1939 - The Greatest Year In American Movie History?!?

[jAZ]

The following films all competed for the equivilant of "Best Picture" in 1939.

Dark Victory (Warner Bros.-First National)
Gone With the Wind (Selznick International Pictures; MGM)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM)
Love Affair (RKO Radio)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Columbia)
Ninotchka (MGM)
Of Mice and Men (Hal Roach; United Artists)
Stagecoach (Walter Wanger; United Artists)
The Wizard of Oz (MGM)
Wuthering Heights (Goldwyn; United Artists)

[Stewie]

Yep. That was the first year they could put all the great stories on film and do it well.

[Jenson71]

It's usually thought of as that.

Also, take a look at some of the movies from that year that weren't nominated for best picture:

Young Mr. Lincoln - directed by John Ford, with Henry Fonda as Abe
The Rules of the Game - (French movie, but often considered as one of the best films all-time)
Gunga Din - with Cary Grant
The Women - with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford
Only Angels Have Wings - Howard Hawkes film with Cary Grant
The Roaring Twenties - Classic gangster film with Bogart and Cagney
Destry Rides Again - Early James Stewart western

[Jenson71]

Take a look at 1967:

Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In the Heat of the Night
Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen
In Cold Blood
Wait Until Dark

and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend

[Jenson71]

A lot of big names from 1940:

Foreign Correspondent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
The Letter
The Philadelphia Story
Rebecca
His Girl Friday
Pinocchio
Fantasia
The Bank Dick
The Shop Around the Corner
Pride and Prejudice

[bowener]

On a side note, 1939 was not such a good year for porn.

Flapper Fanny: part 1
Pip and the Penny Penchers
Three-Letter-Man
Get the Dick
Move Over and Hand Me a Snipe
Yeah, I Play the Gobble-Pipe
Kippy Pip and the Honey Cooler

All these and more can be found at www.imalamepieceofshit.com (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8784245396980817167&q=dick+tracy+scene&total=16&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0)

[Reaper16]

On a side note, 1939 was not such a good year for porn.

Flapper Fanny: part 1
Pip and the Penny Penchers
Three-Letter-Man
Get the Dick
Move Over and Hand Me a Snipe
Yeah, I Play the Gobble-Pipe
Kippy Pip and the Honey Cooler

Awesome.

[Demonpenz]

i've never even heard of any of those. I saw the graduate awhile back why didn't they call that Ann ashcroft a milf!

[bowener]

i've never even heard of any of those. I saw the graduate awhile back why didn't they call that Ann ashcroft a milf!

Youve never heard of:

Flapper Fanny: part 1
Pip and the Penny Penchers
Three-Letter-Man
Get the Dick
Move Over and Hand Me a Snipe
Yeah, I Play the Gobble-Pipe
Kippy Pip and the Honey Cooler?

Seriously? They are oldies but goodies... you know how that goes.



Editors note: the link I posted above actually works, click it for some random americana fun!