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.
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