I have charged the ship take us to
England we will be leaving tomorrow
evening there may have been a depression
on but there was nothing to feel glum
about when these guys were on the screen
I can’t go all my life waiting to get
you between a husband welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 decade
defining actors of the 1930s well there
was a fight near a barber shop this
morning yes yeah that was no fight I’ll
get to you in a minute for our series on
the top ten decade defining male actors
per period we’ve made our choices based
on a combination of their commercial
success their box-office scores their
productivity and how they helped set the
tone and raise the standard in Hollywood
for the era number 10 Robert Taylor
charmed I’m sure
in 1934 Taylor signed for movie Giants
metro-goldwyn-mayer and within a year
he’d secured his first leading role in
the magnificent obsession an
appropriately titled first gig
Taylor would soon be idolized by movie
goers and prioritized by movie makers
well you tell me first when you smiled
at me with my friend what’s right you
didn’t mean see her as the man with the
perfect profile he starred alongside
some of the finest actresses of the day
like Greta Garbo in Camille beautiful
girls for love and pleasure and Vivien
Leigh in the British comedy a Yank at
Oxford and he’s so Kevin Taylor had true
talent and everyone wanted a piece of it
oh you can’t break records with the
competition you gave him a bunch of mud
turtle number 9 Mickey Rooney I’m gonna
take all Polly Benedict applying I’m
gonna dump er I’m gonna turn her over to
Ben Davis or one of them live das at
light Girls
then I’m coming home and I’m going to
bed that’s what I’m gonna do it’s an
almost impossible task to choose just
ten out of the 90 years Mickey Rooney
performed but if he defined any decade
it was the 1930s this was where it all
began for roon
I hope I have fun here this winter how
many dancers you’re gonna dance with me
Polly huh Oh Andy a role as Andy Hardy
in a family affair landed him an
unexpected franchise success and a part
in Boystown with Spencer Tracy proved
his dramatic credentials here at
Catholic ricotta stood you can go right
on being him I’m not however the young
mickey rooney will always be remembered
alongside a young Judy Garland for his
oscar-nominated turn in babes in arms
I took a boat horn to say good morning
do you number eight James Cagney I wish
you was a wishing well but I like a tie
a bucket and shake it Orson Welles said
of this man that he may be the greatest
actor who ever appeared in front of a
camera so James Cagney’s inclusion on
our countdown is heavily justified
during the 30s he mostly found fame by
appearing as gangsters and tough guys it
did so he did the Public Enemy and
angels with dirty faces are amongst his
best remembered works it was a typecast
he would work to shut off later in his
career but during the post prohibition
years too long time that I go picnic it
was box-office gold you got about as
much as good an indictment as I have
getting in a Bible Society you’ll find
it nobody cares about the whole thing if
I don’t laugh not you and I’ve got out
of blind alleys oh go ahead kid well if
that’s our only competition Shh
don’t hurt the old boy’s feelings number
7 Fred Astaire known today for his
romance fueled dancing double act with
Ginger Rogers
Astaire’s own acting and performing
credentials were never in doubt oh man
Oh chill
where’s Roger he began show business at
an early age
forming a variety act with his sister
Adele by the 30s he was an established
personality and played romantic leads in
many a musical oh wait a minute wait a
minute I’m on my vacation I’m not gonna
do any dancing the gay divorcee and with
Rogers shall we dance among the most
notable Rogers and a stare complemented
each other so well Katharine Hepburn
once reportedly said he gives her class
and she gives him sex appeal honey dogs
have an instinct for the right people
number six
Errol Flynn see what he’s made of
Flynn’s journey from his place of birth
and tasmania across an ocean to
hollywood was by no means
straightforward it’s out of favor I seem
to be with you my vinegary virgin he
worked a variety of jobs before he
pursued acting but once he found the
stage he’d found his calling
Flynn became synonymous with
swashbuckling roles through the 30s and
he formed a formidable partnership with
Olivia de Havilland was fortunate for
you that I was here to save you
I hardly consider it fortunate to be
bought by anyone by the name of Bishop
captain blood was their initial success
but Flynn is most remembered for his
first Technicolor lead role in The
Adventures of Robin Hood high condemned
anything that leaves the task of holding
England for Richard to outlaws like me
mmm the five Spencer Tracy you try run
