1939 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1939

Notable Films Released in 1939

U.S.A. unless stated

A

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney and Rex Ingram
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• Allegheny Uprising, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne
• Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• The Angels Wash Their Faces, starring Ann Sheridan and the Dead End Kids
• Another Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• The Arsenal Stadium Mystery – (Britain)
• Ask a Policeman, starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott – (Britain)
• At the Circus, starring the Marx Brothers

B

• Babes in Arms, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
• Bad Lands, starring Robert Barrat and Robert Coote
• Bachelor Mother, starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven
• Barricade, starring Alice Faye and Warner Baxter
• Beau Geste, directed by William Wellman, starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland
• Bel Ami – (Germany)
• Blackmail, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Boys' Reformatory, starring Frankie Darro and Grant Withers
• The Bronze Buckaroo, starring Herb Jeffries

C

• The Cat and the Canary, starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard
• Cesta do hlubin študákovy duše - (Czechoslovakia)
• Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, starring Sidney Toler
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas

D

• Dark Victory, starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan
• Daughter of the Tong, starring Evelyn Brent and Grant Withers
• Destry Rides Again, directed by George Marshall, starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart
• Dodge City, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Drums Along the Mohawk, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert

E

• Each Dawn I Die, starring James Cagney and George Raft
• The Empress Wu Tse-tien – (China)
• Eva tropí hlouposti (Eva Fools Around) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Everything Happens at Night, starring Sonja Henie and Ray Milland

F

• Fifth Ave Girl, starring Ginger Rogers and Walter Connolly
• First Love, starring Deanna Durbin and Robert Stack
• Five Came Back, directed by John Farrow, starring Lucille Ball and Chester Morris
• The Four Feathers, starring John Clements and Ralph Richardson – (Britain)
• Frontier Marshal, starring Randolph Scott, John Carradine, Lon Chaney, Jr.

G

• A Girl Must Live, directed by Carol Reed, starring Margaret Lockwood – (Britain)
• Golden Boy, starring Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Adolphe Menjou
• Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel – Academy Awards for best picture, director, actress and supporting actress
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Sam Wood, starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson – (Britain)
• Gulliver's Travels, starring Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross
• Gunga Din, directed by George Stevens, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe

H

• The Hardys Ride High, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence, starring Glenn Ford
• Hello Janine!, starring Marika Rökk - (Germany)
• Hollywood Cavalcade, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis
• The Hound of the Baskervilles, first in Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by William Dieterle, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara

I

• Idiot's Delight, starring Clark Gable and Norma Shearer
• In Name Only, starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis
• Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard
• It's a Wonderful World, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring James Stewart and Claudette Colbert

JK

• Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara – (Britain)
• Jesse James, starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott
• Juarez, starring Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Brian Aherne

L

• Le Jour se lève (Daybreak), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Jean Gabin and Arletty – (France)
• Judge Hardy and Son, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
• The Lambeth Walk, directed by Albert de Courville, starring Lupino Lane and Sally Gray – (Britain)
• The Last Turning (Le Dernier Tournant), starring Michel Simon – (France)
• Lenin in 1918 (Lenin v 1918 godu) - (USSR)
• Let Us Live, starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Henry Fonda
• The Little Princess, starring Shirley Temple and Richard Greene
• Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer (Academy Award nominee)
• Lucky Night, starring Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor

M

• Maisie, starring Robert Young and Ann Sothern
• The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William
• Man of Conquest, starring Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine
• Mexicali Rose, starring Gene Autry
• Midnight, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
• The Mikado, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, first British film shot in Technicolor – (Britain)
• Million Dollar Legs, starring Betty Grable
• Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation, starring Peter Lorre
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
• Mr. Wong in Chinatown, starring Boris Karloff
• The Mystery of Mr. Wong, starring Boris Karloff

N

• Never Say Die, starring Martha Raye and Bob Hope
• Ninotchka, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi

O

• Of Mice and Men, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr.
• The Oklahoma Kid, starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp
• The Old Maid, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
• On Borrowed Time, starring Lionel Barrymore and Cedric Hardwicke
• ...One Third of a Nation..., starring Sylvia Sidney, Lief Erickson and Myron McCormick
• On Dress Parade, starring The Dead End Kids
• On Your Toes, screenplay by Lawrence Riley, starring Vera Zorina and Eddie Albert
• Only Angels Have Wings, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur

PQ

• Prisioneros de la tierra (Prisoners of the Land) - (Argentina)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
• Q Planes, starring Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier – (Britain)

R

• The Rains Came, starring Tyrone Power and Myrna Loy
• Range War, a Hopalong Cassidy western starring William Boyd
• Remember?, starring Greer Garson, Robert Taylor, Lew Ayres
• The Return of Doctor X, a horror film starring Humphrey Bogart
• The Roaring Twenties, starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
• The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), directed by Jean Renoir – (France)

S

• The Saint in London, starring George Sanders
• The Saint Strikes Back, starring George Sanders
• Seven Little Australians, directed by Arthur Greville Collins – (Australia)
• Son of Frankenstein, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
• De Spooktrein (The Ghost Train) - (Netherlands)
• The Spy in Black, directed by Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson – (Britain)
• Stagecoach, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Berton Churchill, John Carradine
• Stanley and Livingstone, starring Spencer Tracy and Cedric Hardwicke
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Zangiku monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
• The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Susannah of the Mounties, starring Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott

TUV

• Tarzan Finds a Son!, starring Johnny Weissmuller
• These Glamour Girls, starring Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown
• They Made Me a Criminal, starring John Garfield
• They Shall Have Music, starring Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Walter Brennan
• The Three Musketeers, starring Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers
• Three Smart Girls Grow Up, starring Deanna Durbin and Robert Cummings
• Three Texas Steers, directed by George Sherman, starring John Wayne
• Tower of London, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price
• Union Pacific, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea
• The Vyborg Side (Vyborgskaya storona) – (U.S.S.R.)

WXYZ

• Wilton's Zoo (Boefje), directed by Douglas Sirk - (Netherlands)
• The Wizard of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton
• The Women, directed by George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
• Wuthering Heights, directed by William Wyler, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson
• Wyoming Outlaw, starring John Wayne, directed by George Sherman
• You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, starring W. C. Fields
• Young Mr. Lincoln, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Alice Brady
• Zenobia, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Oliver Hardy