Below is a list of every feature-length film from 1926 to 1934 that I have viewed for this project. The list was constructed based on films that have been credited with some type of music (whether in the original credits or in modern sources) and my own prior knowledge of films with scores in the early sound era. For the films analyzed in this study, I include film title, date of the premiere, producer/distributor, director, known sound personnel, and songs featured within the diegesis. For the remaining films I provide the film title, general release date, producer/distributor, and director.*
Don Juan
August 6, 1926
Warner Bros.
Director: Alan Crosland
Music arrangement: Maj. Edward Bowes and David Mendoza
Original music: William Axt
Music performed by the New York Philharmonic
Recording engineer: George G. Groves
The Better ’Ole
October 7, 1926
Warner Bros.
Director: Charles Reisner
When a Man Loves
February 3, 1927
Warner Bros.
Director: Alan Crosland
Original music composer: Henry Hadley
Synchronization: Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Herman Heller
Old San Francisco
June 21, 1927
Warner Bros.
Director: Alan Crosland
Music score compiled by Hugo Riesenfeld
Music synchronization: Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Josiah Zuro
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
September 23, 1927
Fox
Director: F. W. Murnau
Score: Hugo Riesenfeld
The Jazz Singer
October 6, 1927
Warner Bros.
Director: Alan Crosland
Music score and Vitaphone director: Louis Silvers
Sound: George R. Groves
“Mammy,” by Sam Lewis, Joe Young, and Walter Davidson; “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!” by Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, and Dan Russo; “Dirty Hands, Dirty Face,” music by James V. Monaco, lyrics by Edgar Lewis, Grant Clarke, and Al Jolson; “Blue Skies,” by Irving Berlin; “Mother of Mine, I Still Have You,” by Al Jolson, Louis Silvers, and Grant Clarke; “Kol Nidre,” traditional hymn
November 4, 1927
Universal
Director: Harry Pollard
Music score: Erno Rapee
Street Angel
April 9, 1928
Fox
Director: Frank Borzage
The Man Who Laughs
April 27, 1928
Universal
Director: Paul Leni
“When Love Comes Stealing,” by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack, and Erno Rapee
Tempest
May 17, 1928
Joseph M. Schenck Productions/United Artists
Director: Sam Taylor
Lights of New York
July 6, 1928
Warner Bros.
Director: Bryan Foy
The Singing Fool
September 19, 1928
Warner Bros.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Music conductor: Louis Silvers
Music performed by the Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra
“Sonny Boy” and “It All Depends on You,” by Lew Brown, B. G. DeSylva and Ray Henderson; “I’m Sittin’ on Top of the World,” words by Sam Lewis and Joe Young, music by Ray Henderson; “Keep Smiling at Trouble,” words by Al Jolson and B. G. DeSylva, music by Lewis Gensler; “Golden Gate,” words by Billy Rose and Dave Dreyer, music by Al Jolson and Joseph Meyer; “There’s a Rainbow ’Round My Shoulder,” by Billy Rose, Al Jolson, and Dave Dreyer.
November 1, 1928
Warner Bros.
