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C. Aubrey Smith has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Rebecca.
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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1931
Romance · Drama

Grand Hotel
1932
Drama · Romance

Camille
1936
Drama · Romance

Morocco
1930
Drama · Romance

Gone with the Wind
1939
Drama · War

Jezebel
1938
Drama · Romance

Samson and Delilah
1949
Romance · Drama

The Great Ziegfeld
1936
Music · Drama

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · With Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Dir. Zoltan Korda · With John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.
Dir. René Clair · With Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Dir. Rouben Mamoulian · With Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · With Johnny Weissmüller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Dir. Victor Fleming · With Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
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