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Second Choice is a 1930 pre-Code black-and-white film released by Warner Bros. and starring Dolores Costello and Chester Morris. The film is notable as being the first (and only film) in which Dolores ...
Release date: 4 January 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance
Drama of thwarted love and marriage.
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The Office Wife is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, released by Warner Bros., and based on the novel of the same name by Faith Baldwin. It was the talkie debut for ...
Release date: 23 August 1930
Genre:
Romance, Drama
Larry Fellowes of Fellowes Publishing wants Kate to write her next book about the 'Office Wife'. The...
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The Florodora Girl is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and written by Ralph Spence, Al Boasberg and Robert E. Hopkins. The film stars Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter ...
Release date: 30 May 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance, Musical
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold-digger...
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Morocco is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. Based on the 1927 novel Amy Jolly (the on-screen ...
Release date: 14 November 1930
Genre:
Romance, Drama
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret...
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Ladies of Leisure is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ralph Graves. The screenplay by Jo Swerling is based on the 1924 play Ladies ...
Release date: 5 April 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance
An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.
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Chasing Rainbows (also known as The Road Show) is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: 10 January 1930
Genre:
Musical, Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Prix de Beauté ("Beauty Prize", UK title: Miss Europe) is a 1930 film directed by Augusto Genina. The film is notable for being the first sound film made by star Louise Brooks, although all of her dialogue ...
Release date: 1 August 1930
Genre:
Drama
Lucienne, typist and gorgeous bathing beauty, decides to enter the 'Miss Europe' pageant sponsored by the French newspaper she works for...
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Anna Christie is a 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pre-Code film adaptation of the 1921 play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with ...
Release date: 22 January 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
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Way for a Sailor is a 1930 American pre-Code film starring John Gilbert. The supporting cast includes Wallace Beery, Jim Tully, Leila Hyams, and Polly Moran. The film was directed by Sam Wood, who insisted ...
Release date: 1 November 1930
Genre:
Romance, Drama, Action
Jack is a sailor who lives to go to sea. A typical sailor, he is always broke and has been in seven jails in the last seven ports...
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Son of the Gods is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film with Technicolor sequences, produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. It was adapted from the novel ...
Release date: 9 March 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance
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Lord Byron of Broadway (1930), also known as What Price Melody?, is an American Pre-Code musical drama film, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh. It was based on a best selling book by Nell Martin ...
Release date: 28 February 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance, Musical
A tunesmith, a user and an out-and-out heel, puts the stories of his broken romances into song, turning old love letters into lyrics...
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion is a 1930 American pre-Code dramatic film starring Norma Talmadge, produced by her husband Joseph Schenck, released through United Artists, and based on a 1901 stage play Du ...
Release date: 11 October 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance
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The Silver Horde is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Joel McCrea as a fisherman torn between two women, played by top-billed Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur.
Release date: 25 October 1930
Genre:
Drama
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
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The Runaway Bride is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film starring Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, and Paul Hurst. It was directed by Donald Crisp, from a screenplay by Jane Murfin, adapted from the play Cooking ...
Release date: 4 May 1930
Genre:
Crime, Romance, Drama
A young socialite and a rich playboy elope to Atlantic City. However, she soon realizes he's not the man she wants him to be and tries to call off the ...
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Romance is a 1930 American Pre-Code film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, and Gavin Gordon. Based on the 1913 play by Edward Sheldon, the film was written by Edwin Justus ...
Release date: 22 August 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance
Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks...
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Passion Flower is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed and produced by William C. deMille and starring Kay Francis, Kay Johnson and Charles Bickford in a romantic triangle. This production includes ...
Release date: 6 December 1930
Genre:
Drama, Romance
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
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Peacock Alley is a 1930 American pre-Code musical romantic drama film directed by Marcel de Sano, and starring Mae Murray and George Barraud. The film is a remake of the 1922 silent film of the same name ...
Release date: 4 January 1930
Genre:
Romance, Drama, Music
Claire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward, no-nonsense manner...
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Young Eagles is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by William A. Wellman for Paramount Pictures. It stars Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Jean Arthur, and Paul Lukas. The story is based on the ...
Release date: 21 March 1930
Genre:
Drama, War
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War Nurse is a 1930 American pre-Code war film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, June Walker and Robert Ames.
Release date: 22 October 1930
Genre:
Drama, War, Romance
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Seven Days Leave is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Richard Wallace and starring Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, and Daisy Belmore.
Release date: 25 January 1930
Genre:
Drama
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