1920s

• Along Came Ruth
  Along Came Ruth
  Along Came Ruth is a 1924 film starring Viola Dana. The film was directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Winifred Dunn, based upon a Holman Francis Day play. Ms...
  
  (1924)
• Bread (1924)
• Broken Barriers
  Broken Barriers
  Broken Barriers is a 1924 silent film starring James Kirkwood, Norma Shearer, and Adolphe Menjou. It was directed by Reginald Barker. The film was based upon a novel by Meredith M. Nicholson.-Plot:...
  
  (1924)
• Cheaper to Marry
  Cheaper to Marry
  Cheaper to Marry is a 1925 film starring Conrad Nagel, Lewis Stone, Marguerite de la Motte and Paulette Duval. The film was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and written by Alice D.G...
  
  (1924)
• Circe, the Enchantress
  Circe, the Enchantress
  Circe, the Enchantress is a 1924 drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Mae Murray. This was their last collaboration, and they divorced soon after. This film is considered lost. -Plot:...
  
  (1924)
• Excuse Me
  Excuse Me
  Excuse Me is a 1925 film starring Norma Shearer, and Conrad Nagel. It was directed by Alfred J. Goulding. The film was written by best-selling novelist Rupert Hughes on an offday and is based upon his play...
  
  (1924)
• Greed
  Greed (film)
  Greed is a 1924 American dramatic silent film. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim and starring Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Tempe Pigott, Sylvia Ashton, Chester Conklin, Joan Standing and Jack Curtis....
  
  (1924)
• He Who Gets Slapped
  He Who Gets Slapped
  He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert. It was directed by Victor Sjöström. The film is based on the Russian play Тот, кто получает пощёчины by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was published in 1914 and in English, as He Who Gets Slapped, in 1922...
  
  (1924) (The first film made completely by MGM)
• His Hour
  His Hour
  His Hour is a 1924 silent drama film directed by King Vidor.This film was the follow-up to Samuel Goldwyn's Three Weeks, written by Elinor Glyn, and starring Aileen Pringle, one of the biggest moneymakers at the time of the amalgamation...
  
  (1924)
• Janice Meredith (1924)
• Lady of the Night
  Lady of the Night
  Lady of the Night is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film stars Norma Shearer in a dual role.-Plot:Chris Helmer is sentenced to 20 years in prison by Judge Banning , and has to leave his wife and baby girl...
  
  (1924)
• Little Robinson Crusoe
  Little Robinson Crusoe
  Little Robinson Crusoe is a 1924 film starring Jackie Coogan. The film was directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Willard Mack. This movie is unknown to survive.-Plot:...
  
  (1924)
• Mademoiselle Midnight
  Mademoiselle Midnight
  Mademoiselle Midnight is a 1924 film starring Mae Murray and directed by the star's then husband, Robert Z. Leonard. The film was written by Carl Harbaugh and John Russell...
  
  (1924) (The first film released by MGM. April 14, 1924)
• Married Flirts
  Married Flirts
  Married Flirts is a 1924 film starring Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, and Conrad Nagel, directed by Robert Vignola. Screenplay by Julia Ivers based on a Louis Joseph Vance best seller. The 'sophisticated' drama was considered quite daring at the time, of husbands being lured away from wives...
  
  (1924)
• One Night in Rome
  One Night in Rome
  One Night in Rome is a 1924 film starring Laurette Taylor. The film was directed by Clarence G. Badger and written J. Hartley Manners, Ms. Taylor's husband, based upon his play. Laurette Taylor was a great name of the American theatre, who made only three films in a triumph-studded career, all of...
  
  (1924)
• Revelation
  Revelation (1924 film)
  Revelation is a 1924 film starring Viola Dana, Monte Blue and Lew Cody. The film was directed and written by George D. Baker, based upon a popular novel, The Rosebud of a Thousand Years. Ms...
  
  (1924)
• Romola
  Romola (film)
  Romola is a 1924 drama film directed by Henry King and shot on location in Italy. The film stars Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell and Ronald Colman, and is based on the George Eliot novel of the same name...
  
  (1924)
• Scaramouche
  Scaramouche (1923 film)
  Scaramouche is a silent costume adventure based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, directed by Rex Ingram, released by Metro Pictures, and starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham....
  
  (1923) (MGM acquired the rights to the film after the merger)
• Sherlock, Jr.
  Sherlock, Jr.
  Sherlock, Jr. is an American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph A. Mitchell...
  
  (1924)
• Sinners in Silk
  Sinners in Silk
  Sinners in Silk is a 1924 silent film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Adolphe Menjou, Hedda Hopper, Conrad Nagel and Jean Hersholt. It is written by Benjamin Glazer and Carey Wilson...
  
  (1924)
• So This Is Marriage?
  So This Is Marriage?
  So This Is Marriage? is a drama film directed by Hobart Henley. The film was originally released with sequences filmed in Technicolor.-Cast:* Conrad Nagel as Peter Marsh* Eleanor Boardman as Beth Marsh* Lew Cody as Daniel Rankin...
  
  (1924)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1924 film)
  Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a 1924 silent film starring Blanche Sweet, and Conrad Nagel. It was directed by Blanche Sweet's husband, Marshall Neilan. The film is the second motion picture adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hardy which had been turned into a very successful 1897 play starring Mrs....
  
  (1924)
• The Arab
  The Arab (1924 film)
  The Arab is a silent film starring Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, written and directed by Rex Ingram, based on a 1911 play by Edgar Selwyn.-Production background:...
  
  (1924)
• The Bandolero
  The Bandolero
  The Bandolero is a 1924 film starring Pedro de Cordoba, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Renée Adorée, directed by Tom Terriss. Screenplay by Tom Terriss based on a novel by Paul Gwynne.-Plot:...
  
  (1924)
• The Beauty Prize
  The Beauty Prize (film)
  The Beauty Prize is a 1924 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Viola Dana.-Plot:A manicurist wins a beauty contest while posing as a debutante, and reveals her deception via a new craze, the radio.-Cast:* Viola Dana - Connie Du Bois...
  
  (1924)
• The Dixie Handicap
  The Dixie Handicap
  The Dixie Handicap is a 1924 drama film directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Claire Windsor, Lloyd Hughes and Otis Harlan. It is written by Waldemar Young.-Cast:* Claire Windsor - The Daughter* Frank Keenan - The Racehorse Owner...
  
