Best biopics 1931 – 1940 - Charts
Best biopics 1931 – 1940
1. Edison, the Man (1940)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson
2. Queen Christina (1933)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
3. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
4. The Plainsman (1936)
USA, Western / Historical
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
5. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
Soviet Union, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Mark Donskoy
Cast: Daniil Sagal, Michail Troyanovsky
6. Marie Antoinette (1938)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power
7. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
8. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
9. Cleopatra (1934)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William
10. Boys Town (1938)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Norman Taurog
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney
11. To byl český muzikant (1940)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Vladimír Slavínský
Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Jaroslav Vojta
13. Santa Fe Trail (1940)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
14. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn
15. On His Own (1939)
Soviet Union, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Mark Donskoy
Cast: Irina Zarubina, Nikolay Gorlov
16. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard
17. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart
18. The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
UK, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Alexander Korda
Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
19. Annie Oakley (1935)
USA, Biography / Drama
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster
20. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
22. Mary of Scotland (1936)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: John Ford
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March
23. Karel Hynek Mácha (1937)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Zet Molas
Cast: Ladislav Boháč, Karla Oličová
24. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Archie Mayo, John Ford
Cast: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie
25. Poslední bohém (1931)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Svatopluk Innemann
Cast: Saša Rašilov st., Radola Renský
26. Jesse James (1939)
USA, Western / Biography
Directed by: Irving Cummings, Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda
27. Karel Havlíček Borovský (1931)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Svatopluk Innemann
Cast: František Smolík, Marie Šponarová
28. Chapayev (1934)
Soviet Union, Drama / War
Directed by: Sergei Vasilyev, Georgiy Vasilyev
Cast: Boris Babochkin, Леонид Кмит
29. Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1935)
Czechoslovakia, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Jan Sviták
Cast: Zvonimir Rogoz, Ján Sýkora
30. Lenin in October (1937)
Soviet Union, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Mikhail Romm, Dmitriy Vasilev