Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Studio/Notes |
An Ache in Every Stake |
Del Lord |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy short |
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Adam Had Four Sons |
Gregory Ratoff |
Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward |
Drama |
Columbia |
Adventures of Captain Marvel |
William Witney, John English |
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan, Jr. |
Serial |
Republic's first comic book adaptation |
All the World's a Stooge |
Del Lord |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy short |
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All This and Rabbit Stew |
Tex Avery |
Bugs Bunny |
Animation |
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All Through the Night |
Vincent Sherman |
Humphrey Bogart, Kaaren Verne, Conrad Veidt, Jane Darwell |
Mystery, comedy |
Warner Bros. |
Among the Living |
Stuart Heisler |
Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer |
Horror |
Paramount |
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary |
George B. Seitz |
Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Kathryn Grayson |
Family |
MGM |
The Art of Self Defense |
Jack Kinney |
Goofy |
Animation |
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Aviation Vacation |
Tex Avery |
Looney Tunes |
Animation |
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Babes on Broadway |
Busby Berkeley |
Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney |
Musical |
MGM; third in Berkeley's backyard musicals |
Back Street |
Robert Stevenson |
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan |
Drama |
Remake of the 1932 film |
The Bad Man |
Richard Thorpe |
Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan |
Western |
Remake of 1930's The Bad Man |
Bad Men of Missouri |
Ray Enright |
Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan |
Western |
Warner Bros. |
Ball of Fire |
Howard Hawks |
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck |
Comedy |
Re-made as a musical in 1948 |
Barnacle Bill |
Richard Thorpe |
Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main |
Comedy |
MGM |
The Big Store |
Charles Reisner |
Marx Brothers, Tony Martin |
Comedy |
Last of the Marx Brothers’ films with MGM |
Billy the Kid |
David Miller |
Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy |
Western |
Remake of 1930 film Billy the Kid |
Birth of the Blues |
Victor Schertzinger |
Bing Crosby, Mary Martin |
Musical |
Paramount |
The Black Cat |
Albert S. Rogell |
Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi |
Horror |
Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe |
Blood and Sand |
Rouben Mamoulian |
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova |
Drama |
Previously made in both 1922 and 1916 |
The Blood of Jesus |
Spencer Williams |
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams |
Race |
Alternately titled The Glory Road |
Blossoms in the Dust |
Mervyn LeRoy |
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart |
Drama |
4 Academy Award nominations |
Blues in the Night |
Anatole Litvak |
Priscilla Lane, Betty Field |
Musical |
Features the song Blues in the Night |
Bowery Blitzkrieg |
Wallace Fox |
The East Side Kids, Keye Luke, Warren Hull |
Comedy, Crime |
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The Bride Came C.O.D. |
William Keighley |
James Cagney, Bette Davis |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
Broadway Limited |
Gordon Douglas |
Victor McLaglen, Patsy Kelly, ZaSu Pitts |
Comedy |
United Artists |
Buck Privates |
Arthur Lubin |
Abbott and Costello |
Comedy |
Universal |
Burma Convoy |
Noel M. Smith |
Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers |
Drama |
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Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Elmer's Pet Rabbit |
Chuck Jones |
Elmer Fudd, Bugs Bunny |
Cartoon |
Warner Bros. |
The Face Behind the Mask |
Robert Florey |
Peter Lorre |
Crime |
Columbia |
The Flame of New Orleans |
René Clair |
Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer |
Romantic comedy |
Universal |
Flying Wild |
William West |
Leo Gorcey, David Gorcey |
Aviation |
Fifth in East Side Kids series |
Forced Landing |
Gordon Wiles |
Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther, Evelyn Brent |
Action |
Paramount |
The Gang's All Here |
Jean Yarbrough |
Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Robert Homans |
Action comedy |
Monogram |
Great Guns |
Monty Banks |
Laurel and Hardy |
Comedy |
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The Great Lie |
Edmund Goulding |
Mary Astor, Bette Davis, George Brent |
Drama |
Based on the novel The Far Horizon; Academy Award for Astor |
The Green Hornet Strikes Again |
Ford Beebe, John Rawlins |
Warren Hull, Keye Luke |
Serial |
Sequel to 1940's The Green Hornet |
H. M. Pulham, Esq. |
King Vidor |
Robert Young, Hedy Lamarr, Ruth Hussey |
Drama |
Uncredited appearance by Ava Gardner |
The Heckling Hare |
Tex Avery |
Looney Tunes |
Animation |
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Hellzapoppin' |
H. C. Potter |
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye |
Musical comedy |
Universal; based on stage musical |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
Alexander Hall |
Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains |
Comedy |
7 Oscar nominations; won 2; followed by 1947's Down to Earth |
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt |
Friz Freleng |
Bugs Bunny |
Animation |
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High Sierra |
Raoul Walsh |
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Leslie, Arthur Kennedy, Cornel Wilde |
Film Noir |
Warner Bros.; followed by I Died a Thousand Times |
Hit the Road |
Joe May |
Gladys George, Barton MacLane, Dead End Kids |
Crime Comedy |
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Hold Back the Dawn |
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Charles Boyer, Olivia de Haviland, Paulette Goddard |
Romance |
Paramount |
Hold That Ghost |
|
Abbott and Costello |
Comedy |
Universal |
Honky Tonk |
Jack Conway |
Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Claire Trevor |
Western |
MGM |
How Green Was My Valley |
John Ford |
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall |
Drama |
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winner of 5 including Best Picture |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
I Wake Up Screaming |
H. Bruce Humberstone |
Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis |
Film noir |
20th Century Fox |
I Wanted Wings |
Mitchell Leisen |
Ray Milland, William Holden, Brian Donlevy |
Drama |
Paramount |
I'll Never Heil Again |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy Short |
Columbia |
In the Navy |
Arthur Lubin |
Abbott and Costello, Dick Powell |
Comedy |
Universal |
In the Sweet Pie and Pie |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy short |
Columbia |
Invisible Ghost |
Joseph H. Lewis |
Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young |
Horror |
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It Started with Eve |
Henry Koster |
Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings |
Musical |
Universal |
Jungle Girl |
William Witney, John English |
Frances Gifford |
Serial |
Republic |
Keep 'Em Flying |
Arthur Lubin |
Abbott and Costello, Martha Raye |
Comedy |
Universal |
King of the Zombies |
Jean Yarbrough |
Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury |
Horror Comedy |
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Ladies in Retirement |
Charles Vidor |
Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward |
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Columbia |
Lady Be Good |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young |
Musical |
MGM |
The Lady Eve |
Preston Sturges |
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda |
Screwball comedy |
Paramount |
Law of the Tropics |
Ray Enright |
Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
Life Begins for Andy Hardy |
George B. Seitz |
Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden |
Family |
MGM; 11th in series |
The Little Foxes |
William Wyler |
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright |
Drama |
RKO; 8 Oscar nominations |
The Little Whirlwind |
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Animated Short |
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date |
Jack Joseph Spence |
Warren William, Edward Gargan, Lester Matthews |
Crime |
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Look Who's Laughing |
Allan Dwan |
Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Jim Jordan |
Comedy |
RKO |
Louisiana Purchase |
Irving Cummings |
Bob Hope |
Musical |
Paramount |
The Maltese Falcon |
John Huston |
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ward Bond |
Mystery |
Warner Bros.; based on novel by Dashiell Hammett |
Man Hunt |
Fritz Lang |
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, George Sanders |
Thriller |
remade as Rogue Male |
Man Made Monster |
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Lon Chaney, Jr. |
Horror |
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Manpower |
Raoul Walsh |
Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
The Medico of Painted Springs |
Lambert Hillyer |
Charles Starrett, Terry Walker, Ben Taggart |
Western |
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Meet John Doe |
Frank Capra |
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan |
Dramatic comedy |
Warner Bros. |
The Midnight Snack |
Hanna-Barbera |
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Animated short |
Tom and Jerry |
Mister Bug Goes to Town |
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Animated |
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Mob Town |
William Nigh |
Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Billy Halop |
Comedy, drama |
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The Monster and the Girl |
Stuart Heisler |
Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas |
Horror |
Paramount |
Moods of the Sea |
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Avant-garde Short |
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Moon Over Miami |
Walter Lang |
Betty Grable, Don Ameche |
Romantic comedy |
20th Century Fox |
Mr. & Mrs. Smith |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery |
Screwball comedy |
RKO |
Mr. Bug Goes to Town |
Dave Fleischer |
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Animation |
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break |
Edward Cline |
W. C. Fields, Gloria Jean |
Comedy |
Universal |
New York Town |
Charles Vidor |
Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin |
Romantic comedy |
Paramount |
Nice Girl? |
William A. Seiter |
Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan |
Musical |
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The Nifty Nineties |
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Animated Short |
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The Night Before Christmas |
Hanna-Barbera |
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Animated Short |
Tom and Jerry |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
One Foot in Heaven |
Irving Rapper |
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart |
Bio-pic |
Warner Bros. |
One Night in Lisbon |
Edward H. Griffith |
Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll |
Thriller |
Paramount |
Pantry Panic |
Walter Lantz |
Woody Woodpecker |
Animated |
Universal |
Parachute Battalion |
Leslie Goodwins |
Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Carey, Buddy Ebsen |
War |
RKO |
Penny Serenade |
George Stevens |
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan |
Melodrama |
Grant nominated for Oscar |
A Place to Live |
Irving Lerner |
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Documentary |
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Rage in Heaven |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, Oskar Homolka, George Sanders |
Thriller |
MGM |
Red River Valley |
Joseph Kane |
Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes |
Western |
Republic |
The Reluctant Dragon |
Alfred L. Werker |
Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford |
Animated |
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Remember the Day |
Henry King |
Claudette Colbert, John Payne |
Drama |
20th Century Fox |
Riders of Death Valley |
Ray Taylor |
Dick Foran, Buck Jones, Ford Beebe |
Serial |
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Ring of Steel |
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Narrated by Spencer Tracy |
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Army recruiting film |
Road to Zanzibar |
Victor Schertzinger |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour |
Comedy |
Paramount; 2nd of Road to... series |
The Saint in Palm Springs |
Jack Hively |
George Sanders, Wendy Barrie |
Crime Thriller |
RKO |
The Saint's Vacation |
Leslie Fenton |
Hugh Sinclair, Leueen MacGrath |
Action Adventure |
RKO |
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat |
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Sea Raiders |
Ford Beebe |
Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys |
Serial |
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The Sea Wolf |
Michael Curtiz |
Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield |
Adventure |
Warner Bros. |
Sergeant York |
Howard Hawks |
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie |
War, Biography |
Oscar for Cooper; 10 nominations |
Shadow of the Thin Man |
W. S. Van Dyke |
William Powell, Myrna Loy |
Mystery |
MGM; 4th in series |
The Shanghai Gesture |
Josef von Sternberg |
Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature |
Thriller |
United Artists |
The Shepherd of the Hills |
Henry Hathaway |
John Wayne, Betty Field |
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Shining Victory |
Irving Rapper |
James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp |
Drama Suspense |
First National Pictures |
Six Gun Gold |
David Howard |
Tim Holt, Fern Emmett, Eddy Waller |
Western |
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Sky Raiders |
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Donald Woods |
Serial |
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Skylark |
Mark Sandrich |
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne |
Drama |
Paramount |
Smilin' Through |
Frank Borzage |
Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne |
Romantic Drama |
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So Long Mr. Chumps |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy |
Columbia |
Some More of Samoa |
Del Lord |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy |
Columbia |
Spooks Run Wild |
Phil Rosen |
Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan |
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St. Louis Blues |
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Musical |
Short subject |
Strange Alibi |
D. Ross Lederman |
Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry |
Drama |
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The Strawberry Blonde |
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James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland |
Comedy |
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Sullivan's Travels |
Preston Sturges |
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake |
Comedy |
Paramount; voted one of 100 top films |
Sun Valley Serenade |
H. Bruce Humberstone |
Sonja Henie, Lynn Bari, John Payne, Milton Berle |
Musical |
With Glenn Miller, Dorothy Dandridge |
Sunny |
Herbert Wilcox |
Ray Bolger, Edward Everett Horton |
Musical |
RKO |
Suspicion |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce, Cedric Hardwicke, Dame May Whitty, Leo G. Carroll |
Thriller |
RKO; Oscar for Fontaine |
Swamp Water |
Jean Renoir |
Walter Brennan |
Drama |
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