171. Toni
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Édouard Delmont, Max Dalban, Jenny Hélia, Michel Kovachevitch
172. The Women
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine
Plot: Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) finds her marriage in trouble when shopgirl Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) gets her hooks into Mary's man.
173. Dangerous
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred E. Green
Actors: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, George Irving, John Eldredge
Plot: Bette Davis plays Joyce Heath, a stage actress who seeks to damage what she has left of her career. Loosely based on the life of Jeanne Eagels.
174. After the Thin Man
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph
Plot: Nick and Nora Charles solve another murder mystery in this whodunnit with a young Jimmy Stewart.
175. Vivacious Lady
Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, Frances Mercer
Plot: A university professor takes a quick trip to the city - and it ends with a
whirlwind romance and marriage to a nightclub singer. Yet after realizing
what he's done, he can't find a way to present his new bride to his
staunch conservative family.
176. Nothing Sacred
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Sig Ruman
Plot: A woman who thinks she is going to die from a fatal radium poisoning
from her workplace is instead given the new that she was misdiagnosed.
While happy to be alive, she laments the fact that she will not get to
see New York with the money she planned on getter form her company. When
a NY reporter shows up to revitalize his career with her "valiant
struggle" she plays along and becomes the toast of the town, but how
long can she live a lie?
177. Counsellor at Law
Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Melvyn Douglas, Isabel Jewell, Onslow Stevens
178. Tit for Tat
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charley Rogers
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall, James C. Morton, Baldwin Cooke
Plot: Laurel and Hardy set up an electrical supplies store and gets into a big
fight with the owner of the grocery store next to them.
179. History is Made at Night
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Borzage
Actors: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff, George Meeker
180. Dinner at Eight
Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke
