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Zouzou (film)
Zouzou is a French film by Marc Allégret released in 1934.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouzou_(film)
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Young and Beautiful (film)
Young and Beautiful (1934) is a romantic comedy film about a press agent who goes to great lengths to make his actress girlfriend a star, only to risk losing her in the process. It stars William Haines and Judith Allen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_and_Beautiful_(film)
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You're Telling Me!
You're Telling Me! is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring W. C. Fields; this film is a remake of his earlier silent film So's Your Old Man (1926), and both films are adapted from the story Mr. Bisbee’s Princess by Julian Leonard Street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Telling_Me!
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You Can't Buy Everything
You Can't Buy Everything (1934) is an American Pre-Code romantic drama movie released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars May Robson, Jean Parker and Lewis Stone. Working titles of the film were Rich Widow and Old Hannibal. According to Motion Picture Herald, the principal character of Hannah Bell (played by May Robson) was modeled after Hetty Green, famous as the miserly "Witch of Wall Street."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Buy_Everything
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Workers, Let's Go
Workers, Let's Go (Czech: Hej rup!) is a 1934 Czechoslovak adventure film comedy directed by Martin Fric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers,_Let%27s_Go
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Wonder Bar
Wonder Bar is a 1934 American Pre-Code movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Bar
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The Woman of the Port (1934 film)
The Woman of the Port (Spanish: La Mujer del Puerto) is a 1934 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Arcady Boytler and starring Andrea Palma. The film is based on the novel Le Port by French author Guy de Maupassant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_of_the_Port_(1934_film)
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A Wicked Woman
A Wicked Woman is a 1934 drama film starring Mady Christians as a woman who kills her abusive husband to protect her family and builds a new life to raise their four children. It was directed by Charles Brabin and also starred Jean Parker and Charles Bickford. It was based on the novel Wicked Woman by Anne Austin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wicked_Woman
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The White Parade
The White Parade is a 1934 film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Rian James, Jesse Lasky Jr., Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal, from the novel by Rian James. The film was directed by Irving Cummings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Parade
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Whirlpool (1934 film)
Whirlpool (1934) is a drama film directed by Roy William Neill, starring Jack Holt and Jean Arthur. Buck Rankin (Holt), a carnival owner is convicted of manslaughter for the death of a man killed in a fight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_(1934_film)
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What Every Woman Knows (1934 film)
What Every Woman Knows (1934) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne and Madge Evans. The film was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and is based on the play What Every Woman Knows (1908) by J. M. Barrie. It was filmed by Paramount back in the silent era in 1921 and starred Lois Wilson. An even earlier British silent version was filmed in 1917. Hayes was familiar with the material as she had starred in a 1926 Broadway revival opposite Kenneth MacKenna.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Every_Woman_Knows_(1934_film)
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We're Rich Again
We're Rich Again is a 1934 comedy film starring Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke and Marian Nixon. A formerly wealthy family tries to stave off bankruptcy until one of them can marry a rich man. It is based on the play And Who Will Be Clever by Alden Nash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re_Rich_Again
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We're Not Dressing
We're Not Dressing is a 1934 screwball musical comedy directed by Norman Taurog. Based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie play The Admirable Crichton, the film is about a beautiful yacht owner (Carole Lombard) who becomes stranded on an island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband-and-wife research team (George Burns and Gracie Allen), and a singing sailor (Bing Crosby). The supporting cast includes Ethel Merman and Ray Milland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re_Not_Dressing
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Viva Villa!
Viva Villa! is a 1934 American Pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from the book Viva Villa!. The film was shot on location in Mexico and directed by Jack Conway. There was uncredited assistance with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers. Hawks and William A. Wellman were also uncredited directors on the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Villa!
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Unfinished Symphony (film)
Unfinished Symphony (1934) is a British-Austrian musical drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Mártha Eggerth, Helen Chandler, Hans Jaray, and Ronald Squire. The film is based on the story of Franz Schubert who, in the 1820s left his symphony unfinished after losing the love of his life. The film's alternate German-language version was called Gently My Songs Entreat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Symphony_(film)
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Twenty Million Sweethearts
Twenty Million Sweethearts is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright. The film stars Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers. It also featured the Negro quartet The Mills Brothers. The film was remade in 1949, starring Doris Day and Jack Carson, as My Dream Is Yours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Million_Sweethearts
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Twentieth Century (film)
Twentieth Century is a 1934 American Pre-Code screwball comedy film. Much of the film is set on the 20th Century Limited train as it travels from Chicago to New York. The film was directed by Howard Hawks, stars John Barrymore and Carole Lombard, and features Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns and Edgar Kennedy. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur adapted their Broadway play of the same name – itself based on the unproduced play Napoleon of Broadway by Charles Bruce Millholland – with uncredited contributions from Gene Fowler and Preston Sturges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_(film)
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Treasure Island (1934 film)
Treasure Island is a 1934 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but pirates led by Long John Silver (Wallace Beery) threaten to take away the honest seafarers’ riches and lives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_(1934_film)
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The Trail Beyond
The Trail Beyond is a 1934 Western film starring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr., and Noah Beery, Jr.. The motion picture was based on the novel The Wolf Hunters by James Oliver Curwood, which was also adapted as a silent film entitled The Wolf Hunters (1926) and a later sound film also called The Wolf Hunters (1949).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trail_Beyond
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Those Were the Days (1934 film)
