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The film is a huge box office success, and briefly holds the record as the highest-grossing sound film of all time. February 24 – The entertainment trade newspaper Variety confirms that the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had bought the rights to adapt L. Frank Baum’s beloved children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the screen
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Accidents Will Happen: William Clemens: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell: Drama: Warner Bros. Adventure in Sahara: D. Ross Lederman: Paul Kelly, Lorna Gray, C. Henry Gordon
The Challenge (1938 film) Champagnegaloppen; Champions of France; Change of Heart (1938 film) Charlie Chan in Honolulu; The Chaser (1938 film) Chéri-Bibi (1938 film) The Chess Player (1938 film) Child Bride; The Childhood of Maxim Gorky; Chinatown Nights (1938 film) Chocolate and Soldiers; Chokher Bali (1938 film) A Christmas Carol (1938 film ...
Marie Antoinette is a 1938 American historical drama film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette . Based upon the 1932 biography of the ill-fated Queen of France by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig , it had its Los Angeles premiere at the legendary Carthay ...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the fourth film adaptation of the Twain novel, following versions released in 1907, 1917, and 1930, and this is the first filmed in Technicolor. H. C. Potter originally was signed to direct but was fired and replaced by Taurog after George Cukor declined the assignment. [ 4 ]
Sweethearts is a 1938 American Technicolor musical romance film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.The screenplay, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, uses the “play within a play” device: a Broadway production of the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta is the setting for another pair of sweethearts, the stars of the show.
The Sisters is a 1938 American drama film produced and directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Milton Krims is based on the 1937 novel of the same title by Myron Brinig .
The Dawn Patrol is a 1938 American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 film of the same title.Both were based on the short story "The Flight Commander" by John Monk Saunders, [3] an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service.