List of American films of 1940
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A list of American films released in 1940.
Rebecca won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Contents
1 #
2 A
3 B
4 C-D
5 E-F
6 G-H
7 I-J
8 K-L
9 M-N
10 O-R
11 S-T
12 U-Z
13 See also
14 References
15 External links
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Mule Team | Richard Thorpe | Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Baxter | Western | MGM |
| 100 Pygmies and Andy Panda | Alex Lovy | Bernice Hansen (voice), Dick Nelson (voice) | Animated, Short |
A
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | John Cromwell | Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon | Drama, Biography | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Adventure in Diamonds | George Fitzmaurice | George Brent, Isa Miranda, John Loder | Drama | Paramount |
| Adventures of Red Ryder | William Witney, John English | Don "Red" Barry, Noah Beery, Tommy Cook | Western | 12-chapter movie serial based on the Western comic strip Red Ryder |
| Alias the Deacon | Christy Cabanne | Bob Burns, Mischa Auer, Peggy Moran | Comedy | Remake of Alias the Deacon (1928 silent film) [1] |
| All This, and Heaven Too | Anatole Litvak | Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn | Drama | Nominated for 3 Academy Awards |
| Always a Bride | Noel M. Smith | Rosemary Lane, George Reeves, John Eldredge | Comedy | Remake of Brides Are Like That (1936 film) |
| Am I Guilty? | Sam Newfield | Ralph Cooper, Sam McDaniel | Crime drama | [2] |
| Americaner Shadchen | Edgar G. Ulmer | Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinsky | Romantic comedy | English title "American Matchmaker"; in Yiddish and English [3] |
| And One Was Beautiful | Robert B. Sinclair | Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir | Romantic drama | |
| Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | George B. Seitz | Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker | Comedy | 9th (out of 16) with Andy Hardy character |
| An Angel from Texas | Ray Enright | Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan | Romantic comedy | Remake of The Butter and Egg Man (1928 silent film) |
| Angels Over Broadway | Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell | Drama | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | Jack Hively | Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Henry Travers | Drama | Follows Anne of Green Gables (1934 film) |
| The Ape | William Nigh | Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon | Horror | Monogram |
| Argentine Nights | Albert S. Rogell | Ritz Brothers, The Andrews Sisters, Constance Moore, George Reeves | Musical comedy | |
| Arise, My Love | Mitchell Leisen | Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe | Romantic comedy | Won Academy Award; another 3 nominations |
| Arizona | Wesley Ruggles | Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William | Western | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Arizona Frontier | Albert Herman | Tex Ritter | Western | [4] |
| Arizona Gang Busters | Sam Newfield | Tim McCoy, Pauline Haddon | Western | [5] |
B
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babies for Sale | Charles Barton | Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford, Miles Mander | Drama | Columbia |
| Bad Man from Red Butte | Ray Taylor | Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight | Western | [6] |
| The Bank Dick | Edward F. Cline | W. C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel | Comedy | Universal |
| Barnyard Follies | Frank McDonald | Mary Lee, Harry Cheshire, Rufe Davis, June Storey, Isabel Randolph | Musical | Republic |
| Before I Hang | Nick Grinde | Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett | Crime, Sci-fi | Columbia |
| Behind the News | Joseph Santley | Lloyd Nolan, Doris Davenport, Frank Albertson | Drama | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Beyond the Sacramento | Lambert Hillyer | Wild Bill Elliott, Evelyn Keyes, Dub Taylor | Western | [7] |
| Beyond Tomorrow | A. Edward Sutherland | Jean Parker, Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Richard Carlson | Fantasy | RKO |
| A Bill of Divorcement | John Farrow | Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter | Drama | Version of A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film) |
| Billy the Kid in Texas | Sam Newfield | Bob Steele, Terry Walker, Al St. John, Carleton Young | Western | 2nd (out of 6) with Steele in "Billy the Kid" series |
| Billy the Kid Outlawed | Sam Newfield | Bob Steele, Louise Currie, Al St. John, Carleton Young | Western | 1st (out of 6) film with Bob Steele in "Billy the Kid" series [8] |
| Billy the Kid's Gun Justice | Sam Newfield | Bob Steele, Al St. John, Louise Currie, Carleton Young | Western | 3rd (out of 6) film with Bob Steele in "Billy the Kid" series |
| The Biscuit Eater | Stuart Heisler | Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Richard Lane | Drama | |
| Bitter Sweet | W. S. Van Dyke | Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders | Musical | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards; remake of Bitter Sweet (1933 British film) |
| Black Diamonds | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Kathryn Adams Doty | Crime drama | [9] |
| Black Friday | Arthur Lubin | Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges | Science fiction | |
| Blazing Six Shooters | Joseph H. Lewis | Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Dick Curtis | Western | [10] |
| Blondie Has Servant Trouble | Frank R. Strayer | Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake | Comedy | 6th (out of 28) with Blondie character |
| Blondie on a Budget | Frank R. Strayer | Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake | Comedy | 5th (out of 28) with Blondie character |
