Best/Favorite Films of 1937

1. Grand Illusion

2. Make Way for Tomorrow

3. Nothing Sacred

4. The Awful Truth

5. A Damsel in Distress

5. Easy Living

7. Pepe le Moko

8. Shall We Dance

9. A Star is Born

10. Stage Door

11. Young and Innocent

Elephant Boy

High, Wide and Handsome

A Day at the Races

——— films I haven’t yet seen, but look promising:

Way Out West

Breakfast for Two

Broadway Melody of 1938

Captains Courageous

Danger – Love at Work

Dead End

The Edge of the World

Fire Over England

The Good Earth

Kid Galahad

The Life of Emile Zola

Lost Horizon

Maytime

Navy Blue and Gold

Saratoga

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Topper

Tovarich

True Confession

Wee Willie Winkie

Wells Fargo

Best/Favorite Films of 1938

1. Bringing Up Baby

2. The Lady Vanishes

3. Port of Shadows

4. Pygmalion

5. The Divorce of Lady X

6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

7. The Citadel

8. Alexander Nevsky

9. You Can’t Take It with You

10. The Drum

11. The Buccaneer

Block-Heads

The Goldwyn Follies

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

————still need to see:

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Algiers

La Bete humaine

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Cocoanut Grove

The Crowd Roars

La Femme du Boulanger

Having Wonderful Time

Holiday

Jezebel

Room Service

The Shopworn Angel

Sixty Glorious Years

Sweethearts

Too Hot to Handle

Best/Favorite Films of 1939

1. The Rules of the Game

2. The Wizard of Oz

3. The Four Feathers

4. Only Angels Have Wings

5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

6. Wuthering Heights

7. Gone With the Wind

8. Drums Along the Mohawk

9. Young Mr. Lincoln

10. Golden Boy

11. The Mikado

12. Union Pacific

13. You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Midnight

Over the Moon

———– still need to see:

At the Circus

Babes in Arms

Bachelor Mother

Beau Geste

Dark Victory

Destry Rides Again

Goodbye Mr. Chips

The Great Man Votes

Gunga Din

Idiot’s Delight

Intermezzo

It’s a Wonderful World

Jamaica Inn

Le Jour se leve

Juarez

Love Affair

Ninotchka

Northwest Passage

Of Mice and Men

On Your Toes

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Q Planes

The Rains Came

The Roaring Twenties

St. Louis Blues

The Spy in Black

Stagecoach

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Women

Zenobia

Best/Favorite Films of 1940

1. Fantasia

2. The Great Dictator

3. The Philadelphia Story

4. The Grapes of Wrath

5. The Thief of Bagdad

6. Foreign Correspondent

7. Christmas in July

8. The Blue Bird

9. The Great McGinty

10. Rebecca

11. Night Train to Munich

12. His Girl Friday

13. The Bank Dick

14. Broadway Melody of 1940

15. They Drive by Night

A Chump at Oxford

Contraband

Down Argentine Way

Remember the Night

———still need to see:

Boom Town

City for Conquest

Gaslight

Go West

I Love You Again

Kitty Foyle

The Long Voyage Home

The Mark of Zorro

The Mortal Storm

My Favorite Wife

Our Town

Pinocchio

Pride and Prejudice

Road to Singapore

The Sea Hawk

The Shop Around the Corner

The Stars Look Down

Too Many Husbands

Best/Favorite Films of 1941

1. Citizen Kane

2. The Devil and Daniel Webster

3. Sullivan’s Travels

4. 49th Parallel

5. The Lady Eve

6. Sergeant York

7. The Maltese Falcon

8. That Hamilton Woman

9. Here Comes Mr. Jordan

10. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

11. Mr. Bug Goes to Town

12. Lydia

13. Moon Over Miami

14. How Green Was My Valley

15. Mr. and Mrs. Smith

15. Suspicion

Blood and Sand

Blues in the Night

The Chocolate Soldier

The Devil and Miss Jones

Hellzapoppin’

Hold That Ghost

The Little Foxes

Louisiana Purchase

Meet John Doe

Sun Valley Serenade

——-still need to see:

All Through the Night

Babes on Broadway

Ball of Fire

The Bride Came C.O.D.

Cottage to Let

Fiesta

The 47 Ronin

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

Hatter’s Castle

High Sierra

It Started with Eve

Kipps

Ladies in Retirement

Love Crazy

One Foot in Heaven

Penny Serenade

The Reluctant Dragon

Road to Zanzibar

The Shepherd of the Hills

That Uncertain Feeling

They Died with Their Boots On

Western Union

Best/Favorite Films of 1942

1. Casablanca

2. The Magnificant Ambersons

3. Kings Row

4. The Devil’s Envoys (Les Visiteurs  du Soir)

5. The Palm Beach Story

6. In Which We Serve

7. One of Our Aircraft is Missing

8. Cat People

9. To Be or Not to Be

10. Saboteur

11. Now, Voyager

12. Jungle Book

13. Holiday Inn

14. I Married a Witch

15. This Gun For Hire

16. The Pride of the Yankees

The Boogie Man Will Get You

Gentleman Jim

Johnny Eager

Mrs. Miniver

Reap the Wild Wind

Ride ‘Em Cowboy

Rings on Her Fingers

Road to Morocco

Yankee Doodle Dandy

You Were Never Lovelier

——–still need to see:

Across the Pacific

A-Haunting We Will Go

All Through the Night

Arabian Nights

The Big Shot

The Big Street

The Black Swan

Don’t Get Personal

Eyes in the Night

For Me and My Gal

Un Garibaldino al Convento

George Washington Slept Here

The Glass Key

The Great Mr. Handel

I Married an Angel

Jackass Mail

Kid Glove Killer

The Lady is Willing

The Major and the Minor

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

My Sister Eileen

Panama Hattie

The Pied Piper

Random Harvest

Roxie Hart

Springtime in the Rockies

Tales of Manhattan

The Talk of the Town

Tarzan’s New York Adventure

Wake Island

Went the Day Well?

