Movies set between 1933 and 1946?

[FedoraFan112390]

Can you guys recommend me some good movies set in the height of the Golden Era, which show off the glitz and elegance of the time? I'm talking about films which are very period accurate in terms of fashion, cars, etc? I ask because I'm watching a sci do noir ish film called The Thirteenth Floor and the segments of the film set in 1937 reignited my love for the Golden Era

 

[1mach1]

Angels With Dirty Faces

Maltese Falcon

They Drive by Night

Good flicks in your range that are widely recognized. Also, all Bogey films.

 

[GHT]

Well here's a few to mull over:
The 39 Steps.
The Great Dictator.
Brief Encounter.
To Have and Have Not.
The Big Sleep.
The Philadelphia Story.
Casablanca.
Although slightly earlier than 1933, you might enjoy Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 movie:
The Blue Angel.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Wasn't The 39 Steps set just before WWI, or was that the original novel? I know there are at least two movie adaptations. One was made in the 1930s and one made in the late '60s, I believe.

 

[GHT]

Click on the link. It's the 1935 original, directed by Hitchcock.

 

[DNO]

For glitz and glamour, it's hard to beat any of the Thin Man films.

 

[rjb1]

For "glitz and elegance" try any of the William Powell movies:
"The Thin Man" or "My Man Godfrey", for example. Although in the second, the glitzy and elegant people are portrayed as snobbish and mean idiots.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Lubistch's "Trouble In Paradise," the ultimate movie example of a shimmery art-deco fantasy land that never actually existed. For extra fun, watch the Marx Brothers destroy these same sets in "Duck Soup."

 

[rjb1]

We were thinking alike but you were two minutes quicker.

 

[DNO]

We were thinking alike but you were two minutes quicker.

Great minds, as they say!

 

[DNO]

Lubistch's "Trouble In Paradise," the ultimate movie example of a shimmery art-deco fantasy land that never actually existed. For extra fun, watch the Marx Brothers destroy these same sets in "Duck Soup."

I forgot about Duck Soup, an art deco fantasy land indeed! Hail Freedonia.

 

[Shangas]

Do you mean MODERN 'period films/historical films/dramas' set in the 1930s and 40s? Or films FROM the 1930s and 40s? I'm a bit confused here.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Do you mean MODERN 'period films/historical films/dramas' set in the 1930s and 40s? Or films FROM the 1930s and 40s? I'm a bit confused here.

Me too. That's why I was asking those questions about The 39 Steps. It was a novel, written in ~1917, but took place in 1914, a few months before WWI started. The 1930s film adaptation was set in its present day and the late 1960s adaptation was also set in its present day . . .

 

[scottyrocks]

One of my favorite movies, that highlights the differences between high society and the rest of us, made in the same period which it portrays, is It Happened One Night (1934). There are few scenes that show the opulence of the very wealthy.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Any of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals. Topper, starring Cary Grant. Glamor was really more a feature of thirties movies.

Platinum Blonde. It Happened On Fifth Avenue. Nothing Sacred. Pretty much any screwball comedy of the thirties.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Do you mean MODERN 'period films/historical films/dramas' set in the 1930s and 40s? Or films FROM the 1930s and 40s? I'm a bit confused here.

The Sting (1973)
Pennies From Heaven (1981)

 

[Stanley Doble]

Angels With Dirty Faces

Maltese Falcon

They Drive by Night

Good flicks in your range that are widely recognized. Also, all Bogey films.

I don't recall any glitz or glamor in those films, or in many others in this thread.