1939 Top Ten

By: Joseph Judge

Everchanging. Last updated 2/12/2012.

Also seen: Another Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke) • Babes in Arms (Busby Berkeley) • Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian) • Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Sam Wood) • Intermezzo: A Love Story (Gregory Ratoff) • Juarez (William Dieterle) • Love Affair (Leo McCarey) • Of Mice and Men (Lewis Milestone) • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Michael Curtiz) • Wuthering Heights (William Wyler) • Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)

01

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Frank Capra
02

Gone with the Wind

Victor Fleming
03

Ninotchka

Ernst Lubitsch
04

The Women

George Cukor
05

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming
06

Dark Victory

Edmund Goulding
07

Stagecoach

John Ford
08

Midnight

Mitchell Leisen
09

The Rains Came

Clarence Brown
10

Bachelor Mother

Garson Kanin

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brotherdeacon

28May12

Certainly one of the great years for American studio movies. Most of these directors had developed their chops in silents, seemingly demanding that one add a certain style and syntax to storytelling which worked to their advantage with the eventual use of sound; especially when Hollywood started utilizing the nation's best fiction writers and dramatists to write screenplays. Throw in actors who'd been groomed into stunning movie stars, and the greatest technicians in the world due to the European influx to escape Naziism. Voila!

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