

35. Woman Doctor (1939)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

A woman doctor is divided between the dedication to her profession and the much needed attention to her husband and daughter. This will cause a serious crises when the husband is left for ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Frieda Inescort, Henry Wilcoxon, Claire Dodd, Sybil Jason

Votes: 20

36. Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)

Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 515

37. Port of Seven Seas (1938)

81 min | Drama, Romance

Madelon and Marius intend to marry but he finds the call of the ocean irresistible and leaves her and his father behind.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Beal

Votes: 149

38. Frankie and Johnnie (1936)

66 min | Drama, Musical

The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.

Directors: Chester Erskine, John H. Auer | Stars: Helen Morgan, Chester Morris, Lilyan Tashman, Florence Reed

Votes: 63

39. She Wrote the Book (1946)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

An unassuming professor is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under a pseudonym. While in the city, she receives a bump on the head and begins to believe that she is the author.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Joan Davis, Jack Oakie, Mischa Auer, Kirby Grant

Votes: 88

40. Ladies of the Jury (1932)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Mystery

Society matron Mrs. Crane (Edna May Oliver) is selected as a juror in the trial of ex-chorus girl Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond), who's accused of murdering her rich elderly husband. In court,... See full summary »

Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Roscoe Ates, Ken Murray

Votes: 424

41. The First Time (1952)

89 min | Comedy

Expectant parents Joe and Betsy Bennett anxiously await the arrival of their new baby. Then after the baby arrives, they discover the unpleasant side of parenting: sleepless nights, extra bills and no more free time.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Robert Cummings, Barbara Hale, Bill Goodwin, Jeff Donnell

Votes: 172

42. 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

43. He Couldn't Say No (1938)

Passed | 57 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

An office clerk is harassed by his girlfriend's mother.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Frank McHugh, Jane Wyman, Cora Witherspoon, Diana Lewis

Votes: 279

44. Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

A con man must pass himself off as the owner of a château on the French Riviera when he is expected to host his estranged daughter's wedding.

Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Frank Morgan, Florence Rice, John Beal, Janet Beecher

Votes: 299

45. Vacation from Love (1938)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy

Newlyweds refuse help from their families as they struggle to make it on their own.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Reginald Owen, June Knight

Votes: 74

46. The Lady Escapes (1937)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy

A couple who are always quarreling split up temporarily while she goes to France and teams up with a playboy who's being sued for breach of promise.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, George Sanders, Cora Witherspoon

Votes: 52

47. Dangerous Number (1937)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Romance

Artificial-silk manufacturer Hank Medhill has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave her ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon

Votes: 289

48. The Big Shot (1937)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from his uncle, whom he hasn't seen for years. He decides to use some of his new-found wealth to fund a clean-up crusade against the gangster ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Killy | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Cora Witherspoon, Dorothy Moore, Gordon Jones

Votes: 186

49. Gambling (1934)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The adopted daughter of New-York-City gambler, Al Draper, elopes from quarantine (key plot word) with another voyager from Europe. Later she is found murdered in a hotel room. Draper is ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: George M. Cohan, Wynne Gibson, Dorothy Burgess, Theodore Newton

50. A Peach of a Pair (1934)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Shemp Butler & Emmy Cook (Shemp Howard & Daphne Pollard) get hired as a butler and cook.

Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Shemp Howard, Daphne Pollard, Elmer Brown, John Brown

Votes: 31