Abe Lincoln in Illinois, starring Raymond Massey

All This and Heaven Too, starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, and Fay Holden

Angels Over Broadway, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Rita Hayworth

Arise, My Love, starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland

Arizona, starring Jean Arthur and William Holden

Band Waggon, directed by Marcel Varnel, starring Arthur Askey - (GB)

The Bank Dick, written by and starring W. C. Fields

The Biscuit Eater

Bismarck, starring Paul Hartmann - (Germany)

Black Friday, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi

The Blue Bird, starring Shirley Temple

Boom Town, starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr

Boys of the City, starring the East Side Kids

Brigham Young, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell

Broadway Melody of 1940, starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - final film of series

Brother Orchid, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart

Calling Philo Vance, starring James Stephenson

Castle on the Hudson, directed by Anatole Litvak, starring John Garfield and Ann Sheridan

The Catacombs (Katakomby), directed by Martin Frič - (Czechoslovakia)

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, starring Sidney Toler

Charlie Chan in Panama, starring Sidney Toler

Christmas in July, directed by Preston Sturges

A Chump at Oxford, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, featuring a young Peter Cushing

City for Conquest, starring James Cagney

Confucius - (China)

Contraband, directed by Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson - (GB)

Convicted Woman, starring Rochelle Hudson and June Lang

Convoy - directed by Pen Tennyson, starring Clive Brook, John Clements (UK)

Crimes at the Dark House, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter - (GB)

Dance, Girl, Dance, starring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball

Dark Command, starring John Wayne

Dead Man's Shoes, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Leslie Banks - (GB)

A Dispatch from Reuter's, starring Edward G. Robinson

Dívka v modrém - (Czechoslovakia)

Doomed to Die, starring Boris Karloff

Down Argentine Way, starring Don Ameche, Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda

Dr. Cyclops, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Albert Dekker

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp

East Side Kids, starring Leon Ames and the East Side Kids

Edison, the Man, starring Spencer Tracy

Ergens in Nederland (Somewhere in the Netherlands) - (Netherlands)

Escape, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor

Fantasia, a Disney animated film

The Fatal Hour, starred Boris Karloff

Flowing Gold, starring John Garfield and Frances Farmer

Foreign Correspondent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joel McCrea

Four Sons, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Don Ameche

The Fox of Glenarvon, directed by Max W. Kimmich - (Germany)

French Without Tears, starring Ray Milland - (GB)

Gaslight, starring Anton Walbrook - (GB)

The Ghost Breakers, starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard

Girl in the News, starring Margaret Lockwood - (GB)

Give Us Wings, starring the Dead End Kids

Go West, starring the Marx Brothers

The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda

The Great Dictator, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin with Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie

The Great McGinty, starring Brian Donlevy

Green Hell, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Bennett

Here Is the Point (Ahí está el detalle), starring Cantinflas - (Mexico)

His Girl Friday, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

Hoots Mon!, directed by Roy William Neill, starring Max Miller and Florence Desmond (Britain)

The House of the Seven Gables, starring George Sanders

The Howards of Virginia, starring Cary Grant and Martha Scott

Hullabaloo, starring Frank Morgan

I Love You Again, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy

The Invisible Man Returns, starring Cedric Hardwicke and Vincent Price

The Invisible Woman, starring Virginia Bruce and John Barrymore

It All Came True, starring Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart

June Nights (Juninatten), starring Ingrid Bergman - (Sweden)

King of the White Elephant (Prajao Changpeuk) - (Thailand)

Kitty Foyle, starring Ginger Rogers

Lady with Red Hair, starring Miriam Hopkins

The Letter, directed by William Wyler, starring Bette Davis

The Long Voyage Home, starring John Wayne

Maddalena, Zero for Conduct, directed by and starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)

The Marines Fly High, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Dix

The Mark of Zorro, starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell

The Middle Watch, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Jack Buchanan and Greta Gynt (Britain)

The Minister's Girlfriends (Přítelkyně pana ministra) - (Czechoslovakia)