Woman of the Year

The Young Mr. Pitt

Best/Favorite Films of 1943

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

2. Shadow of a Doubt

3. The Ox-Bow Incident

4. Jane Eyre

5. Day of Wrath

6. The Seventh Victim

7. Sanshiro Sugata

8. Heaven Can Wait

9. Air Force

10. Cabin in the Sky

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Girl Crazy

Meshes of the Afternoon (short)

Phantom of the Opera

Sahara

——–films I haven’t yet seen, but look promising:

Action in the North Atlantic

Les anges du perche

Coney Island

Le Corbeau

The Demi-Paradise

Destination Tokyo

The Eternal Return

Five Graves to Cairo

Guadalcanal Diary

A Guy Named Joe

The Human Comedy

Journey into Fear

The Man in Grey

Maria Candelaria

The More the Merrier

Ossessione

The Outlaw

The Sky’s the Limit

The Song of Bernadette

Stormy Weather

They Came to Blow Up America

This is the Army

This Land is Mine

Thousands Cheer

Best/Favorite Films of 1944

1. A Canterbury Tale

2. Henry V

3. Hail the Conquering Hero

4. Since You Went Away

5. The Story of Dr. Wassell

6. This Happy Breed

7. Meet Me in St. Louis

8. The Uninvited

9. Lady in the Dark

10. The Curse of the Cat People

11. Going My Way

12. Ministry of Fear

13. Arsenic and Old Lace

14. The Halfway House

15. Double Indemnity

16. Murder, My Sweet

17. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

18. To Have and Have Not

19. The Woman in the Window

An American Romance

Buffalo Bill

Gaslight

The Keys of the Kingdom

Laura

Lifeboat

National Velvet

Phantom Lady

The Purple Heart

Tall in the Saddle

Tawny Pipit

Up in Arms

Western Approaches

———still need to see:

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Bathing Beauty

The Canterville Ghost

Champagne Charlie

The Children Are Watching Us

Cover Girl

Dragon Seed

Experiment Perilous

Frenchman’s Creek

Greenwich Village

The Heavenly Body

Hollywood Canteen

Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Ivan the Terrible

Kismet

Mr. Skeffington

None But the Lonely Heart

On Approval

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

Passage to Marseille

Pin Up Girl

The Seventh Cross

Shine On Harvest Moon

Something for the Boys

Torment (Hets)

The Way Ahead

The White Cliffs of Dover

Wilson

Winged Victory

Best/Favorite Films of 1945

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

2. I Know Where I’m Going!

3. Children of Paradise

4. State Fair

5. The Lost Weekend

6. Blithe Spirit

7. They Were Expendable

8. Open City (Roma Citta aperta)

9. Leave Her to Heaven

10. The Clock

11. Dead of Night

12. Spellbound

13. Hangover Square

14. Mildred Pierce

15. Anchors Aweigh

16. Wonder Man

17. The Enchanted Cottage

18. Fallen Angel

19. Yolanda and the Thief

20. The Way to the Stars

21. Les dames du Bois de Boulogne

22. Detour

22.The Picture of Dorian Gray

My Name is Julia Ross

And Then There Were None

The Bells of St. Mary

Caesar and Cleopatra

Here Come the Co-Eds

Isle of the Dead

Love Letters

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Saratoga Trunk

A Song to Remember

Ziegfeld Follies

———still need to see:

Brief Encounter

Confidential Agent

The Corn is Green

The Dolly Sisters

The Enchanted Forest

Flame of Barbary Coast

The Gate of Heaven

Getting Gertie’s Garter

The House on 92nd Street

It’s in the Bag

A Medal for Benny

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail

Objective, Burma

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Pink String and Sealing Wax

The Rake’s Progress

Scarlet Street

The Seventh Veil

The Southerner

The Spanish Main

The Stork Club

Thrill of a Romance

The Valley of Decision

A Walk in the Sun

Best/Favorite Films of 1946

1. It’s a Wonderful Life

2. A Matter of Life and Death

3. The Big Sleep

4. The Yearling

5. Beauty and the Beast

6. Great Expectations

7. The Best Years of Our Lives

8. The Stranger

9. Green for Danger

10. Humoresque

10. The Killers

12. Cluny Brown

The Harvey Girls

Bedlam

Blue Skies

A Day in the Country

The Jolson Story

Notorious

Somewhere in the Night

Song of the South

———————still need to see:

Anna and the King of Siam

La Bataille du rail

The Blue Dahlia

Centennial Summer

Dragonwyck

Duel in the Sun

Enamorada

Gilda

The Green Years

The Murderers Are Among Us

My Darling Clementine

My Reputation

Paisan

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Razor’s Edge

Road to Utopia

Shoeshine

The Spiral Staircase

A Stolen Life

La Symphonie Pastorale