Director: Michael Curtiz
The Flying Fleet
January 19, 1929
MGM
Director: George Hill
Weary River
January 24, 1929
First National
Director: Frank Lloyd
Musical score and Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra conducted by Louis Silvers “Weary River” and “It’s Up to You,” words by Grant Clarke, music by Louis Silvers
The Broadway Melody
February 1, 1929
MGM
Director: Harry Beaumont
Recording engineer: Douglas Shearer
“The Wedding of the Painted Doll,” “Broadway Melody,” “Love Boat,” “Boy Friend,” “Harmony Babies,” and “You Were Meant for Me,” music by Nacio Herb Brown, lyrics by Arthur Freed; “Truthful Deacon Brown,” by Willard Robison
Wild Orchids
February 23, 1929
MGM
Director: Sidney Franklin
Desert Nights
March 9, 1929
MGM
Director: William Nigh
The Wild Party
March 30, 1929
Paramount
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Recording engineer: Earl Hayman
“My Wild Party Girl,” words by Leo Robin, music by Richard A. Whiting
High Voltage
April 7, 1929
Pathé Exchange
Director: Howard Higgin
Alibi
April 8, 1929
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: Roland West
Music arrangement: Hugo Riesenfeld
The Pagan
April 27, 1929
MGM
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
The Squall
May 9, 1929
First National
Director: Alexander Korda
Music synchronization and score: Leo Forbstein
“Gypsy Charmer,” words by Grant Clarke, music by Harry Akst
Eternal Love
May 11, 1929
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Music score: Hugo Riesenfeld
The Cocoanuts
May 24, 1929
Paramount
Director: Joseph Santley, Robert Florey
Music director: Frank Tours
“Florida by the Sea,” “The Monkey Doodle-Doo,” “Tale of the Shirt,” and “When My Dreams Come True,” by Irving Berlin
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
June 20, 1929
MGM
Director: Charles Reisner
Evangeline
July 27, 1929
Edwin Carewe Productions/United Artists
Director: Edwin Carewe
The Single Standard
July 27, 1929
MGM
Director: John S. Robertson
Say It with Songs
August 6, 1929
Warner Bros.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Recording engineer: George R. Groves
“Little Pal,” “I’m in Seventh Heaven,” “Why Can’t You?” and “Used to You,” by Al Jolson, Lew Brown, B. G. DeSylva, and Ray Henderson; “Back in Your Own Back Yard” and “I’m Ka-razy for You,” by Al Jolson, Billy Rose, and Dave Dreyer; “Mem’ries of One Sweet Kiss,” by Al Jolson and Dave Dreyer
Speedway
September 7, 1929
MGM
Director: Harry Beaumont
They Had to See Paris
September 8, 1929
Fox
Director: Frank Borzage
Sound: George P. Costello
“I Could Do It for You,” by Sidney Mitchell, Archie Gottler, and Con Conrad
The Great Gabbo
September 12, 1929
James Cruze/Sono Art–World Wide Pictures
Director: James Cruze
October 3, 1929
Fox
Director: David Butler
Music director: Howard Jackson, Arthur Kay
Recording engineer: Joseph Aiken
“I’m a Dreamer (Aren’t We All?),” “If I Had a Talking Picture of You,” “Turn on the Heat,” “Sunny Side Up,” and “(You’ve Got Me) Picking Petals Off o’ Daisies,” by Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Applause
October 7, 1929
Paramount
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
The Phantom in the House
November 1, 1929
Trem Carr Productions/Continental Talking Pictures
Director: Phil Rosen
The Kiss
November 15, 1929
MGM
Director: Jacques Feyder
The Love Parade
November 19, 1929
Paramount
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Chief Recording Engineer: Franklin Hansen
Instrumental music: W. Franke Harling, John M. Leipold
“Champagne,” “Dream Lover,” “My Love Parade,” “Paris, Stay the Same,” “Let’s Be Common,” “March of the Grenadiers,” “Nobody’s Using It Now,” “Gossip,” “Anything to Please the Queen,” “Ooh, La La,” and “The Queen Is Always Right,” words by Clifford Grey, music by Victor Schertzinger
The Show of Shows
November 20, 1929
Warner Bros.
Director: John G. Adolfi
November 26, 1929
RKO
Director: Marshall Neilan
It’s a Great Life
December 6, 1929
MGM
Director: Sam Wood
Glorifying the American Girl
December 7, 1929
Paramount
Director: Millard Webb
Sally
December 23, 1929
First National
Director: John Francis Dillon
Party Girl
January 1, 1930
Personality Pictures/Tiff any Productions
Director: Victor Halperin
Music: Harry Stoddard
Sound: Roy Clayton
Recording engineers: William R. Fox, Alfred M. Granich, Ben Harper
“Farewell” and “Oh! How I Adore You,” by Harry Stoddard and Marcy Klauber
They Learned About Women
January 31, 1930
MGM
Director: Jack Conway, Sam Wood
Be Yourself!