  (1924)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)
  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 silent movie produced by Metro Pictures Corporation, adapted by June Mathis, directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Wallace Beery, and Alice Terry...
  
  (1921) (MGM acquired the rights to the film after the merger)
• The Great Divide
  The Great Divide (1925 film)
  The Great Divide is a silent 1925 drama film produced and distributed by MGM and directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Alice Terry, Conway Tearle and Wallace Beery. It is based on the William Vaughn Moody play, being the second of three film adaptations...
  
  (1924)
• The Navigator
  The Navigator (1924 film)
  The Navigator is a 1924 comedy directed by and starring Buster Keaton. The film was written by Clyde Bruckman and co-directed by Donald Crisp.-Plot:...
  
  (1924)
• The Prairie Wife
  The Prairie Wife
  The Prairie Wife is a 1925 Western film directed by Hugo Ballin and featuring Boris Karloff. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Dorothy Devore - Chaddie Green* Herbert Rawlinson - Duncan MacKail* Gibson Gowland - Ollie* Leslie Stuart - Percy...
  
  (1924)
• The Rag Man
  The Rag Man
  The Rag Man is a 1925 film starring Jackie Coogan. The film was directed by Edward F. Cline, and written by Willard Mack. This was the first Jackie Coogan movie made entirely under the MGM banner.-Plot:...
  
  (1924)
• The Red Lily
  The Red Lily
  The Red Lily is a 1924 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett and Wallace Beery.-Plot:Jean Leonnec and Marise La Noue are pennyless lovers who eloped to Paris, she to become a prostitute known as 'the red lily', he to learn the ways of the underworld from...
  
  (1924)
• The Silent Accuser
  The Silent Accuser
  The Silent Accuser is a 1924 silent film directed by Chester M. Franklin. The film stars dog star Peter the Great, Eleanor Boardman and Raymond McKee. This film is considered lost...
  
  (1924)
• The Snob
  The Snob (1924 film)
  The Snob is a 1924 silent drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film stars Norma Shearer and John Gilbert prior to their superstardom, together with Phyllis Haver, Conrad Nagel and Hedda Hopper. It is written by Monta Bell based on a novel The Snob: The Story of a Marriage by Helen Reimensnyder...
  
  (1924)
• The Wife of the Centaur
  The Wife of the Centaur
  The Wife of the Centaur is a 1924 silent drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shortly after it formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Mayer Pictures in April 1924....
  
  (1924)
• Wine of Youth
  Wine of Youth
  Wine of Youth is a 1924 silent comedy-drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shortly after the merger which created MGM in April 1924...
  
  (1924)
• A Slave of Fashion
  A Slave of Fashion
  A Slave of Fashion was a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Norma Shearer. Joan Crawford had an early uncredited role as a mannequin. The film is considered lost. -Plot:...
  
  (1925)
• Ben-Hur
  Ben-Hur (1925 film)
  Ben-Hur is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo. It was a blockbuster hit for newly merged Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the second film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace...
  
  (1925, partial Technicolor
  Technicolor
  Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...
  
  ; remade in 1959
  Ben-Hur (1959 film)
  Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the third film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay was written by Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The score was composed by...
  
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• Bright Lights
  Bright Lights (1925 film)
  Bright Lights is a 1925 comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film stars Charles Ray, who achieved stardom by playing ingenious country boys. It is presumed lost...
  
  (1925)
• Confessions of a Queen
  Confessions of a Queen
  Confessions of a Queen is a 1925 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based upon a novel by Alphonse Daudet, Les Rois en Exil. Only an incomplete print of the film survives.-Plot:...
  
  (1925)
• Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
  Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
  Daddy's Gone A-Hunting is a 1925 drama film directed by Frank Borzage based upon a play by Zoe Akins, with adaptation by Kenneth B. Clarke. The film brought together Vitagraph leading lady Alice Joyce and English actor Percy Marmont after his success with If Winter Comes. This is the only film...
  
  (1925)
• Dance Madness
  Dance Madness
  Dance Madness is a 1926 silent comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard based upon a script by Frederica Sagor. The film stars Claire Windsor, Conrad Nagel and Hedda Hopper. The film is lost.-Plot:...
  
  (1925)
• Don't
  Don't (1925 film)
  Don't is a comedy film directed by Alfred J. Goulding, starring Sally O'Neil, John Patrick, Bert Roach, and Ethel Wales, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is one of the B pictures the studio produced to keep the Loews circuit and other cinemas supplied.The screenplay by Agnes Christine...
  
  (1925)
• Exchange of Wives
  Exchange of Wives
  Exchange of Wives is a 1925 drama film directed by Hobart Henley, with screenplay by Fanny Hatton based upon a Broadway play by Cosmo Hamilton. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Renée Adorée, Lew Cody and Creighton Hale.-Cast:...
  
  (1925)
• Go West
  Go West (1925 film)
  Go West is a silent movie starring Buster Keaton.Keaton portrays Friendless, who travels west to try to make his fortune. Once there, he tries his hand at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling, and dairy farming, eventually forming a bond with a cow named "Brown Eyes." Eventually he finds himself...
  
  (1925)
• His Secretary
  His Secretary
  His Secretary is a 1925 comedy film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Norma Shearer and Lew Cody. It is now a lost film.-Plot:Comedy about an ugly duckling who overhears her boss saying he wouldn't kiss her for a thousand dollars...
  
  (1925)
• La Bohème
  La Bohème (1926 film)
  La Bohème is a 1926 silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini.-Plot:The film takes place in Paris in 1830. Several bohemians try to survive on the streets, living under poor conditions and desiring to one day become famous. One of them is Marcel , a...
  
  (1925)
• Lights of Old Broadway
  Lights of Old Broadway
  Lights of Old Broadway is a 1925 drama film directed by Monta Bell. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel. It is an adaptation of the play The Merry Wives of Gotham by Laurence Eyre . The play was produced on Broadway at the Henry Miller's Theatre January 16, 1924 - April 1924...
  
  (1925)
• Man and Maid
  Man and Maid
  Man and Maid is a 1925 drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger based upon a novel by Elinor Glyn. The film stars Lew Cody, Renée Adorée and Harriet Hammond.-Plot:...
  