Those Were the Days is a 1934 British film primarily remembered as Will Hay's first major screen role. It was based on Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's 1885 farce The Magistrate and was the first of two Hay movies based on Pinero's plays, the other being Dandy Dick. The movie also featured music hall acts of the time - acts of a type rarely committed to film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Were_the_Days_(1934_film)
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Thirty-Day Princess
Thirty-Day Princess is a 1934 Pre-Code comedy film starring Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant and Edward Arnold. The film was based on a story of the same name by Clarence Budington Kelland (which appeared in Ladies' Home Journal in 1933), adapted by Sam Hellman and Edwin Justus Mayer, written by Preston Sturges and Frank Partos, and directed by Marion Gering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Day_Princess
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The Thin Man (film)
The Thin Man is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles; Nick is a hard-drinking, retired private detective, and Nora is a wealthy heiress. Their wire-haired fox terrier Asta is played by canine actor Skippy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film)
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Tarzan and His Mate
Tarzan and His Mate is a 1934 American Pre-Code action adventure film based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the second in the Tarzan film series to star Johnny Weissmuller. In 2003, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_and_His_Mate
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The Tars
The Tars or De Jantjes is a 1934 Dutch comedy film drama directed by Jaap Speyer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tars
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A Story of Floating Weeds
A Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語, Ukikusa monogatari?) is a 1934 silent film directed by Yasujirō Ozu which he later remade as Floating Weeds in 1959 in color. It won the Kinema Junpo Award for best film, the third consecutive year an Ozu film won, following I Was Born, But... and Passing Fancy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Story_of_Floating_Weeds
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Stand Up and Cheer!
Stand Up and Cheer! is a 1934 American musical film directed by Hamilton MacFadden. The screenplay by Lew Brown and Ralph Spence was based upon a story idea by Will Rogers and Philip Klein. The film is about efforts undertaken during the Great Depression to boost the morale of the country. It is essentially a vehicle for a string of vaudeville acts and a few musical numbers. This film is best known for providing the first big breakthrough role for legendary child actress Shirley Temple. A little known bit player prior to this movie, by the end of the year, she would appear in 10 movies, including 4 starring roles in major feature-length films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_Up_and_Cheer!
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The St. Louis Kid
The St. Louis Kid is a 1934 drama film starring James Cagney as a truck driver who gets mixed up in a union dispute after a union leader is killed and his girlfriend is kidnapped after witnessing the crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_St._Louis_Kid
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Spitfire (1934 film)
Spitfire is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film based on the play Trigger by Lula Vollmer. It was directed by John Cromwell and starred Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young and Ralph Bellamy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitfire_(1934_film)
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Song of the Fishermen
Song of the Fishermen is an early Chinese silent film directed by Cai Chusheng in 1934, and produced by the Lianhua Film Company. The film, like many of the period details the struggle of the poorer classes, in this case a family of fishermen who are forced to sing on the streets in order to survive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_Fishermen
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The Song of Ceylon
The Song of Ceylon is a 1934 British documentary film directed by Basil Wright and produced by John Grierson for the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Ceylon
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Something Always Happens
Something Always Happens is a 1934 British romantic comedy film directed by Michael Powell and starring Ian Hunter and Nancy O'Neil. It was made as a Quota quickie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Always_Happens
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Six of a Kind
Six of a Kind is an American 1934 Pre-Code comedy film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a whimsical and often absurd Road movie about two couples who decide to share their expenses on a trip to Hollywood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_of_a_Kind
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Sing As We Go
Sing As We Go is a 1934 British musical film starring Gracie Fields, John Loder and Stanley Holloway. The script was written by Gordon Wellesley and J. B. Priestley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_As_We_Go
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The Silver Streak
The Silver Streak is a 1934 film loosely based on the record-setting "dawn-to-dusk" run of the Pioneer Zephyr on May 26, 1934. The original Zephyr trainset was used for the exterior shots in the film, while interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood. For the film, the "Burlington Route" nameplate on the train's nose was replaced with one that read "Silver Streak".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Streak
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Shirin and Farhad (1934 film)
Shirin and Farhad (Persian title: Shirin-o-Farhad- Persian: شیرین و فرهاد) is a 1934 Iranian romance film directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta and starring Abdolhossein Sepanta, Fakhrozzaman Jabbar Vaziri, Iran Daftari and Roohangiz Saminejad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_and_Farhad_(1934_film)
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She Loves Me Not (1934 film)
She Loves Me Not is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins. Based on the novel She Loves Me Not by Edward Hope, the film is about a cabaret dancer who witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film has been remade twice as True to the Army (1942) and as How to Be Very, Very Popular in (1955), the latter starring Betty Grable. The film is notable for containing one of the first major performances of Bing Crosby, and it helped launch him to future stardom. This was also the last film that Miriam Hopkins made under her contract to Paramount Pictures, which began in the early 1930s upon her arrival in Hollywood. In 1935, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for "Love in Bloom".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Loves_Me_Not_(1934_film)
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1934 British adventure film directed by Harold Young and starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, and Raymond Massey. Based on the classic adventure novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, the film is about an eighteenth-century English aristocrat who leads a double life, appearing as an effete aristocrat while engaged in an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. The film was produced by Alexander Korda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel_(1934_film)
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The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film made by Paramount Pictures about the life of Catherine the Great. It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg from a screenplay by Eleanor McGeary, loosely based on the diary of Catherine arranged by Manuel Komroff. Substantial historical liberties are taken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Empress
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Sadie McKee
