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The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19361938

1937

Sound found its footing and the movies found their myths: monsters, musicals and screwball wit against the Depression.

The films everyone saw

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Grand Illusion

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

4.0

Grand Illusion

1937

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

3.6

Pépé le Moko

1937

Young and Innocent

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

3.3

Young and Innocent

1937

Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.

3.7

Captains Courageous

1937

The Awful Truth

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

3.6

The Awful Truth

1937

Dead End

The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

3.5

Dead End

1937

Shall We Dance

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.

3.7

Shall We Dance

1937

A Day at the Races

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of the sanitarium, isn't really a doctor, he's a veterinarian.

3.6

A Day at the Races

1937

A Star Is Born

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

3.6

A Star Is Born

1937

Lost Horizon

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

3.5

Lost Horizon

1937

Heidi

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

3.4

Heidi

1937

Way Out West

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

3.5

Way Out West

1937

Sabotage

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

3.4

Sabotage

1937

Nothing Sacred

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

3.2

Nothing Sacred

1937

You Only Live Once

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

3.6

You Only Live Once

1937

Magician Mickey

Donald continually heckles Mickey's magic act, but Mickey bests him at every turn. Donald shoots off a magic pistol that causes all the stage props to fall down on them at the finish of the act.

3.5

Magician Mickey

1937

Modern Inventions

Donald Duck goes to a museum of modern inventions. After getting in without paying, he meets a robot butler who takes Donald's hat every time he sees him. Donald is very annoyed by this and magically fixes himself a new hat every time this happens and strolls on. Ignoring the sign not to touch it, Donald starts playing with a wrapping machine and ends up being wrapped himself. He also encounters and tries out a robot nursemaid and a fully automatic barber chair. They both don't do him much good.

3.4

Modern Inventions

1937

The Life of Emile Zola

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.

3.4

The Life of Emile Zola

1937

Hidden gems of 1937loved by the few who found them

Make Way for Tomorrow

An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.

3.7

Make Way for Tomorrow

1937

The Prisoner of Zenda

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

3.8

The Prisoner of Zenda

1937

The Old Mill

Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.

3.7

The Old Mill

1937

Easy Living

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

3.6

Easy Living

1937

Stage Door

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

3.6

Stage Door

1937

Clock Cleaners

It's time to laugh like crazy as Mickey, Goofy and Donald fight against raging gears, twisted springs, deafening bells and a sleeping stork. Watch them reach new heights of humor as their valiant efforts to clean a bell tower turn into a real circus!

3.5

Clock Cleaners

1937

Bizarre, Bizarre

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.

3.5

Bizarre, Bizarre

1937

Lonesome Ghosts

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

3.5

Lonesome Ghosts

1937

On the page

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The Hobbit

Fantasy · Arkenstone

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

1937

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

English Horror tales · short stories

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Bram Stoker

1937

Think and Grow Rich

Wealth · Success

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

1937

Of Mice and Men

contemporary fiction · literary fiction

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

1937

Death on the Nile

Belgians · Fiction

Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie

1937

Wet Magic

Fantasy fiction · Fantasy

Wet Magic

Edith Nesbit

1937

The years

Fiction · Social life and customs

The years

Virginia Woolf

1937

Back to the Stone Age

Fiction, general · American Science fiction

Back to the Stone Age

Edgar Rice Burroughs

1937

Dumb Witness

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie

1937

Van Gogh

Impressionnisme (Art) · Impressionism (Art)

Van Gogh

Federico Zeri

1937

Descent into Hell

Christian fiction · Hell

Descent into Hell

Charles Williams

1937

Busman's honeymoon

Fiction · Private investigators

Busman's honeymoon

Dorothy L. Sayers

1937

Joan Miró

Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca · Interviews

Joan Miró

Joan Miró

1937

On the Banks of Plum Creek

Fiction · Juvenile fiction

On the Banks of Plum Creek

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1937

Star Maker

Fiction, general · Fiction in English

Star Maker

Olaf Stapledon

1937

Tagebücher

Diaries · Austrian Authors

Tagebücher

Franz Kafka

1937

Their Eyes Were Watching God

African American women · Fiction

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

1937

雪国

Fiction · Fiction, general

雪国

川端康成

1937

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