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Citizen Rules 11-03-17 11:03 PM

Citizen's Top 62, 1930s Actors & Actresses
 
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Citizen's Top 62, 1930s Actors & Actresses List


Welcome to my personal favorite list of 1930s actors and actresses. I'll start at the bottom and work my way to the top with my #1 favorites. I'll include some of my favorite movies these actors have been in too. Opinions and thoughts are welcomed! And if you have movie recommendations lets hear them.

I'm open to watching some 1930s films that I've never seen...and hopefully MoFos will discover some 30s films to watch for the upcoming MoFo Top 100 1930s Countdown.

This will be a work in progress and I'll post to it when I can. Hopefully people will bookmark or subscribe to this thread so they can see when it's updated.

#31 Clara Bow..........................#31 Bela Lugosi
#30 Priscillia Lane....................#30 Edward Everett Horton
#29 Alice Faye.........................#29 Johnny Weissmuller
#28 Shirley Temple..................#28 Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy
#27 Ruth Chatterton................#27 Marx Brothers
#26 Norma Shearer
..................#26 Ronald Colman
#25 Loretta Young....................#25 Don Amache
#24 Mae West..........................#24 Mickey Rooney
#23 Marlene Dietrich................#23 Leslie Howard
#22 Mae Clarke........................#22 Paul Muni
#21 Luise Rainer
......................#21 Eugene Pallette
#20 Una Merkle........................#20 Charlie Chaplin
#19 Sylvia Sidney.....................#19 John Wayne
#18 Myrna Loy..........................#18 Boris Karloff
#17 Irene Dunne.......................#17 Spencer Tracy
#16 Great Garbo.......................#16 Laurence Olivier
#15 Glenda Farrell....................#15 Gary Cooper
#14 Judy Garland.....................#14 Peter Lorre
#13 Katherine Hepburn............#13 Henry Fonda
#12 Jean Harlow......................#12 Lionel Barrymore
#11 Joan Blondell.....................#11 Humphrey Bogart
#10 Jean Arthur........................#10 Fredrick March
#9 Olivia de Havilland..............#9 Fred Astaire
#8 Miriam Hopkins...................#8 Errol Flynn
#7 Joan Crawford....................#7 Clark Gable
#6 Vivien Leigh........................#6 Charles Laughton
#5 Ginger Rogers....................#5 Edward G. Robinson
#4 Carole Lombard.................#4 William Powell
#3 Claudette Colbert...............#3 Jimmy Stewart
#2 Barbara Stanwyck.............#2 Cary Grant
#1 Bette Davis........................#1 James Cagney


Citizen Rules 11-03-17 11:23 PM

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My #31 Favorite 30's Actress is

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Clara Bow

Filmography
Biography

Clara Bow is mostly known for her work in the silent films of the 1920s, but she made 8 films in the early 1930s. Most of them aren't well remembered today, with one exception. One of the most risque and daring precode films ever made, Call Her Savage (1932)

A film that broke barriers by not only showing an American Indian as a handsome leading man, but by showing interracial relationship and according to the documentary film The Celluloid Closet, Call Her Savage was the first Hollywood movie to depict a gay cabaret with the scene of singing gay waiters. Add to that martial rape, prostitution and supposedly an early depiction of sadomasochism and you get a provocative movie.

And it's Clara Bow who powers the film. Her acting can be uneven at times and she reportedly suffered from anxiety, but no doubt she has screen presences in abundance!

edarsenal 11-03-17 11:25 PM

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http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/0d/0d673...21bc3bf4ba.jpg

edarsenal 11-03-17 11:29 PM

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love the fact that you post links for us to check out their movies and absolutely love that photo of her.
It does not look like I've seen any of her work or the one you talk of, but definitely a pre-code film to check out!

EDIT:

Here's something I just discovered, one of the actresses in that movie is Thelma Todd whom I'm familar with and, looking through her list of movies I found The Maltese Falcon and no, not the Bogart film we all know and love, but one made ten years BEFORE in 1931 with a Ricardo Cortez playing Sam Spade.
I wonder if there's a copy of that around to check out. . .

hey, @mark f, by any chance, do you know anything about this one?

Camo 11-03-17 11:33 PM

Glad you are doing this Citizen, good idea for a list. I only just watched my 40th 1930's film today so i'm not going to be familiar with the majority of the people on this list, it will be good for recs though. Also i may be more familiar with their 40's work if they were still working then.

Only seen Clara Bow in Wings and i barely remember that so can't comment on her.

Camo 11-03-17 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by edarsenal (Post 1816622)
I wonder if there's a copy of that around to check out. . .
It's on Veoh - http://www.veoh.com/watch/v72305702W9ph9dTy

Wonder if there's anyone that prefers that to Hustons.

Citizen Rules 11-03-17 11:40 PM

Thanks guys, appreciate it.

Damn just making that photo and post took some time, which gives me a new appreciation for others who have done Countdowns.

Clara Bow got me into films! I was at the Barnes and Nobles book store some 15 years ago shopping with my wife and stumbled across a book called Sin in Soft Focus. The woman on the cover was a knock out, but I didn't know who it was as I didn't know anything about old movies. So I looked and found it was Clara Bow and then bought all of her movies I could get...from that point on, I was a movie fan...All thanks to Clara


edarsenal 11-03-17 11:41 PM

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looks like I'll have to update my flashplayer to check it out, but DAMN I am curious about that one.
And I am curious if anyone has seen it and, like you, if they prefer it

and I can see WHY she was so captivating to you, Citizen. I'm curious to see her movies as well.

