1933 Movies

Gold Diggers of 1933

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler

Country: United States of America

Outline: A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.

Dinner at Eight

Directed by: George Cukor

Starring: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow

Country: United States of America

Outline: Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.

Footlight Parade

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

Country: United States of America

Outline: Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.

42nd Street

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Starring: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler

Country: United States of America

Outline: A director puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a naive newcomer has to replace the star.

Roman Scandals

Directed by: Frank Tuttle

Starring: Eddie Cantor, The Goldwyn Girls, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart

Outline: A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.

King Kong

Directed by: Peter Jackson

Starring: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow.

Tugboat Annie

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan

Outline: Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.

I'm No Angel

Directed by: Wesley Ruggles

Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold

Country: United States of America

Outline: Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

Dancing Lady

Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard

Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson

Country: United States of America

Outline: An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man, who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.

She Done Him Wrong

Directed by: Lowell Sherman

Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland

Country: United States of America

Outline: In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.

Duck Soup

Directed by: Leo McCarey

Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx

Country: United States of America

Outline: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

King Kong

Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher

Country: United States of America

Outline: A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.

Queen Christina

Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian

Starring: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone

Country: United States of America

Outline: Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

Going Hollywood

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay, Stuart Erwin

Outline: A love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.

The Invisible Man

Directed by: James Whale

Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers

Country: United States of America

Outline: A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

Sons of the Desert

Directed by: William A. Seiter

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch

Country: United States of America

Outline: When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.

Liebelei

Directed by: Max Ophüls

Starring: Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich, Gustaf Gründgens

Outline: Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of ...

Lady for a Day

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell

Country: United States of America

Outline: A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

The Working Man

Directed by: John G. Adolfi

Starring: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton, Hardie Albright

Outline: Successful wealthy shoe manufacturer John Reeves takes a vacation, leaving his business in the hands of his nephew. While on vacation Reeves runs into his rival's heirs, who are living it ...

Wild Boys of the Road

Directed by: William A. Wellman

Starring: Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips, Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Outline: In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

Bombshell

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Starring: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone

Country: United States of America

Outline: Sexpot film star Lola Burns seeks a new image and tries marrying a marquis and adopting a baby - all sorts of schemes which go awry.

The House on 56th Street

Directed by: Robert Florey

Starring: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday

Country: United States of America

Outline: This movie opens in 1905, when showgirl and daughter of a deceased gambler Peggy Martin falls in love with Monte Van Tyle and breaks the news to lover Fiske that she is leaving him. She and...

The Devil's Brother

Directed by: Hal Roach, Charley Rogers

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

The Good Companions

Directed by: Victor Saville

Starring: Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne

Outline: Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

By Candlelight

Directed by: James Whale

Starring: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Dorothy Revier

Outline: Beautiful woman mistakes a prince's butler for the prince.