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1930s romantic comedy-drama films
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The list 1930s romantic comedy-drama films includes
The Lady of Scandal, Pygmalion, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Modern Times and Made for Each Other.
The list consists of 71 members.
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The Lady of Scandal
1930 film
Overview: The Lady of Scandal is a 1930 American pre-Code romance-comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Franklin, based on the 1927 play The High Road by Frederick Lonsdale, and starring Ruth Chatterton, Basil R ...
Release date: 24 May 1930Genre: Drama, Romance, ComedyDirector: Sidney FranklinWriter: Frederick Lonsdale, Hanns KrälyA famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
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Wife vs. Secretary
1936 film by Clarence Brown
Overview: Wife vs. Secretary (or Wife Versus Secretary) is a 1936 American romantic comedy drama film starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow. Directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, it was the fifth ...
Release date: 28 February 1936Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Clarence BrownProducer: Clarence Brown, Hunt StrombergWriter: Norman Krasna, John Lee MahinThe wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional. 0
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Pygmalion
1938 British film written by G. B. Shaw from his play
Overview: Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza ...Release date: 1 August 1938Genre: Drama, Comedy, RomanceDirector: Anthony Asquith, Leslie HowardProducer: Gabriel PascalWriter: George Bernard Shaw, W.P. LipscombA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society. 0
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 film
Overview: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American comedy-drama romance film directed by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story "Opera Hat" ...
Release date: 12 April 1936Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Frank CapraCast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond WalburnProducer: Frank CapraWriter: Robert Riskin, Clarence Budington KellandA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those ... 0
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Modern Times
1936 comedy film by Charles Chaplin
Overview: Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in ...
Release date: 5 February 1936Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Charles ChaplinProducer: Charles ChaplinWriter: Charles ChaplinThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. 0
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Made for Each Other
1938 film by John Cromwell
Overview: Made for Each Other is a 1939 American romantic comedy film directed by John Cromwell, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard, James Stewart, and Charles Coburn. Lombard and Stewart ...
Release date: 10 February 1939Genre: Drama, Comedy, RomanceDirector: John CromwellProducer: David O. SelznickWriter: Jo Swerling, Rose FrankenWhile on a business trip, an ambitious young lawyer meets and immediately falls in love with a stranger. They wed the following day, and tragedy soon strikes ... 0
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Dinner at Eight
1933 film
Overview: Dinner at Eight is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz, based on George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1932 play ...
Release date: 23 August 1933Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: George CukorProducer: David O. SelznickWriter: Frances Marion, Herman J. MankiewiczAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal. 0
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City Lights
1931 film
Overview: City Lights is a 1931 American synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a ...
Release date: 30 January 1931Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Charles ChaplinProducer: Charles ChaplinWriter: Charles Chaplin, Harry CarrWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her ... 0
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Bombshell
1933 film
Overview: Bombshell is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic screwball comedy film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone. It is ...
Release date: 11 October 1933Genre: Drama, Comedy, RomanceDirector: Victor FlemingProducer: Hunt StrombergWriter: John Lee Mahin, Jules FurthmanA glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. 0
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These Glamour Girls
1939 film by S. Sylvan Simon
Overview: These Glamour Girls is a 1939 comedy-drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon and starring Lew Ayres and Lana Turner, with Tom Brown, Jane Bryan, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise and Ann Rutherford in featured ...
Release date: 18 August 1939Genre: Drama, ComedyDirector: S. Sylvan SimonProducer: Sam ZimbalistWriter: Jane Hall, Marion ParsonnetA drunken college boy invites a taxi dancer to spend the weekend at his snobbish school. 0
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The Private Life of Don Juan
1934 film by Alexander Korda
Overview: The Private Life of Don Juan is a 1934 British comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume. At the age of 51, it was the final role of Fa ...
Release date: 28 August 1934Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, BiographyDirector: Alexander KordaProducer: Alexander KordaWriter: Henry Bataille, Frederick LonsdaleWhat do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores... 0
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Swing High, Swing Low
1937 film by Mitchell Leisen
Overview: Swing High, Swing Low is a 1937 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.
Release date: 12 March 1937Genre: Drama, Romance, MusicalDirector: Mitchell LeisenCast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour, Harvey StephensProducer: Arthur Hornblow Jr.Writer: Virginia Van Upp, Oscar Hammerstein IIA hair-dresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is th ... 0
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Quality Street
1937 film by George Stevens
Overview: Quality Street is a 1937 American historical comedy film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. Set in 19th-century England, the film stars Ka ...
Release date: 26 March 1937Genre: Romance, Drama, ComedyDirector: George StevensProducer: Pandro S. BermanWriter: J.M. Barrie, Allan ScottIn the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson. 0
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Our Blushing Brides
1930 film
Overview: Our Blushing Brides is a 1930 American pre-Code society comedy/romantic melodrama directed and produced by Harry Beaumont and starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian ...
Release date: 19 July 1930Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Harry BeaumontProducer: Harry BeaumontWriter: Edwin Justus Mayer, Helen MeinardiThree department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City... 0
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Nothing Sacred
1937 film by William A. Wellman
Overview: Nothing Sacred is a 1937 American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March with a supporting cast ...
Release date: 25 November 1937Genre: Romance, Drama, ComedyDirector: William A. WellmanProducer: David O. SelznickWriter: Ben Hecht, James H. StreetAn eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness ... 0
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Here Comes the Navy
1934 film by Lloyd Bacon
Overview: Here Comes the Navy (also known as Hey, Sailor) is a 1934 American romantic comedy film written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria ...Release date: 20 July 1934Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Action, AdventureDirector: Lloyd BaconProducer: Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. WarnerWriter: Earl Baldwin, Ben MarksonA cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism. 0
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Forsaking All Others
1934 film by W. S. Van Dyke
Overview: Forsaking All Others is a 1934 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. The screenplay was written by Joseph L. Ma ...
Release date: 23 December 1934Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: W.S. Van DykeCast: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Charles Butterworth, Billie Burke, Frances DrakeProducer: Bernard H. HymanWriter: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frank CavettDill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet ... 0
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Desire
1936 film by Frank Borzage
Overview: Desire is a 1936 American romantic crime comedy-drama film directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, and produced by Borzage and Ernst Lubitsch. The picture is a remake of the ...Release date: 11 April 1936Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime, DramaDirector: Frank BorzageProducer: Frank Borzage, Ernst LubitschWriter: Hans Székely, Robert A. Stemmle 0
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Chasing Rainbows
1930 film
Overview: 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.
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The Girl from Missouri
1934 film by Jack Conway
Overview: The Girl from Missouri (originally called Born to Be Kissed) is a 1934 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone. The movie was written by Anita Loos and directed by Jack ...
Release date: 3 August 1934Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Jack Conway, Sam WoodProducer: Jack Conway, Bernard H. HymanWriter: Anita Loos, John EmersonChorus girl Eadie is determined to marry a millionaire without sacrificing her virtue. 0
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