1930s Films That Could Easily Double As Titles For Misandrist Manifestos
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1. Dumb Dicks (1932)
19 min | Short, Comedy
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Benny Rubin, Harry Gribbon, Heinie Conklin, Eddie Boland
Votes: 29
2. The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
In the second of Columbia's Nero Wolfe movies, the housebound detective is confronted with several deaths and a disappearance among a group of 10 Harvard alumni who had years earlier hazed ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Eduardo Ciannelli, Irene Hervey
Votes: 122
3. Forty Naughty Girls (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
While Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley
Votes: 442
4. Follow the Lady (1933)
49 min | Comedy
Director: Adrian Brunel | Stars: Marguerite Allan, D.A. Clarke-Smith, William Hartnell, Marie Hemingway
5. The Warrior's Husband (1933)
75 min | Comedy
In Pontus, the land of the Amazons, gender roles and natures are completely reversed: men stay at home and take care of the children and women are the strong sex, thanks to the sacred ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Elissa Landi, David Manners, Ernest Truex, Lionel Belmore
Votes: 80
6. Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
70 min | Comedy
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Dolly Haas, Cyril Maude, Esmond Knight, Irene Vanbrugh
Votes: 47
7. Men Are Such Fools (1938)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, Romance
Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. Radio man Harry Galleon will push her ... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 575
8. Bringing Up Father (1946)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy
Maggie and her snooty society friends fool Jiggs and his buddies down at Dinty's tavern into not only signing a petition to close the bar, but they also trick them into taking the "temperaance" pledge to forsake all alcohol.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Tim Ryan, June Harrison
Votes: 46
9. Kept Husbands (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Daughter of a wealthy family decides to marry a poor working man.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Ned Sparks
Votes: 620
10. To Oblige a Lady (1931)
70 min | Comedy
Director: H. Manning Haynes | Stars: Maisie Gay, Warwick Ward, Lilian Oldland, Haddon Mason
11. Two Who Dared (1936)
73 min | Drama, Romance
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
Director: Eugene Frenke | Stars: Anna Sten, Henry Wilcoxon, Viola Keats, John Garrick
Votes: 38
12. What, No Men? (1935)
Approved | 21 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
A bill collector and a policeman are captured by a group of mad scientists and taken to an all-female Indian tribe for study.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: El Brendel, Wini Shaw, Phil Regan, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 75
13. Women Who Work (1938)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Ana Maria del Solar is a rich lady who suddenly lands in the street. After a while she lives in the pension where her driver lives.
Director: Manuel Romero | Stars: Mecha Ortiz, Tito Lusiardo, Niní Marshall, Pepita Serrador
Votes: 96
14. She's Got Everything (1937)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Carol Rogers returns from Europe to discover that her recently deceased father has left her with huge debts and no resources to pay them. Aunt Jane suggests that Carol marry a South ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick
Votes: 285
15. Ein Mädchen mit Prokura (1934)
A Prokurist in a bank is suspected of murdering her boss and refuses to take the stand in her defense, because she believes she has to cover for the boss' nephew.
Director: Arzén von Cserépy | Stars: Gerda Maurus, Ernst Dumcke, Rolf von Goth, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Votes: 9
16. She (1935)
Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
A group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.
Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 1,908
17. Three Smart Girls (1936)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland
Votes: 1,529 | Gross: $3.00M
18. They Learned About Women (1930)
Passed | 95 min | Musical, Drama
When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Stars: Gus Van, Joe Schenck, Bessie Love, Mary Doran
Votes: 266
19. The Legion of Missing Men (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legion. Bob, Don and Bob's buddies, Muggsy ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Ben Alexander, Hala Linda, Paul Hurst
Votes: 111
20. Give Her a Ring (1934)
79 min | Musical
A telephonist falls for her employer.
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Clifford Mollison, Wendy Barrie, Zelma O'Neal, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 17
21. Almost a Gentleman (1939)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
James Ellison ("The Gang's All Here") stars as a man who saves a German shepherd from the city pound, only to have the dog implicate him in a murder. Featuring Ace the Wonder Dog.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: James Ellison, Helen Wood, Robert Kent, June Clayworth
Votes: 79
22. Almost a Gentleman (1938)
78 min | Comedy
A night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy financier.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Billy Bennett, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin, Marcelle Rogez
23. The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Pert Kelton, El Brendel, James Gleason
Votes: 117
24. Twin Husbands (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama
Chesterfield - John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton. Miljan plays a famous crook who awakens in a posh mansion...