| Blondie Plays Cupid | Frank R. Strayer | Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake | Comedy | 7th (out of 28) with Blondie character |
| The Blue Bird | Walter Lang | Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce | Fantasy | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Boom Town | Jack Conway | Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert | Drama | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards; #4 in top grossing films |
| The Border Legion | Joseph Kane | Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes | Western | |
| Boss of Bullion City | Ray Taylor | Johnny Mack Brown, Maria Montez, Nell O'Day | Western | Universal |
| Bowery Boy | William Morgan | Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Campbell, Jimmy Lydon, Helen Vinson | Crime | Republic |
| Boys of the City | Joseph H. Lewis | Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Hal E. Chester | Comedy Thriller | 2nd (out of 22) of East Side Kids series |
| The Boys from Syracuse | A. Edward Sutherland | Allan Jones, Irene Hervey, Martha Raye | Musical | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Brigham Young | Henry Hathaway | Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger | Biography | |
| British Intelligence | Terry O. Morse | Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester | War Spy | Version of Three Faces East (1926 silent film) |
| Broadway Melody of 1940 | Norman Taurog | Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy | Musical | 4th and final film of The Broadway Melody series |
| Broken Strings | Bernard B. Ray | Clarence Muse | Drama | |
| Brother Orchid | Lloyd Bacon | Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern | Crime comedy | |
| Brother Rat and a Baby | Ray Enright | Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan | Comedy | Follows Brother Rat (1938 film) |
| Buck Benny Rides Again | Mark Sandrich | Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie Anderson | Western comedy | |
| Bullet Code | David Howard | George O'Brien, Virginia Vale, Slim Whitaker | Western | Remake of Melody of the Plains (1937 film) |
| Bullets for Rustlers | Sam Nelson | Charles Starrett, Lorna Gray, Bob Nolan | Western | [11] |
| Buzzy Rides the Range | Richard C. Kahn | Robert "Buzz" Henry, David O'Brien | Western | [12] |
C-D
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cafe Hostess | Sidney Salkow | Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley | Drama | [13] |
| Calling All Husbands | Noel M. Smith | George Tobias, Lucile Fairbanks, Ernest Truex | Comedy | Version of Too Young to Marry (1931 film) |
| Calling Philo Vance | William Clemens | James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill | Mystery | 12th (out of 15) film with Philo Vance character |
| Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot, Alan Ladd | Adventure | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Carolina Moon | Frank McDonald | Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey | Western | Remake of Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935 film) |
| The Carson City Kid | Joseph Kane | Roy Rogers, Bob Steele | Western | Republic |
| Castle on the Hudson | Anatole Litvak | John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien | Drama | Version of 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932 film) |
| Chad Hanna | Henry King | Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell | Romantic drama | |
| Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum | Lynn Shores | Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon, Marguerite Chapman | Mystery | 6th (out of 22) with Toler as Charlie Chan |
| Charlie Chan in Panama | Norman Foster | Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill | Mystery | 7th (out of 22) with Toler as Charlie Chan |
| Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Eugene Forde | Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill | Mystery | 5th (out of 22) with Toler as Charlie Chan |
| Charter Pilot | Eugene Forde | Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Arleen Whelan | Adventure | 20th Century Fox |
| Chasing Trouble | Howard Bretherton | Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds, Mantan Moreland | Comedy, drama | Monogram |
| Cherokee Strip | Lesley Selander | Richard Dix, Florence Rice, William Henry | Western | |
| Christmas in July | Preston Sturges | Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn | Screwball comedy | Paramount |
| A Chump at Oxford | Alfred J. Goulding | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Forrester Harvey | Comedy | Partial remake of From Soup to Nuts (1928 film) |
| City for Conquest | Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| City of Chance | Ricardo Cortez | Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Amanda Duff | Film noir | 20th Century Fox |
| City of Lost Men | Harry Revier | William "Stage" Boyd, Kane Richmond, Claudia Dell | Science fiction | 3rd feature version of 1935 serial The Lost City [14] |
| Colorado | Joseph Kane | Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Pauline Moore | Western | Republic |
| Comes Midnight | James Baskett, Eddie Green, Amanda Randolph | Horror comedy | ||
| Comin' Round the Mountain | George Archainbaud | Bob Burns, Una Merkel, Jerry Colonna | Comedy | |
| Comrade X | King Vidor | Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka | Comedy Spy | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Congo Maisie | H. C. Potter | Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson | Comedy | Version of Red Dust (1932 film); 2nd (out of 10) film with Maisie character |
| Convicted Woman | Nick Grinde | Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Glenn Ford | Crime | Columbia |
| Covered Wagon Days | George Sherman | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo | Western | 29th (out of 51) film of The Three Mesquiteers series |
| Covered Wagon Trails | Raymond K. Johnson | Jack Randall, Sally Cairns, David Sharpe | Western | [15] |
| The Crooked Road | Phil Rosen | Edmund Lowe, Irene Hervey, Henry Wilcoxon | Crime drama | Republic |
| Cross-Country Romance | Frank Woodruff | Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper | Romantic comedy | RKO |
| Curtain Call | Frank Woodruff | Barbara Read, Alan Mowbray, Helen Vinson | Romantic comedy | |
| Dance, Girl, Dance | Dorothy Arzner | Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball | Musical | Footage preserved in US National Registry |
| Dancing on a Dime | Joseph Santley | Robert Paige, Peter Lind Hayes, Eddie Quillan | Musical | |
| Danger Ahead | Ralph Staub | James Newill, Dorothea Kent, Guy Usher | Adventure | 5th (out of 6) with Newill as Sgt. Renfrew of Royal Mounties |
| Danger on Wheels | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran | Sport thriller | [16] |
| Dark Command | Raoul Walsh | Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon | Western | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Dark Streets of Cairo | László Kardos | Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan | Mystery | |
| Deadwood Dick | James W. Horne | Don Douglas, Lorna Gray, Harry Harvey, Marin Sais | Western | 15-episode serial |
| Diamond Frontier | Harold D. Schuster | Victor McLaglen, John Loder, Anne Nagel | Adventure | |
| A Dispatch from Reuter's | William Dieterle | Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert | Biography | Warner Bros. |
| The Doctor Takes a Wife | Alexander Hall | Loretta Young, Ray Milland | Romantic comedy | |
| Doomed to Die | William Nigh | Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers | Mystery | Monogram |
| Double Alibi | Phil Rosen | Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan | Mystery | [17] |
| Down Argentine Way | Irving Cummings | Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda | Musical | Nominated for 3 Academy Awards; #9 in Top Grossing Films |
| Dr. Christian Meets the Women | William McGann | Jean Hersholt, Veda Ann Borg | Mystery | |
| Dr. Cyclops | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan | Science Fiction Horror | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | William Dieterle | Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger | Biography | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Dr. Kildare's Crisis | Harold S. Bucquet | Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Robert Young | Drama | MGM |
| Dreaming Out Loud | Harold Young | Lum and Abner, Frances Langford | Comedy | |
| Drums of the Desert | George Waggner | Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray | Western | [18] |
| Dulcy | S. Sylvan Simon | Ann Sothern, Roland Young | Comedy | MGM |
E-F
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Earl of Chicago | Richard Thorpe | Robert Montgomery | Comedy | MGM |
| Earthbound | Irving Pichel | Andrea Leeds, Warner Baxter | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| East of the River | Alfred E. Green | John Garfield, Marjorie Rambeau | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| East Side Kids | Robert F. Hill | Leon Ames, Dennis Moore, Joyce Bryant | Comedy | 1st (out of 22) film of East Side Kids series |
| Edison, the Man | Clarence Brown | Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman | Biographical | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Elmer's Candid Camera | Chuck Jones | Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan | Animated | |
| Escape | Mervyn LeRoy | Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt | Drama | MGM |
| Eyes of the Navy | Charles B. Middleton | Short Documentary | Nominated for Academy Award | |
| Fantasia | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, 9 more | Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor | Animated | Won 2 Honorary Academy Awards; footage preserved in US National Registry; #1 in Top Grossing Films* |
| The Fargo Kid | Edward Killy | Tim Holt, Ray Whitley | Western | RKO |
| The Fatal Hour | William Nigh | Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers | Thriller | |
| Father Is a Prince | Noel Smith | John Litel, Jan Clayton, George Reeves | Drama | |
| The Fight for Life | Pare Lorentz | Myron McCormick, Will Geer | Drama | Nominated for Academy Award |
| The Fighting 69th | William Keighley | James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent | War | Warner Bros. |
| Five Little Peppers in Trouble | Charles Barton | Edith Fellows | Comedy | Columbia, last of series |
| Flight Angels | Lewis Seiler | Virginia Bruce, Jane Wyman, Ralph Bellamy | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Flight Command | Frank Borzage | Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon | War | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Florian | Edwin L. Marin | Robert Young, Charles Coburn | Drama | MGM |
| Flowing Gold | Alfred E. Green | John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O'Brien | Adventure | Warner Bros. |
| Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock | Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall | Spy thriller | Nominated for 6 Academy Awards; #15 in Top Grossing Films |
| Forgotten Girls | Phil Rosen | Louise Platt, Donald Woods | Drama | Republic |
| Forty Little Mothers | Busby Berkeley | Eddie Cantor, Judith Anderson | Drama | MGM |
| Four Sons | Archie Mayo | Don Ameche, Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Beth Hughes | Drama War | Remake of Four Sons (1928 silent film) |
| Free, Blonde and 21 | Ricardo Cortez | Lynn Bari, Joan Davis, Mary Beth Hughes | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| From Nurse to Worse | Jules White | The Three Stooges | Comedy Short | |
