PopJump's Paramount Pictures (1930s)
The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Paramount Pictures and released in the 1930s. All films (with few exceptions) are currently owned by Universal Television via EMKA, Ltd.
Year titles:
1930 (50)
1931 (47)
1932 (49)
1933 (45)
1934 (48)
1935 (57)
1936 (69)
1937 (59)
1938 (48)
1939 (54)
Year titles:
1930 (50)
1931 (47)
1932 (49)
1933 (45)
1934 (48)
1935 (57)
1936 (69)
1937 (59)
1938 (48)
1939 (54)
List activity
22 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
587 titles
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsHarry GreenMary BrianNeil HamiltonA Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy.
- DirectorRobert MiltonDorothy ArznerHenry HathawayStarsHal SkellyWilliam PowellFay WrayGardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsGary CooperBeryl MercerDaisy BelmoreBased on J.M. Barrie's play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," about a young Canadian soldier (Gary Cooper) wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer) without a son believes that he is in fact her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son. After fighting with British sailors who make fun of his kilts, he wants to desert, but moved by his mother's patriotism he returns to the war front and is killed in battle. Later the proud Scottish widow receives the medals that her "son" was awarded for bravery. Produced by Louis D. Lighton and Richard Wallace for Paramount Pictures, the film was released on January 25, 1930 in the United States, (Wikipedia)
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsRichard ArlenMary BrianFrancis McDonaldRacecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsWilliam PowellJean ArthurKay FrancisA big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsHelen MorganCharles RugglesFred KohlerA boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsNancy CarrollRichard ArlenWarner OlandHeyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierEdwin H. KnopfStarsEvelyn BrentClive BrookHelen WareA jewel thief's accomplice falls for a mysterious gentleman crook. Together, they decide to reform but trouble finds them when the girl's boss is killed during a struggle.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsGary CooperMary BrianPhillips HolmesA Union captain (Gary Cooper) in the Civil War volunteers for spy duty, then meets and falls for a Southern belle (Mary Brian).
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsHal SkellyDoris HillClara BlandickJ. Aubrey Piper, a lowly railroad clerk with an irritating laugh and a gigantic ego, constantly brags about his knowledge and success. Despite the strenuous objections of her parents and sister Clara, Amy Fisher sees another side of Aubrey and accepts his proposal of marriage. Ma Fisher predicts financial ruin and unhappiness for Amy, but agrees to let them marry in the family home, and Frank Hyland, Clara's well-off husband, loans Aubrey money for their honeymoon. Eight months later, Amy and Aubrey must move from their small apartment because their building is being torn down. Amy still loves Aubrey but is so worried about money that she breaks down in front Ma. Meanwhile, the pompous Aubrey borrows Frank's car to go to an auto show, gets a parking ticket, then foolishly antagonizes a traffic cop and causes an accident in which the cop's arm is broken. Frank pays $1,000 to cover the costs, but Aubrey faces criminal prosecution for injuring a policeman. That night, the family learns that Pa Fisher has died of a stroke. Although still refusing to take responsibility for the accident or his financial failings, Aubrey tells Amy that, because he is now the head of the family, they should move in with Ma and Amy's brother Joe, a budding inventor. That same night, Aubrey sees a letter Joe has just received from Morgan and Jennings, two patent attorneys who are interested in an automobile process Joe has invented. A few days later, when Aubrey faces the judge, he is so impertinent and contemptuous that the judge increases his fine from $500 to $7,000, which Frank takes care of. Meanwhile, after Ma signs papers to receive Pa's life insurance, she and Clara talk about Aubrey, and Clara admits that she envies her sister because Aubrey is such a loving husband, while Frank, though an excellent provider, is too busy to pay much attention to her. After court, Aubrey goes to see Morgan and Jennings. When the lawyers tell him that they have already met with Joe and he signed a $50,000 contact with them, Aubrey insists that he is Joe's representative and would not think of allowing Joe to accept anything less than $100,000 and fifty percent of the profits from his invention. Aubrey's obnoxious bravado, and his threat that they can sell the invention to General Motors, so alienates Morgan and Jennings that they tell him he is detestable and they are no longer interested. For the first time, even Aubrey begins to realize the terrible effects of his actions. A short time later, Joe, who does not know that Aubrey went to the lawyers, arrives home and tells the family about his $50,000 contract. Aubrey tries to dismiss the contract, but just then a letter from Morgan and Jennings arrives with a check for $100,000 and an agreement to Aubrey's terms. Joe is so delighted over the windfall that he tells Aubrey he will be his partner in all future endeavors. Amy and Aubrey are overjoyed, but poor Ma can only say "Lord help me from now on."