Sadie McKee is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford, and featuring Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, and Esther Ralston. The film is based on the 1933 short story "Pretty Sadie McKee", by Viña Delmar. Crawford plays the title character, a young working girl suffering through three troubled relationships on her road to prosperity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_McKee
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Le Roi des Champs-Élysées
Le Roi des Champs-Élysées is a 1934 French comedy starring Buster Keaton. This French-made film has Keaton playing two roles, as an aspiring actor, and as an American gangster. A closing gag has the typically deadpan Keaton breaking out into a big grin after being kissed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roi_des_Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es
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Road House (1934 film)
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_House_(1934_film)
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The Rise of Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great (also titled The Rise of Catherine the Great) is a 1934 British historical film based on the play The Czarina by Lajos Bíró and Melchior Lengyel, about the rise to power of Catherine the Great. It was directed by Paul Czinner, and stars Elisabeth Bergner as Catherine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Grand Duke Peter, Dorothy Hale as Countess Olga, and Flora Robson as Empress Elizabeth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Catherine_the_Great
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Riptide (film)
Riptide is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama starring Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery and Herbert Marshall, written and directed by Edmund Goulding, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riptide_(film)
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The Richest Girl in the World (1934 film)
The Richest Girl in the World is a 1934 romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. Norman Krasna was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. It was remade in 1944 as Bride by Mistake with Laraine Day and Alan Marshal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Girl_in_the_World_(1934_film)
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The Return of Bulldog Drummond
The Return of Bulldog Drummond is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Walter Summers and starring Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd and Claud Allister. It was based on the 1932 novel The Return of Bulldog Drummond by H.C. McNeile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Bulldog_Drummond
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Radio Parade of 1935
Radio Parade of 1935 (1934), released in the US as Radio Follies, is a British comedy film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Will Hay, Clifford Mollison and Helen Chandler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Parade_of_1935
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The Private Life of Don Juan
The Private Life of Don Juan is a 1934 British comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume. It was Fairbanks' final film role. The film is about the life of the aging Don Juan, based on the 1920 play L'homme à la Rose by Henry Bataille. It was made by Korda's London Film Productions at Elstree Studios and distributed by United Artists under an agreement Korda had recently signed with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Don_Juan
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Plunder of Peach and Plum
Plunder of Peach and Plum (Chinese: 桃李劫; pinyin: Táolǐ jié) is an early Chinese sound film from 1934. Produced by the left-leaning Shanghai-based Diantong Film Company, Plunder was directed by Ying Yunwei and starred popular actor Yuan Muzhi (who also co-wrote the screenplay). It is alternatively known as The Fate of Graduates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunder_of_Peach_and_Plum
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Peck's Bad Boy (1934 film)
Peck's Bad Boy is a 1934 American drama film directed by Edward F. Cline. It was based on the series of books by George W. Peck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peck%27s_Bad_Boy_(1934_film)
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Pardon My Pups
Pardon My Pups is a 1934 Shirley Temple short film about a young boy named Sonny Rogers who wants a motorcycle for his birthday but its to expensive so instead he gets a puppy from his strict father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_My_Pups
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The Painted Veil (1934 film)
The Painted Veil is a 1934 American drama film directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Greta Garbo. The film was produced by Hunt Stromberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1925 novel The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, with a screenplay by John Meehan, Salka Viertel, and Edith Fitzgerald, the film is about a woman who accompanies her new husband to China while he conducts medical research. Feeling neglected by her husband, the woman soon falls in love with a handsome diplomatic attaché. The film score was by Herbert Stothart, the cinematography by William H. Daniels, the art direction by Cedric Gibbons, and the costume design by Adrian. The film earned $1,658,000 at the box office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Painted_Veil_(1934_film)
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Our Daily Bread (1934 film)
Our Daily Bread is a 1934 film directed by King Vidor and starring Karen Morley, Tom Keene, and John Qualen. The movie is a sequel to Vidor's silent classic The Crowd (1928), using the same characters although with different actors. Vidor tried to interest Irving Thalberg of MGM in the project, but Thalberg, who had greenlighted the earlier film, rejected the idea. Vidor then produced the film himself and released it through United Artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Daily_Bread_(1934_film)
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Operator 13
Operator 13 is a 1934 American romance film directed by Richard Boleslawski and starring Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, and Jean Parker. Based on stories written by Robert W. Chambers, the film is about a Union spy who impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_13
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One Night of Love
One Night of Love is a 1934 Columbia Pictures romantic musical film set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. The film was directed by Victor Schertzinger and adapted from the story, Don't Fall in Love, by Charles Beahan and Dorothy Speare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_of_Love
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One More River
One More River is a 1934 film directed by James Whale. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starred Colin Clive, Diana Wynyard and stage actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell in one of her very few films. The film also marked Jane Wyatt's screen debut. It is based on a 1933 novel by John Galsworthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_More_River
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The Old Fashioned Way (film)
The Old Fashioned Way is a 1934 comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by William Beaudine and stars W.C. Fields. The script was written by Jack Cunningham based on a story by "Charles Bogle" (one of Fields's writing pseudonyms).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Fashioned_Way_(film)
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The Old Curiosity Shop (1934 film)
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1934 British drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Elaine Benson, Ben Webster and Hay Petrie. It is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Curiosity_Shop_(1934_film)
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Of Human Bondage (1934 film)
