1934 a year when Film really launched into profound professional greatness....
Imitation of Life, starring Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Rochelle Hudson, Fredi Washington
Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton
Finishing School, starring Frances Dee, Ginger Rogers, Billie Burke, Beulah Bondi, Bruce Cabot
Richest Girl in the World, starring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray
Baby Take a Bow, starring Shirley Temple, Claire Trevor, James Dunn
Kid Millions, starring Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy
Cleopatra, starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon
Manhattan Melodrama, starring Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Thin Man, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy
Anne of Green Gables, starring Dawn O'Day (Anne Shirley), Helen Westley, Tom Brown, Sara Haden, Charley Grapewin
Honorable Mention...
Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Bright Eyes, starring Shirley Temple, James Dunn
Broadway Bill (directed by Frank Capra), starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy
Cat and the Fiddle, starring Ramón Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald
Count of Monte Cristo, starring Robert Donat, Elissa Landi
Evelyn Prentice, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy
Great Expectations, starring Henry Hull, Jane Wyatt
It Happened One Night (directed by Frank Capra) starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Little Man, What Now?, starring Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery
Treasure Island, starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce
Twenty Million Sweethearts, starring Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
Little Miss Marker, starring Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman. (Dorothy Dell lost her life at age 19, one week after the film opened, as a result of an automobile accident.)
Reply by genplant29
on January 23, 2018 at 10:38 PM
1934 films (listed alphabetically) I've collected:
1933: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/244-king-kong/discuss/5a67d4009251411bb800104d
Reply by bratface
on January 24, 2018 at 12:30 AM
In no particular order:
The Thin Man
Evelyn Prentice
Manhattan Melodrama
Fashions of 1934
Of Human Bondage
Anne of Green Gables
Baby Take a Bow
Little Miss Marker
Bright Eyes
Imitation of Life
Tarzan and His Mate
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on February 18, 2018 at 11:12 AM
Reply by VinTinKin
on February 18, 2018 at 4:29 PM
Good answers, all!
1934 a year when Film really launched into profound professional greatness....
Imitation of Life, starring Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Warren William, Ned Sparks, Rochelle Hudson, Fredi Washington
Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton
Finishing School, starring Frances Dee, Ginger Rogers, Billie Burke, Beulah Bondi, Bruce Cabot
Richest Girl in the World, starring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray
Baby Take a Bow, starring Shirley Temple, Claire Trevor, James Dunn
Kid Millions, starring Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy
Cleopatra, starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon
Manhattan Melodrama, starring Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Thin Man, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy
Anne of Green Gables, starring Dawn O'Day (Anne Shirley), Helen Westley, Tom Brown, Sara Haden, Charley Grapewin
Honorable Mention...
Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Bright Eyes, starring Shirley Temple, James Dunn
Broadway Bill (directed by Frank Capra), starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy
Cat and the Fiddle, starring Ramón Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald
Count of Monte Cristo, starring Robert Donat, Elissa Landi
Evelyn Prentice, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy
Great Expectations, starring Henry Hull, Jane Wyatt
It Happened One Night (directed by Frank Capra) starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
Little Man, What Now?, starring Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery
Treasure Island, starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce
Twenty Million Sweethearts, starring Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
Little Miss Marker, starring Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman. (Dorothy Dell lost her life at age 19, one week after the film opened, as a result of an automobile accident.)
Reply by barrymost
on January 19, 2021 at 9:12 PM
Reply by catmydogs
on January 21, 2021 at 1:44 PM
My personal favorites for 1934:
L'atalante,
A Story of Floating Weeds,
It Happened One Night,
The Goddess,
The Merry Widow,
Cleopatra,
The Gay Divorcee,
Tarzan and his Mate,
Of Human Bondage,
The Thin Man