Tuesday, May 8, 2012

1939 - - HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST YEAR


EACH DAWN I DIE


If you had been a movie patron back 73 years ago, you would have been able to experience at your local movie houses what most consider to be "The Golden Year of Hollywood."

That year was 1939.

The number of motion pictures released in that one year was a staggering number compared to the 2012 industry, but even more impressive, is the number of now-classic (by the true definition of the word) films.

Here is a list of 30 of those motion pictures.

They all played Salisbury and Rowan County, most of them numerous times.
DODGE CITY

THE RAINS CAME
DARK VICTORY

UNION PACIFIC
BABES IN ARMS

GUNGA DIN
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX

SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES
THE WOMEN

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN

BEAU GESTE
THE FOUR FEATHERS

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN

INTERMEZZO
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK

NINOYCHKA
THE ROARING TWENTIES

GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS
THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE

STAGECOACH
THE WIZARD OF OZ

OF MICE AND MEN
JESSE JAMES

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

And the motion picture selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the greatest of the greats...
GONE WITH THE WIND