February 8, 1930
Joseph M. Schenk Productions/United Artists
Director: Thornton Freeland
March 11, 1930
Fox
Director: Frank Borzage
Mammy
March 26, 1930
Warner Bros.
Director: Michael Curtiz
King of Jazz
May 2, 1930
Universal
Director: John Murray Anderson
The Silent Enemy
May 19, 1930
Burden-Chanler Productions/Paramount
Director: H. P. Carver
Hell’s Angels
May 27, 1930
The Caddo Co./United Artists
Director: Howard Hughes
Music arrangement: Hugo Riesenfeld
Sound: Lodge Cunningham
Sound Assistant: James M. Thornburn
Golden Dawn
June 14, 1930
Warner Bros.
Director: Ray Enright
Recording engineer: Glenn E. Rominger
Music performed by: Vitaphone Orchestra
Conductor: Louis Silvers
“The Whip,” “My Bwanna,” “We Two,” words by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Emmerich Kálmán and Herbert Stothart; “Dawn,” words by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Herbert Stothart and Robert Stoltz; “Little Girl, Little Girl (Mooda’s Appeal),” by Emmerich Kálmán and Herbert Stothart; “Africa Smiles No More” and “Jungle Bungalow,” by Grant Clarke and Harry Akst; “You Know the Type: A Tiger,” by Robert E. Dolan and Walter O’Keefe.
With Byrd at the South Pole
June 19, 1930
Paramount
Abraham Lincoln
August 25, 1930
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: D. W. Griffith
Music arrangement: Hugo Riesenfeld
Sound recording: Harold Witt
Monte Carlo
August 27, 1930
Paramount
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Animal Crackers
August 29, 1930
Paramount
Director: Victor Heerman
Music arrangement: John W. Green
Recording engineer: Ernest F. Zatorsky
“Collegiate,” by Moe Jaffe and Nat Bonx; “Some of These Days,” by Shelton Brooks; “Why Am I So Romantic?” and “Hooray for Captain Spalding,” by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby
Big Boy
September 6, 1930
Warner Bros.
Director: Alan Crosland
General musical director: Erno Rapee
Music performed by the Vitaphone Orchestra
Conductor: Louis Silvers
Recording engineer: Hal Bumbaugh
“What Will I Do Without You?” music by Joe Burke, lyrics by Al Dubin; “Liza Lee” and “Tomorrow Is Another Day,” by Bud Green and Sammy Stept; “Down South,” music by William H. Myddleton, lyrics by Sigmund Spaeth; “The Handicap March,” by Dave Reed Jr. and George Rosey
Liliom
October 3, 1930
Fox
Original music score: Richard Fall
Sound recording: George P. Costello
“Dream of Romance” and “Thief Song,” by Richard Fall and Marcella Gardner
Half Shot at Sunrise
October 4, 1930
RKO
Director: Paul Sloane
Up the River
October 10, 1930
Fox
Director: John Ford
Sound recording: W. W. Lindsay Jr.
“Prison ‘College’ Song,” words by Joseph McCarthy, music by James F. Hanley
Rogue of the Rio Grande
October 15, 1930
Cliff Broughton Productions/Sono Art–Wide World Productions
Director: Spencer Gordon
The Big Trail
October 24, 1930
Fox
Director: Raoul Walsh Incidental
Music: Arthur Kay
Sound Recording: Bill Brent, Paul Heihly Chief
Sound Technical: Donald Flick, George Leverett
Check and Double Check
October 25, 1930
RKO
Director: Melville Brown
Recording: George D. Ellis
“Three Little Words” and “Nobody Knows but the Lord,” music by Harry Ruby, lyrics by Bert Kalmar
Sunny
November 9, 1930
First National
Director: William Seiter
November 14, 1930
Paramount
Director: Josef von Sternberg
The Lottery Bride
November 22, 1930
Joseph M. Schenck/United Artists
Director: Paul L. Stein
Reaching for the Moon
December 29, 1930
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: Edmund Goulding
Little Caesar
January 9, 1931
First National
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
General music director: Erno Rapee
Other Men’s Women
January 17, 1931
Warner Bros.