| A Fugitive from Justice | Terry O. Morse | Roger Pryor, Lucile Fairbanks, Eddie Foy Jr. | Crime drama | Warner Bros. |
G-H
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gallant Sons | George Seitz | Jackie Cooper, Gail Patrick | Drama | MGM |
| Gambling on the High Seas | George Amy | Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Gangs of Chicago | Arthur Lubin | Lloyd Nolan, Lola Lane | Crime | Republic |
| Gaucho Serenade | Frank McDonald | Gene Autry, June Storey | Western | Republic |
| The Ghost Breakers | George Marshall | Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Anthony Quinn | Horror comedy | Paramount |
| The Ghost Comes Home | Wilhelm Thiele | Frank Morgan, Billie Burke | Comedy | MGM |
| Girl from Havana | Lew Landers | Claire Carleton, Dennis O'Keefe | Drama | Republic |
| Girl in 313 | Ricardo Cortez | Florence Rice, Lionel Atwill | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Give Us Wings | Charles Lamont | Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell | Adventure | Dead End Kids |
| Glamour for Sale | D. Ross Lederman | Anita Louise, Roger Pryor | Crime | Columbia |
| The Golden Fleecing | Leslie Fenton | Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, Lloyd Nolan | Comedy | written by S. J. Perelman |
| Golden Gloves | Edward Dmytryk | Richard Denning, Jeanne Cagney | Drama | Paramount |
| Gold Rush Maisie | Edwin L. Marin | Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman | Comedy | MGM; third in series |
| Go West | Edward Buzzell | Marx Brothers, John Carroll, Diana Lewis | Comedy | MGM |
| Granny Get Your Gun | George Amy | May Robson, Margot Stevenson | Comedy | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine | Drama | Won 2 Academy Awards, one for Best Director; another 5 nominations; footage preserved in US National Registry; #12 in Top Grossing Films |
| The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie | Comedy | Nominated for 5 Academy Awards; footage preserved in US National Registry |
| The Great McGinty | Preston Sturges | Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff | Comedy | Won Academy Award for screenplay |
| The Green Archer | James Horne | Victor Jory, Iris Meredith | Serial | Columbia |
| Green Hell | James Whale | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard | Adventure | Universal |
| The Green Hornet | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Gordon Jones, Wade Boteler, Anne Nagel | Adventure Serial | Universal |
| Half a Sinner | Al Christie | Heather Angel, John King | Mystery | |
| Haunted Honeymoon | Arthur B. Woods | Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings | Mystery | MGM |
| He Married His Wife | Roy Del Ruth | Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Her First Romance | Edward Dmytryk | Edith Fellows, Alan Ladd | Musical | Monogram |
| High School | George Nicholls Jr. | Jane Withers, Lloyd Corrigan | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Hired! | H.J. Handy (producer) | Short | Chevrolet promotion | |
| Hired Wife | William A. Seiter | Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce | Comedy | Universal |
| His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy | Screwball comedy | Remake of The Front Page (1931); remade in 1974 |
| Hit Parade of 1941 | John H. Auer | Kenny Baker, Frances Langford, Hugh Herbert, Ann Miller | Musical comedy | Republic, nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Hold That Woman! | Sam Newfield | Frances Gifford, James Dunn | Comedy | PRC |
| The House Across the Bay | Archie Mayo | George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan | Crime drama | |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Joe May | George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Nan Grey, Vincent Price, Dick Foran | Thriller | Universal; nominated for Academy Award |
| How High Is Up? | Del Lord | The Three Stooges | Comedy Short | |
| The Howards of Virginia | Frank Lloyd | Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke | Period Drama | Columbia; nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Hullabaloo | Edwin L. Marin | Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey | Musical comedy | MGM |
I-J
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice-Capades | Joseph Santley | James Ellison, Renie Riano, Phil Silvers | Comedy | Republic |
| I Love You Again | W. S. Van Dyke | William Powell, Myrna Loy | Romantic comedy | MGM |
| I Take This Oath | Sam Newfield | Joyce Compton, Gordon Jones | Drama | PRC |
| I Take This Woman | W. S. Van Dyke | Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Laraine Day | Drama | MGM |
| I Want a Divorce | Ralph Murphy | Joan Blondell, Dick Powell | Comedy | Paramount |
| If I Had My Way | David Butler | Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean | Musical | Paramount |
| I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now | Arthur Lubin | Helen Parrish, Constance Moore | Drama | Universal |
| I'm Still Alive | Irving Reis | Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes | Drama | |
| The Invisible Man Returns | Joe May | Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey | Science fiction | Nominated for Academy Award |
| The Invisible Woman | A. Edward Sutherland | Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard | Science fiction Comedy | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Irene | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young | Musical | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Island of Doomed Men | Charles Barton | Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson | Thriller | Columbia |
| It All Came True | Lewis Seiler | Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| It's a Date | William A. Seiter | Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon | Musical | Universal |
| I Was an Adventuress | Gregory Ratoff | Vera Zorina, Richard Greene | Drama | |
