#112 The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

This next film was not only a Best Picture winner of 1937 but the second film of the Biography genre to win Best Picture with the first being The Great Ziegfeld. The Life of Emile Zola is the true story of a French author who decides to defend a Jewish army officer accused of being …

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#111 The Awful Truth (1937)

Here is yet another film on the hilarity that ensues with an impending divorce. Still a controversial subject at the time but that did not stop this film from being a classic rom-com. Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth is when a couple decides to divorce because they both accuse each other of infidelity but they …

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#110 Captains Courageous (1937)

One genre that I have noticed so far that hasn't been shown on this list yet is coming-of-age films or any movies where kids play the main roles...until today! Sometimes it takes going overboard (literally) to start growing up. In Victor Fleming's Captains Courageous, a spoiled little boy goes overboard on a luxurious boat with his dad …

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