Director: William A. Wellman
General music director: Erno Rapee
Vitaphone Orchestra conductor: Louis Silvers
The Painted Desert
January 18, 1931
Pathé Exchange/RKO Pathé Pictures
Director: Howard Higgin
Fighting Caravans
January 23, 1931
Paramount
Director: Otto Brower
Score: Max Bergunker, Emil Bierman, Arcady Cousminer, Karl Hajos, Herman
Hand, Emil Hilb, Sigmund Krumgold, John M. Leipold, and Oscar Potoker
January 26, 1931
RKO
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Score: Max Steiner
Recording: Clem Portman
Assistant
Recording: Ralph Spotts
City Lights
January 30, 1931
Charles Chaplin Productions/United Artists
Director: Charles Chaplin
Music composer: Charles Chaplin
Music arrangement: Arthur Johnston
Music director: Alfred Newman
Sound and recording: Ted Reed
Seas Beneath
January 30, 1931
Fox
Director: John Ford
Sound Recording: W. W. Lindsay Jr.
“My Loves,” by Troy Sanders; “Marinero (Sailor Lad),” by Maria Grever; “Estrellita,” by Manuel Ponce; “Here’s My Hand—You’re in My Heart,” music by James F. Hanley, lyrics by Joseph McCarthy; “Zamboanga,” composer unknown
Millie
February 6, 1931
Charles G. Rodgers Productions/RKO
Director: John Francis Dillon
Music director: Arthur Lange
Sound technical: Robert Pritchard “Millie,” by Nacio Herb Brown
Die Dreigroschenoper
February 19, 1931
(Berlin opening)
Warner Bros.; Gemeinschaft mit Tobis
Director: G. W. Pabst
Lonely Wives
February 22, 1931
Pathé/RKO
Music director: Frances Gorman
Sound engineer: Charles O’Loughlin, T. A. Carman
Tabu
March 18, 1931
Golden Bough/Paramount
Director: F. W. Murnau
Music settings: Hugo Riesenfeld
Additional music: W. Franke Harling, Milan Roder, Corynn Kiehl, William Bambridge
Indiscreet
April 25, 1931
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: Leo McCarey
Music director: Alfred Newman
Sound recording: Oscar Lagerstrom
“If You Haven’t Got Love” and “Come to Me,” by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Public Enemy
May 15, 1931
Warner Bros.
Director: William A. Wellman
The Black Camel
June 21, 1931
Fox
Director: Hamilton MacFadden
The Smiling Lieutenant
July 10, 1931
Paramount
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
The Woman Between
August 8, 1931
RKO
Director: Victor Schertzinger
August 26, 1931
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: King Vidor
Music director: Alfred Newman
Sound technical: Charles Noyes
Monkey Business
September 19, 1931
Paramount
Director: Norman McLeod
Friends and Lovers
October 3, 1931
RKO
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Possessed
November 21, 1931
MGM
Director: Clarence Brown
Recording director: Douglas Shearer
Sound: Anstruther MacDonald
“How Long Will It Last?” music by Joseph Meyer, lyrics by Max Lief
Corsair
November 28, 1931 United Artists
Director: Roland West
Tonight or Never
December 4, 1931 United Artists
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Arrowsmith
December 7, 1931
Howard Productions/United Artists
Director: John Ford
December 10, 1931
D. W. Griffith/United Artists
Director: D. W. Griffith
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
December 31, 1931
Paramount
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
February 3, 1932
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: Lowell Sherman
Murders in the Rue Morgue
February 21, 1932
Universal
Director: Robert Florey
One Hour with You
February 24, 1932
Paramount
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Interpolated music: Richard A. Whiting
Additional music: W. Franke Harling, Rudolph Kopp, John Leipold
Sound: M. M. Paggi
“Police Number,” “We Will Always Be Sweethearts,” and “Oh! That Mitzi!” music by Oscar Straus, lyrics by Leo Robin; “One Hour with You,” “Three Times a Day,” “What Would You Do?” “What a Little Thing Like a Wedding Ring Can Do,” and “It Was Only a Dream Kiss,” music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Leo Robin
Ten Minutes to Live
March 1932
Micheaux Pictures/State Rights
Director: Oscar Micheaux
After Tomorrow
March 4, 1932
Fox
Director: Frank Borzage
“All the World Will Smile Again After Tomorrow,” by James Hanley
Scarface
March 31, 1932
The Caddo Co./United Artists
Director: Howard Hawks
Tarzan the Ape Man
April 2, 1932
MGM
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
Symphony of Six Million
April 14, 1932
RKO
Director: Gregory La Cava
Music: Max Steiner
Recording: George Ellis
Young America
April 17, 1932
Fox
Director: Frank Borzage
Uncle Moses
April 20, 1932
Yiddish Talking Pictures
Director: Aubrey Scotto
Mystery Ranch
June 12, 1932
Fox
Director: David Howard
What Price Hollywood?