  (1925)
• Mare Nostrum
  Mare Nostrum (film)
  Mare Nostrum is a silent film set during World War I. A Spanish merchant sailor becomes involved with a spy. It was the first production made in voluntary exile by Rex Ingram and starred his wife, Alice Terry. It is based on the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez...
  
  (1925)
• Never the Twain Shall Meet
  Never the Twain Shall Meet
  Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1925 silent south seas drama film based on the book by Peter B. Kyne, produced by MGM and directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Anita Stewart and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited bit-part. Remade with sound in 1931 at MGM by director W. S. Van Dyke...
  
  (1925)
• Old Clothes
  Old Clothes
  Old Clothes is a 1925 MGM silent film, starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford.This was the first film in which Miss Crawford was credited with her new name — Joan Crawford...
  
  (1925)
• Pretty Ladies
  Pretty Ladies
  Pretty Ladies is a silent comedy-drama film starring ZaSu Pitts and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is a fictional recreation of the famed Ziegfeld Follies. Directed by Monta Bell, the film was written by Alice D.G...
  
  (1925)
• Proud Flesh
  Proud Flesh (film)
  Proud Flesh is a 1925 silent comedy-drama film directed by King Vidor.-Plot:A San Francisco earthquake orphan is adopted by relatives in Spain and gets wooed by a Romeo there. She turns him down to return to a San Francisco plumber.-Cast:...
  
  (1925)
• Sally, Irene and Mary
  Sally, Irene and Mary
  Sally, Irene, and Mary is a 1925 film starring Constance Bennett, Sally O'Neil, and Joan Crawford. The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at the romantic lives of three chorus girls and the way their preferences in men affect their lives....
  
  (1925)
• Seven Chances
  Seven Chances
  Seven Chances is a 1925 American comedy silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, based on a play written by Roi Cooper Megrue, produced in 1916 by David Belasco. Additional casts members include T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer, and others. The film also stars Jean Arthur, a...
  
  (1925)
• Soul Mates
  Soul Mates (film)
  Soul Mates is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Jack Conway, based on the 1911 novel The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn. The movie was the second successful collaboration between Glyn and Conway. -Plot:...
  
  (1925)
• Sun-Up
  Sun-Up
  Sun-Up is a 1925 drama film directed by Edmund Goulding based upon a successful 1924 play by Lula Vollmer. The film stars Lucille La Verne replaying her successful New York stage role, Pauline Starke and Conrad Nagel.-Cast:* Pauline Starke - Emmy...
  
  (1925)
• The Auction Block
  The Auction Block
  The Auction Block is a 1926 silent film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Charles Ray and Eleanor Boardman. It is written by Fanny Hatton based on the novel by Rex Beach. The film is a remake of The Auction Block, a 1917 Goldwyn production starring Rubye De Remer and Tom Powers...
  
  (1925)
• The Big Parade
  The Big Parade
  The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film. It tells the story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.The film was...
  
  (1925)
• The Blackbird
  The Blackbird
  The Blackbird is a 1926 drama film directed by Tod Browning.-Plot:The Blackbird is a thief who uses a second identity when necessary: a rescue mission keeper with contorted legs, known as his bishop brother The Bishop. He lives above a cheap bar in the Limehouse district, where his alter ego The...
  
  (1925)
• The Circle
  The Circle (1925 film)
  The Circle is a 1925 film directed by Frank Borzage. The film stars Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis and Joan Crawford on an early role. It is written by Kenneth B. Clarke based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham. The 1921 Broadway play had starred John Drew, Jr. and Mrs. Leslie...
  
  (1925)
• The Denial
  The Denial
  The Denial is a 1925 film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Claire Windsor, Bert Roach, William Haines, Lucille Ricksen and Robert Agnew. It is written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the play by Lewis Beach. Lucille Ricksen, a promising young starlet, died of tuberculosis at age...
  
  (1925)
• The Devil's Circus
  The Devil's Circus
  The Devil's Circus is a 1926 drama film directed by Danish director Benjamin Christensen, based upon his screenplay. The film stars Norma Shearer and Charles Emmett Mack...
  
  (1925)
• The Great Love
  The Great Love (1925 film)
  The Great Love is a 1925 silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon his own story, scripted by Benjamin Glazer. The film stars Robert Agnew, Viola Dana and ZaSu Pitts. This film is considered lost.-Cast:* Robert Agnew - Dr. Lawrence Tibbits...
  
  (1925)
• The Masked Bride
  The Masked Bride
  The Masked Bride is a silent drama film, directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Mae Murray, Francis X. Bushman and Basil Rathbone. Originally helmed by Josef von Sternberg, the director followed the footsteps of Erich von Stroheim in walking out of a Mae Murray movie, this time after two weeks...
  
  (1925)
• The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow (1925 film)
  The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent MGM romantic drama film and black comedy directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. The film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert and Roy D'Arcy. Joan Crawford and Clark Gable had uncredited roles in the film....
  
  (1925, remade in 1934
  The Merry Widow (1934 film)
  The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald...
  
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• The Midshipman
  The Midshipman
  The Midshipman is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne. The film stars Ramon Novarro and Harriet Hammond. Joan Crawford had an early uncredited role as an extra. -Cast:*Ramon Novarro as Dick Randall...
  
  (1925)
• The Monster
  The Monster (1925 film)
  The Monster is a 1925 silent comedy horror directed by Roland West, based on the play by Crane Wilbur. It stars Johnny Arthur and Lon Chaney, and is remembered as an antecedental Old Dark House movie, as well as a precedent to many subgenre of horror films. The film has been shown on TCM network...
  
  (1925)
• The Mystic
  The Mystic
  The Mystic is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Tod Browning, who later directed MGM's Freaks . Aileen Pringle's gowns in the film were by already famous Romain de Tirtoff .-Plot:...
  
  (1925)
• The Only Thing
  The Only Thing
  The Only Thing is a silent 1925 costume drama, starring Eleanor Boardman. This filmed marks the beginning of director's Jack Conway long career at MGM. The film is also notable for featuring, in her second film role, a young Joan Crawford, playing a minor part as a lady in waiting...
  
  (1925)
• The Sporting Venus
  The Sporting Venus
  The Sporting Venus is a silent 1925 romance film directed by Marshall Neilan. The film was the second MGM release of Neilan, and starred his wife, actress Blanche Sweet, who allegedly sported the lowest waistline of 1925. This is the first of two feature films that paired Ronald Colman with...
  