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Miljan, Shirley Grey, Monroe Owsley, Hale Hamilton
Votes: 128
25. My Wife''s Family (1931)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Jimmy Godden, Muriel Angelus, Dodo Watts
26. The Lady Refuses (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Father hires a woman to lure his son away from a gold digger.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Betty Compson, John Darrow, Gilbert Emery, Margaret Livingston
Votes: 453
27. Ai vostri ordini, signora... (1939)
70 min | Comedy
A young and rich widow hires an unemployed man, Pietro, to make him live with her and to let everybody believe he is her lover. The man accepts the situation to earn a living, but in the ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Giuditta Rissone, Enrico Viarisio
28. The Compulsory Husband (1929)
100 min | Comedy
A recently engaged girl invites her parents to meet her fiance. They learn that he also loves another woman.
Directors: Monty Banks, Harry Lachman | Stars: Monty Banks, Lillian Manton, Clifford Heatherley, Gladys Frazin
29. Madam Satan (1930)
Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young
Votes: 1,245 | Gross: $0.50M
30. The Woman Racket (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During a raid on a speakeasy, a cop finds himself attracted to a pretty female employee. Instead of arresting her and taking her to jail, he not only helps her escape but takes her out to ... See full summary »
Directors: Albert H. Kelley, Robert Ober, Paul Bern | Stars: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet, Sally Starr, Robert Agnew
Votes: 113
31. This Man Is Mine (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Irene Dunne is married to Ralph Bellamy. Their union is comfortable but all that changes when Bellamy's old flame Constance Cummings comes back to town. Will the the thrill of loves past disrupt their happy home?
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Constance Cummings, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Johnson
Votes: 386
32. The Merry Widow (1934)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée
Votes: 3,263
33. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 3,958
34. No One Man (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to.
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Carole Lombard, Ricardo Cortez, Paul Lukas, Juliette Compton
Votes: 93
35. Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Norman Foster, Evalyn Knapp, Eric Linden, Esther Ralston
Votes: 135
36. The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
An heiress switches places with her secretary in order to find a man who will love her for who she is and not for her money.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 1,022
37. Widow's Might (1935)
77 min | Comedy
In order to win back their former boyfriends, two widows stage a phony burglary.
Director: Cyril Gardner | Stars: Laura La Plante, Yvonne Arnaud, Garry Marsh, George Curzon
38. Should Ladies Behave (1933)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
An unhappy couple watch as their daughter throws herself at an older man because he is a sophisticated artist. The daughter doesn't know that her aunt is the man's lover. At a weekend ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Conway Tearle, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 234
39. Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Romance
Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Votes: 320
40. The Timid Young Man (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
A man who has sworn off women and a woman who has sworn off men must find their budding relationship threatened by aggressive romantic rivals.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Buster Keaton, Lona Andre, Tiny Sandford, Kitty McHugh
Votes: 144
41. Nie miala baba klopotu (1935)
Comedy
Directors: Aleksander Ford, Michal Waszynski | Stars: Barbara Gilewska, Wladyslaw Walter, Helena Zarembina, Witold Zacharewicz
42. Give Me a Sailor (1938)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Jack Whiting
Votes: 480
43. He Was Her Man (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Dan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory, Frank Craven
Votes: 692
44. Model Husband (1937)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
When a bland British banker fails to please his wife, he pretends to be interested in other women so she will become jealous and care more for him.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, Hans Söhnker, Heli Finkenzeller
Votes: 114
45. Women Who Play (1932)
78 min | Comedy
Richard Sones is jealous of his wife and thinks she may be starting an affair. His plan to thwart it involves hiring an actress to live with them. Will it work? Or backfire? Or just result in some good comedy?
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Mary Newcomb, Benita Hume, George Barraud, Joan Barry
46. Patricia Gets Her Man (1937)
68 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Reginald Purdell | Stars: Hans Söhnker, Lesley Brook, Edwin Styles, Aubrey Mallalieu
47. Day-Time Wife (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 790
48. Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
69 min | Comedy, Romance
Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
Director: Seymour Felix | Stars: Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Edward J. Nugent
Votes: 125
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