1920s
| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | Alias Jimmy Valentine | Jack Conway | William Haines, Lionel Barrymore | This part talkie was MGM's first film with synchronized dialogue sequences. It was also released as a silent film, which is similarly lost. | |
| The Home Towners | Bryan Foy | Doris Kenyon, Richard Bennett | Warner Bros.' third all talkie. | ||
| The Melody of Love | Arch Heath | Walter Pidgeon, Mildred Harris | All talkie. Universal's first sound feature. | ||
| My Man | Archie Mayo | Fanny Brice, Guinn Williams | Part talkie released by Warner Bros. | ||
| On Trial | Archie Mayo | Pauline Frederick, Lois Wilson, Bert Lytell | Warner Bros.' fourth all talking feature. | ||
| Tenderloin | Michael Curtiz | Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel | Second feature film to have synchronized dialogue sequences. Part talkie. | ||
| The Terror | Roy Del Ruth | Edward Everett Horton, Louise Fazenda | Warner Bros.' second all talkie. First feature with no title cards - even the credits are recited. | ||
| Women They Talk About | Lloyd Bacon | Irene Rich | Part talkie released by Warner Bros. | ||
| 1929 | The Argyle Case | Howard Bretherton | Thomas Meighan, H.B. Warner, Lila Lee, Gladys Brockwell | Silent veteran Brockwell died in a traffic accident shortly after making this film. | |
| The Aviator | Roy Del Ruth | Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller | |||
| The Awful Truth | Marshall Neilan | Ina Claire | |||
| The Black Waters | Marshall Neilan | James Kirkwood, Mary Brian | All talking. First talking picture produced by a British company. | ||
| Blaze O'Glory | George Crone | Eddie Dowling, Betty Compson | |||
| The Careless Age | John Griffith Wray | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young | |||
| Careers | John Francis Dillon | Billie Dove, Antonio Moreno | |||
| College Love | Nat Ross | George J. Lewis, Eddie Phillips | |||
| Conquest | Roy Del Ruth | Monte Blue, H. B. Warner | |||
| Dark Streets | Frank Lloyd | Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee | Jack Mulhall's character is the first attempt at dual role double exposure photography in a talking film. | ||
| The Doctor's Secret | William C. de Mille | Ruth Chatterton, H.B. Warner | |||
| Evidence | John G. Adolfi | Pauline Frederick, Conway Tearle | |||
| Fancy Baggage | John G. Adolfi | Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy | A part-talkie from Warner Bros. | ||
| Fast Life | John Francis Dillon | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young | |||
| Footlights and Fools | William A. Seiter | Colleen Moore | Part-Technicolor. | ||
| The Forward Pass | Edward F. Cline | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young | |||
| Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 | David Butler | John Breeden, Lola Lane | Multicolor sequences. | ||
| Frozen Justice | Allan Dwan | Lenore Ulric | |||
| The Gamblers | Michael Curtiz | H.B. Warner, Lois Wilson | |||
| The Ghost Talks | Lewis Seiler | Helen Twelvetress, Charles Eaton | |||
| The Girl from Havana | Benjamin Stoloff | Lola Lane, Paul Page | |||
| The Girl from Woolworths | William Beaudine | Alice White, Charles Delaney | |||
| Hard to Get | William Beaudine | Dorothy Mackaill, Louise Fazenda | |||
| Her Private Life | Alexander Korda | Billie Dove, Walter Pidgeon | |||
| Hearts in Exile | Michael Curtiz | Dolores Costello, Grant Withers | |||
| Honky Tonk | Lloyd Bacon | Sophie Tucker, Lila Lee | This was Tucker's film debut. The complete soundtrack survives. | ||
| Hot for Paris | Raoul Walsh | Victor McLaglen, Fifi D'Orsay | |||
| The Hottentot | Roy Del Ruth | Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller | |||
| Is Everybody Happy? | Archie Mayo | Ted Lewis, Ann Pennington | |||
| In the Headlines | John G. Adolfi | Grant Withers, Marion Nixon | |||
| Jealousy | Jean de Limur | Jeanne Eagels, Fredric March | |||
| Little Johnny Jones | Mervyn LeRoy | Edward Buzzell, Alice Day | |||
| Love, Live and Laugh | William K. Howard | George Jessel, Lila Lee | |||
| The Love Racket | William A. Seiter | Dorothy Mackaill, Sidney Blackmer | |||
| Lucky in Love | Kenneth S. Webb | Morton Downey, Betty Lawford | All talking | ||
| Madonna of Avenue A | Michael Curtiz | Dolores Costello, Grant Withers | |||
| Married in Hollywood | Marcel Silver | J. Harold Murray | Multicolor sequences. | ||
| Melody Lane | Robert F. Hill | Eddie Leonard, Josephine Dunn | Universal's first 100% talking musical. | ||
| A Most Immoral Lady | John Griffith Wray | Walter Pidgeon, Leatrice Joy | 8 sound discs survive at UCLA. Visual elements appear not to have survived | ||
| Nix on Dames | Donald Gallaher | Mae Clarke, Robert Ames | |||
| The Painted Angel | Millard Webb | Billie Dove, Edmund Lowe | |||
| Paris | Clarence G. Badger | Irene Bordoni, Jack Buchanan | Technicolor sequences. | ||
| Pleasure Crazed | Donald Gallaher | Marguerite Churchill, Kenneth MacKenna | |||
| Queen of the Night Clubs | Bryan Foy | Texas Guinan, Lila Lee | |||
| Red Hot Rhythm | Leo McCarey | Alan Hale, Kathryn Crawford | Multicolor sequences. | ||
| Rich People | Edward H. Griffith | Constance Bennett, Regis Toomey | |||
| The Sacred Flame | Archie Mayo | Pauline Frederick, Conrad Nagel | |||
| Seven Faces | Berthold Viertel | Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill | |||
| The Shannons of Broadway | Emmett J. Flynn | James Gleason, Lucile Gleason | |||
| Skin Deep | Ray Enright | Monte Blue, Betty Compson | |||
| Smiling Irish Eyes | William A. Seiter | Colleen Moore | Part-Technicolor. | ||
| A Song of Kentucky | Lewis Seiler | Lois Moran, Joseph Wagstaff | |||
| Sonny Boy | Archie Mayo | Edward Everett Horton | Part-talkie | ||
| South Sea Rose | Allan Dwan | Lenore Ulric, Charles Bickford | |||
| Speakeasy | Benjamin Stoloff | Paul Page, Lola Lane | |||
| Stark Mad | Lloyd Bacon | Louise Fazenda, H. B. Warner | Released in both silent and all talking version. Both are lost. | ||
| This Thing Called Love | Constance Bennett | Part-Technicolor film released by Pathé. | |||
| The Time, the Place and the Girl | Howard Bretherton | Grant Withers, Betty Compson | |||
| Tonight at Twelve | Harry A. Pollard | Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis | |||
| Twin Beds | Alfred Santell | Jack Mulhall, Patsy Ruth Miller | |||
| Wedding Rings | William Beaudine | H.B. Warner, Olive Borden | |||
| Why Leave Home? | Raymond Cannon | Sue Carol, Dixie Lee | |||
| Words and Music | James Tinling | Lois Moran, David Percy | |||
| Young Nowheres | Frank Lloyd | Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon |
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