  (1925)
• Time, the Comedian
  Time, the Comedian
  Time, the Comedian is a 1925 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film stars Mae Busch and Lew Cody. The film was a hit. -Plot:Singer Nora left her husband for new flame Larry ; her husband's suicide cools the affair, and the pair meets again when, years later, Larry meets and falls in love...
  
  (1925)
• The Tower of Lies
  The Tower of Lies
  The Tower of Lies is a 1925 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based upon Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Emperor of Portugallia . Released one year after He Who Gets Slapped, the film marks the second collaboration between Sjöström, Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer. Also starring are William Haines,...
  
  (1925)
• The Unholy Three
  The Unholy Three (1925 film)
  The Unholy Three is a 1925 American silent film melodrama involving a crime spree, directed by Tod Browning.The film was remade in 1930 as a talkie. In both the 1925 and the 1930 version, the roles of Professor Echo and Tweedledee are played by Lon Chaney and Harry Earles respectively...
  
  (1925, remade in 1930
  The Unholy Three (1930 film)
  The Unholy Three is a 1930 melodrama involving a crime spree, directed by Jack Conway. It is a remake of the 1925 film The Unholy Three. Both were based on the novel of the same name by Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins....
  
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• The Way of a Girl
  The Way of a Girl
  The Way of a Girl is a 1925 silent era drama motion picture starring Eleanor Boardman, Matt Moore, and William Russell.Directed by Robert G. Vignola, the screenplay was written by Albert S...
  
  (1925)
• The White Desert
  The White Desert
  The White Desert is a 1925 drama film directed by Reginald Barker. The film stars Claire Windsor and Pat O'Malley, with Robert Frazer, Frank Currier and Sojin. It is written by Monte M. Katterjohn and Gordon Rigby...
  
  (1925)
• Torrent
  Torrent (1926 film)
  Torrent is an American silent romantic drama film directed by Monta Bell , based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and released on February 21, 1926.Torrent was the first American film starring Swedish actress Greta Garbo...
  
  (1925)
• Zander the Great
  Zander the Great
  Zander the Great is a 1925 silent drama film directed by George W. Hill, in his first directing role for MGM. The film stars Marion Davies. The screenplay by Frances Marion is based upon Edward Salisbury Field 1923 play.-Plot:...
  
  (1925)
• A Certain Young Man
  A Certain Young Man
  A Certain Young Man is a 1928 comedy film directed by Hobart Henley. The film stars Ramon Novarro, Marceline Day, Renée Adorée, Carmel Myers and Bert Roach. The film is considered lost.-Production:...
  
  (1926)
• A Little Journey
  A Little Journey
  A Little Journey is a 1927 comedy film featuring Harry Carey. No prints are thought to survive of this film. It is therefore considered lost.-Plot:A girl travelling by train to meet her boyfriend meets another young man and falls in love with him....
  
  (1926)
• Altars of Desire
  Altars of Desire
  Altars of Desire is a silent drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring silent movie star Mae Murray. A print may survive in the Turner/MGM vaults however silentera.com lists this film as being lost.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• Bardelys the Magnificent
  Bardelys the Magnificent
  Bardelys the Magnificent is a 1926 silent romantic drama film. It was directed by King Vidor starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman, based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini. It was the second film of the 19 year old John Wayne, who had a minor role...
  
  (1926)
• Battling Butler
  Battling Butler
  Battling Butler is a 1926 comedy silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton.-Plot summary:Alfred's father, portrayed as a wealthy aristocrat, feels his son has grown up too comfortably and as a result has not become what a man should be. To remedy this predicament he sends his son Alfred...
  
  (1926)
• Beverly of Graustark
  Beverly of Graustark
  __notoc__Beverly of Graustark is a silent film directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno and Creighton Hale. The film's screenplay was written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon, and set on the fictional land of Graustark. The movie...
  
  (1926)
• Blarney
  Blarney (film)
  Blarney is a 1926 film directed by Marcel De Sano, a period piece about an Irish prizefighter. The film is considered lost.-Cast:* Renée Adorée - Peggy Nolan* Ralph Graves - James Carabine* Paulette Duval - Marcolina* Malcolm Waite - Blanco Johnson...
  
  (1926)
• Brown of Harvard
  Brown of Harvard (1926 film)
  Brown of Harvard is a 1926 silent film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring William Haines. The film is the best known of the three Brown of Harvard films, having been John Wayne's screen debut. Uncredited, Wayne played a "Yale Football Player". Grady Sutton and Robert Livingston, both of...
  
  (1926)
• Exit Smiling
  Exit Smiling
  Exit Smiling is a 1926 comedy film directed by Sam Taylor and starring New York and London revues star Beatrice Lillie on her first film role and Jack Pickford, the brother of star Mary Pickford. The film was also the debut of actor Franklin Pangborn. The film's failure at the box office is often...
  
  (1926)
• Exquisite Sinner
  Exquisite Sinner
  Exquisite Sinner is a silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg and Phil Rosen. Prior to working The Masked Bride, von Sternberg had filmed this picture. The studio disliked the picture and brought in Phil Rosen for extensive retakes in 1926.-Preservation status:The film is indicated as a lost...
  
  (1926)
• Flesh and the Devil
  Flesh and the Devil
  Flesh and the Devil is an MGM romantic drama silent film. It stars Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson, and Barbara Kent, directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the play The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann....
  
  (1926)
• Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
  Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
  Johnny Get Your Hair Cut is a 1927 comedy film directed by B. Reeves Eason and featuring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Jackie Coogan - Johnny O'Day* Harry Carey* James Corrigan - Pop Slocum* Maurice Costello - Baxter Ryan* Bobby Doyle - Bobby Dolin...
  
  (1926)
• Love's Blindness
  Love's Blindness
  Love's Blindness is a 1926 silent film directed by John Francis Dillon. The film stars Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno and Lilyan Tashman. Written by Elinor Glyn, the film was produced under the direct supervision of the author. The film is considered lost...
  
  (1926)
• Lovey Mary
  Lovey Mary
  Lovey Mary is a 1926 film directed by King Baggot, based on the 1903 novel with the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. This story was the sequel to Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch and Lovey Mary is one of the characters from that earlier novel. The film is considered lost...
  