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsRuth ChattertonFredric MarchFuller Mellish Jr.After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsNancy CarrollHarry GreenLillian RothA once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersJean ArthurPaul LukasLt. Robert Banks (Charles Rogers) shoots down and captures a German ace and is betrayed by the woman he loves.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellWilliam 'Stage' BoydEugene PalletteA ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.
- DirectorOtto BrowerEdwin H. KnopfStarsRichard ArlenMary BrianHarry GreenA friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerOtto BrowerEdmund GouldingStarsJean ArthurClara BowMaurice ChevalierA musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting singing "My Marine" (written by Richard A. Whiting and Raymond B. Eagan) to a group of U. S. Marines, including Stuart Eriwn, Stanley Smith and Frederic March; Buddy Rogers doing a song-duet with Lillian Roth called "Any Time's the Time to Fall in Love" (written by Elise Jans and Jack King), on a cuckoo-clock set; and Clara Bow singing and dancing in the "True To The Navy Now" number to a group of sailors.
- DirectorLudwig BergerErnst LubitschStarsDennis KingJeanette MacDonaldO.P. HeggieThe story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGeorge BancroftMary AstorFredric MarchJoe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsWarner OlandO.P. HeggieJean ArthurThe villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsMaurice ChevalierClaudette ColbertFrank LyonA tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsGary CooperFay WrayEmma DunnAn outlaw and con-man's plan to bilk an old woman out of a fortune takes an unexpected turn.
- DirectorMonta BellStarsClaudette ColbertNorman FosterGinger RogersToby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for another newspaper, and they get married after a whirlwind romance. The romance begins to wane nearly as fast as it blossomed but, directly and indirectly, is salvaged by Toby's writer pal, "Shorty" Ross, and a ditsy socialite, "Puff" Randolph. Artchive footage provides shots of the Tunney-Dempsey fight, and other sports events of the era.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsNancy CarrollPhillips HolmesJames KirkwoodA savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsClara BowFredric MarchHarry GreenA countergirl at a San Diego soda shop has a lot of sailor "boyfriends", but her heart really belongs to a free-spirited gunner, who doesn't want to be tied down to any one woman.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersKathryn CrawfordJosephine DunnA songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsWilliam PowellMarion ShillingNatalie MoorheadJohn Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsJack OakieMary BrianRichard 'Skeets' GallagherMarco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
- StarsRichard E. ByrdClair D. AlexanderBernt BalchenAccount of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography.
- DirectorOtto BrowerEdwin H. KnopfStarsJack HoltFay WrayRichard ArlenCowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsHelen KaneVictor MooreJames HallDangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsGary CooperJune CollyerRegis ToomeyWhen World War One pulls the U.S. in, builder Jim Baker goes enthusiastically. The misery of life in the trenches seems to take any romantic edge off, until adventure seeking general's daughter Patricia Hunter is caught foolishly wandering around the front line. At length, they fall in love and marry. When he is reported dead, she becomes irresponsible and turns her family's mansion into a wild party site, one which Jim eventually comes to.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsClara BowStanley SmithStuart ErwinA young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsJack OakieGinger RogersGranville BatesEllen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks try to get rid of her.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsWilliam PowellKay FrancisScott KolkWilliam Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners (Kay Francis), who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe (Scott Kolk), who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering, which he had done for the first time to save Irene. After his plea, the the prosecuting DA confides that Jack would have gotten off...
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsGeorge MoranCharles MackJoan Peers
- DirectorH.P. CarverStarsChief Yellow RobeChief Buffalo Child Long LanceChief AkawanushA documentary about the life of Indians in Northern Canada.
- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsClaudette ColbertFredric MarchEmma DunnA spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release, she realizes that she is in love with the District Attorney who reluctantly prosecuted her case, a man who was in love with her but she had previously scorned him.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsJack OakieJeanette MacDonaldRichard 'Skeets' GallagherDress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: she is receiving the money in Buenos Aires, not in New York. Her friend Wally Wendell, whose grandfather does not approve of his relationship with her, wants him to marry a girl he hasn't seen for some years named Constance Cook, whose grandfather is the owner of a ship traveling to Buenos Aires and Constance is one of the passengers. Wally's friend Basil has caused a freak accident with Voltair McGuines' cab, who wants his money for the damage. Basil asks Wally, but he has been disinherited and lost all credit by his grandfather, because he still wants Joan.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsCharles RugglesFrank MorganStanley SmithThe two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.
