Bildwasser Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 No there weren't. This is somewhat embarrassing, but a huge case of the clap went around Tinsel Town just as 1930 began. And the way these folks partied back in the day meant that it spread like wildfire. So just about everybody was on a penicillin work "stoppage" during that year. (Actually if you look at the films produced during 1930 and compare it with the other years of the early thirties, 1930 is on par with those other years. And perhaps 1930 was not as bad as some of the following years, economy-wise.) Link to post Share on other sites
infinite1 Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 > {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote}I have made myself look incredibly dumb and ignorant. Why oh why did I not look up "films made in 1930" before hitting that "post" button? > > All I can say is, whenever I look up a date on a film that's clearly from the early 30s, it never says "1930". Of course, the 30s ( and, uh, 20s) are the film eras I am least familiar with. But that's no excuse. > I am seriously embarrassed. Can I "delete" the whole thread, or is it too late? > > > The moral of the story is, don't go posting a thread on impulse. Save yourself from looking like an idiot by checking a few facts first. I am now going into the garden to eat worms. And read about the year 1930 in film. > There appears to be a good deal of difference of opinion as to the true date of some films from 1930/31. For example DRACULA, a film for the most part made in 1930 with a release date in February 1931, on VALENTINE's Day, no less, billed as the world's strangest love story, has been shown on separate occassions to be either a 1930 or 1931 film. In fact, it is well known that a silent version of DRACULA was made for theatres that were not yet equiped with sound equipment. This was a common practice with feature films and short subjects made in the 1930. I could be wrong, but I think the practice ended with films made in 1931. I have seen the same for LITTLE CAESAR. At times this film is listed as a 1930 film and at other times, a 1931 film. Since 1930 was the transitional year that films went all sound, (1929 was pretty evenly distributed between silent and sound films), perhaps some 1930 films were held until 1931, on purpose, to allow a bit of a buffer. Now, how should those films be listed, as 1930 films because they were made in 1930 or 1931 films because they were released in 1931? In the case of LITTLE CAESAR, perhaps it was reissued in 1931 to take advantage of that years big gangster flic THE PUBLIC ENEMY and the later film of 1931, SMART MONEY, made with the leads of both prior films. Could be that LITTLE CAESAR was simply lumped together with the two following films, rechristened as a 1931 film, and it stuck. Link to post Share on other sites
ValeskaSuratt Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 > {quote:title=Bildwasser wrote:}{quote} > This is somewhat embarrassing, but a huge case of the clap > went around Tinsel Town just as 1930 began. Not challenging your facts, just curious: where'd you hear THAT ? (Ha ! I almost wrote "Where'd you pick that up ?") Link to post Share on other sites
Bildwasser Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 I wouldn't take that assertion too seriously. I don't really think there was a huge case of clap going around. OTOH, I wonder if the major studios had a medical person whose job it was to keep the stars "healthy," just as they had people to clean up messy run ins with the law. I wouldn't be surprised. Link to post Share on other sites
FredCDobbs Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Some of the movies of 1930: Title:.......................... Star: Abraham Lincoln Walter Huston Africa Speaks Alias French Gertie Bebe Daniels All Quiet On The Western Front Raymond Griffith Animal Crackers The Marx Brothers Anna Christie Greta Garbo Anybody's Woman Ruth Chatterton The Apache Kid's Escape Jack Perrin Back Pay Corinne Griffith The Battle Of Paris Gertrude Lawrence Be Yourself Fanny Brice Beau Bandit Rod La Rocque Big Boy Al Jolson The Big House Wallace Beery The Big Pond Maurice Chevalier The Big Trail John Wayne Billy The Kid John Mack Brown The Bishop Murder Case Basil Rathbone The Blood Of A Poet Lee Miller The Blue Angel Marlene Dietrich Borderline Paul Robeson Burning Up Richard Arlen Call Of The Desert Tom Tyler Canyon of the Missing Men Caught Short Marie Dressler Charley's Aunt Charlie Ruggles Chasing Rainbows Bessie Love Check And Double Check Amos 'n' Andy The Chess Player Edithe Jehanne Children Of Pleasure Lawrence Gray Clancy in Wall Street Classic Shorts of the 1930s Conspiracy Bessie Love The Costello Case Tom Moore The Cuckoos Bert Wheeler Dancing Sweeties Sue Carol Danger Lights