  (1926)
• Mike
  Mike (film)
  Mike is a 1926 film directed by Marshall Neilan. The film is a modest production, featuring Sally O'Neil and William Haines.-Plot:Mike is a girl of the railroads, living with her Father in a converted freight car, in love with telegraphist Harlan .-Cast:* Sally O'Neil - Mike * William Haines -...
  
  (1926)
• Money Talks
  Money Talks (1926 film)
  Money Talks is a 1926 comedy film directed by Archie Mayo. The film stars Claire Windsor, Bert Roach, Owen Moore and Ned Sparks. It is written by Jessie Burns and Bernard Vorhaus, based on the story by Rupert Hughes. The film is considered partially lost....
  
  (1926)
• Monte Carlo
  Monte Carlo (1926 film)
  -Plot:An American adventurer hides from pursuing detectives in the hotel room of a young schoolteacher.-Cast:* Lew Cody - Tony Townsend* Gertrude Olmstead - Sally Roxford* Roy D'Arcy - Prince Boris* Karl Dane - The Doorman* Zasu Pitts - Hope Durant...
  
  (1926)
• Paris
  Paris (1926 film)
  Paris is a silent film, written and directed by Edmund Goulding, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film starred Charles Ray, Douglas Gilmore, and Joan Crawford. Ray stars as a young American millionaire named Jerry who is vacationing in Paris and visits an Apache den, the Birdcage Cafe,...
  
  (1926)
• Tell It to the Marines
  Tell It to the Marines
  Tell It to the Marines is a 1926 silent movie starring Lon Chaney, William Haines and Eleanor Boardman, and directed by George W. Hill. The film follows a Marine recruit and the sergeant who trains him...
  
  (1926)
• The Barrier
  The Barrier (1926 film)
  The Barrier is a 1926 silent film produced and distributed by MGM and directed by George Hill. The film stars Lionel Barrymore and Marceline Day and is based on the wilderness novel The Barrier by Rex Beach. Previous versions of the novel had been filmed in 1913 and 1917 respectively...
  
  (1926)
• The Boob
  The Boob
  The Boob is a romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by William Wellman, and starring Gertrude Olmstead, Antonio D'Algy, George K. Arthur, and Joan Crawford.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend (1926 film)
  The Boy Friend is a 1926 film directed by Monta Bell. This was the film debut of Elizabeth Patterson, at age 50. The film is considered lost.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• The Demi-Bride
  The Demi-Bride
  The Demi-Bride is a 1927 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, depicting the naughtiness synonymous with Paris at the time. The film is considered lost.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• The Desert's Toll
  The Desert's Toll
  The Desert's Toll is a 1926 western film, directed by Clifford Smith. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• The Fire Brigade
  The Fire Brigade
  __notoc__The Fire Brigade, also called Fire! is a silent film directed by William Nigh.Film historian Kevin Brownlow used scenes from this film's climax to open his 13-hour documentary Hollywood...
  
  (1926)
• The Flaming Forest
  The Flaming Forest
  __notoc__The Flaming Forest is a film directed by Reginald Barker, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring Antonio Moreno and Renée Adorée....
  
  (1926)
• The Gay Deceiver
  The Gay Deceiver
  The Gay Deceiver was a 1926 film directed by John M. Stahl. The film stars Lew Cody and Carmel Myers. The film is considered lost.-Plot:A deceiver leads the fast set in Paris and is involved in love affairs and blackmail until he mends his way for his daughter's sake.-Cast:* Lew Cody - Toto /...
  
  (1926)
• The Magician
  The Magician (1926 film)
  The Magician is a 1926 horror film directed by Rex Ingram about a magician's efforts to acquire the blood of a virgin for his experiments to create life.It was adapted by Ingram from the novel The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham...
  
  (1926)
• The Red Mill
  The Red Mill (film)
  The Red Mill is a 1927 comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle and written by Frances Marion. The film never had a VHS release, though it aired on the network channel Turner Classic MoviesTCM on January 3, 2008, which was the birthday of leading role actress Marion Davies...
  
  (1926)
• The Road to Mandalay
  The Road to Mandalay (film)
  The Road to Mandalay is a 1926 silent drama film directed by Tod Browning.-Cast:* Lon Chaney - Singapore Joe* Lois Moran - Joe's Daughter* Owen Moore - The Admiral* Henry B. Walthall - Father James* Sojin - English Charlie Wing...
  
  (1926)
• The Scarlet Letter
  The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)
  The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. Louis B. Mayer was reluctant on using Miss Gish, fearing opposition from church groups. The film was announced as "It's a real 'A' picture", taking advantage of the 'A' for Adultery, and proved a box office success...
  
  (1926)
• The Show
  The Show (1927 film)
  The Show is a 1927 silent American drama film directed by Tod Browning, based upon C.T. Jackson's 1910 novel, The Day of Souls.-Plot:A Hungarian carnival troupe follows a young girl who reforms a tearaway after her old suitor tried to kill him with a poisonous lizard.-Cast:* John Gilbert - Cock...
  
  (1926)
• The Taxi Dancer
  The Taxi Dancer
  The Taxi Dancer is a 1927 silent comedy film starring Joan Crawford and Douglas Gilmore. Crawford plays Joselyn Poe, a southern girl who tries her luck as dancer in New York...
  
  (1926)
• The Temptress
  The Temptress
  The Temptress is an American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo. Starring Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore and Roy D'Arcy it premiered on October 10, 1926...
  
  (1926)
• The Understanding Heart
  The Understanding Heart
  The Understanding Heart is a American silent film, directed by Jack Conway and starring Joan Crawford. The film was adapted for the screen by Edward T. Lowe Jr. from a novel by Peter B. Kyne. Joan Crawford said "I got my first rave reviews in The Understanding Heart." -Plot:Forest ranger Bob Mason...
  
  (1926)
• The Valley of Hell
  The Valley of Hell (film)
  The Valley of Hell is a 1927 Western film, directed by Clifford Smith.-Cast:* Francis McDonald - Creighton Steele* Edna Murphy - Mary Calvert* William Steele - James Brady...
  
  (1926)
• The Waning Sex
  The Waning Sex
  The Waning Sex is a 1926 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film stars Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel. The film is considered lost.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• There You Are!
  There You Are!
  There You Are! is a 1926 film directed by Edward Sedgwick and several other directors; the changes were such that no director was credited upon general release...
  
