I’d Like to talk about movies.
Okay. You like them?
Oh, yeah. And I think one year in particular was Hollywood’s golden year. The year they made more outstanding movies than in any other year. Want to guess?
Don’t know.
1939. Hands down the best year in movie-making.
Please explain.
I’ll give you a list of the movies Hollywood made that year. Have your IT person upload the list. And I challenge anyone to produce a list from any other year that is better. Okay?
Okay.
Academy Award Winner
- Gone With the Wind
Other Nominees
- Dark Victory
- Goodbye Mr. Chips
- Love Affair
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Ninotchka
- Of Mice and Men
- Stagecoach
- The Wizard of Oz
- Wuthering Heights
Other Films
- Babes in Arms
- Beau Geste
- The Cat and the Canary
- Destry Rides Again
- Dodge City
- Drums Along the Mohawk
- The Four Feathers
- Golden Boy
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Gunga Din
- Huckleberry Finn
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- In Name Only
- Intermezzo
- Jesse James
- Juarez
- The Little Princess
- Made for Each Other
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Oklahoma Kid
- The Old Maid
- On Your Toes
- Only Angels Have Wings
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
- The Roaring Twenties
- Stanley and Livingston
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
- The Three Musketeers
- Union Pacific
- The Women
- You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
- Young Mr. Lincoln
And the Series
In addition, each of the following movie series had at least one entry.
- Andy Hardy
- Blondie
- Bulldog Drummond
- Charlie Chan
- Cisco Kid
- Frankenstein
- Maisie
- Mr. Moto
- Sherlock Holmes
- Tarzan
- Thin Man
- Topper