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The Fraeon Archive · The 1930s
19381940

1939

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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The Wizard of Oz

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

3.8

The Wizard of Oz

1939

Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

4.0

Gone with the Wind

1939

Wuthering Heights

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

3.6

Wuthering Heights

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

3.7

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.

3.9

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

3.8

Stagecoach

1939

Ninotchka

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

3.8

Ninotchka

1939

The Rules of the Game

The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.

3.7

The Rules of the Game

1939

The Women

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

3.6

The Women

1939

Only Angels Have Wings

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

3.6

Only Angels Have Wings

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

3.6

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939

Dodge City

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

3.5

Dodge City

1939

The Ugly Duckling

An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.

3.5

The Ugly Duckling

1939

The Flying Deuces

Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.

3.2

The Flying Deuces

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.

3.2

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939

Jamaica Inn

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

3.1

Jamaica Inn

1939

The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

3.8

The Roaring Twenties

1939

The Little Princess

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

3.4

The Little Princess

1939

Hidden gems of 1939loved by the few who found them

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.

3.9

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

1939

Daybreak

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

3.8

Daybreak

1939

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.

3.7

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1939

Midnight

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

3.7

Midnight

1939

Of Mice and Men

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

3.7

Of Mice and Men

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.

3.6

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939

Destry Rides Again

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.

3.6

Destry Rides Again

1939

Bachelor Mother

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

3.6

Bachelor Mother

1939

The Four Feathers

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

3.6

The Four Feathers

1939

Another Thin Man

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

3.6

Another Thin Man

1939

Peace on Earth

Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.

3.5

Peace on Earth

1939

Beau Geste

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

3.5

Beau Geste

1939

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Romeo & Juliet

British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author) · Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, romeo and juliet

Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare

1939

The Grapes of Wrath

Labor camps · Depressions

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1939

Anne of Ingleside

Children's fiction · Shirley, anne (fictitious character), fiction

Anne of Ingleside

Lucy Maud Montgomery

1939

And Then There Were None

Roman policier · French language materials

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

1939

The journals of André Gide, 1889-1949

Authors · Correspondence, reminiscences

The journals of André Gide, 1889-1949

André Gide

1939

The Big Sleep

Fiction · Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

1939

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character) · Private investigators

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Agatha Christie

1939

Coming Up for Air

Married people · Insurance agents

Coming Up for Air

George Orwell

1939

Sad Cypress

Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

Sad Cypress

Agatha Christie

1939

The Once and Future King

Adaptations · Arthur,

The Once and Future King

T. H. White

1939

La société féodale

Féodalité · Feudalism

La société féodale

Marc Bloch

1939

The confidential agent

Fiction · Spy Thrillers

The confidential agent

Graham Greene

1939

The winter murder case

Fiction · Philo Vance (Fictitious character)

The winter murder case

Willard Huntington Wright

1939

Tropic of Capricorn

Social life and customs · Manners and customs

Tropic of Capricorn

Henry Miller

1939

A Coffin for Dimitrios

Fiction · Novelists

A Coffin for Dimitrios

Eric Ambler

1939

The Day of the Locust

Motion picture industry · Fiction

The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West

1939

Goodbye to Berlin

Fiction · Homosexuality

Goodbye to Berlin

Christopher Isherwood

1939

The Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1918

English poetry · Anthologies

The Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1918

Arthur Quiller-Couch

1939

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