  (1926)
• Tin Hats
  Tin Hats
  Tin Hats is a 1926 comedy film directed by Edward Sedgwick , starring Claire Windsor and Conrad Nagel. The film is considered partially lost.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• Upstage
  Upstage (film)
  Upstage, also known as The Mask of Comedy, is a 1926 silent film directed by Monta Bell, starring Norma Shearer and New York musical comedy star Oscar Shaw.-Plot:...
  
  (1926)
• Valencia
  Valencia (film)
  Valencia, also known as The Love Song, is a 1926 romance film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, who came over from Paramount to direct, and starring Mae Murray and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited role. Rumors of a surviving print persist. The film was a box office hit and the title song,...
  
  (1926)
• War Paint
  War Paint (1926 film)
  War Paint is a 1926 western film directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The film stars Tim McCoy. Louis B. Mayer observed the profits made by other studios with western franchises such as Tom Mix, Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson. He selected a genuine army officer who had lived with Indian tribes to come to...
  
  (1926)
• Winners of the Wilderness
  Winners of the Wilderness
  Winners of the Wilderness is a MGM silent film, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Tim McCoy and Joan Crawford. In this costume drama, set during the French-Indian War, Rene Contrecouer , the daughter of a French general falls for a soldier of fortune...
  
  (1926)
• After Midnight
  After Midnight (1927 film)
  After Midnight is a 1927 film written and directed by Monta Bell which stars Norma Shearer and Gwen Lee.-Plot:A story of New York's nightlife: Mary is a cabaret hostess with a heart of gold and her sister Maizie is a gold-digger with no heart.-Cast:* Norma Shearer - Mary Miller* Lawrence Gray -...
  
  (1927)
• Annie Laurie (1927)
• Becky
  Becky (film)
  -Plot:Rebecca is a salesgirl who gets a chance at a Broadway show; there, she attracts and is ultimately rejected by a society playboy.-Cast:* Sally O'Neil - Rebecca O'Brien McCloskey* Owen Moore - Dan Scarlett...
  
  (1927)
• Body and Soul
  Body and Soul (1927 film)
  Body and Soul is a 1927 silent film starring Aileen Pringle, Norman Kerry, and Lionel Barrymore. The movie was directed by Reginald Barker.-Cast:*Aileen Pringle as Hilda*Norman Kerry as Ruffo*Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Leyden...
  
  (1927)
• Heaven on Earth (1927)
• In Old Kentucky (1927)
• London After Midnight
  London After Midnight (film)
  London After Midnight aka The Hypnotist is a silent mystery film with horror overtones produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, and Polly Moran and was directed by Tod Browning. It is also a lost film, quite...
  
  (1927)
• Love
  Love (1927 film)
  Love is a film directed by Edmund Goulding and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM made the film in order to capitalize on its winning romantic team of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert who had starred in the 1926 blockbuster, Flesh and the Devil....
  
  (1927)
• Lovers? (1927)
• Mockery
  Mockery
  Mockery is an American film about the Russian Revolution. It was the second film made in Hollywood by Danish director Benjamin Christensen and starred Lon Chaney, Sr...
  
  (1927)
• Mr. Wu
  Mr. Wu
  Mr. Wu is a 1927 silent movie about a Chinese patriarch who tries to exact revenge on the Englishman who seduced his daughter.-Cast:*Lon Chaney - Mr. Wu/Grandfather Wu*Louise Dresser - Mrs. Gregory*Renee Adoree - Wu Nang Ping...
  
  (1927)
• Quality Street
  Quality Street (1927 film)
  Quality Street is a 1927 MGM silent film based on the 1901 play by James M. Barrie which starred Barrie favorite Maude Adams. The film starred Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel and was directed by Sidney Franklin...
  
  (1927)
• Rookies (1927)
• Rose-Marie
  Rose-Marie (1928 film)
  Rose-Marie was a 1928 drama film directed by Lucien Hubbard. It is the first of three MGM adaptations of the 1924 Broadway musical Rose-Marie The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness...
  
  (1927)
• Slide, Kelly, Slide
  Slide, Kelly, Slide
  Slide, Kelly, Slide is a 1927 comedy film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Edward Sedgwick, and starring William Haines and Harry Carey.-Cast:* William Haines - Jim Kelly* Sally O'Neil - Mary Munson* Harry Carey - Tom Munson...
  
  (1927)
• The Big City
  The Big City (1928 film)
  The Big City is a 1928 crime film directed by Tod Browning. It is now a lost film. The last known print of the film had been sent to Australia in the late 1950s...
  
  (1927)
• The Bugle Call (1927)
• The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)
• The Crowd
  The Crowd
  The Crowd is a 1928 American silent film directed by King Vidor. It is notable for its dramatization of the concerns and dangers of urbanization and modernity....
  
  (1927)
• The Enemy
  The Enemy (1927 film)
  The Enemy is a 1927 drama film directed by Fred Niblo, and starring Lillian Gish. The film has been thought to be lost. The MGM library, now controlled by Turner Classic Movies, has a print which is missing the final reel...
  
  (1927)
• The Fair Co-Ed
  The Fair Co-Ed
  The Fair Co-Ed is a 1927 silent film comedy starring Marion Davies and released through MGM. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst, through Cosmopolitan Procuctions and directed by Sam Wood. This film is based on a 1909 play/musical comedy by George Ade which had starred a young Elsie...
  
  (1927)
• The Garden of Allah
  The Garden of Allah (1927 film)
  The Garden of Allah is a film directed by Rex Ingram and starring his wife, actress Alice Terry. It was the second version of the Robert Hichens novel, that had been filmed by the Selig company in 1916 with Helen Ware and would be filmed again in 1936 with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer...
  
  (1927)
• The Road to Romance
  The Road to Romance
  The Road to Romance is a 1927 film directed by John S. Robertson, based upon a Joseph Conrad-Ford Madox Ford novel, Romance. The film is considered lost...
  
  (1927)
• The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
  The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
  The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, also known as The Student Prince and Old Heidelberg, is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1927 silent film based on a novel by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster. Ernst Lubitsch directed the picture...
  
  (1927)
• The Thirteenth Hour
  The Thirteenth Hour
  The Thirteenth Hour is a 1927 silent film mystery produced and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and directed by Chester Franklin. The film stars Lionel Barrymore in a role where, as noted criminologist Professor Leroy, he dons a weird series of disguises to hide a dark secret...
  
