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Movie historians and film buffs often look back on the year 1939 as "the greatest year in film history." Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as memorable classics when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten.

August 25 - The Wizard of Oz
premieres in the US.

December 15 - Gone with the Wind
premieres in the US.

Top grossing films

# Gone with the Wind
# The Wizard of Oz
# Ninotchka
# The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

Academy Awards

Best Picture: Gone with the Wind
- David O. Selznick, MGM
Best Actor
: Robert Donat
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Best Actress
: Vivien Leigh
- Gone with the Wind

Other films released

Films released in 1939 include:

Another Thin Man
Ask a Policeman
At The Circus
Babes In Arms
Bachelor Mother
Barricade
Beau Geste
Dark Victory
Daughter of The Tong
Destry Rides Again
Dodge City
Drums Along the Mohawk
, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda
and Claudette Colbert
Everything Happens At Night
Fools For Scandal
The Four Feathers
Frontier Marshall
Gunga Din
, starring Cary Grant
, Victor McLaglen
, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sam Jaffe
Gulliver's Travels
Hollywood Cavalcade
Jesse James
King Of The Underworld
Mexicali Rose
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
, starring Charles Laughton
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
starring James Stewart
Of Mice and Men
The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu)
, by Jean Renoir
The Spy in Black
Stagecoach, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne
, Claire Trevor
, Berton Churchill
Stanley And Livingstone
The Stars Look Down, starring Michael Redgrave
and Margaret Lockwood
The Women
, starring Norma Shearer
, Joan Crawford
and Rosalind Russell
Wuthering Heights
, starring Merle Oberon
, Laurence Olivier
, David Niven
and Flora Robson

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