The Mortal Storm, starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart

The Mummy's Hand, starring Dick Foran

My Favorite Wife, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant

My Little Chickadee, starring Mae West and W. C. Fields

New Moon, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

Night Train to Munich, directed by Carol Reed, starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison - (GB)

North West Mounted Police, starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll

Northwest Passage, starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Young

One Million B.C. (aka The Cave Dwellers), starring Carole Landis

One Night in the Tropics, film debut of Abbott and Costello

Our Town, starring William Holden and Martha Scott

Pastor Hall, directed by Roy Boulting - (GB)

The Philadelphia Story, directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart

Pinocchio

Pride and Prejudice, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier

Primrose Path, starring Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea

The Proud Valley, starring Paul Robeson - (GB)

Queen of the Yukon, starring Charles Bickford

Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier - Oscar for best picture

Remember the Night, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray

Rhythm on the River, starring Bing Crosby and Mary Martin

Road to Singapore, starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope - first in the series

Saps at Sea, starring Laurel and Hardy

The Sea Hawk, starring Errol Flynn

Seven Sinners, starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne

The Shop Around the Corner, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart

The Siege of the Alcazar (L'Assedio dell'Alcazar) - (Italy)

Son of Ingagi, directed by Richard Kahn

The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett

Spring Parade, starring Deanna Durbin

The Stars Look Down, directed by Carol Reed, starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood - (GB)

The Stationmaster (Der postmeister) - (Germany)

Strange Cargo, starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford

Stranger on the Third Floor, starring Peter Lorre

Strike Up the Band, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney

That Gang of Mine, starring the East Side Kids

They Drive by Night, starring George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino

They Knew What They Wanted, directed by Garson Kanin, starring Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton

The Thief of Bagdad, starring Conrad Veidt and Sabu - (GB)

'Til We Meet Again, starring Merle Oberon and George Brent

Too Many Girls, starring Lucille Ball

Too Many Husbands, starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas

Tørres Snørtevold - (Norway)

Torrid Zone, starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien

Turnabout, starring John Hubbard and Carole Landis

Vigil in the Night, starring Carole Lombard

Virginia City, starring Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins

Waterloo Bridge, starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor

The Well-Digger's Daughter (La Fille du puisatier), directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu and Fernandel - (France)

The Westerner, starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Dana Andrews, Forrest Tucker

Where's That Fire?, starring Will Hay - (GB)

Young People, starring Shirley Temple

Young Tom Edison, starring Mickey Rooney

You're Not So Tough, starring the Dead End Kids

Serials

• Adventures of Red Ryder, directed by William Witney and John English

• Deadwood Dick, directed by James W. Horne

• Drums of Fu Manchu, starring Henry Brandon and Robert Kellard, directed by William Witney and John English

• Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, starring Buster Crabbe

• The Green Archer, starring Victor Jory, directed by James W. Horne

• The Green Hornet, starring Warren Hull

• Junior G-Men, starring the Dead End Kids

• King of the Royal Mounted starring Allan Lane, directed by William Witney and John English

• Mysterious Doctor Satan, starring Eduardo Ciannelli, directed by William Witney and John English

• The Shadow, starring Victor Jory, directed by James W. Horne

• Terry and the Pirates, starring William Tracy, directed by James W. Horne

• Winners of the West, starring Dick Foran and Anne Nagel

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)

• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)

• Our Gang (1922–1944)

• Charley Chase (1924-1940)

• The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)

• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)

• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)

• Terrytoons (1930–1964)

• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)

• Scrappy (1931–1941)

• Popeye (1933–1957)

• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)

• Donald Duck (1937–1956)

• Pluto (1937–1951)

• Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938–1942)

• Goofy (1939–1955)

• Andy Panda (1939–1949)

  • Knock Knock! (first appearance of Woody Woodpecker)

• Tom and Jerry (1940-1958)

  • Puss Gets the Boot

Top-grossing films (U.S.)