  (1927)
• The Unknown (1927)
• The Divine Woman
  The Divine Woman
  The Divine Woman is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film. Only a single nine-minute reel is currently known to exist of this otherwise lost film...
  
  (1928)
• Our Dancing Daughters
  Our Dancing Daughters
  Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM silent drama film starring Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown , about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont and produced by Hunt Stromberg...
  
  (1928, plus sequels, first film featuring MGM's "Jackie the Lion")
• The Patsy
  The Patsy (1928 film)
  The Patsy is a 1928 silent comedy/drama film directed by King Vidor, produced and starring Marion Davies for her Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  (1928)
• Show People
  Show People
  Show People is a 1928 comedy silent film directed by King Vidor. The movie was a starring vehicle for actress Marion Davies and actor William Haines and included notable cameo appearances by many of the film personalities of the day, including stars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S....
  
  (1928)
• The Viking
  The Viking (1928 film)
  The Viking was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3.-Production background:...
  
  (1928, first color feature with a soundtrack)
• The Wind
  The Wind
  The Wind is a 1928 American dramatic silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the novel The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough. It features Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, and others...
  
  (1928)
• The Broadway Melody
  The Broadway Melody
  The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...
  
  (1929)
• Hallelujah!
  Hallelujah! (1929 film)
  Hallelujah! is a 1929 MGM musical directed by King Vidor, starring Daniel L. Haynes and the then unknown Nina Mae McKinney.Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and chronicling the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson , and his relationship with the seductive Chick , Hallelujah! was one of the...
  
  (1929)
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a 1929 part Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer American musical-comedy film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some...
  
  (1929)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
  The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929 film)
  The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Sidney Franklin. The screenplay by Hanns Kräly is based on the 1925 play of the same name by Frederick Lonsdale...
  
  (1929)
• The Mysterious Island
  The Mysterious Island (1929 film)
  The Mysterious Island is an MGM film directed by Lucien Hubbard, a film adaptation of Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse , published in 1874...
  
  (1929)
• Their Own Desire
  Their Own Desire
  Their Own Desire is a 1929 American romantic drama film starring Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, and Helene Millard. The movie was adapted by James Forbes and Frances Marion from the novel by Sarita Fuller, and was directed by E. Mason Hopper...
  
  (1929)
• Devil-May-Care
  Devil-May-Care
  Devil-May-Care is a sound American musical film with Technicolor sequences released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on 27 December 1929...
  
  (1929)

1930s

• The Champ
  The Champ
  The Champ is a 1931 American film written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor. The movie stars Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper , and tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son.The...
  
  (1931, remade in 1979)
• A Free Soul
  A Free Soul
  A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had previously got an acquittal for on a murder charge...
  
  (1931)
• Mata Hari (1931)
• Grand Hotel
  Grand Hotel (film)
  Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum...
  
  (1932)
• Tarzan the Ape Man (1932, plus sequels)
• Freaks
  Freaks
  Freaks is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' 1923 short story "Spurs"...
  
  (1932)
• Smilin' Through
  Smilin' Through (1932 film)
  Smilin' Through is a 1932 MGM film based on the play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, also named Smilin' Through.The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1932. It was adapted from Cowl and Murfin's play by James Bernard Fagan, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ernest Vajda and Claudine...
  
  (1932)
• Red-Headed Woman
  Red-Headed Woman
  Red-Headed Woman is a 1932 Pre-Code comedy film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on a novel by Katherine Brush, and with a screenplay by Anita Loos. It was directed by Jack Conway, and stars Jean Harlow as a woman who uses sex to advance her social position...
  
  (1932)
• Dancing Lady
  Dancing Lady
  Dancing Lady is a 1933 musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, the fourth of eight collaborations between Crawford and Gable. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and was based on the novel of the...
  
  (1933)
• Dinner at Eight
  Dinner at Eight (film)
  Dinner at Eight is a Pre-Code 1933 comedy of manners/drama produced by MGM Studios. The film was adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, with additional dialogue supplied by Donald Ogden Stewart. Produced by David O...
  
  (1933)
• Queen Christina
  Queen Christina (film)
  Queen Christina is a Pre-Code Hollywood feature film loosely based on the life of 17th century Queen Christina of Sweden, produced in 1933, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith and Lewis Stone. It was billed as Garbo's return to cinema...
  
  (1933)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning , despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett . The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture...
  
  (1934, remade in 1956)
• The Thin Man
  The Thin Man (film)
  The Thin Man is a 1934 American comic detective film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease. Nick is a hard drinking retired detective and Nora a wealthy heiress...
  
  (1934, plus sequels)
• Tarzan and His Mate
  Tarzan and His Mate
  Tarzan and His Mate is a Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the second in the Tarzan film series to star Johnny Weissmuller....
  
  (1934)
• The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow (1934 film)
  The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald...
  
  (1934)
• Viva Villa!
  Viva Villa!
  Viva Villa! is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade. The picture was directed by Jack Conway. There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin...
  
  (1934)
• Hollywood Party
  Hollywood Party (1934 film)
  Hollywood Party is a musical film starring Jimmy Durante. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film had no director credited, although it has been asserted that Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Edmund Goulding, Russell Mack, Charles Reisner, Roy Rowland, George Stevens and Sam Wood...
  
  (1934, first film featuring MGM's "Tanner the Lion" in logo)
• Babes in Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (1934 film)
  Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released in November 1934. The film is also known by its alternate titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet , March of the Wooden Soldiers and Wooden Soldiers .Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film...
  
  (1934)
• The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
• Manhattan Melodrama
  Manhattan Melodrama
  Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film, produced by MGM, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy...
  
  (1934)
• Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina (1935 film)
  Anna Karenina is a 1935 film directed by Clarence Brown. The film stars Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone and Maureen O'Sullivan. It is the most famous and critically acclaimed film adaptation of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. There are several other film adaptations of the novel.In New...
  
  (1935)
• A Night at the Opera
  A Night at the Opera (film)
  A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from...
  
  (1935)
• David Copperfield (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
  Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.The film was one of the biggest hits of its time...
  
  (1935, remade in 1962
  Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)
  Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 film starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The film retells the 1789 real-life mutiny aboard HMAV Bounty led by Fletcher Christian against the ship's captain, William Bligh...
  