| Jennie | David Burton | Virginia Gilmore, George Montgomery | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Johnny Apollo | Henry Hathaway | Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour | Crime drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Junior G-Men | Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Dead End Kids | Serial | Universal |
K-L
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King of the Lumberjacks | William Clemens | John Payne, Gloria Dickson | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| King of the Royal Mounted | William Witney, John English | Allan Lane | Adventure Serial | Republic |
| Kitty Foyle | Sam Wood | Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig | Drama | Won Academy Award for Best Actress; another 4 nominations |
| Knock Knock | Walter Lantz (producer) | Animated Short | ||
| Knute Rockne, All American | Lloyd Bacon | Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan | Biographical | Story of football coach Knute Rockne |
| Laddie | Jack Hively | Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore | Drama | |
| Ladies Must Live | Noel M. Smith | Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| The Lady in Question | Charles Vidor | Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth | Comedy | Columbia |
| Lady with Red Hair | Curtis Bernhardt | Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley | Drama | |
| Law and Order | Ray Taylor | Johnny Mack Brown | Western | Universal; Remake of 1953 film |
| Legion of the Lawless | David Howard | George O'Brien, Virginia Vale | Western | RKO |
| The Letter | William Wyler | Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson | Film noir | Nominated for 7 Academy Awards |
| The Light That Failed | William Wellman | Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Ida Lupino | Drama | |
| Lillian Russell | Irving Cummings | Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda | Biographical | Nominated for Academy Award |
| A Little Bit of Heaven | Andrew Marton | Gloria Jean, Hugh Herbert, Robert Stack | Musical | Followup to The Under-Pup (1939 film) |
| Little Men | Norman Z. McLeod | Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, Ann Gillis | Drama | based on novel by Louisa May Alcott |
| Little Nellie Kelly | Norman Taurog | Judy Garland, George Murphy | Musical comedy | MGM |
| Little Old New York | Henry King | Fred MacMurray, Alice Faye, Brenda Joyce | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady | Sidney Salkow | Warren William, Jean Muir | Mystery | Columbia |
| The Long Voyage Home | John Ford | John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter | War Drama | Nominated for 6 Academy Awards |
| Love Thy Neighbor | Mark Sandrich | Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mary Martin | Comedy | |
| Lucky Cisco Kid | H. Bruce Humberstone | Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes | Western | |
| Lucky Partners | Lewis Milestone | Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson | Romantic comedy | RKO |
M-N
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maisie Was a Lady | Edwin L. Marin | Ann Sothern, Lew Ayres | Comedy | MGM; 4th of series |
| The Man from Dakota | Leslie Fenton | Wallace Beery, Dolores del Río | Historical Drama | MGM |
| Manhattan Heartbeat | David Burton | Robert Sterling, Virginia Gilmore | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Man I Married | Irving Pichel | Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | David Burton | Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers | Mystery | 20th Century Fox |
| The Marines Fly High | Benjamin Stoloff, George Nicholls Jr. | Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball | Adventure | RKO |
| The Mark of Zorro | Rouben Mamoulian | Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone | Adventure | Nominated for Academy Award; footage preserved in US National Registry |
| Marked Men | Sam Newfield | Warren Hull, Isabel Jewell | Drama | PRC |
| Married and in Love | John Farrow | Barbara Read, Helen Vinson | Drama | RKO |
| Maryland | Henry King | Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Meet the Wildcat | Arthur Lubin | Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay | Drama | Universal |
| Melody and Moonlight | Joseph Santley | Jane Frazee, Johnny Downs | Comedy | Republic |
| Melody Ranch | Joseph Santley | Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller | Western | Republic |
| Mexican Spitfire | Leslie Goodwins | Lupe Vélez, Leon Errol | Comedy | First of series |
| Michael Shayne, Private Detective | Eugene Forde | Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver | Mystery | First of series |
| The Milky Way | Rudolf Ising | Bernice Hansen | Animated Short | Won Academy Award |
| Millionaire Playboy | Leslie Goodwins | Joe Penner, Russ Brown | Comedy | RKO |
| Millionaires in Prison | Ray McCarey | Lee Tracy, Linda Hayes | Drama | RKO |
| Misbehaving Husbands | William Beaudine | Betty Blythe, Harry Langdon | Comedy | |
| Money and the Woman | William Howard | Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Moon Over Burma | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston | Romance | Paramount |
| The Mortal Storm | Frank Borzage | James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Frank Morgan | Drama | MGM |
| Mr. Duck Steps Out | Jack King | Animated Short | ||
| The Mummy's Hand | Christy Cabanne | Dick Foran, Peggy Moran | Horror | Universal |
| Murder in the Air | Lewis Seiler | Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys | Drama | Warner Bros |
| Murder Over New York | Harry Lachman | Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Marjorie Weaver | Mystery | Charlie Chan, 20th Century Fox |
| Music in My Heart | Joseph Santley | Tony Martin, Rita Hayworth, Edith Fellows | Musical | Nominated for Academy Award |
