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The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten films nominated for Best Picture at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, and Wuthering Heights—range in genre and are ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes $1,000 a Touchdown: James P. Hogan: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward: Comedy: Paramount: 20,000 Men a Year: Alfred ...
1939: All Living Things: Andrew Buchanan: Catherine Lacey, Michael Gainsborough: Drama short [1] The Arsenal Stadium Mystery: Thorold Dickinson: Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean: Mystery: Ask a Policeman: Marcel Varnel: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott: Comedy: Beyond Our Horizon: Norman Walker: Milton Rosmer, Josephine Wilson ...
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
The film itself lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to Gone with the Wind. The New York Times named Dark Victory as one of the "10 Best Films of 1939", as did Film Daily, and the National Board of Review picked both Bette Davis and Geraldine Fitzgerald for Best Acting that year. [15] The film is recognized by American Film Institute in ...
Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows an eclectic group of travellers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.
The Complete Idiot (1939 film) Confessions of a Nazi Spy; Confidential Lady; Congo Express (film) Conspiracy (1939 film) Constable Studer; Convict's Code; Coral Reefs (film) Le Corsaire (film) The Corsican Brothers (1939 film) Courage (1939 film) Cousin Wilbur; The Covered Trailer; The Coward (1939 film) The Cowboy Quarterback; Cowboys from Texas
Espionage Agent is a pre–World War II spy melodrama produced by Hal B. Wallis in 1939. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Espionage Agent, like many Warner Bros. movies, clearly identifies the Germans as the enemy. This was unlike many other movie studios during this period that did not want to antagonize foreign governments.