- DirectorGeorge CukorCyril GardnerStarsCyril MaudePhillips HolmesFrances DadeA crotchety lawyer (Cyril Maude) defends his daughter's boyfriend, accused of stealing a diamond.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsRuth ChattertonClive BrookPaul LukasA man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.
- DirectorVictor HeermanStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxMayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsRichard ArlenFay WrayEugene PalletteWhen 1 of 2 rivals diving for pearls in the Solomon Islands emerges with his goggles on, natives think he is a sea god. A romance with an endangered heroine and the threat of cannibalism also figure in this exotic adventure.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsGary CooperKay JohnsonBetty CompsonWhile traveling to Nome, Alaska, Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) meets beautiful Helen Chester (Kay Johnson), who soon becomes his sweetheart. Glenister is one of several owners of a lucrative mine called The Midas. When he arrives in Nome, he discovers that his partners, Slapjack Simms (Slim Summerville) and Joe Dextry (James Kirkwood), are in the middle of a legal dispute with three corrupt officials: United States Marshal Voorhees (Jack Holmes), Judge Stillman (Lloyd Ingraham), and a politician named Alec McNamara (William "Stage" Boyd ). They have been engaged in a racket claiming titles to various mines, ejecting the miners, and then making McNamara owner of the disputed properties. The three corrupt officials lay claim to The Midas. McNamara also steals money from Glenister, Dextry, and Slapjack, preventing them from enlisting legal help from the United States. When Dextry and Glenister plan a vigilante action, McNamara calls in a detail of soldiers to protect "his property". As Glenister and McNamara prepare for a gunfight, they are dissuaded by Helen, who suggests that the courts handle the dispute. Later, after jealous saloon owner Cherry Malotte (Betty Compson) lies to Glennister telling him that Helen and McNamara are conspiring to cheat him again, Glennister and McNamara settle their differences with a spectacular fistfight, with McNamara getting the worst. Afterwards, Glenister wins the hand of Helen.
- DirectorLloyd CorriganLaurence SchwabStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersNancy CarrollZelma O'NealClub champion Lora Moore loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend Jack Martin show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile, Lora's friend Angie Howard chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsJeanette MacDonaldJack BuchananClaud AllisterA countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersHelen KaneMargaret BreenJack Mason meets Mary Trumbull at a Coast Guard Academy graduation ball and falls in love with her. However, the girl's mother considers wealthy Rex Cutting a more appropriate choice for her daughter. During a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Mary refuses Rex's marriage proposal, as she suspects him of being a bootlegger. Meanwhile Betty, Mary's impish sister, drives Skippy Dugan to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary. On a subsequent cruise, Jack hides in a lifeboat with two fellow Coast Guard members, and they witness the captain take on a cargo of illicit rum. Jack and his aides attempt to commandeer the vessel and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, where Jack proves his heroism and Rex is revealed as a fugitive bootlegger.
- DirectorLudwig BergerStarsMaurice ChevalierFrances DeeO.P. HeggieWaiter Albert is incompetent is in conflict with the owner and his daughter. However a surprise inheritance means he must keep his job by day while escorting a glamorous socialite by night.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsClara BowRalph ForbesCharles RugglesAn American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.
- DirectorHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsNancy CarrollFredric MarchFrank MorganA former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.
- DirectorGeorge CukorLouis J. GasnierStarsWalter HustonKay FrancisKenneth MacKennaMarya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsMiriam HopkinsCarole LombardFrank MorganA wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanHarold LloydStarsHarold LloydBarbara KentRobert McWadeAn ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsJackie CooganJunior DurkinMitzi GreenThe classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeLouis J. GasnierStarsGeorge BancroftJessie Royce LandisWilliam 'Stage' BoydAdventure follows a ship on its watery course between Latin America and the United States.