Mon roll down you big killer whale with
smokes pot you try swallow Mon Y likey
little smell in 1930 Spencer Tracy and
Humphrey Bogart both debuted in the same
picture up the river mother I want you
to meet mr. Jones it was a modest
success however the first five years of
Tracy’s glittering career didn’t go as
planned as he fell into bad reviews and
alcoholism
upon signing with MGM in 1935 his career
took a sizable turn for the better
that’s Joey
he took on varied roles and comedies and
dramas and won Best Actor Oscars in
consecutive years four Captains
Courageous and then Boys Town by 1940 he
was a living legend well you can pass
the word along the road that somebody
else would be running the place pretty
shortly I’m leaving I am Dracula number
four Bela Lugosi I bid you welcome
after playing Count Dracula in a 1927
Broadway adaptation of the Bram Stoker
novel Bela Lugosi was selected by
Universal Pictures to portray the
legendary vampire in their 1931
cinematic recreation his performance was
a success why I scared him to death I
don’t have to kill him to death and he
went on to work in the niche market for
horror movies with a European theme this
is please Dan his Hungarian heritage and
accent led him to be inevitably typecast
but Lugosi was clearly a foreigner a
fright and a trendsetter of the
terrifying she didn’t know the night
what music day number three Boris
Karloff permit me to present you with
the most sensational finds since that of
Tutankhamun Karloff was among the first
to follow in Lagasse’s footsteps and he
eventually overtook the original an
English actor his accent again won him
credit with in the horror movie genre
though Karloff’s fame was found in
Frankenstein
tonight after starring as the monster in
three major movies during the 30s as
well as the iconic mummy Karloff quickly
became the face and voice of scary
cinema
he was often paired with Lugosi but
Karloff usually received top billing
now shall take its place but for a few
moments and then rise again even as I
have risen number two Clark Gable named
Mark Whitney occupation lawyer residents
1,100 Park Avenue clouds Harvin and
Union Lee and if you’re interested in
money I’m what’s known as a very rich
man
this legendary actor scored a contract
with MGM in 1930 and he never really
looked back consistently paired with the
leading ladies of the day gable won the
hearts of many an audience with his
authoritative look and voice he and Joan
Crawford got steamy and possessed him to
grow more valuable to you each year and
then he picked up the Best Actor Oscar
for his role in It Happened One Night no
two men do it like however Gable
finished the 30s with his most memorable
movie the world is full of many things
and many people and I shan’t be lonely I
will find comfort elsewhere opposite
Vivien Leigh
he played Rhett Butler in Gone with the
Wind and cemented his Hollywood legacy
you go why should I go what should I do
frankly my hair I don’t give a damn
before we unveil our pick for decade
defining actor of the 1930s here are a
few honorable mentions
I’ve got two oh no Jesse please can’t
help it I just got him lit Frank sorry
honey
you’re a fine watchdog
he’s got more sense than you have I’m
glad you’re not on this case on it I’m
in it they think I did it
well didn’t you oh he must have lost his
nerve I’ll take care of him let’s see
the color that yeah just a minute Sam I
got my own ideas we split this time and
you can take in my way and leave it
we’re begging you
yeah well where is Duffy
number one Cary Grant oh that mean Amy
streets after you Hildy Johnson Street
they’ll be statues every other fog the
movies of yeah chill the radio by
tomorrow morning I’ll bet you there’s a
Hildy Johnson cigar and she the bill
boys now zip line up with Hildy Johnson
what it’s not that our champ spent the
30s as an official Englishman before
obtaining American citizenship in 1942
Mae West is largely credited with giving
this definitive leading man his
breakthrough opposite her and she done
him wrong her and I’m no angel yeah well
you wouldn’t mind if I look around me
Judy Chu the awful truth was a pivotal
movie though as it established grant as
rom-com royalty David there’s a time and
place for everything
for Professor latitude after all my dear
here getting married tomorrow
after that he paired up with the likes
of Katharine Hepburn and bringing up
baby and Rosalind Russell in his girl
Friday grant is a legend of laughter and
a legend of love a romantic comedic
winner they always seem so cold to me
they have no warmth no soul I’m sorry
you think more of your diamonds and you
do of your soul do you agree with our
list splendid which 1930s actor do you
think is the most iconic hmm
for more classic top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
