Best Films – 1934

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Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street

FILM

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart

The Count of Monte Cristo
d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee

The Gay Divorcee
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman

Hide-out
d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich

The Merry Widow
d: Ernst Lubitsch; scr: Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda

 

Fredric March, Evelyn Venable in Death Takes a Holiday
Fredric March, Evelyn Venable in Death Takes a Holiday

CHECK THESE OUT

Broadway Bill
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin

Death Takes a Holiday
d: Mitchell Leisen; scr: Maxwell Anderson, Gladys Lehman

Gold
d: Karl Hartl; scr: Rolf E. Vanloo

Here Comes the Navy
d: Lloyd Bacon; scr: Earl Baldwin, Ben Markson

Maskerade / Masquerade in Vienna
d: Willi Forst; scr: Willi Forst, Walter Reisch

We’re Rich Again
d: William A. Seiter; scr: Ray Harris

 

Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald in The Cat and the Fiddle
Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald in The Cat and the Fiddle

ACTOR

Wallace Beery
Viva Villa!

James Cagney
Here Comes the Navy

Maurice Chevalier
The Merry Widow

Robert Donat
The Count of Monte Cristo

Fredric March
Death Takes a Holiday

Robert Montgomery
Hide-out

Ramon Novarro
The Cat and the Fiddle

William Powell
The Thin Man

Heinz Rühman
So ein Flegel / Such a Boor

Anton Walbrook
Masquerade in Vienna

 

Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night

ACTRESS

Jean Arthur
The Most Precious Thing in Life

Constance Bennett
The Affairs of Cellini

Claudette Colbert
Four Frightened People

Claudette Colbert
It Happened One Night

Myrna Loy
The Thin Man

Jeanette MacDonald
The Cat and the Fiddle

Jeanette MacDonald
The Merry Widow

Marian Nixon
We’re Rich Again

Ginger Rogers
The Gay Divorcee

Genevieve Tobin
Easy to Love

 

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lionel Atwill
The Firebird

Eric Blore
The Gay Divorcee

Buster Crabbe
We’re Rich Again

Etienne Girardot
Twentieth Century

Alan Hale
Little Man, What Now?

DeWitt Jennings
Little Man, What Now?

Charles Laughton
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Peter Lorre
The Man Who Knew Too Much

Alan Mowbray
Little Man, What Now?

Erik Rhodes
The Gay Divorcee

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mary Astor
Easy to Love

Louise Beavers
Imitation of Life

Mary Boland
Four Frightened People

Alice Brady
The Gay Divorcee

Catherine Doucet
Little Man, What Now?

Helen Lowell
Side Streets

Helen Lowell
Midnight Alibi

Alice White
Jimmy the Gent

Anna May Wong
Java Head

Fay Wray
The Affairs of Cellini

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Lucien Andriot
Anne of Green Gables

William H. Daniels
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Arthur Edeson
Here Comes the Navy

James Wong Howe, Charles G. Clarke
Viva Villa!

Ray June
Riptide

Ray June, Clyde de Vinna, Harold Rosson
Treasure Island

Ray June, Sidney Wagner
Hide-out

Oliver T. Marsh
The Merry Widow

Franz Planer
Masquerade in Vienna

Harold Wenstrom
The Lost Patrol

 

Isa Miranda in La Signora di tutti
Isa Miranda in La Signora di tutti

MUSIC

Daniele Amfitheatrof
La Signora di tutti / Everybody’s Woman

Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Masquerade in Vienna

 

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