Hollywood's Golden Era? I'd pick the period from 1939 through 1960. Here are 144 classic movies from this Golden Age of the Cinema, ranging (alphabetically) from The Admiral Was a Lady to You Were Never Lovelier . Other films discussed in comprehensive detail (and with full background and release information) in this book include The Adventures of Mark Twain , The Chase , Daisy Kenyon , The Ghost of Frankenstein , Humoresque , In Old California , Joan of Paris , Letter from an Unknown Woman , Magic Town , Nightmare Alley , The Paradine Case , Roughly Speaking , The Scarlet Claw , Where the Sidewalk Ends and You'll Never Get Rich .