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List of LGBT-related films of the 1930s
This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films released in the 1930s. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.
1930s
| Title
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Year
|
Director
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Country
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Genre
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Cast
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Notes
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| Borderline |
1930 |
Kenneth MacPherson |
United Kingdom |
Drama, avant-garde |
Paul Robeson, Eslanda Goode Robeson (credited as Eslanda Robeson), H.D. (credited as Helga Doorn) |
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| Morocco |
1930 |
Josef von Sternberg |
United States |
Drama |
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Francis McDonald, Eve Southern, Paul Porcasi |
Based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny
|
| Sunny Skies |
1930 |
Norman Taurog |
United States |
Comedy |
Benny Rubin, Marceline Day, Rex Lease, Marjorie Lane, Harry Lee, Wesley Barry, Greta Granstedt, Robert Livingston (credited as Robert Randall), Eddy Chandler (credited as Eddie Chandler) |
|
| Way Out West |
1930 |
Fred Niblo |
United States |
Comedy, western |
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynn (credited as Sharon Lynne), James Finlayson, Rosina Lawrence, Stanley Fields, Vivien Oakland, The Avalon Boys |
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| Mädchen in Uniform |
1931 |
Leontine Sagan |
Germany |
Drama, romance |
Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda |
Co-written by Christa Winsloe, based on her stage play Gestern und heute (Then and Now)
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| The Maltese Falcon |
1931 |
Roy Del Ruth |
United States |
Crime |
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott, Thelma Todd, Otto Matieson, Walter Long, Dwight Frye, J. Farrell McDonald |
Based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett
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| Manhattan Parade |
1931 |
Lloyd Bacon |
United States |
Comedy |
Winnie Lightner, Charles Butterworth |
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| The Public Enemy |
1931 |
William A. Wellman |
United States |
Action, crime |
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell |
Based on the unpublished novel Beer and Blood by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon
|
| The Blood of a Poet |
1932 |
Jean Cocteau |
France |
Drama, fantasy |
Enrique Riveros |
a.k.a. Le sang d'un poète
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| The Old Dark House |
1932 |
James Whale |
United States |
Horror |
Boris Karloff (credited as KARLOFF), Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Brember Wills |
Based on the novel Benighted by J. B. Priestley
|
| Call Her Savage |
1932 |
John Francis Dillon |
United States |
Drama |
Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Monroe Owsley, Estelle Taylor, Weldon Heyburn, Willard Robertson |
One of the first portrayals of a gay bar on screen
|
| Hell's Highway |
1932 |
Rowland Brown |
United States |
Drama |
Richard Dix, Tom Brown, Rochelle Hudson, C. Henry Gordon, Oscar Apfel, Stanley Fields, John Arledge, Warner Richmond |
|
| Diplomaniacs |
1933 |
William A. Seiter |
United States |
Comedy |
Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie White, Phyllis Barry, Louis Calhern, Hugh Herbert, Edgar Kennedy, Richard Carle, William Irving, Neely Edwards, Billy Bletcher |
|
| Lot in Sodom |
1933 |
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber |
United States |
Drama |
Friedrich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorothea Haus, Lewis Whitbeck |
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| Ladies They Talk About |
1933 |
Howard Bretherton, William Keighley |
United States |
Drama, romance |
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess, Lillian Roth, Maude Eburne, Ruth Donnelly, Harold Huber, Robert McWade |
Based on the play Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles
|
| Myrt and Marge |
1933 |
Al Boasberg |
United States |
Comedy |
Myrtle Vail |
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| Our Betters |
1933 |
George Cukor |
United States |
Comedy, drama, romance |
Constance Bennett, Anita Louise, Gilbert Roland, Violet Kemble-Cooper, Charles Starrett, Grant Mitchell, Minor Watson, Hugh Sinclair, Alan Mowbray, Tyrell Davis |