June 24, 1932
RKO
Director: George Cukor
Music director: Max Steiner
Recording: George Ellis
June 25, 1932
MGM
Director: Jack Conway
Recording director: Douglas Shearer
Sound: James Brock
“The Red-Headed Woman,” by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting
Skyscraper Souls
July 16, 1932
MGM
Director: Edgar Selwyn
The Purchase Price
July 23, 1932
Warner Bros.
Director: William A. Wellman
Vitaphone Orchestra conductor: Leo F. Forbstein
White Zombie
August 4, 1932
Halperin Productions/United Artists
Director: Victor Halperin
Music arrangement: Abe Meyer
Sound Engineer: L. E. Clark
Bird of Paradise
August 12, 1932
RKO
Director: King Vidor
Music: Max Steiner
Recording: Clem Portman
Speak Easily
August 13, 1932 MGM
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Love Me Tonight
August 18, 1932
Paramount
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Sound: M. M. Paggi
Instrumental music: Richard Rodgers, John Leipold
“Isn’t It Romantic?” “Love Me Tonight,” “Lover,” “Mimi,” “The Poor Apache,” “The Son of a Gun Is Nothing but a Tailor,” “That’s the Song of Paree,” and “A Woman Needs Something like That,” by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Horse Feathers
August 19, 1932
Paramount
Director: Norman McLeod
Blonde Venus
September 16, 1932
Paramount
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Score: W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, P. A. Marquardt, Oscar Potoker, Ralph Rainger
Sound: Harry D. English
“Hot Voodoo,” music by Ralph Rainger, lyrics by Sam Coslow; “You Little So-and-So,” by Sam Coslow and Leo Robin; “I Couldn’t Be Annoyed,” by Leo Robin and Dick Whiting
The Most Dangerous Game
September 16, 1932
RKO
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Music: Max Steiner
Recording: Clem Portman
Sound effects: Murray Spivack
Mr. Robinson Crusoe
September 16, 1932
The Elton Corp./United Artists
Director: Edward Sutherland
Music score composer: Alfred Newman
Thirteen Women
September 16, 1932
RKO
Director: George Archainbaud
September 18, 1932
Fox
Director: Marcel Varnel, William C. Menzies
Music director: Louis De Francesco
Sound recording: Joseph E. Aiken
The Crooked Circle
September 25, 1932
World Wide Pictures/Astor Pictures
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Illegal
September 29, 1932
Warner Bros.