  )
• Naughty Marietta (1935)
• Ah, Wilderness!
  Ah, Wilderness! (film)
  Ah, Wilderness! is a 1935 screen adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play of the same name starring Wallace Beery. The movie was filmed in Grafton, Massachusetts and directed by Clarence Brown. Beery plays the drunken uncle later portrayed on Broadway by Jackie Gleason, and the film features Lionel...
  
  (1935)
• A Tale of Two Cities
  A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
  A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting players include Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, and Edna Mae Oliver. It was directed by Jack...
  
  (1935)
• Broadway Melody of 1936
  Broadway Melody of 1936
  Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical released by MGM in 1935. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929, although, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection with the earlier film.The film was written by Harry W. Conn, Moss...
  
  (1935)
• Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)
  Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 American film adapted from the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings...
  
  (1936)
• Rose Marie
  Rose Marie (films)
  The 1924 Broadway musical Rose-Marie has been the basis of three MGM films of the same title. The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; however, a silent version was released in 1928 and another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness...
  
  (1936)
• San Francisco
  San Francisco (film)
  San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film...
  
  (1936)
• Tarzan Escapes
  Tarzan Escapes
  Tarzan Escapes is a 1936 Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the third in the MGM Tarzan series to feature Johnny Weissmuller as the "King of the Apes".-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• Fury
  Fury
  Fury is a form of anger.Fury may also refer to:In fiction:* Bryan Fury, a video game character from the Tekken series* Fury , two superheroine characters...
  
  (1936, Fritz Lang's first American film)
• Camille
  Camille (1936 film)
  Camille is an American romantic drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion. The picture is based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils...
  
  (1936)
• The Great Ziegfeld
  The Great Ziegfeld
  The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 musical film produced by MGM. A fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions. The film includes original music by Walter Donaldson and Irving Berlin...
  
  (1936)
• Libeled Lady
  Libeled Lady
  Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway....
  
  (1936)
• Maytime (1937)
• A Day at the Races
  A Day at the Races (film)
  Further reading* Elisabeth Buxbaum: Veronika, der Lenz ist da. Walter Jurmann – Ein Musiker zwischen den Welten und Zeiten. Mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Alexander Sieghardt. Edition Steinbauer, Wien 2006, ISBN 3-902494-18-2-External links:*...
  
  (1937)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• Saratoga
  Saratoga (film)
  Saratoga is a 1937 film written by Anita Loos and directed by Jack Conway. The movie stars Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in their sixth and final film collaboration....
  
  (1937)
• The Good Earth
  The Good Earth (film)
  The Good Earth is a film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S...
  
  (1937)
• Conquest (1937)
• Rosalie
  Rosalie (film)
  Rosalie is an MGM film adaptation of the 1928 stage musical of the same name. The film was released in December 1937. The film follows the story of the musical but replaces most of the Broadway score with new songs by Cole Porter...
  
  (1937)
• The Firefly
  The Firefly (film)
  The Firefly is a 1937 musical film starring Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones. The film is an adaptation of the operetta of the same name by composer Rudolf Friml and librettist Otto A. Harbach that premiered on Broadway in 1919...
  
  (1937)
• Broadway Melody of 1938
  Broadway Melody of 1938
  Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 musical film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film is essentially a backstage musical revue, featuring high-budget sets and cinematography in the MGM musical tradition...
  
  (1937)
• The Girl of the Golden West
  The Girl of the Golden West (1938 film)
  The Girl of the Golden West is a 1938 musical western film. It was adapted from the play of the same name by David Belasco, better known for providing the plot of the opera La fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini...
  
  (1938)
• Test Pilot
  Test Pilot (film)
  Test Pilot is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming and featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore. The movie tells the story of a daredevil test pilot , his wife , and his best friend...
  
  (1938)
• A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol (1938 film)
  A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novelette.-Cast:*Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge*Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit*Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Cratchit*Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim*Barry MacKay as Fred...
  
  (1938)
• Sweethearts
  Sweethearts (film)
  Sweethearts is a 1938 musical romance directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, uses the “play within a play” device: a contemporary Broadway production of the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta is the setting for...
  
  (1938)
• Boys Town (1938)
• Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette (1938 film)
  Marie Antoinette is a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette...
  
  (1938)
• The Citadel
  The Citadel (film)
  The Citadel is a 1938 film based on the novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937. The film was directed by King Vidor and produced by Victor Saville.-Plot:...
  
  (1938)
• Babes in Arms
  Babes in Arms (film)
  Babes in Arms is the 1939 film version of the 1937 Broadway musical of the same name. The film version stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes and Betty Jaynes.-Production:...
  
  (1939)
• Tarzan Finds a Son!
  Tarzan Finds a Son!
  Tarzan Finds a Son! is a 1939 Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the fourth in the MGM Tarzan series to feature Johnny Weissmuller as the "King of the Apes".-Plot:...
  
  (1939)
• At the Circus
  At the Circus
  At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they save a circus from bankruptcy...
  
  (1939)
• Gone with the Wind
  Gone with the Wind (film)
  Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard...
  
  (1939, distribution only; produced by Selznick International Pictures
  Selznick International Pictures
  -Origin:It was founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor John Hay "Jock" Whitney after Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and leased a section of the RKO Pictures lot in Culver City, California...
  
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• The Wizard of Oz
  The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
  The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
  
  (1939)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1939 British film based on the novel of the same name by James Hilton. It was directed by Sam Wood, and starred Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, and Paul Henreid. The screenplay was adapted from the novel by R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West and Eric...
  
  (1939, remade as musical in 1969
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1969 American musical film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Terence Rattigan is based on James Hilton's 1934 novella of the same name, which originally was adapted for the screen in 1939.-Plot:...
  
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• The Women
  The Women (1939 film)
  The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code in order for it to be released.The film...
  
  (1939)
• Ninotchka
  Ninotchka
  Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full...
  
  (1939, remade as musical in 1957
  Silk Stockings
  Silk Stockings is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.Hildegarde Knef gives a vivid backstage account of the casting, rehearsals, tryouts and Broadway opening of "Silk Stockings" in her autobiography "The Gift Horse:...
  
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• It's a Wonderful World (1939)
• Broadway Serenade
  Broadway Serenade
  Broadway Serenade is a 1939 musical drama film distributed by MGM, and directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer, based on story by Lew Lipton, John Taintor Foote and Hanns Kräly...
  
  (1939)

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