| My Favorite Wife | Garson Kanin | Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott | Screwball comedy | Nominated for 3 Academy Awards |
| My Little Chickadee | Edward F. Cline | Mae West, W. C. Fields | Comedy | Universal |
| My Love Came Back | Curtis Bernhardt | Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Jane Wyman | Romance | Warner Bros. |
| My Son, My Son! | Charles Vidor | Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward | Drama | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Mysterious Doctor Satan | William Witney, John English | Eduardo Ciannelli | Serial | Republic |
| Mystery Sea Raider | Edward Dmytryk | Carole Landis | Drama | |
| New Moon | Jack Conway | Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy | Musical drama | MGM |
| A Night at Earl Carroll's | Kurt Neumann | Ken Murray, J. Carrol Naish, Rose Hobart | Musical | |
| No Census, No Feeling | Del Lord | The Three Stooges | Comedy Short | |
| North West Mounted Police | Cecil B. DeMille | Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard | Western | Won Academy Award for editing; 4 more nominations |
| Northwest Passage | King Vidor, Jack Conway, W. S. Van Dyke | Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan | Adventure | Nominated for Academy Award; #19 in Top Grossing Films |
| No Time for Comedy | William Keighley | James Stewart, Rosalind Russell | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Nutty But Nice | Jules White | The Three Stooges | Comedy Short |
O-R
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Fox and Hounds | Tex Avery | Willoughby the Dog | Animated Short | |
| The Old Swimmin' Hole | Robert MacGowan | Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones | Drama | |
| One Man's Law | George Sherman | Don "Red" Barry, Janet Waldo | Western | Republic |
| One Million B.C. | Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach | Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr. | Fantasy | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| One Night in the Tropics | A. Edward Sutherland | Abbott and Costello, Nancy Kelly, Allan Jones | Comedy | film debut of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello |
| On Their Own | Otto Brower | Spring Byington, June Carlson | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| Opened by Mistake | George Archainbaud | Charles Ruggles, Janice Logan | Comedy | |
| Our Town | Sam Wood | William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter | Drama | Nominated for 6 Academy Awards |
| Out West with the Peppers | Charles Barton | Edith Fellows | Western | third of series |
| Parole Fixer | Robert Florey | William Henry, Anthony Quinn | Drama | Paramount |
| Patient Porky | Bob Clampett | Porky Pig | Animated Short | |
| Phantom of Chinatown | Phil Rosen | Keye Luke, Grant Withers | Mystery | Monogram |
| Phantom Raiders | Jacques Tourneur | Walter Pidgeon, Florence Rice | Drama | MGM |
| The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart | Screwball comedy | Won 2 Academy Awards; 4 more nominations |
| Pier 13 | Eugene Forde | Lynn Bari, Lloyd Nolan | Drama | |
| Pinocchio | T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney | voices of Cliff Edwards, Evelyn Venable, Mel Blanc | Animated | Won 2 Academy Awards; footage preserved in US National Registry; #2 in Top Grossing Films* |
| Pride and Prejudice | Robert Z. Leonard | Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edward Ashley | Drama | Won Academy Award (art direction); #20 in Top Grossing Films |
| Pride of the Bowery | Joseph H. Lewis | East Side Kids, Mary Ainslee | Family | |
| Primrose Path | Gregory La Cava | Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau | Drama | Rambeau nominated for Academy Award |
| Private Affairs | Albert S. Rogell | Nancy Kelly, Roland Young, Robert Cummings | Comedy | |
| Public Deb No. 1 | Gregory Ratoff | Brenda Joyce, George Murphy | Comedy | |
| Puss Gets the Boot | Hanna-Barbera Rudolf Ising | Lillian Randolph | Animated Short | Nominated for Academy Award |
| The Quarterback | H. Bruce Humberstone | Wayne Morris, Virginia Dale, Lillian Cornell | Comedy | Paramount |
| Queen of the Mob | James P. Hogan | Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka | Crime | Paramount |
| Queen of the Yukon | Phil Rosen | Charles Bickford, Irene Rich, June Carlson | Adventure | |
| Quicker'n a Wink | George Sidney | Harold E. Edgerton | Short Documentary | Won Academy Award |
| Rancho Grande | Frank McDonald | Gene Autry, June Storey | Western | Republic |
| The Ranger and the Lady | Joseph Kane | Roy Rogers, Julie Bishop | Western | Republic |
| Rangers of Fortune | Sam Wood | Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Patricia Morison | Western | Paramount |
| Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine | Suspense | Won 2 Academy Awards, one for Best Picture; another 9 nominations; #3 in Top Grossing Films |
| Remedy for Riches | Erle C. Kenton | Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett | Drama | RKO |
| Remember the Night | Mitchell Leisen | Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray | Romantic drama | Paramount |
| The Return of Frank James | Fritz Lang | Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney | Western | |
| Rhythm on the River | Victor Schertzinger | Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone | Musical Comedy | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Riders of Black Mountain | Sam Newfield | Tim McCoy | Western | PRC |
| Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride | Frank McDonald | Gene Autry, Mary Lee | Western | Republic |
| River's End | Ray Enright | Dennis Morgan, Elizabeth Inglis | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Road to Singapore | Victor Schertzinger | Bob Hope, Bing Crosby | Musical comedy | First of series |
