31 Days of the 30's - 09/12

A lawyer impulsively marries a stranger after his fiancée dumps him.

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.

A Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.

An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India. His subjects believe that their Green Goddess has given them the lives of the three Brits as payment for the lives of the Rajah's brothers. They will execute them when the brothers are executed. Trahern and the Crespins must figure a way to use the Rajah's radio to call India for help.

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.

The close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.

An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.

The work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a "man's field."

A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.

Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.

A jealous stage actor disguises himself as a Russian guardsman in order to test his actress wife's loyalty.

A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.

President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.

When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estate hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

Holiday is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.

Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.

A former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.

A big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.

Racketeer Lucky Wilson hides on a farm after being shot, falling for the farmer's daughter Pauline. He must reconcile his criminal past with rural life and win over her disapproving father while evading the police.