Of Human Bondage is a 1934 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and is widely regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star. The screenplay by Lester Cohen is based on the 1915 novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. The film was remade in 1946 and again in 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Human_Bondage_(1934_film)
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Now I'll Tell
Now I'll Tell is a 1934 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, and Alice Faye. The film was directed and written by Edwin J. Burke and is loosely based on the autobiography of Carolyn Green Rothstein, wife of New York gambler Arnold Rothstein. The picture's plot involves a gambler who gets in trouble with the mob by fixing fights and loses his fortune. Forced to sell his wife's jewelry, he decides to take out an insurance policy on himself. Future child star Shirley Temple had a small role. The movie is also sometimes known as When New York Sleeps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_I%27ll_Tell
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Now and Forever (1934 film)
Now and Forever is a 1934 American drama film directed by Henry Hathaway. The screenplay by Vincent Lawrence and Sylvia Thalberg was based on a story by Jack Kirkland and Melville Baker. The film stars Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, and Shirley Temple in a story about a criminal going straight for his child's sake. Temple sang "The World Owes Me a Living". The film was critically well received. Temple adored Cooper who nicknamed her 'Wigglebritches' (Windeler 140). This is the only film in which Lombard and Temple appeared together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Forever_(1934_film)
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Murder at Monte Carlo
Murder at Monte Carlo is an English 1934 mystery crime thriller film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Errol Flynn, Eve Gray, Paul Graetz and Molly Lamont, the production was Flynn's debut film in a lead role in England. The film is currently missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_at_Monte_Carlo
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Les Misérables (1934 film)
Les Misérables is a 1934 film adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name. It was written and directed by Raymond Bernard and stars Harry Baur as Jean Valjean and Charles Vanel as Javert. The film lasts four and a half hours and is considered by critics to be the greatest adaptation of the novel, due to its in-depth development of the themes and characters in comparison with most shorter adaptations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(1934_film)
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The Merry Widow (1934 film)
The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. A French-language version was produced at the same time and released in France the same year as La Veuve joyeuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Widow_(1934_film)
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Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film, produced by MGM, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of the earliest film roles for Mickey Rooney, who played Gable's character as a child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Melodrama
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Mandalay (film)
Mandalay is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Austin Parker and Charles Kenyon based on a story by Paul Hervey Fox. The film stars Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland and Lyle Talbot, and features Ruth Donnelly and Reginald Owen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay_(film)
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Managed Money
Managed Money is a 1934 short comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. The film stars Frank Coghlan Jr. and Shirley Temple. It was also known as Frolics of Youth and Measured Money. This was the second film in which Temple starred as Mary Lou. The film tells the story of Sonny and Sid prospecting for gold to pay for their military academy education. Sonny's sister, Mary Lou stows away in the back of their car. Eventually, they meet an inventor who helps them financially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_Money
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The Man with Two Faces (1934 film)
The Man with Two Faces (1934) is a Warner Bros. film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Louis Calhern, Mae Clarke, and David Landau. The story was adapted by Tom Reed and Niven Busch from the play The Dark Tower by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_Two_Faces_(1934_film)
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) is a British suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much_(1934_film)
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Man of Aran
Man of Aran is a 1934 British fictional documentary (ethnofiction) film directed by Robert J. Flaherty about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters living in premodern conditions, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for huge basking sharks to get liver oil for lamps. Some situations are fabricated, such as one scene in which the shark fishermen are almost lost at sea in a sudden gale. Additionally, the family members shown are not actually related, having been chosen from among the islanders for their photogenic qualities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Aran
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The Man from Utah
The Man from Utah is a 1934 Western movie starring John Wayne, Polly Ann Young (sister of Loretta Young), Lafe McKee, Edward Peil Sr., and stuntman–actor Yakima Canutt. The film was written by Lindsley Parsons and directed by Robert N. Bradbury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Utah
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Madame Du Barry (1934 film)
Madame DuBarry is a 1934 American historical film directed by William Dieterle and starring Dolores del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory and Osgood Perkins. The film portrays the life of Madame Du Barry, the last mistress of King Louis XV of France. While this film does not serve accuracy to Madame Du Barry, it does feature antiques and jewelry that came from the actual days when Madame Du Barry lived. This film was released just as the Hays Code was taking full swing, and faced many problems with censors of the time. Scenes of this film had to be removed before its release or else it would have not been approved for release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Du_Barry_(1934_film)
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The Lucky Texan
The Lucky Texan is a 1934 Lonestar Films B-movie Western film featuring John Wayne, five years before his breakthrough appearance in Stagecoach, Barbara Sheldon, Gabby Hayes, and legendary stuntman–actor Yakima Canutt. It was directed by Robert N. Bradbury who also wrote it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Texan
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The Lost Patrol (1934 film)
The Lost Patrol is a 1934 American Pre-Code war film made by RKO. It was directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer. The screenplay was by Dudley Nichols, adapted by Garrett Fort from the novel Patrol by Philip MacDonald. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Harold Wenstrom. The film is a remake of a 1929 British silent film, also named The Lost Patrol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Patrol_(1934_film)
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A Lost Lady (film)
A Lost Lady is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring by Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, and Ricardo Cortez. Based on the novel A Lost Lady by Willa Cather, with a screenplay by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola, the film is about a woman whose fiancé is murdered by his mistress' husband two days before their wedding. Her uncle sends her away to the mountains, where she meets a man who looks after her and eventually proposes. She accepts even though she does not love him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lost_Lady_(film)
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Little Miss Marker