- DirectorCyril GardnerEdwin H. KnopfStarsLeon ErrolRichard ArlenMary BrianA youngster on his way to a health resort job offers his older boarding house mate a ride along with him, unaware that the loud talking slippery character is a crook.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGary CooperMarlene DietrichAdolphe MenjouA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsEd WynnGinger RogersStanley SmithEd Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
- DirectorLloyd CorriganNorman Z. McLeodStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersFrances DeeStuart ErwinRare Paramount film, supposedly lost save for a partial nitrate, is typical boy chases girl film. Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely Elinor Farrington who, encouraged by her Aunt to marry wealth, falls for him not knowing that he is poor. Trying to regain his status in the racing world since the loss of his champion racehorse and the efforts of a gangster left him penniless, he and his trainer live from hand to mouth as he tries desperately to woo the girl, despite her aunt's suspicions. But Elinor soon finds herself falling for him until he admits to all that he is not what he appears to be. Through the efforts of a number of colorful characters, most notably a heavy set Spanish lady and her friend Senor Cortes, he is given the chance to vindicate himself in the big cross country race and start himself on the road to fortune with his girlfriend.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsRuth ChattertonPaul LukasDavid MannersA woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEmil JanningsMarlene DietrichKurt GerronAn elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsJack OakieJean ArthurWilliam 'Stage' BoydNaïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is kidnapped by Slade and his gang, 'Cyclone' decides to save her and wanders straight into a gang war without even realizing it.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsClara BowNorman FosterStuart ErwinTheater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsGeorge BancroftKay FrancisClive BrookScandal Sheet is a 1931 American crime film directed by John Cromwell and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin. The film stars George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey, Lucien Littlefield, Gilbert Emery and Harry Beresford. The film was released on January 31, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
- DirectorGeorge CukorCyril GardnerStarsIna ClaireFredric MarchMary BrianJulie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.
- DirectorOtto BrowerDavid BurtonStarsGary CooperLili DamitaErnest TorrenceA young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.
- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsNancy CarrollPhillips HolmesLouis CalhernEngineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to spend all the money foolishly and then commit suicide.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodNorman TaurogStarsLeon ErrolMitzi GreenZasu PittsA child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. When she is not bedeviling her cousin, she is helping her father get out of trouble with con artists.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsNorman FosterCarole LombardRichard 'Skeets' GallagherTo prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsRichard ArlenFay WrayClaude GillingwaterNot long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem: the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and making it nearly impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and to do that he must pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
- DirectorErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJaro FürthClaude KingRangoThe frame story is narrated by a white father to his son. He explains that man's closest relative in nature is the orangutan, which translates literally as "man of the forest." He then tells the story of Ali and his son Bin, natives of Sumatra, who hunt in a jungle village. Ali wants to shoot a tiger, but the orangutans Tua and his baby Rango get in the way, and Rango is almost grabbed by the tiger. While Ali prepares a tiger trap, the orangutans enter Ali's hut and feast on the stored goods. Dozens of orangutans join them, ransacking the hut. When Ali and Bin return to discover the havoc, Ali captures Rango and puts him on a chain. Later, Ali saves Tua from a black panther. In the night, a tiger enters the camp, and Rango warns Bin in time for him to shoot and scare the tiger away. At dawn, Tua comes for Rango and eats in the hut, while Bin tends the water buffaloes. After the tiger kills a deer, the orangutans scream warnings to each other and flee. Two male tigers approach and chase Bin, Rango and Tua. The tiger kills Rango, but the water buffalo fights the tiger and kills him.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsRuth ChattertonPaul LukasPaul CavanaghIn this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsClaudette ColbertFredric MarchMonroe OwsleyJerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsJack OakieFrances DeeWynne GibsonAspiring lyricist Fred Stevens leaves Schenectady for New York City, with hopes of making it big in the songwriting business.
- DirectorRichard WallaceEdward GoodmanStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardWynne GibsonA young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichVictor McLaglenGustav von SeyffertitzThe Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsGary CooperSylvia SidneyPaul LukasMan joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJackie CooperRobert CooganMitzi GreenSkippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsRichard ArlenMary BrianWilliam 'Stage' BoydFollowing a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsTallulah BankheadClive BrookPhoebe FosterTarnished Lady is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on his short story, A Story of a New York Lady.