Louis Wolheim The Devil To Pay Ronald Colman The Divorcee Norma Shearer Dixiana Bebe Daniels Dogville Collection Doorway To Hell Lew Ayres Dough Boys Buster Keaton Du Barry, Woman Of Passion Norma Talmadge Earth Stepan Shkurat Easy Go Buster Keaton Eleven Men And A Girl Joan Bennett The Fall Guy Jack Mulhall Fast And Loose Miriam Hopkins Feet First Harold Lloyd Flight Commander Richard Barthelmess The Flirting Widow Dorothy Mackaill The Florodora Girl Marion Davies Framed Evelyn Brent Frames Free And Easy Buster Keaton Girl Of The Port Sally O'Neil The Girl Said No William Haines Golden Dawn Walter Woolf Good News Mary Lawlor The Great Divide Dorothy Mackaill The Green Goddess George Arliss Grumpy Cyril Maude Half Shot At Sunrise Bert Wheeler He Knew Women Lowell Sherman Heads Up Charles Rogers Hell's Angels Ben Lyon Hell's Harbor Lupe Velez Hell's Heroes Charles Bickford The Highwayman Rides John Mack Brown Holiday Ann Harding Honey Nancy Carroll Hook, Line And Sinker Bert Wheeler Hot Curves In Gay Madrid Ramon Navarro Inside The Lines Betty Compson It's A Great Life Rosetta Duncan Juno And The Paycock Edward Chapman Just Imagine El Brendel Karloff Before Frankenstein The King Of Jazz Paul Whiteman L'Age D'Or Gaston Modot Ladies Of Leisure Barbara Stanwyck The Lady Of Scandal Ruth Chatterton A Lady To Love Vilma Banky A Lady's Morals Grace Moore The Land Of Missing Men Bob Steele The Lash Richard Barthelmess Laurel & Hardy: Another Fine Laurel & Hardy: Night Owls Lawful Larceny Bebe Daniels Let Us Be Gay Norma Shearer Let's Go Native Jack Oakie The Life Of The Party Winnie Lightner Little Caesar Edward G. Robinson Lord Byron Of Broadway Charles Kaley Lost Zeppelin Conway Tearle Lottery Bride Jeanette MacDonald Love Comes Along Bebe Daniels Love In The Rough Robert Montgomery Loving The Ladies Richard Dix Madame Satan Kay Johnson Mammy Al Jolson The Matrimonial Bed Frank Fay The Medicine Man Jack Benny Men Are Like That Hal Skelly Men Of The North Gilbert Roland Midnight Mystery Betty Compson Min And Bill Marie Dressler Moby Dick John Barrymore Montana Moon Joan Crawford Monte Carlo Jack Buchanan Morocco Gary Cooper Mothers Cry Dorothy Peterson Murder! Herbert Marshall Navy Blues William Haines Near The Rainbow's End Bob Steele New Moon Lawrence Tibbett Night Work Eddie Quillan No, No, Nanette Bernice Claire Not So Dumb Marion Davies A Notorious Affair Billie Dove Numbered Men Conrad Nagel The Office Wife Dorothy Mackaill Oklahoma Cyclone Bob Steele Old English George Arliss One Romantic Night Lillian Gish Only The Brave Gary Cooper Our Blushing Brides Joan Crawford Outward Bound Leslie Howard Paradise Island Kenneth Harlan Paramount On Parade Parisian Belle Lawrence Tibbett Party Girl Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Passion Flower Kay Francis The Pay Off Lowell Sherman People on Sunday Erwin Splettstober Pinky Lee's Circus Playboy Of Paris Maurice Chevalier Playing Around Alice White Puttin' On The Ritz Harry Richman The Racketeer Robert Armstrong Raffles Ronald Colman Rain Or Shine Joe Cook Redemption John Gilbert Remote Control William Haines Renegades Warner Baxter Road To Paradise Loretta Young Roadhouse Nights Helen Morgan Rogue Of The Rio Grande Jose Blohr Romance Greta Garbo The Royal Family Of Broadway Fredric March The Runaway Bride Mary Astor Scarlet Pages Elsie Ferguson The Sea Bat Charles Bickford Second Wife Conrad Nagel Seven Keys To Baldpate Richard Dix Shadow Ranch Buck Jones She Couldn't Say No Winnie Lightner She's My Weakness Sue Carol The Ship From Shanghai Conrad Nagel Shooting Straight Richard Dix Show Girl In Hollywood Alice White The Silent Enemy The Silver Horde Joel McCrea Sin Takes A Holiday Constance Bennett Sinner's Holiday Grant Withers Sins Of The Children Robert Montgomery Slightly Scarlet Evelyn Brent Son Of The Gods Richard Barthelmess Soup To Nuts Ted Healy Spring Is Here Lawrence Gray Street Of Chance William Powell Strictly Unconventional Catherine Dale Owen Sunny Marilyn Miller Sunny Skies Benny Rubin Sweet Kitty Bellairs Claudia Dell The Texan Gary Cooper They Learned About Women Joseph T. Schenck The Thirteenth Chair Conrad Nagel Those Darn Kids Spanky MacFarland Those Three French Girls Fifi D'Orsay Tom Sawyer Jackie Coogan Top Speed Joe E. Brown The Truth About Youth Loretta Young Under Montana Skies Kenneth Harlan Under The Roofs Of Paris Albert Prejean The Unholy 3 Lon Chaney Up The River Spencer Tracy The Vagabond King Dennis King War Nurse Robert Montgomery Way For A Sailor John Gilbert Way Out West William Haines Whoopee! Eddie Cantor The Widow From Chicago Alice White Wild Company Frank Albertson Wings of Adventure Winning The West Richard Arlen Wise Girls Elliott Nugent The Woman Racket Tom Moore Link to post Share on other sites
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