Don't be Depressed!
Economy got you down? These films got many through the Great Depression and may be just what you need now. And they're all available to stream for free one place or another, but you'll have to search for the links
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- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsJean HarlowMae ClarkeWalter ByronCassie moves to New York and jumps from one job to another until she lands a modeling gig.Jean Harlow gets by with the help of her friends
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsClark GableJean HarlowGene RaymondThe owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.Harlow v Gable in the jungle, but watch out for Mary Astor!
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsIrene DunneMelvyn DouglasThomas MitchellThe author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.Irene Dunne takes on the small minded
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsIrene DunneCary GrantRandolph ScottMissing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband's second marriage.Widower Cary Grant remarries, but Irene Dunne isn't dead
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsJean ArthurFred MacMurrayMelvyn DouglasLong-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.Jean Arthur loves choosing between husbands Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsBette DavisGene RaymondFrank McHughAlthough free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.Bette Davis is too modern to marry, but still falls in love
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellLouis CalhernThe adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.James Cagney is crazy for Joan Blondell "Honnnney" and always has an angle
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsJean HarlowChester MorrisLewis StoneLillian (Jean Harlow) relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man (Chester Morris).Jean Harlow can get any man she wants
- 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.William Powell is damaged goods. Maybe young Carole Lombard will be his salvation
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsJean HarlowLee TracyFrank MorganA glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.Jean Harlow is a movie star, I mean she plays one in this movie. Whatever, enjoy!
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsWarren WilliamJoan BlondellAline MacMahonA wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Ginger Rogers deal with the Great Depression, stunning musical sequences directed by Busby Berkeley including opening "We're in the Money"
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn BarrymoreCarole LombardWalter ConnollyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.John Barrymore closes the iron curtain on Carole Lombard. Great screenplay by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsClaudette ColbertDon AmecheJohn BarrymoreA chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.Claudette Colbert is broke, Don Ameche is in love, and John Barrymore has a plan
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsFredric MarchGary CooperMiriam HopkinsA woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.Dir. Ernst Lubitsch, screenplay by Ben Hecht based on the play by Noel Coward. Wow. Great stuff for Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayRalph BellamyA loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.All Carole Lombard needs is money, then she meets Fred MacMurray and Ralph Bellamy
- DirectorWalter LangStarsCarole LombardPreston FosterCesar RomeroA rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.Fluffy and funny, if not very filling. Excellent Carole Lombard
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsBarbara StanwyckBen LyonJoan BlondellA nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.Life on the late shift is tough for Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Blondell isn't much help. Watch out for brutish Clark Gable.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichCary GrantHerbert MarshallA cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.Josef von Sternberg directed many films with Marlene Dietrich and this might be my favorite. With Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsSylvia SidneyJoel McCreaHumphrey BogartThe lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.High and low on the dark end of the street
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsGroucho MarxHarpo MarxChico MarxRufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on.We're so lucky to have a handful of great Marx Bros. films, but if forced to choose one, this is it.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJean ArthurEdward ArnoldRay MillandWhen a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.Preston Sturges wrote this great comedy screenplay and Jean Arthur is perfect in it. Edward Arnold and Ray Milland are very good. And the automat!
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWarner BaxterBebe DanielsGeorge BrentWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.Come and meet those dancing feet. Naughty, gaudy, bawdy, sporty
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsJoan CrawfordWalter HustonFred HowardA prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.Joan Crawford acts up a storm
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsGreta GarboJohn BarrymoreJoan CrawfordA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.Every star on the lot has a role and a room, but Joan Crawford steals the show
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam PowellKay FrancisHelen VinsonA gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.iWatch more Kay Francis films! She and William Powell are perfect in this. Have one of my cigarettes, then watch more of their films.