England we will be leaving tomorrow
evening there may have been a depression
on but there was nothing to feel glum
about when these guys were on the screen
I can’t go all my life waiting to get
you between a husband welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 decade
defining actors of the 1930s well there
was a fight near a barber shop this
morning yes yeah that was no fight I’ll
get to you in a minute for our series on
the top ten decade defining male actors
per period we’ve made our choices based
on a combination of their commercial
success their box-office scores their
productivity and how they helped set the
tone and raise the standard in Hollywood
for the era number 10 Robert Taylor
charmed I’m sure
in 1934 Taylor signed for movie Giants
metro-goldwyn-mayer and within a year
he’d secured his first leading role in
the magnificent obsession an
appropriately titled first gig
Taylor would soon be idolized by movie
goers and prioritized by movie makers
well you tell me first when you smiled
at me with my friend what’s right you
didn’t mean see her as the man with the
perfect profile he starred alongside
some of the finest actresses of the day
like Greta Garbo in Camille beautiful
girls for love and pleasure and Vivien
Leigh in the British comedy a Yank at
Oxford and he’s so Kevin Taylor had true
talent and everyone wanted a piece of it
oh you can’t break records with the
competition you gave him a bunch of mud
turtle number 9 Mickey Rooney I’m gonna
take all Polly Benedict applying I’m
gonna dump er I’m gonna turn her over to
Ben Davis or one of them live das at
light Girls
then I’m coming home and I’m going to
bed that’s what I’m gonna do it’s an
almost impossible task to choose just
ten out of the 90 years Mickey Rooney
performed but if he defined any decade
it was the 1930s this was where it all
began for roon
I hope I have fun here this winter how
many dancers you’re gonna dance with me
Polly huh Oh Andy a role as Andy Hardy
in a family affair landed him an
unexpected franchise success and a part
in Boystown with Spencer Tracy proved
his dramatic credentials here at
Catholic ricotta stood you can go right
on being him I’m not however the young
mickey rooney will always be remembered
alongside a young Judy Garland for his
oscar-nominated turn in babes in arms
I took a boat horn to say good morning
do you number eight James Cagney I wish
you was a wishing well but I like a tie
a bucket and shake it Orson Welles said
of this man that he may be the greatest
actor who ever appeared in front of a
camera so James Cagney’s inclusion on
our countdown is heavily justified
during the 30s he mostly found fame by
appearing as gangsters and tough guys it
did so he did the Public Enemy and
angels with dirty faces are amongst his
best remembered works it was a typecast
he would work to shut off later in his
career but during the post prohibition
years too long time that I go picnic it
was box-office gold you got about as
much as good an indictment as I have
getting in a Bible Society you’ll find
it nobody cares about the whole thing if
I don’t laugh not you and I’ve got out
of blind alleys oh go ahead kid well if
that’s our only competition Shh
don’t hurt the old boy’s feelings number
7 Fred Astaire known today for his
romance fueled dancing double act with
Ginger Rogers
Astaire’s own acting and performing
credentials were never in doubt oh man
Oh chill
where’s Roger he began show business at
an early age
forming a variety act with his sister
Adele by the 30s he was an established
personality and played romantic leads in
many a musical oh wait a minute wait a
minute I’m on my vacation I’m not gonna
do any dancing the gay divorcee and with
Rogers shall we dance among the most
notable Rogers and a stare complemented
each other so well Katharine Hepburn
once reportedly said he gives her class
and she gives him sex appeal honey dogs
have an instinct for the right people
number six
Errol Flynn see what he’s made of
Flynn’s journey from his place of birth
and tasmania across an ocean to
hollywood was by no means
straightforward it’s out of favor I seem
to be with you my vinegary virgin he
worked a variety of jobs before he
pursued acting but once he found the
stage he’d found his calling
Flynn became synonymous with
swashbuckling roles through the 30s and
he formed a formidable partnership with
Olivia de Havilland was fortunate for
you that I was here to save you
I hardly consider it fortunate to be
bought by anyone by the name of Bishop
captain blood was their initial success
but Flynn is most remembered for his
first Technicolor lead role in The
Adventures of Robin Hood high condemned
anything that leaves the task of holding
England for Richard to outlaws like me
mmm the five Spencer Tracy you try run
Mon roll down you big killer whale with