Director: William McGann
Strange Justice
October 7, 1932
King Motion Pictures/RKO
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Rain
October 12, 1932
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: Lewis Milestone
Music score: Alfred Newman
Sound: Frank Grenzbach
“St. Louis Blues,” by W. C. Handy; “Baby Face,” by Harry Akst and Benny Davis
The Big Broadcast
October 14, 1932
Paramount
Director: Frank Tuttle
Sound: J. A. Goodrich
Instrumental Music: Ralph Rainger, John Leipold, Herman Hand
“The Blue of the Night,” by Roy Turk, Bing Crosby, and Fred E. Ahlert; “Trees,” lyrics by Joyce Kilmer, music by Ralph Rainger; “Hush! Hush! Hush!” “Please,” “Here Lies Love,” “Kicking That Gong Around,” “Major, Sharp and Minor,” “Hold That Tiger,” “Crazy People,” and “And You Were Mine,” lyrics by Leo Robin, music by Ralph Rainger
Trouble in Paradise
October 21, 1932
Paramount
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Score: W. Franke Harling
Music arrangement (opening and closing titles): John Leipold
Sound: M. M. Paggi
“Trouble in Paradise,” music by W. Franke Harling, lyrics by Leo Robin
Uptown New York
November 27, 1932
K.B.S. Film Co./World Wide Pictures
Director: Victor Schertzinger
The Sign of the Cross
November 30, 1932
Paramount
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
A Farewell to Arms
December 8, 1932
Paramount
Director: Frank Borzage
Sound recording: Harold C. Lewis
Score: Ralph Rainger, John Leipold, Bernhard Kaun, W. Franke Harling, Paul Marquardt, Herman Hand
Haunted Gold
December 17, 1932
Warner Bros./Vitagraph
Director: Mack V. Wright
Madame Butterfly
December 23, 1932
Paramount
Director: Marion Gering
Incidental music: W. Franke Harling
Sound: Harry Lindgren
December 23, 1932
MGM
Director: Richard Boleslavsky
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
December 24, 1932
First National
Director: Michael Curtiz
Music score: Bernard Kaun
Vitaphone orchestra conductor: Leo F. Forbstein
The Intruder
December 26, 1932
Allied Pictures Corp.
Director: Albert Ray
The Animal Kingdom
December 28, 1932
RKO
Director: Edward H. Griffith
Strange Interlude
December 30, 1932
MGM
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cavalcade
January 5, 1933
Fox
Director: Frank Lloyd
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
January 6, 1933
Columbia
Director: Frank Capra
Music score: W. Franke Harling
Sound engineer: E. L. Bernds
January 27, 1933
Paramount
Director: Lowell Sherman
Hallelujah I’m a Bum
February 3, 1933
Feature Productions/United Artists
Director: Lewis Milestone
Ladies They Talk About
February 4, 1933
Warner Bros.
Director: Howard Bretherton
Music played by: Vitaphone Orchestra
Conductor: Leo F. Forbstein
“If I Could Be with You,” music by James P. Johnson, lyrics by Henry Creamer; “St. Louis Blues,” by W. C. Handy
Topaze
February 8, 1933
RKO
Director: Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast
King Kong
March 7, 1933
RKO
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Music: Max Steiner
Recording: Earl A. Wolcott Sound effects: Murray Spivack
Christopher Strong
March 9, 1933
RKO
Director: Dorothy Arzner
42nd Street
March 9, 1933
Warner Bros.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Vitaphone Orchestra director: Leo F. Forbstein
Sound: Nathan Levinson, Dolph Thomas
“42nd Street,” “It Must Be June,” Shuffle Off to Buffalo,” “Young and Healthy,” and “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me,” by Al Dubin and Harry Warren
The Phantom Broadcast
March 15, 1933
Monogram/State Rights
Director: Phil Rosen
The Telegraph Trail
March 18, 1933
Warner Bros./Vitagraph
Director: Tenny Wright
Gabriel over the White House
March 31, 1933
MGM
Director: Gregory LaCava
Marius
April 13, 1933
Paramount
Director: Alexander Korda
A Shriek in the Night
April 18, 1933
Allied Pictures
Director: Albert Ray
The Barbarian
May 12, 1933
MGM
Director: Sam Wood
Gold Diggers of 1933
May 27, 1933
Warner Bros.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
May 27, 1933 Warner Bros./Vitagraph
Director: Mack V. Wright
International House
June 2, 1933
Paramount
Director: Edward Sutherland
His Private Secretary
June 10, 1933
Screencraft Productions/Showmen’s Pictures
Director: Philip H. Whitman
Laughing at Life
June 26, 1933
Nat Levine Productions/Mascot Pictures
Director: Ford Beebe
Midnight Mary
June 30, 1933
MGM/Loew’s
Director: William A. Wellman
Baby Face
July 1, 1933
Warner Bros.