| Rockin' Thru the Rockies | Jules White | The Three Stooges | Comedy Short | |
| Rocky Mountain Rangers | George Sherman | Robert Livingston, Rosella Towne | Western | Republic |
S-T
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safari | Edward H. Griffith | Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Adventure | |
| Sailor's Lady | Allan Dwan | Nancy Kelly, Jon Hall | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
| The Saint Takes Over | Jack Hively | George Sanders, Wendy Barrie | Crime | one of series |
| The Saint's Double Trouble | Jack Hively | George Sanders, Helene Whitney | Crime | RKO |
| Santa Fe Marshal | Lesley Selander | William Boyd, Bernadene Hayes | Western | |
| Santa Fe Trail | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland | Western | #5 in Top Grossing Films |
| Saps at Sea | Gordon Douglas | Laurel and Hardy | Comedy | |
| Saturday's Children | Vincent Sherman | John Garfield, Anne Shirley | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Scatterbrain | Gus Meins | Judy Canova, Alan Mowbray | Comedy | |
| The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains | Adventure | Nominated for 4 Academy Awards; |
| Second Chorus | H. C. Potter | Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw | Musical Comedy | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| Service with the Colors | B. Reeves Eason | Robert Armstrong, William Lundigan, Henry O'Neill | Drama Short | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Seven Sinners | Tay Garnett | Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne | Adventure | Universal |
| Seventeen | Louis King | Betty Field, Jackie Cooper | Comedy | Paramount |
| She Couldn't Say No | William Clemens | Eve Arden, Roger Pryor | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| She Done Him Right | William Beaudine | Comedy | ||
| Shooting High | Alfred E. Green | Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver | Western musical | 20th Century Fox |
| The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch[19] | James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan | Romantic comedy | MGM |
| Siege | Julien Bryan | Julien Bryan | Documentary Short | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot | Lew Landers | Ruth Terry, Johnny Downs, Mary Lee | Musical | Republic |
| Ski Patrol | Lew Landers | Luli Deste, Philip Dorn | Drama | Universal |
| Sky Murder | George Seitz | Walter Pidgeon, Joyce Compton | Mystery | MGM; third in Nick Carter film series |
| Son of Ingagi | Richard Kahn | Zack Williams, Laura Bowman | Sci-fi | |
| The Son of Monte Cristo | Rowland V. Lee | Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders | Adventure | United Artists; nominated for Academy Award |
| Son of the Navy | William Nigh | Jean Parker, James Dunn | Comedy | |
| South of Pago Pago | Alfred E. Green | Jon Hall, Frances Farmer, Olympe Bradna | Adventure | United Artists |
| South of Suez | Lewis Seiler | George Brent, Brenda Marshall | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| So You Won't Talk | Edward Sedgwick | Joe E. Brown, Frances Robinson, Vivienne Osborne | Comedy | Columbia Pictures |
| Sporting Blood | S. Sylvan Simon | Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan | Drama | MGM |
| Spring Parade | Henry Koster | Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer | Comedy, Musical | Nominated for 4 Academy Awards |
| Stage to Chino | Edward Killy | George O'Brien, Virginia Vale | Western | RKO |
| Star Dust | Walter Lang | Linda Darnell, John Payne | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Strange Cargo | Frank Borzage | Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter | Drama, Romance | #7 in Top Grossing Films |
| Stranger on the Third Floor | Boris Ingster | Peter Lorre, Charles Waldron | Film noir | |
| Strike Up the Band | Busby Berkeley | Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra | Musical Comedy | Won Academy Award; another 2 nominations |
| Susan and God | George Cukor | Joan Crawford, Fredric March | Comedy | MGM |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Edward Ludwig | Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew | Adventure | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (Galloping Gertie) | Barney Elliott | Newsreel | Footage preserved in US National Registry | |
| 'Taint Legal | Harry D'Arcy | Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Billy Franey | Short Comedy | [20] |
| Tear Gas Squad | Terry O. Morse | John Payne, Dennis Morgan | Crime | Warner Bros. |
| Teddy the Rough Rider | Ray Enright | Sidney Blackmer, Pierre Watkin, Arthur Loft | Short Drama | Won Academy Award |
| Terry and the Pirates | James W. Horne | William Tracy, Sheila Darcy | Serial | based on comic strip |
| Texas Rangers Ride Again | James Hogan | Ellen Drew, John Howard | Western | Paramount |
| Texas Terrors | George Sherman | Don "Red" Barry, Julie Duncan | Western | |
| That Gang of Mine | Joseph H. Lewis | Leo Gorcey | Comedy | 3rd (out of 22) film of East Side Kids series |
| They Drive by Night | Raoul Walsh | George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| They Knew What They Wanted | Garson Kanin | Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan | Drama | RKO, nominated for Academy Award |
| Third Finger, Left Hand | Robert Z. Leonard | Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas | Romantic comedy | MGM |
| This Thing Called Love | Alexander Hall | Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas | Romantic comedy | Columbia |
| Those Were the Days! | Theodore Reed | William Holden, Bonita Granville, Judith Barrett | Comedy | Paramount |
| Three Cheers for the Irish | Lloyd Bacon | Priscilla Lane, Dennis Morgan | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Three Faces West | Bernard Vorhaus | John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie | Drama | Republic |