Little Miss Marker (also known as The Girl in Pawn) is an American Pre-Code 1934 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Hall. It was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a short story of the same name by Damon Runyon. It stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell in a story about a little girl held as collateral by gangsters. It was Temple's first starring role in a major motion picture and was crucial to establishing her as a major film star. It was named to the United States National Film Registry in 1998 and has been remade several times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Miss_Marker
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The Little Minister
The Little Minister is a 1934 American drama film starring Katharine Hepburn and directed by Richard Wallace. The screenplay by Jane Murfin, Sarah Y. Mason, and Victor Heerman is based on the 1891 novel and subsequent 1897 play of the same title by J. M. Barrie. The picture was the fifth feature film adaptation of the works, following four silent film versions. The original novel was the third of the three "Thrums" novels (a town based on his home of Kirriemuir), which first brought Barrie to fame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Minister
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Little Man, What Now? (film)
Little Man, What Now? is a 1934 Pre-Code American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Margaret Sullavan. It is based on the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Man,_What_Now%3F_(film)
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Limehouse Blues (film)
Limehouse Blues (also known as East End Chant) is a 1934 American crime film set in London's Chinese district and starring George Raft and Anna May Wong. The film is named after the song "Limehouse Blues". The movie was directed by Alexander Hall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limehouse_Blues_(film)
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Liliom (1934 film)
Liliom is a 1934 French fantasy film directed by Fritz Lang based on the Hungarian stage play of the same name by Ferenc Molnár. The film stars Charles Boyer as Liliom, a carousel barker who is fired from his job after defending the chambermaid Julie (Madeleine Ozeray) from the jealousy of Mme. Muscat, the carousel owner who is infatuated with Liliom. He moves in with Julie and they begin an affair. When Liliom discovers he's about to become a father, he finds he needs money and participates in a robbery which goes awry. Rather than allow himself to be arrested, Liliom kills himself and his soul is transported to a waiting room of Heaven. A heavenly commissioner determines that Liliom will not be admitted into Heaven, only Purgatory, until he returns to earth to do one good deed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliom_(1934_film)
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List of Soviet films of 1934
A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1934 (see 1934 in film).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_films_of_1934
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Lieutenant Kijé (film)
Lieutenant Kijé (Russian: Поручик Киже; translit. Poruchik Kizhe) is a 1934 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer and promoted by Boris Gusman, based on the novella "Lieutenant Kijé" by Yury Tynyanov. The film was released in the USA as The Czar Wants to Sleep. Sergei Prokofiev composed the score.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Kij%C3%A9_(film)
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The Last Round-Up (1934 film)
The Last Round-Up is a 1934 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Randolph Scott, Monte Blue, and Barbara Fritchie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Round-Up_(1934_film)
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The Lady Is Willing (1934 film)
The Lady Is Willing is a 1934 British film directed by Gilbert Miller, based on a comedy by French playwright Louis Verneuil. The cast includes Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, and Binnie Barnes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Is_Willing_(1934_film)
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Kiss and Make-Up
Kiss and Make-Up is a 1934 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant as a doctor who specializes in making women beautiful. Helen Mack and Genevieve Tobin play his romantic entanglements. The film was based on the play Kozmetika by István Békeffi. All of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1934 were cast in roles in the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_and_Make-Up
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Kid Millions
Kid Millions (1934) is an American film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and starring Eddie Cantor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Millions
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Judge Priest
Judge Priest is a 1934 American comedy film starring Will Rogers. The film was directed by John Ford, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel in association with Fox Film, and based on humorist Irvin S. Cobb's character Judge Priest. The picture is set in post-reconstruction Kentucky and the supporting cast features Henry B. Walthall, Hattie McDaniel and Stepin Fetchit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Priest
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Juarez and Maximillian
Juarez and Maximillian (Spanish:Juárez y Maximiliano) is a 1934 Mexican historical drama film directed by Miguel Contreras Torres and Raphael J. Sevilla. The film is set during the French intervention in Mexico during the 1860s, and features the battle between Maximilian I of Mexico and Benito Juárez, a theme used in the later 1939 American film Juarez. It was one of the few major commercial successes for the Mexican film industry in the early sound era, before the beginning of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju%C3%A1rez_y_Maximiliano
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Jolly Fellows
Jolly Fellows (Russian: Весёлые ребята Vesyolye rebyata), also translated Happy-Go-Lucky Guys and Moscow Laughs, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Fellows
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Jimmy the Gent (film)
Jimmy the Gent is a 1934 American comedy-crime film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney and Bette Davis. It was the first pairing of Cagney and Davis, who would reunite for The Bride Came C.O.D. seven years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_the_Gent_(film)
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It's a Gift
It's a Gift is a 1934 comedy film starring W. C. Fields, considered by film historians to be one of Fields' best and funniest films. It was Fields's sixteenth sound film, and his fifth in 1934 alone. It was directed by Norman McLeod, who had directed Fields in his cameo as Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland, 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Gift
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It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot was based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. One of the last romantic comedies created before the MPAA began enforcing the 1930 production code in 1934, the film was released on February 22, 1934.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_One_Night
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Imitation of Life (1934 film)
Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name, was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and Finley Peter Dunne. The film stars Claudette Colbert, Warren William and Rochelle Hudson and features Louise Beavers and Fredi Washington.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_of_Life_(1934_film)
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I've Got Your Number (film)
I've Got Your Number is a 1934 Warner Bros. Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell and Pat O'Brien.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ve_Got_Your_Number_(film)
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The House of Rothschild