Director: Alfred E. Green
Man from Monterey
July 15, 1933
Warner Bros./Vitagraph
Director: Mack V. Wright
Sing Sinner Sing
August 1, 1933
Majestic Pictures
Director: Howard Christy
August 11, 1933
Sol Lesser Productions/Principal Distributing Corp.
Director: Robert F. Hill
Morning Glory
August 18, 1933
RKO
Director: Lowell Sherman
Dinner at Eight
August 23, 1933
MGM
Director: George Cukor
The Big Chance
August 29, 1933
Eagle Pictures
Director: Victor Potel
Sensation Hunters
September 1, 1933
Monogram/State Rights
Director: Charles Vidor
Lady for a Day
September 7, 1933
Columbia
Director: Frank Capra
Penthouse
September 8, 1933
MGM
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
Torch Singer
September 8, 1933
Paramount
Director: Alexander Hall
September 19, 1933
John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran/United Artists
Director: Dudley Murphy
Doctor Bull
September 22, 1933
Fox
Director: John Ford
S.O.S. Iceberg
September 22, 1933
Universal
Director: Tay Garnett
Original music composer: Paul Dessau
Sound engineer: Zoltan G. Kegl
Thunder over Mexico
September 22, 1933
Mexican Picture Trust/Principal Distributing Corp.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
I’m No Angel
October 6, 1933
Paramount
Director: Wesley Ruggles
The Private Life of Henry VIII
October 7, 1933
London Film Productions/United Artists
Director: Alexander Korda
Meet the Baron
October 20, 1933
MGM
Director: Walter Lang
Footlight Parade
October 21, 1933
Warner Bros.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
November 10, 1933
Jeff erson Pictures/RKO
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Music: S. K. Wineland, Abe Meyer
Sound recording: Lodge Cunningham
“Good-Bye Love,” by Con Conrad, Archie Gottler, and Sidney Mitchell
The Invisible Man
November 13, 1933
Universal
Director: James Whale
Little Women
November 16, 1933
RKO
Director: George Cukor
Music: Max Steiner
Recording: Frank H. Harris, George D. Ellis
Recording Assistant: Ellis Fesler, Victor Appel
Duck Soup
November 17, 1933
Paramount
Director: Leo McCarey
Dancing Lady
November 24, 1933
MGM
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Flying Down to Rio
December 21, 1933
RKO
Director: Thornton Freeland
Queen Christina
December 26, 1933
MGM/Loew’s
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
December 29, 1933
MGM
Director: William A. Seiter
His Double Life
January 12, 1934
Eddie Dowling Pictures/Paramount
Director: Arthur Hopkins
Four Frightened People
January 26, 1934
Paramount
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Score: Karl Hajos, Milan Roder, Heinz Roemheld, John Leipold
Sound recording: Harry Lindgren
Search for Beauty
February 2, 1934
Paramount
Director: Erle C. Kenton
The Lost Patrol
February 16, 1934
RKO
Director: John Ford
Music director: Max Steiner
Sound: Clem Portman, P. J. Faulkner
Music recording: Murray Spivack
Palooka
February 16, 1934
Reliance Pictures/United Artists
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
It Happened One Night
February 22, 1934
Columbia
Director: Frank Capra
March 8, 1934
RKO
Director: John Cromwell
Catherine the Great
March 16, 1934
London Film Productions/United Artists
Director: Paul Czinner
Wonder Bar
March 31, 1934
First National
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Chloe, Love Is Calling You
April 1, 1934
Pinnacle Productions
Director: Marshall Neilan
In Love with Life
April 1, 1934
Invincible Pictures/Chesterfield Motion Pictures
Director: Frank Strayer
Men in White
April 6, 1934
MGM/Loew’s
Director: Richard Boleslavsky
Stand Up and Cheer!