Camo 11-03-17 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by edarsenal (Post 1816629)
looks like I'll have to update my flashplayer to check it out, but DAMN I am curious about that one.
And I am curious if anyone has seen it and, like you, if they prefer it

and I can see WHY she was so captivating to you, Citizen. I'm curious to see her movies as well.
You don't have to update your flashplayer, just enable it. The browsers are doing away with flash but Chrome at least gives you an option to enable it, it says that you need to update it at first because the browser automatically supresses it. Which browser do you use? If it's not Chrome then i'm not sure if it's the same.

Camo 11-03-17 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 1816628)
Clara Bow got me into films! I was at the Barnes and Nobles book store some 15 years ago shopping with my wife and stumbled across a book called Sin in Soft Focus.
That's crazy, i have a horrible book buying addiction right now; been buying at least a few books a week even though i have a massive to read list. Was looking through a list of Hollywood books yesterday and saw a Clara Bow one that looked interesting. It was this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clara-Bow-R.../dp/0815410255

This was the one i ended up buying though haha - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-B...lywood+babylon

Citizen Rules 11-03-17 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by edarsenal (Post 1816622)
...Here's something I just discovered, one of the actresses in that movie is Thelma Todd whom I'm familar with and, looking through her list of movies I found The Maltese Falcon and no, not the Bogart film we all know and love, but one made ten years BEFORE in 1931 with a Ricardo Cortez playing Sam Spade.
I wonder if there's a copy of that around to check out. . .
I might have seen that early version, I think it's part of the Maltese Falcon set I have. Though I can't really remember it. I'll have to dig out those DVDs and have a look.

Citizen Rules 11-03-17 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by Camo (Post 1816631)
That's crazy, i have a horrible book buying addiction right now; been buying at least a few books a week even though i have a massive to read list. Was looking through a list of Hollywood books yesterday and saw a Clara Bow one that looked interesting. It was this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clara-Bow-R.../dp/0815410255

This was the one i ended up buying though haha - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-B...lywood+babylon
Clara's life story is beyond sad. Her mother tried to kill her when she was a child. Clara later said she woke up with a knife to her throat and her mom who was deeply troubled told her it would be better for her if she was to die. She spent the night in the closet to be safe. Sometime later as a young teen she lived homeless on the mean streets of a poor section of New York. That alone sounded brutal. There's so much more that that, but if you ever get a chance to read that book you were looking at you'll know. Her story might be the saddest of any star I've heard of.

edarsenal 11-04-17 12:04 AM

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I have chrome and right now, at work, so I'll play with it when I'm home.

I think I've seen that book, Citizen, let us know what ya think.
While searching I did come across one of those Scandal shows about Clara but I think I'd rather go the less shock value route to learn about her.

Camo 11-04-17 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 1816634)
Her story might be the saddest of any star I've heard of.
Not an actress but Billie Holiday's life is the saddest i've heard :(.

That sounds good it's now on the wishlist.

Camo 11-04-17 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by edarsenal (Post 1816636)
I have chrome and right now, at work, so I'll play with it when I'm home.
This is what you do to enable it:

To enable Flash for all websites, open your Chrome browser and type chrome://settings/content in the address bar, then press enter(1). Then on the Content Settings page, scroll down to Flash and select the button next to 'Allow sites to run Flash'(2)

Citizen Rules 11-04-17 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by edarsenal (Post 1816636)
While searching I did come across one of those Scandal shows about Clara but I think I'd rather go the less shock value route to learn about her.
Good for you! Some of those scandal shows, make up, or twist stuff around, so badly Everything I've ever heard about her was that she was kind hearted.

edarsenal 11-04-17 12:08 AM

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THANKS Camo.

Billie Holiday's story IS very heartbreaking and from the notes in the youtube video Clara's sounded pretty horrible as well. Some mention of an absolute b@stard for a father along with a crazy mom.
some one wrote that their grandfather met her once and said she was a real sweetheart.

mark f 11-04-17 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by edarsenal (Post 1816622)
hey, @mark f, by any chance, do you know anything about this one?
My copy of Bogie's version of the DVD comes with all three versions of The Maltese Falcon. It also has the 1931 version and the 1936 Satan Met a Lady. TCM shows all the versions.multiple times a year. The 1931 version is pretty good because the source material is so great, but it's not nearly as good as John Huston's. Even with Bette Davis, Satan Met a Lady is only mediocre and changes the names and makes the falcon a jewel-encrusted horn. But it's still worth a peak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgjq7ox6-e4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeRSnZYhgeI

edarsenal 11-04-17 12:44 PM

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thanks @mark f! I knew, if anyone would know about this, you would. I watched that clip of the '31 version as well. Definitely see the sexual atmosphere cranked up instead of implied in the '31. Definitely worth checking out.

Chypmunk 11-04-17 12:54 PM

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Fab idea for a thread!
I'm not that familiar with the work of Clara Bow but I am fairly conversant with her brother Dickie.


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