The House of Rothschild is a 1934 American Pre-Code film written by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley, and directed by Alfred L. Werker. It chronicles the biographical story of the rise of the Rothschild family of European bankers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Rothschild
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Hide-Out
Hide-Out is a 1934 comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan. It also features a young Mickey Rooney. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing - Original Story (Mauri Grashin).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide-Out
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Here is My Heart
Here is My Heart is a 1934 American musical comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby, Kitty Carlisle, and Roland Young. Based on the play La Grande-duchesse et le garçon d'étage by Alfred Savoir, the film is about a famous singer who pretends to be a penniless waiter to get close to the woman of his dreams, a European princess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_is_My_Heart
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Here Comes the Navy
Here Comes the Navy (also known as Hey, Sailor) is a 1934 American romantic comedy film. written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh. Stuart was Oscar-nominated 63 years later for another nautical epic, Titanic (1997).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Navy
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Great Expectations (1934 film)
Great Expectations is a 1934 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Filmed with mostly American actors, it was the first sound version of the novel and was produced in Hollywood by Universal Studios and directed by Stuart Walker. It stars Phillips Holmes as Pip, Jane Wyatt as Estella and Florence Reed as Miss Havisham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations_(1934_film)
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Le Grand Jeu (1934 film)
Le Grand Jeu is a 1934 French film directed by Jacques Feyder. It is a romantic drama set against the background of the French Foreign Legion, and the film was an example of poetic realism in the French cinema. The title Le Grand Jeu refers to the practice of reading the cards. Blanche asks whether her client wants the 'full works', the whole story: "Alors... je te fais le grand jeu?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Jeu_(1934_film)
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Grand Canary (film)
Grand Canary is a 1934 Fox film of A. J. Cronin's novel of the same title. The film was produced by Jesse L. Lasky and directed by Irving Cummings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canary_(film)
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The Goddess (1934 film)
The Goddess (Chinese: 神女; pinyin: Shénnǚ) is a 1934 Chinese silent film released by the Lianhua Film Company (United Photoplay). It starred Ruan Lingyu in one of her final roles, and was directed by Wu Yonggang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goddess_(1934_film)
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Girl o' My Dreams
Girl o' My Dreams (a.k.a. Love Race) is a 1934 American college comedy film directed by Ray McCarey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_o%27_My_Dreams
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The Girl from Missouri
The Girl from Missouri (originally called Born to Be Kissed) is a 1934 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone. The movie was written by Anita Loos and directed by Jack Conway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_from_Missouri
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The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes, and was based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners, which was adapted into a musical by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The film's screenplay was written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman. Robert Benchley, H. W. Hanemann and Stanley Rauh made uncredited contributions to the dialogue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Divorcee
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The Gay Bride
The Gay Bride is a 1934 black-and-white gangster screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard as a wisecracking gold-digger and Chester Morris as the poor man she despises. It was directed by Jack Conway and written by the husband-and-wife team of Sam and Bella Spewak, based on the story "Repeal" by Charles Francis Coe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Bride
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Gambling Lady
Gambling Lady is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_Lady
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Forsaking All Others
Forsaking All Others is a 1934 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery. The screenplay was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, which was based upon a 1933 play by Edward Barry Roberts and Frank Morgan Cavett starring Tallulah Bankhead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsaking_All_Others
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Forbidden Territory
Forbidden Territory is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire and Binnie Barnes. It was based on the 1933 novel The Forbidden Territory by Dennis Wheatley. An Englishman and his son travel to the Soviet Union to rescue a family member being held in prison. It was made at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Territory
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Fog Over Frisco
Fog Over Frisco is a 1934 American drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Robert N. Lee and Eugene Solow was based on the short story The Five Fragments by George Dyer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Over_Frisco
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Ferdowsi (film)
Ferdowsi (Ferdausi) (Persian title: Ferdosi- Persian: فردوسی) is a 1934 Iranian biography drama film directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta and starring Nosratollah Mohtasham, Abdolhossein Sepanta and Sohrab Pouri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdowsi_(1934_film)
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Fashions of 1934
Fashions of 1934 is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by William Dieterle with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert and Carl Erickson was based on the story The Fashion Plate by Harry Collins and Warren Duff. The film stars William Powell, Bette Davis, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh, and has songs by Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics). (Sometime after the initial release, the title "Fashions of 1934" was changed to "Fashions", replacing the original title with an insert card stating William Powell in "Fashions").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashions_of_1934
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Everybody's Woman
La signora di tutti or Everybody's Woman (1934) is an Italian drama film directed by Max Ophüls, and starring Isa Miranda. It is the only film Max Ophüls made in Italy. The film was a success and Isa Miranda became a star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Woman
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Evergreen (film)
Evergreen is a 1934 Gaumont British musical film, starring Jessie Matthews as a music hall singer, based on the 1930 musical Ever Green, also starring Matthews. Matthews had a dual role as both mother and daughter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_(film)
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Evelyn Prentice
Evelyn Prentice is a 1934 film starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. and featuring Una Merkel and Rosalind Russell in her film debut. The movie was based on the 1933 novel of the same name by W. E. Woodward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Prentice
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Nezlobte dědečka
Nezlobte dědečka is a 1934 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Karel Lamač.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezlobte_d%C4%9Bde%C4%8Dka