April 19, 1934
Fox
Director: Hamilton MacFadden
Tarzan and His Mate
April 20, 1934
MGM
Director: Cedric Gibbons
April 27, 1934
Paramount
Director: Norman Taurog
The Lost Jungle
May 1, 1934
Mascot Pictures
Director: Armand Schaefer
Manhattan Love Song
May 1, 1934
Monogram
Director: Leonard Fields
Manhattan Melodrama
May 4, 1934
MGM
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
Orchestra: Paul Marquardt, Maurice de Packh
Recording director: Douglas Shearer
Synchronization: Dr. William Axt
“The Bad in Every Man (Blue Moon),” music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart
The Black Cat
May 7, 1934
Universal
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Music director: Heinz Roemheld
Sadie McKee
May 9, 1934
MGM
Director: Clarence Brown
Born to Be Bad
May 18, 1934
20th Century Pictures/United Artists
Director: Lowell Sherman
May 25, 1934
Paramount
Director: Mitchell Leisen
The Thin Man
May 25, 1934
MGM
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
The House of Mystery
May 30, 1934
Monogram
Director: William Nigh
Little Miss Marker
June 1, 1934
Paramount
Director: Alexander Hall
Randy Rides Alone
June 18, 1934
Monogram
Director: Harry Fraser
Baby Take a Bow
June 22, 1934
Fox
Director: Harry Lachman
Kiss and Make-Up
June 28, 1934
Paramount
Director: Harlan Thompson
Of Human Bondage
June 28, 1934
RKO
Director: John Cromwell
July 13, 1934
Paramount
Director: William Beaudine
The Star Packer
July 30, 1934
Monogram
Director: R. N. Bradbury
The Cat’s-Paw
August 7, 1934
Harold Lloyd/Fox
Director: Sam Taylor
Treasure Island
August 17, 1934
MGM
Director: Victor Fleming
The Moonstone
August 20, 1934
Monogram
Director: Reginald Barker
Chained
August 31, 1934
MGM
Director: Clarence Brown
Dames
September 1, 1934
Warner Bros.
Director: Ray Enright
Charlie Chan in London
September 12, 1934
Fox
Director: Eugene Forde
September 14, 1934
Paramount
Director: Charles Barton
King Kelly of the U.S.A.
September 15, 1934
Monogram
Director: Leonard Fields
The Scarlet Empress
September 15, 1934
Paramount
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Belle of the Nineties
September 21, 1934
Paramount
Director: Leo McCarey
Chu Chin Chow
September 21, 1934
Gaumont-British Picture Corp.
Director: Walter Forde
Judge Priest
September 28, 1934
Fox
Director: John Ford
The Return of Chandu
October 1, 1934
Principal Pictures
Director: Ray Taylor
Cleopatra
October 5, 1934
Paramount
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
October 5, 1934
Principal Productions/Fox
Director: Edward F. Cline
365 Nights in Hollywood
October 12, 1934
Fox
Director: George Marshall
Man of Aran
October 18, 1934
Gainsborough Pictures/Gaumont-British Picture Corp. of America
Director: Robert Flaherty
The Gay Divorcee
October 19, 1934
RKO
Director: Mark Sandrich
Marie Galante
October 26, 1934
Fox
Director: Henry King
We Live Again
November 1, 1934
Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Evelyn Prentice
November 9, 1934
MGM
Director: William K. Howard
The Marines Are Coming
November 20, 1934
Mascot Pictures
Director: David Howard
November 26, 1934
Universal
Director: John M. Stahl
Babes in Toyland
November 30, 1934
MGM/Loew’s
Director: Gus Meins
The Private Life of Don Juan
November 30, 1934
London Film Productions/United Artists
Director: Alexander Korda
The Ghost Walks
December 1, 1934
Invincible Pictures/Chesterfield Motion Pictures
Director: Frank R. Strayer
Bright Eyes
December 20, 1934
Fox
Director: David Butler
Forsaking All Others
December 23, 1934
MGM
Director: W. S. Van Dyke
The Little Minister
December 28, 1934
RKO
Director: Richard Wallace
* Sources for this appendix include the American Film Institute Catalog; credits listed at the beginning and/or end of each fi lm; and archival materials in the Paramount Pictures Corporation Music Archives at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, the Warner Bros. Archives at the University of Southern California, and the RKO music collection at UCLA.