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A Decade in Film Itself The 1930s Box Office Saga
A fragmented chronicle of Hollywood highlights from 1931 to 1940 notes stars like Maurice Chevalier Clara Bow Ramon Novarro Will Rogers Greta Garbo and Shirley Temple. It covers box office booms busts censorship rising salaries and notable events including Oscars floods and a 40 percent incline tractor development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Chevalier
Clara Bow
Ramon Novarro
Will Rogers
Chicago
Charlie Chaplin
Trader Horn
Magaine
Samuel Goldwyn
Greta Garbo
Chevalier
Constance Bennett
John Barrymore
Norma Shearer
Richard Barthelmess
Ann Harding
Wallace Beery
William Powell
Catholic Legion of Decency
Council of Rabbis
Hays
Hollywood
Florida
Upton Sinclair
Congress
Culkins
H. G. Wells
Metro
Victor McLaglen
Bette Davis
Ariel
Caliban
Haile Belassie
Hays Office
Max Factor
Irving Thalberg
Paul Muni
Luise Rainer
Ziegfeld
Carthay Circle Theater
Shirley Temple
Clark Gable
Vittorio Mussolini
Red Menace
Dies Committee
Orson Welles
Jimmy Roosevelt
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
la Guardia
New York