- DirectorLothar MendesStarsWilliam PowellKay FrancisCarole LombardA society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsJack OakieStuart ErwinEugene PalletteChester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the West isn't wild anymore and most of Carr's guests are bored and about to leave. He is in despair when a caravan carrying a broke-down-and-out troupe of actors---Jennifer, Judd, Mrs. Merridew and her daughter, Alice---crashes down the hill and wrecks the hotel sign. Carr offers to board and lodge them free for a week if they can provide enough excitement to keep Meadows and the other guest from leaving. The actors agree. They have the properties and costumes for a Western melodrama,"Vance Kilroy's Revenge", which they proceed to adapt real-life for the occasion. That evening a woman (Mrs. Merridew) rushes into the hotel lounge with her little daughter (Alice), begging to be saved from the whip of her brutal husband Black Jud (Judd). He comes after them with a whip but the heroic Vance Kilroy (Jenifer) arrives and saves them. Black Jed leaves, shaking his fists, trimming his mustache and vowing to return. The visitors swallow the hoax, and dedcide to return. Jenifer (as Vance Kilroy) falls in love with Susan, but she sees through his false baravado and snubs him. A gang of bandits, planning to rob the local bank, arrives as hotel guests. Burson, the "ladies' man" dandy of the group takes a shine to Susan. When "Black Jed" returns, he is pursued and "strangled" by "Kilroy" but Burson openly shows his disbelief in the hero. Having being "killed" as "Black Jed", Judd re-appears the next morning as a Sioux Indian chief. When the bank robbery is committed, one of the gang wears a costume similar to Jennifers, and suspicion is cast on him. Sheriff Simonson arrives and arrests Jennifer, but Alice sees the bandits kidnap Susan, and she convinces the wooden-headed sheriff that he has arrested the wrong man. Jennifer joins the posse in pursuit of the fleeing gangsters. The ads, in London, carried a blurb from the Sunday Times reviewer in which he called the film... "Quite the funniest and brainest satire of American cowboy Wild West stuff I have ever seen..." "Ruggles of Red Gap" in 1935 probably knocked him for a loop. Quite-ho like.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsClara BowRegis ToomeyWynne GibsonEx-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsPaul LukasKay FrancisJudith WoodA diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsRichard 'Skeets' GallagherStuart ErwinCarole LombardThe marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
- DirectorMarion GeringStarsGary CooperCarole LombardHelen WareA wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes her mind and determines to get her husband back.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMitzi GreenEdna May OliverLouise FazendaTwo small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsCharles RugglesTamara GevaSue ConroyA mild Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
- DirectorEdward GoodmanStarsPaul LukasEleanor BoardmanJuliette ComptonHappily married, award-winning Paul Lukas journeys to Europe to pursue his artistic interests. He ends up having an affair with Juliette Compton. Threatened with the breakup of her marriage, Ann Harding runs away from home. Daughter Marilyn Knowlden chases her and is hit by a car. The couple end up reconciling at their daughter's deathbed!
- DirectorDavid BurtonDudley MurphyStarsSylvia SidneyPhillips HolmesNorman FosterA young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsNancy CarrollFredric MarchPhoebe FosterAmerican drama written and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film stars Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth and Alan Hale, Sr.. The film was released on July 18, 1931.
- DirectorBerthold ViertelStarsRuth ChattertonRalph BellamyStuart ErwinA nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
- DirectorStuart WalkerStarsRichard ArlenPeggy ShannonWilliam B. DavidsonCity Commissioner Frank Kelly commits suicide after political boss Jim Blake frames him in Blake's own grafting racket. Kelly's daughter Wanda, who is in love with Blake's son Tom, vows revenge against Blake when he insists innocent men do not commit suicide. A year later, Wanda is head telephone operator at the Hotel Keswick, where Blake conducts business. Meanwhile, The Bulletin has been printing stories implicating Blake in Kelly's demise. In order to divert attention from himself, Blake creates a scandal involving Senator Matt Stanton, who is spearheading the investigation of him. At the hotel, Blake blackmails Stanton into dropping his reform bill by threatening to expose Stanton's past love affair in the next morning's newspaper. Meanwhile, Bulletin reporter Bert Benedict offers to pay Wanda to listen in on Blake's calls. Unaware of the name of Stanton's former liaison, Blake sends henchman Jim Neligan to pay the hotel operator for the phone number of Stanton's next call, assuming he will be calling the woman to warn her. When Tom's brother-in-law, Senator Phil Roberts, who is in league with Blake, calls the same number, Wanda realizes Blake's own daughter Grace is the woman, and refuses to report to either Benedict or Neligan. Blake, meanwhile, pays Stanton's ex-secretary, Vera Lorraine, to give him the name, and she promises to deliver it the next morning. That night, Tom and Wanda spend a romantic evening together after a year's separation, and she tells him his father has come between them. The next morning, Grace arrives at the hotel and Wanda warns her to stop her father's involvement in the Stanton scandal. When Vera telephones, Wanda intercepts the call. As the press waits, Grace runs to Tom for help and Wanda is ordered to report to Blake. When Blake realizes Kelly's daughter is the woman he tried to bribe, he threatens to put her in prison for intercepting Vera's call. Wanda resists naming Grace until Blake cruelly reminds Wanda of her father's fate. As Tom and Grace arrive, Wanda blurts out Grace's phone number and Blake, mortified, says he is through with politics. Wanda then gives Benedict a tip that she will marry Tom.
- StarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxParamount Pictures marked its 20th year in the business with this feature presentation of film clips, profiles of its then-current stars, and coming attractions.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierClaudette ColbertMiriam HopkinsAn amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsAnne ChevalierMatahiHituOn the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.