smokes pot you try swallow Mon Y likey
little smell in 1930 Spencer Tracy and
Humphrey Bogart both debuted in the same
picture up the river mother I want you
to meet mr. Jones it was a modest
success however the first five years of
Tracy’s glittering career didn’t go as
planned as he fell into bad reviews and
alcoholism
upon signing with MGM in 1935 his career
took a sizable turn for the better
that’s Joey
he took on varied roles and comedies and
dramas and won Best Actor Oscars in
consecutive years four Captains
Courageous and then Boys Town by 1940 he
was a living legend well you can pass
the word along the road that somebody
else would be running the place pretty
shortly I’m leaving I am Dracula number
four Bela Lugosi I bid you welcome
after playing Count Dracula in a 1927
Broadway adaptation of the Bram Stoker
novel Bela Lugosi was selected by
Universal Pictures to portray the
legendary vampire in their 1931
cinematic recreation his performance was
a success why I scared him to death I
don’t have to kill him to death and he
went on to work in the niche market for
horror movies with a European theme this
is please Dan his Hungarian heritage and
accent led him to be inevitably typecast
but Lugosi was clearly a foreigner a
fright and a trendsetter of the
terrifying she didn’t know the night
what music day number three Boris
Karloff permit me to present you with
the most sensational finds since that of
Tutankhamun Karloff was among the first
to follow in Lagasse’s footsteps and he
eventually overtook the original an
English actor his accent again won him
credit with in the horror movie genre
though Karloff’s fame was found in
Frankenstein
tonight after starring as the monster in
three major movies during the 30s as
well as the iconic mummy Karloff quickly
became the face and voice of scary
cinema
he was often paired with Lugosi but
Karloff usually received top billing
now shall take its place but for a few
moments and then rise again even as I
have risen number two Clark Gable named
Mark Whitney occupation lawyer residents
1,100 Park Avenue clouds Harvin and
Union Lee and if you’re interested in
money I’m what’s known as a very rich
man
this legendary actor scored a contract
with MGM in 1930 and he never really
looked back consistently paired with the
leading ladies of the day gable won the
hearts of many an audience with his
authoritative look and voice he and Joan
Crawford got steamy and possessed him to
grow more valuable to you each year and
then he picked up the Best Actor Oscar
for his role in It Happened One Night no
two men do it like however Gable
finished the 30s with his most memorable
movie the world is full of many things
and many people and I shan’t be lonely I
will find comfort elsewhere opposite
Vivien Leigh
he played Rhett Butler in Gone with the
Wind and cemented his Hollywood legacy
you go why should I go what should I do
frankly my hair I don’t give a damn
before we unveil our pick for decade
defining actor of the 1930s here are a
few honorable mentions
I’ve got two oh no Jesse please can’t
help it I just got him lit Frank sorry
honey
you’re a fine watchdog
he’s got more sense than you have I’m
glad you’re not on this case on it I’m
in it they think I did it
well didn’t you oh he must have lost his
nerve I’ll take care of him let’s see
the color that yeah just a minute Sam I
got my own ideas we split this time and
you can take in my way and leave it
we’re begging you
yeah well where is Duffy
number one Cary Grant oh that mean Amy
streets after you Hildy Johnson Street
they’ll be statues every other fog the
movies of yeah chill the radio by
tomorrow morning I’ll bet you there’s a
Hildy Johnson cigar and she the bill
boys now zip line up with Hildy Johnson
what it’s not that our champ spent the
30s as an official Englishman before
obtaining American citizenship in 1942
Mae West is largely credited with giving
this definitive leading man his
breakthrough opposite her and she done
him wrong her and I’m no angel yeah well
you wouldn’t mind if I look around me
Judy Chu the awful truth was a pivotal
movie though as it established grant as
rom-com royalty David there’s a time and
place for everything
for Professor latitude after all my dear
here getting married tomorrow
after that he paired up with the likes
of Katharine Hepburn and bringing up
baby and Rosalind Russell in his girl
Friday grant is a legend of laughter and
a legend of love a romantic comedic
winner they always seem so cold to me
they have no warmth no soul I’m sorry
you think more of your diamonds and you
do of your soul do you agree with our
list splendid which 1930s actor do you
think is the most iconic hmm
for more classic top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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