What were some popular movies in the 1930s?

Answer 1

Musicals and more musicals; talking movies only got going after The Jazz singer in 1928, and of course singing is better than talking... Busby Berkeley was a director of musicals of that time and is a good place to start...

Answer 2

"All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930)

"Animal Crackers" (1930)

"City Lights" (1931)

"Frankenstein" (1931)

"Dracula" (1931)

"The Public Enemy" (1931)

"Little Caesar" (1931)

"Monkey Business" (1931)

"Freaks" (1932)

"Scarface" (1932)

"Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932)

"The Mummy" (1932)

"Horse Feathers" (1932)

"20,000 Years in Sing Sing" (1932)

"King Kong" (1933)

"Duck Soup" (1933)

"The Invisible Man" (1933)

"Little Women" (1933)

"It Happened One Night" (1934)

"Treasure Island" (1934)

"The Thin Man" (1934)

"Tarzan and His Mate" (1934)

"The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934)

"The Lost Patrol" (1934)

"Bright Eyes" (1934)

"The 39 Steps" (1935)

"Bride of Frankenstein" (1935)

"A Night at the Opera" (1935)

"Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935)

"Top Hat" (1935)

"Captain Blood" (1935)

"Modern Times" (1936)

"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936)

"The Petrified Forest" (1936)

"San Francisco" (1936)

"The Story of Louis Pasteur" (1936)

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937). Disney's first full length animated film.

"A Day at the Races" (1937)

"Lost Horizon" (1937)

"Topper" (1937)

"The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937)

"San Quentin" (1937)

"Bringing Up Baby" (1938)

"The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938)

"Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938)

"Boys Town" (1938)

"A Christmas Carol" (1938)

"The Wizard of Oz" (1939)

"Gone with the Wind" (1939)

"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)

"Stagecoach" (1939)

"Wuthering Heights" (1939)

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939)

"The Little Princess" (1939)

"The Roaring Twenties" (1939)

"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939)

Answer 3

Mostly, they were black & white, less than 3 hours in length and very censored...

Answer 4

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