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The Golden Age of Hollywood: 1930s - 1940s

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Most classic films of Hollywood's Golden Age are available for viewing at the Undergraduate Library’s Media Resources Center (MRC). Their extensive video collection may be searched online via FilmFinder. A sampling of the era's most important movies along with their MRC call numbers are listed below.

Title DVD Call Number VHS Call Number
42nd Street (1933) 65-DVD575 65-V111
King Kong (1933) 65-DVD262 65-V113
The Wizard of Oz (1939) 65-DVD178 65-V7513
Gone with the Wind (1939) 65-DVD49 65-V621
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 65-DVD304 65-V158
Citizen Kane (1941) 65- DVD766 65-V5755
Casablanca (1942) 65-DVD109 65-V49
Double Indemnity (1944) n/a 65-V1434
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) n/a 65-V98
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 65-DVD110 65-V661

Major Actors
Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Cagney, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Jimmy Stewart

Directors
Frank Capra, George Cukor, Victor Flemming, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchock, Leo McCarey, Vincente Minnelli, Preston Sturges, William Wyler

Studios
20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Brothers

Source: “Motion Pictures.” The New Encyclopedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002.

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