Based on the play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham
|
| Queen Christina |
1933 |
Rouben Mamoulian |
United States |
Drama, biography |
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone |
|
| Stage Mother |
1933 |
Charles Brabin |
United States |
Drama, musical, romance |
Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes, Ted Healy, Russell Hardie, C. Henry Gordon, Alan Edwards, Ben Alexander, Jay Eaton, Larry Fine |
Based on the novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes
|
| Zero for Conduct |
1933 |
Jean Vigo |
France |
Short, comedy, drama |
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a.k.a. Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège
|
| Victor and Victoria |
1933 |
Reinhold Schünzel |
Germany |
Musical, comedy |
Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Anton Walbrook, Hilde Hildebrand, Fritz Odemar, Friedel Pisetta, Aribert Wäscher |
a.k.a. Viktor und Viktoria
|
| Wonder Bar |
1934 |
Lloyd Bacon |
United States |
Musical, crime, drama |
Al Jolson, Kay Francis |
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| An Actor's Revenge |
1935 |
Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Japan |
Drama |
Kazuo Hasegawa, Naoe Fushimi, Akiko Chihaya, Yoshito Yamaji, Tokusaburo Arashi, Kokuten Kōdō |
Based on the novel by Otokichi Mikami
|
| First a Girl |
1935 |
Victor Saville |
United Kingdom |
Musical, comedy |
Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee, Griffth Jones, Alfred Drayton |
An English version of Viktor und Viktoria
|
| Sylvia Scarlett |
1935 |
George Cukor |
United States |
Comedy, drama, romance |
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, Dennie Moore |
Based on the novel The Early Life of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton Mackenzie
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| Top Hat |
1935 |
Mark Sandrich |
United States |
Comedy, musical, romance |
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore |
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| Dracula's Daughter |
1936 |
Lambert Hillyer |
United States |
Drama, fantasy, horror |
Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Irving Pichel, Gilbert Emery, Edward Van Sloan, Halliwell Hobbes, Billy Bevan, Nan Grey, Hedda Hopper, Claud Allister, Edgar Norton, E. E. Clive |
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| La Garçonne |
1936 |
Jean de Limur |
France |
Drama |
Marie Bell, Arletty, Henri Rollan, Maurice Escande, Jaque Catelain, Pierre Etchepare, Philippe Hersent, Jean Worms, Marcelle Praince, Vanda Gréville, Suzy Solidor, Édith Piaf, Jean Tissier, Marcelle Géniat, Junie Astor, Jane Marken |
a.k.a. The Bachelor Girl; based on the novel of the same name by Victor Margueritte
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| Rangle River |
1936 |
Clarence G. Badger |
Australia |
Action, adventure, mystery |
Victor Jory, Robert Coote |
Based on a story by Zane Grey
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| Women's Club
|
1936
|
Jacques Deval
|
France
|
Comedy, drama
|
Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day, Betty Stockfeld, Ève Francis, Junie Astor, Valentine Tessier
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a.k.a. Club de Femmes
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| Lady Killer |
1937 |
Jean Grémillon |
France
Germany |
Drama, romance, war |
Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare, Henri Poupon, Jean Aymé, Pierre Magnier, Marguerite Deval, René Lefèvre, Jane Marken (credited as Jeanne Markin), Paulette Noizeux, André Siméon (credited as Siméon), Pierre Labry, Lucien Dayle, Louis Florencie (credited as Florencie), Paul Fournier, André Carnège, Maurice Baquet, Frédéric Mariotti (credited as Mariotti) |
a.k.a. Gueule d'amour
|
| Stage Door |
1937 |
Gregory La Cava |
United States |
Comedy, drama |
Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Andrea Leeds, Constance Collier, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Franklin Pangborn |
Adapted from a play of the same name by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
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| Hôtel du Nord |
1938 |
Marcel Carné |
France |
Drama |
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty, Paulette Dubost, Andrex, André Brunot, Henri Bosc, Marcel André, Bernard Blier, Jacques Louvigny, Armand Lurville (credited as Lurville), Jane Marken, Génia Vaury, François Périer, René Bergeron |
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