1930 in Music - Musical Films

Musical Films

• Along Came Youth starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Frances Dee and Stuart Erwin. Directed by Lloyd Corrigan and Norman McLeod.
• Animal Crackers starring The Marx Brothers, Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont. Directed by Victor Heerman.
• Be Yourself! starring Fanny Brice, Harry Green and Robert Armstrong. Directed by Thornton Freeland.
• Big Boy starring Al Jolson and Claudia Dell. Directed by Alan Crosland.
• The Big Pond starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert. Directed by Hobart Henley.
• Bride of the Regiment, starring Walter Pidgeon and Vivienne Segal
• Bright Lights starring Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Inez Courtney and Eddie Nugent. Directed by Michael Curtiz.
• Captain Of The Guards starring John Boles and Laura La Plante
• Chasing Rainbows starring Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny and Marie Dressler
• Children of Pleasure starring Lawrence Gray
• The Cuckoos starring Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey
• Dancing Sweeties starring Grant Withers, Sue Carol and Edna Murphy
• Dixiana starring Bebe Daniels and Everett Marshall
• Follow Thru starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal, Jack Haley, Eugene Pallette and Thelma Todd
• Going Wild starring Joe E. Brown and Ona Munson
• Golden Dawn released on June 14 starring Walter Woolf King, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle and Lupino Lane
• Good News starring Mary Lawlor, Stanley Smith, Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards, Gus Shy and Penny Singleton and featuring Abe Lyman & his Band
• Grand Parade starring William Boyd and Ernest Torrence
• Heads Up starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Helen Kane. Directed by Victor Schertzinger.
• High Society Blues starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Louise Fazenda
• Hit the Deck starring Jack Oakie, Polly Walker and June Clyde
• Hold Everything starring Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown
• Honey starring Nancy Carroll, Stanley Smith, Lillian Roth and Mitzi Green
• In Gay Madrid starring Ramón Novarro and Dorothy Jordan
• King of Jazz starring Paul Whiteman and John Boles and featuring The Rhythm Boys and The Brox Sisters
• Leathernecking starring Irene Dunne
• Let's Go Native starring Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald and James Hall
• Life of the Party starring Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy
• The Lottery Bride starring Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Robert Chisholm, Joe E. Brown and John Garrick. Directed by Paul L. Stein.
• Love Comes Along starring Bebe Daniels
• Madam Satan starring Kay Johnson and Reginald Denny
• Mammy starring Al Jolson
• Maybe It's Love starring Joe E. Brown, James Hall and Joan Bennett
• Monte Carlo starring Jeanette MacDonald and Jack Buchanan. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
• New Moon starring Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore
• New Movietone Follies of 1930 starring El Brendel and Marjorie White
• No, No Nanette starring ZaSu Pitts, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman and Mildred Harris
• Oh Sailor Behave starring Charles King and Irene Delroy
• Paramount on Parade featuring Maurice Chevalier and Clara Bow
• Puttin' on the Ritz starring Harry Richman, Joan Bennett and James Gleason
• The Rogue Song released May 10 starring Lawrence Tibbett and Catherine Dale Owen and featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• She Couldn't Say No starring Winnie Lightner
• Show Girl In Hollywood starring Alice White
• Song o' My Heart released September 7 starring John McCormack.
• Song of the Flame starring Bernice Claire and Noah Beery
• Song of the West starring John Boles and Vivienne Segal
• Spring Is Here starring Lawrence Gray, Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Inez Courtney, Frank Albertson and The Brox Sisters.
• Sunny starring Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray and Joe Donahue.
• Sunny Skies starring Benny Rubin, Marceline Day, Rex Lease and Marjorie Kane
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs starring Claudia Dell and Walter Pidgeon
• Swing High starring Helen Twelvetress and Fred Scott
• Top Speed starring Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting and Joe E. Brown
• Under A Texas Moon starring Frank Fay, Myrna Loy and Noah Beery
• The Vagabond King starring Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald and Lillian Roth
• Viennese Nights released November 26 starring Vivienne Segal, Alexander Gray, Jean Hersholt, Walter Pidgeon and Louise Fazenda.
• What A Widow! starring Gloria Swanson
• Whoopee! starring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta and Paul Gregory, and featuring George Olsen & his Orchestra and Betty Grable
• Young Man of Manhattan starring Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster and Charles Ruggles. Directed by Monta Bell.