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The Dream Car
The Dream Car (Hungarian: Meseautó) is a 1934 Hungarian romantic comedy film directed by Béla Gaál and starring Zita Perczel, Ella Gombaszögi and Klári Tolnay. A tycoon falls in love with a poor woman and secretly buys her a car. The 1935 British film Car of Dreams was based on this film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Car
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Death Takes a Holiday
Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing, based on the Italian play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Takes_a_Holiday
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Death on the Diamond
Death on the Diamond is a 1934 mystery film starring Robert Young as a baseball player who has to figure out who is trying to murder the members of his team, the Saint Louis Cardinals. It was based on the novel Death on the Diamond: A Baseball Mystery Story by Cortland Fitzsimmons, directed by Edward Sedgwick and produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Diamond
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Dark Hazard
Dark Hazard is 1934 American drama film starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by Alfred E. Green. It is based on a novel by W. R. Burnett. It was produced by First National Pictures and released through Warner Brothers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Hazard
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Dames
Dames is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert. Production numbers and songs include "When You Were a Smile on Your Mother's Lips (and a Twinkle in Your Daddy's Eye)", "The Girl at the Ironing Board", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "Dames" and "Try to See It My Way".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dames
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Crime Without Passion
Crime Without Passion is a 1934 American drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, starring Claude Rains. It is the first of four pictures written, produced and directed by Hecht and MacArthur for Paramount Pictures. Sixty to seventy percent of the film was directed by cinematographer Lee Garmes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Without_Passion
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The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1934 American adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Robert Donat and Elissa Landi. Based on the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, the story concerns a man who is unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him. When he finally escapes, he seeks revenge against the greedy men who conspired to put him in prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_(1934_film)
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Cleopatra (1934 film)
Cleopatra is a 1934 epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt. It was written by Waldemar Young, Vincent Lawrence and Bartlett Cormack, and produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Claudette Colbert stars as Cleopatra, Warren William as Julius Caesar, and Henry Wilcoxon as Mark Antony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1934_film)
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The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant (US title: The Evil Mind) is a 1934 drama film made in the UK, starring Claude Rains, Fay Wray, and Jane Baxter, directed by Maurice Elvey, and based on the novel of the same name by Ernst Lothar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clairvoyant
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City Limits (1934 film)
City Limits is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by William Nigh and starring Frank Craven, Sally Blane, Ray Walker and Claude Gillingwater. It was remade in 1941 as Father Steps Out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Limits_(1934_film)
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The Circus Clown
The Circus Clown is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film about a man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father. It stars Joe E. Brown and Patricia Ellis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circus_Clown
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Charlie Chan's Courage
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934) is the fifth film in which Warner Oland played detective Charlie Chan. It is a remake of the 1927 silent film The Chinese Parrot; both are considered lost films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan%27s_Courage
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Charlie Chan in London
Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde. The film stars Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. This is the sixth film produced by Fox with Warner Oland as the detective, and the second not to be lost, after The Black Camel (1931).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan_in_London
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Chapaev (film)
Chapaev (Russian: Чапаев, IPA: ) is a 1934 Soviet film. It was directed by the Vasilyev brothers for Lenfilm. It is a story about Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev (1887–1919), a Red Army commander who became a hero of the Russian Civil War. The plot is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapaev.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapaev_(film)
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Chained (1934 film)
Chained is a 1934 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, with supporting performances by Otto Kruger and Stuart Erwin. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, based upon a story by Edgar Selwyn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chained_(1934_film)
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The Cat's-Paw
The Cat’s-Paw (1934) is a comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Sam Taylor. It was one of the great silent film comedian’s few sound films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat%27s-Paw
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The Cat and the Fiddle (film)
The Cat and the Fiddle is a 1934 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by William K. Howard based on the hit 1931 Broadway musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Otto A. Harbach, about a romance between a struggling composer and an American singer. The film stars Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald in her MGM debut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_and_the_Fiddle_(film)
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The Case of the Howling Dog
The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland, based on the novel of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner. The film stars Warren William and Mary Astor. This was the first in a series of four films in which William played Perry Mason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_the_Howling_Dog
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Carolina (1934 film)
Carolina is a 1934 American romantic comedy film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Reginald Berkley is based on the play, The House of Connelly by Paul Green. The film stars Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Young with a supporting cast featuring Stepin Fetchit and Shirley Temple in a romanticized story about a post-Civil War family in the fading South regaining its former prestige.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_(1934_film)
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The Captain Hates the Sea
The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and released by Columbia Pictures. The film, which involves a Grand Hotel-style series of intertwining stories involving the passengers on a cruise ship, is notable as the last feature film of silent film icon John Gilbert and the first Columbia feature to include The Three Stooges in the cast, cast as the ship's orchestra. The film co-stars Victor McLaglen, Arthur Treacher, Akim Tamiroff, Leon Errol and Walter Connolly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captain_Hates_the_Sea
