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1932 drama films
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The list 1932 drama films includes
Three on a Match, The Sign of the Cross, Shanghai Express, Scarface and Red Dust.
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Three on a Match
1932 film by Mervyn LeRoy
Overview: Three on a Match is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film released by Warner Bros. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and stars Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, and Bette Davis. The film ...
Release date: 28 October 1932Genre: Crime, Drama, RomanceDirector: Mervyn LeRoyProducer: Samuel Bischoff, Raymond GriffithWriter: Lucien Hubbard, Kubec GlasmonAlthough Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and ...
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The Sign of the Cross
1932 film
Overview: The Sign of the Cross is a 1932 American pre-Code epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount Pictures. Based on the original 1895 play by English playwright Wilson B ...
Release date: 30 November 1932Genre: Drama, HistoryDirector: Cecil B. DeMilleProducer: Cecil B. DeMilleWriter: Waldemar Young, Sidney BuchmanA Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero. 0
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Shanghai Express
1932 film
Overview: Shanghai Express is a 1932 American pre-Code film about a group of train passengers held hostage by a warlord during the Chinese Civil War. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and stars Marlene Dietrich ...Release date: 2 February 1932Genre: Adventure, Drama, RomanceDirector: Josef von SternbergProducer: Adolph ZukorWriter: Harry Hervey, Jules FurthmanMany passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board... 0
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Scarface
1932 film by Howard Hawks
Overview: Scarface (also known as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes. The scr ...
Release date: 31 March 1932Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Action, ThrillerDirector: Howard Hawks, Richard RossonProducer: Howard Hawks, Howard HughesWriter: Armitage Trail, Ben HechtAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. 0
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Red Dust
1932 film
Overview: Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Mary Astor. It is based on the 1928 play of the same name by Wilson Collison ...
Release date: 22 October 1932Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Victor FlemingProducer: Victor Fleming, Hunt StrombergWriter: John Lee Mahin, Wilson CollisonThe owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees. 0
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Play Girl
1932 film
Overview: Play Girl is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young, and Norman Foster. The screenplay concerns a young woman who marries a professional gambler.
Release date: 12 March 1932Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Ray EnrightProducer: Hal B. WallisA young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler. 0
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One Way Passage
1932 film
Overview: One Way Passage is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros. The screenplay by Wilson Mizner ...
Release date: 13 October 1932Genre: Romance, DramaDirector: Tay GarnettProducer: Robert Lord, Hal B. WallisWriter: Wilson Mizner, Joseph Jackson 0
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Night After Night
1932 film
Overview: Night After Night is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring George Raft, Constance Cummings, and Mae West in her first movie role. Others in the cast include Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe ...
Release date: 29 October 1932Genre: Drama, ComedyDirector: Archie MayoProducer: William LeBaronWriter: Louis Bromfield, Joseph L. MankiewiczA successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl. 0
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Grand Hotel
1932 film
Overview: Grand Hotel is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by William A. Drake is based on the 1930 play by Drake, who had adapted ...
Release date: 12 April 1932Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Edmund GouldingProducer: Irving ThalbergWriter: Vicki Baum, William A. DrakeA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. 0
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Forbidden
1932 film
Overview: Forbidden is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, and Ralph Bellamy. An original story inspired by the 1931 novel Back Street by ...
Release date: 9 January 1932Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Frank CapraCast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson, Thomas Jefferson, Myrna FresholtProducer: Frank Capra, Harry CohnWriter: Frank Capra, Jo SwerlingA librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid. 0
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Faithless
1932 film by Harry Beaumont
Overview: Faithless is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film about a spoiled socialite who learns a sharp lesson when she loses all her money during the Great Depression. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead ...
Release date: 15 October 1932Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Harry BeaumontCast: Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Montgomery, Hugh Herbert, Maurice Murphy, Louise Closser Hale, Anna AppelWriter: Carey Wilson, Mildred CramSocialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him. 0
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Blonde Venus
1932 film
Overview: Blonde Venus is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant. It was produced, edited and directed by Josef von Sternberg from a screenplay by Jules F ...
Release date: 16 September 1932Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Josef von SternbergProducer: Josef von SternbergWriter: Jules Furthman, S.K. LaurenA cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation. 0
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Night World
1932 film
Overview: Night World is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film featuring Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, and Boris Karloff. The supporting cast includes George Raft and Hedda Hopper (before she became a noted gossip columnist) ...Release date: 5 May 1932Genre: Drama, CrimeDirector: Hobart HenleyProducer: Allen Rivkin, Richard Schayer 0
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1930s English-language films 4,358TAmerican black-and-white films 23,254TBlack-and-white films 15,641T -
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Life Begins
1932 film
Overview: Life Begins is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, and Glenda Farrell. The film was adapted from the 1932 play of the same name by Mary M. Axelson ...
Release date: 4 September 1932Genre: DramaDirector: James Flood, Elliott NugentProducer: Darryl F. ZanuckWriter: Mary M. Axelson, Earl BaldwinAt a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily... 0
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Virtue
1932 film
Overview: Virtue is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien and Shirley Grey. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Release date: 24 October 1932Genre: Drama, Romance, CrimeDirector: Edward BuzzellWriter: Robert Riskin, Ethel HillA relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their way, including ... 0
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The Match King
1932 film
Overview: The Match King is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film made by First National Pictures, directed by William Keighley and Howard Bretherton. The film starred Warren William and Lili Damita, and follows the ...Release date: 31 December 1932Genre: DramaDirector: Howard Bretherton, William KeighleyProducer: Hal B. WallisWriter: Einar Thorvaldson, Houston BranchUnscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where... 0
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The Crowd Roars
1932 film
Overview: The Crowd Roars is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Howard Hawks starring James Cagney and featuring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden, Guy Kibbee, and Frank McHugh. A film of the same ...Release date: 16 April 1932Genre: Drama, ActionDirector: Howard HawksWriter: John Bright, Niven BuschRace car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well. 0
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The Cabin in the Cotton
1932 film
Overview: The Cabin in the Cotton is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Paul Green is based on the novel of the same title by Harry Harrison Kroll.
Release date: 26 September 1932Genre: DramaDirector: Michael CurtizCast: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright, David Landau, Berton ChurchillProducer: Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. WarnerWriter: Paul Green, Harry Harrison KrollA tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter. 0
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Strange Interlude
1932 film
Overview: Strange Interlude is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on the 1928 play ...
Release date: 30 December 1932Genre: DramaDirector: Robert Z. LeonardProducer: Robert Z. Leonard, Irving ThalbergWriter: Eugene O'NeillAfter Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child ... 0
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So Big!
1932 film
Overview: So Big is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert Lord is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Release date: 29 April 1932Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: William A. WellmanProducer: Lucien Hubbard, Jack L. WarnerWriter: Edna Ferber, J. Grubb AlexanderAfter Selina's father dies, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins. 0
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