Depression Era Culture

Depression Era Culture Movies became more popular as the era progressed.

Actresses like Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Judy Garland were in high demand.

Actors like Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Rock Hudson, and James Cagney were popular as well.

Gone with the Wind, 1939 Film Stats Historical drama, Civil War .

Actors:Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel Producer Victor Fleming Director David O. Selznick Year released1939 Based on "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

The Wizard of Oz, 1939 Director: Victor Fleming Writers: L. Frank Baum (novel) Noel Langley (screenplay) ... more Release Date: 25 August 1939

Wizard of Oz

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Jimmy Stewart stars

Stellar Capra-corn Americana. This great film works on the premise that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is the inaction of good men. Against this danger, director Frank Capra shows a naive everyman to be the true guardian of democratic ideals. James Stewart gives the performance that made him a star as Jefferson Smith, an innocent bumpkin selected by cynical politicians to replace a recently deceased senator in the belief that he can be manipulated by the state's esteemed senior senator

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Marx Brothers The Marx Brothers Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo

Art and Literature John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

In stark and moving detail, John Steinbeck depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own.

Each night on the road, they and their fellow migrants recreate society: leaders are chosen, unspoken codes of privacy and generosity evolve, and lust, violence, and murderous rage erupt.

Art and Literature

Grant Wood

Art and Literature Richard Wright Fiction Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas (1938) Native Son (1940) Uncle Tom's Children: Five Long Stories (1940) The Outsider (1953) Savage Holiday (1954) The Long Dream (1958) Eight Men (1961) Lawd Today! (1963) American Hunger (1977) Rite of Passage (1994)

Art and Literature Orson Welles “War of the Worlds”