Best Male Performances - 1930s
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#1
as Jefferson Smith in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)#8
as Prof. Peter Morgan Jr. in "Vivacious Lady" (1938)#20
as Tony Kirby in "You Can't Take it with You" (1938)#23
as Tom Destry, Jr. in "Destry Rides Again" (1939)
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#2
as Duke Bradley in "Saratoga" (1937)#13
as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" (1939)#22
as Edward J. "Blackie" Gallagher in "Manhattan Melodrama (1934)#29
as Peter in "It Happened One Night" (1934)#47
as Christian in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935)#52
as Dennis Carson in "Red Dust" (1932)
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#3
as Abraham Lincoln in "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939)#42
as Eddie Taylor in "You Only Live Once" (1937)
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#4
as The Factory Worker in "Modern Times" (1936)#19
as The Tramp in "City Lights" (1931)#5
as Tony Camonte in "Scarface" (1932)#12
as Emile Zola in "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937)#30
as Louis Pasteur in "The Story of Louis Pasteur" (1936)#49
as Benito Juarez in "Juarez" (1939)#6
as Dan Quigley in "Lady Killer" (1933)#16
as Tom Powers in "The Public Enemy" (1931)#25
as Rocky Sullivan in "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938)#28
as Chester Kent in "Footlight Parade" (1933)#45
as Brick Davis in "G Men" (1935)
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#7
as Richard Hannay in "The 39 Steps" (1935)#18
as Edmond Dantes in "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934)#31
as Mr. Chips in "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939)#11
as Dr. David Huxley in "Bringing Up Baby" (1938)#21
as Johnny Case in "Holiday" (1938)#24
as Geoff Carter in "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939)#39
as Cutter in "Gunga Din" (1939)
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#15
as Little Caesar/Rico in "Little Caesar" (1931)#38
as Joe Krozac in "The Last Gangster" (1937)
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#17
as Michael 'Beau' Geste in "Beau Geste" (1939)#48
as Legionnaire Tom Brown in "Morocco" (1930)
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#26
as Lucky Garnett in "Swing Time" (1936)#37
as Petrov in "Shall We Dance" (1937)
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#27
as Joe Massara in "Little Caesar" (1931)#32
as Ballantine in "Gunga Din" (1939)
Some of the greatest actors got their start in this glorious decade (Stewart, Grant, Fonda), for a few it was their defining decade (Cagney, Muni, Gable), and for a couple the "talkies" saw their end to a shining career (Fairbanks, Barrymore).