| 'Til We Meet Again | Edmund Goulding | Merle Oberon, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald | Drama | Remake of One Way Passage (1932 film) |
| Tin Pan Alley | Walter Lang | Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie | Musical | Won Academy Award (musical score) |
| Tom Brown's School Days | Robert Stevenson | Cedric Hardwicke, Freddy Bartholomew | Drama | based on 1857 novel |
| Too Many Girls | George Abbott | Lucille Ball, Frances Langford, Desi Arnaz | Musical | RKO |
| Too Many Husbands | Wesley Ruggles | Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas | Romantic comedy | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Torrid Zone | William Keighley | James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien | Adventure | Warner Bros. |
| Trail of the Vigilantes | Allan Dwan | Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford | Western | |
| Triple Justice | David Howard | George O'Brien, Virginia Vale | Drama | RKO |
| Tugboat Annie Sails Again | Lewis Seiler | Marjorie Rambeau, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan | Comedy | Warner Bros.; sequel to 1933 film |
| The Tulsa Kid | George Sherman | Don "Red" Barry, Luana Walters | Western | |
| Turnabout | Hal Roach | Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis | Comedy | United Artists |
| Two Girls on Broadway | S. Sylvan Simon | Lana Turner, Joan Blondell | Comedy | MGM |
| Typhoon | Louis King | Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman | Adventure | Nominated for Academy Award |
U-Z
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Untamed | George Archainbaud | Ray Milland, Patricia Morison, Akim Tamiroff | Drama | Paramount |
| Up in the Air | Howard Bretherton | Marjorie Reynolds, Frankie Darrow | Comedy | Monogram |
| Victory | John Cromwell | Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke, Betty Field | Adventure | Paramount |
| Vigil in the Night | George Stevens | Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne | Romantic Drama | RKO |
| The Villain Still Pursued Her | Edward F. Cline | Buster Keaton, Billy Gilbert | Comedy | RKO |
| Virginia City | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart | Western | #8 in Top Grossing Films |
| Viva Cisco Kid | Norman Foster | Cesar Romero, Jean Rogers | Western | 20th Century Fox |
| Wagons Westward | Lew Landers | Anita Louise, Chester Morris | Western | Republic |
| Waterloo Bridge | Mervyn LeRoy | Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson | War drama | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards |
| The Way of All Flesh | Louis King | Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George | Remake of The Way of All Flesh (1927 silent film) | |
| The Westerner | William Wyler | Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport | Western | Academy Award for Brennan; 3 nominations |
| We Who Are Young | Harold S. Bucquet | Lana Turner, Gene Lockhart | Drama | MGM |
| When the Daltons Rode | George Marshall | Randolph Scott, Kay Francis | Western | Universal |
| Who Killed Aunt Maggie? | Arthur Lubin | Wendy Barrie, Mona Barrie, John Hubbard | Mystery | Universal |
| Wildcat Bus | Frank Woodruff | Fay Wray, Charles Lang | Drama | RKO |
| A Wild Hare | Tex Avery | Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan | Animated Short | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Winners of the West | Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Dick Foran, Anne Nagel | Western Serial | Universal |
| Women in War | John H. Auer | Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie, Patric Knowles | War drama | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Women Without Names | Robert Florey | Ellen Drew, Fay Helm, Judith Barrett | Drama | |
| Wyoming | Richard Thorpe | Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Ann Rutherford | Western | MGM |
| You Can't Fool Your Wife | Ray McCarey | Lucille Ball, James Ellison | Comedy | RKO |
| You Ought to Be in Pictures | I. Freleng | Looney Tunes | Animated Short | |
| You'll Find Out | David Butler | Kay Kyser, Helen Parrish, Ginny Simms, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff | Comedy | Nominated for Academy Award |
| Young Bill Hickok | Joseph Kane | Roy Rogers, Sally Payne | Western | Republic |
| Young Buffalo Bill | Joseph Kane | Roy Rogers, Pauline Moore | Western | Republic |
| Young People | Allan Dwan | Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
| Young Tom Edison | Norman Taurog | Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft | Biography | MGM |
| Young as You Feel | Malcolm St. Clair | Jed Prouty, Spring Byington | Family | 20th Century Fox |
| You're Not So Tough | Joe May | Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan | Drama | Universal |
| Yukon Flight | Ralph Staub | Louise Stanley, James Newill | Western | Monogram |
See also
- 1940 in film
- 1940 in the United States
References
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^ "Film: Journey to the Altar".
^ "Arizona Frontier (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Arizona Gang Busters (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Bad Man from Red Butte (1940)".
^ "Beyond the Sacramento (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Black Diamonds (1940)".
^ "Blazing Six Shooters (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Bullets for Rustlers (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Buzzy Rides the Range (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "Cafe Hostess (1939) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
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^ "Drums of the Desert". 7 October 1940 – via www.imdb.com.
^ "The Shop Around the Corner". 12 January 1940 – via www.imdb.com.
^ "'Taint Legal".
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