1931


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Other films seen

    Anna Christie
    Bachelor Apartment
    Cimarron
    Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
    A Free Soul
    The Great Lover
    Kept Husbands
    The Magnificent Lie
    Le Million
    Night Nurse
    Once a Lady
    Private Lives
    Safe in Hell
    The Smiling Lieutenant
    Unfaithful
    Waterloo Bridge


Best of 1931

  1. La Chienne
  2. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
  3. The Smiling Lieutenant
  4. Night Nurse
  5. Waterloo Bridge
  1. Inspiration
  2. Unfaithful
  3. Safe in Hell
  4. Le Million
  5. Consolation Marriage

LEADING ACTOR

Maurice Chevalier, The Smiling Lieutenant
Fredric March, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Douglass Montgomery, Waterloo Bridge
Robert Montgomery, Private Lives
Michel Simon, La Chienne

LEADING ACTRESS

Ruth Chatterton, Unfaithful
Mae Clarke, Waterloo Bridge
Irene Dunne, Cimarron
Greta Garbo, Inspiration
Barbara Stanwyck, Night Nurse

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul
Clark Gable, Night Nurse
Paul Lukas, Unfaithful
Charlie Ruggles, The Smiling Lieutenant

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Joan Blondell, Night Nurse
Miriam Hopkins, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Myrna Loy, Consolation Marriage
Janie Marèse, La Chienne
Una Merkel, Private Lives

DIRECTION

René Clair, Le Million
Rouben Mamoulian, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Jean Renoir, La Chienne
William A Wellman, Night Nurse
James Whale, Waterloo Bridge

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

John Howard Lawson & J Walter Ruben, Bachelor Apartment
Humphrey Pearson, Consolation Marriage

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Andre Girard, La Chienne [novel, Georges de La Fouchardière]
Oliver HP Garrett, Night Nurse [novel, Grace Perkins]
Samuel Hoffenstein, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde [novel, Robert Louis Stevenson]
Benn Levy & Tom Reed, Waterloo Bridge [play, Robert E Sherwood]
Ernest Vajda & Samson Raphaelson, The Smiling Lieutenant [operetta "Ein Walzertraum," Leopold Jacobson & Felix Dormann; novel Nux der Prinzgemahl, Hans Müller]

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» Appaloosa 2008, Ed Harris
» Belle toujours 2007, Manoel de Oliveira
» Duel in the Sun 1946, King Vidor
» Dragonwyck 1946, Joseph L Mankiewicz
» The Spiral Staircase 1945, Robert Siodmak
» The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934, Alfred Hitchcock
» Tell No One 2008, Guillaume Canet
» Heaven Knows, Mr Allison 1957, John Huston
» Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008, Woody Allen
» The Great Lie 1941, Edmund Goulding

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