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 American comedy-mystery-adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young. It was a loose sequel to the 1929 film Bulldog Drummond which had also starred Colman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_Drummond_Strikes_Back
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Broadway Bill
Broadway Bill is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, and Helen Vinson. Written by Robert Riskin and based on the short story "Strictly Confidential" by Mark Hellinger, the film is about a man's love for his thoroughbred race horse and the woman who helps him achieve his dreams. Capra disliked the final product, and in an effort to make it more to his liking, he remade the film in 1950 as Riding High. In later years, the distributor of Riding High, Paramount Pictures, acquired the rights to Broadway Bill. The film was released in the United Kingdom as Strictly Confidential.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Bill
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Bright Eyes (1934 film)
Bright Eyes is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William Conselman is based on a story by David Butler and Edwin Burke, and focuses on the relationship between bachelor aviator James "Loop" Merritt (James Dunn) and his orphaned godchild, Shirley Blake (Shirley Temple). Merritt becomes involved in a custody battle for her with a rich, elderly gentleman. The film featured one musical number, "On the Good Ship Lollipop".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Eyes_(1934_film)
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Born to Be Bad (1934 film)
Born to Be Bad is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Lowell Sherman, and starring Loretta Young and Cary Grant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Be_Bad_(1934_film)
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Bolero (1934 film)
Bolero is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical drama film starring George Raft and Carole Lombard, and directed by Wesley Ruggles. The movie was a rare chance for Raft to star and to play a dancer, which had been his profession in New York City, rather than portraying a gangster. The film takes its title from the Maurice Ravel composition Boléro (1928). The supporting cast features William Frawley, Ray Milland and Sally Rand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolero_(1934_film)
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The Black Cat (1934 film)
The Black Cat is a 1934 horror film that became Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year. The picture was the first of eight movies (six of which were produced by Universal) to pair actors Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Edgar G. Ulmer directed the film, which was also notable for being one of the first movies with an almost continuous music score. Lugosi also appears in a 1941 film with the same title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_(1934_film)
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The Big Shakedown
The Big Shakedown is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film starring Charles Farrell and Bette Davis and directed by John Francis Dillon, his final film. The screenplay by Rian James and Niven Busch is based on the story Cut Rate by Busch and Samuel G. Engel. The supporting cast includes Ricardo Cortez and Glenda Farrell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Shakedown
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The Big Road
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Road
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Belle of the Nineties
Belle of the Nineties (1934) is Mae West's fourth motion picture, directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on West's original story It Ain't No Sin which was also to be the film's title until censors objected. Johnny Mack Brown, Duke Ellington, and Katherine DeMille are also in the cast. Shooting commenced on March 19, 1934 and concluded in June. The film was released on September 21, 1934. It had a domestic (U.S.A.) gross of $2,000,000. As usual with West's films, some scenes were removed to be shown in different States. To be shown in New York, one of the biggest markets, they had to completely re-shoot the final scene. Mae West's character and the Tiger Kid were originally to complete their nuptials without a marriage ceremony, the ceremony had to be included.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_of_the_Nineties
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The Battle (1934 film)
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_(1934_film)
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934 film)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March), despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett (Charles Laughton). The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Shearer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was written by Ernest Vajda, Claudine West and Donald Ogden Stewart, from the play by Rudolf Besier. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barretts_of_Wimpole_Street_(1934_film)
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Baby Take a Bow
Baby Take a Bow is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Harry Lachman. The screenplay by Philip Klein and Edward E. Paramore Jr. is based on the play Square Crooks by James P. Judge. Shirley Temple plays the child of an ex-convict (James Dunn) trying to make a better life for himself and his family. The film was a commercial success and is critically regarded as pleasant and sentimental. A musical number features Dunn and Temple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Take_a_Bow
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Babes in Toyland (1934 film)
Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released on November 30, 1934. The film is also known by its alternate titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the 1948 European reissue title), March of the Wooden Soldiers and Wooden Soldiers (in the United States).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_in_Toyland_(1934_film)
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L'Atalante
L'Atalante (also released as Le Chaland qui passe) is a 1934 French film written and directed by Jean Vigo. Jean Dasté stars as Jean, the captain of a river barge who lives with his new wife Juliette (Dita Parlo) on the barge, along with first mate Père Jules (Michel Simon) and the cabin boy (Louis Lefebvre).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Atalante
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Anne of Green Gables (1934 film)
Anne of Green Gables is a 1934 film directed by George Nicholls, Jr., based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The actress Dawn O'Day who portrayed the titular character of Anne Shirley changed her stage name to Anne Shirley after making this film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Green_Gables_(1934_film)
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Angèle (film)
Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol, based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono. It stars Orane Demazis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A8le_(film)
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Amok (1934 film)
Amok is a 1934 French film, directed by Fyodor Otsep. The director was nominated for the Mussolini Cup at the 1934 Venice International Film Festival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_(1934_film)
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All of Me (1934 film)
All of Me is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film starring Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, and George Raft. The film was written by actor Thomas Mitchell and Sidney Buchman from Rose Porter's play Chrysalis, and directed by James Flood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Me_(1934_film)
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1860 (film)
1860 is a 1934 Italian historical film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia and Gianfranco Giachetti.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_(film)