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What are your favourite films of 1934?

  1. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
  3. A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
  4. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
  5. Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell)
  6. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
  7. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
  8. The Lost Patrol (John Ford)
  9. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ullmer)
  10. The Painted Veil (Richard Boleslawski)

1935 top ten

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1934 films (listed alphabetically) I've collected:

  • Anne of Green Gables
  • The Black Cat
  • Finishing School
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • Of Human Bondage
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Twentieth Century

1933: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/244-king-kong/discuss/5a67d4009251411bb800104d

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

  1. It Happened One Night
  2. The Man Who Knew Too Much

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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.)

  1. It Happened One Night
  2. Treasure Island
  3. Twentieth Century
  4. The Painted Veil
  5. The Thin Man

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

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