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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

🎞️ Movie 69 min US
โ˜… 7.8 /10 2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year is a once-over-lightly evocation of a slate of classic films unmatched before or since. In a year permitting 10 Best Picture nominees, the final cut included Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Dark Victory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Love Affair. Shut out: The Roaring '20s, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intermezzo, Destry Rides Again, Idiot's Delight, Young Mr. Lincoln, Gunga Din. This hour-long film finds room to acknowledge a few of these non-starters, but its brevity means a lot gets left out. This includes the absence of anything that doesn't celebrate the studio system, including the practices of the shrewd tyrants who ran them, seen in brief archival footage.

Cast

Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Narrator
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin
Self
Self - Film Critic and Historian
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Thomas G. Schatz
Self
Self - Author, 'The Genius of the System'
F.X. Feeney
F.X. Feeney
Self
Self - Film Critic and Historian
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Scott Eyman
Self
Self - Author of 'Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer'
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Jeanine Basinger
Self
Self - Author of 'The Star Machine'
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Aubrey Solomon
Self
Self - Author of 'The Films of Twentieth Century-Fox'
Molly Haskell
Molly Haskell
Self
Self - Author of 'Frankly, My Dear'
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Rudy Behlmer
Self
Self - Author of 'Inside Warner Bros.'