In the 1930s radio and movies played a big part in american life. Many americans paid 25 cents to go to the movies to get away from the harshness of living in the depression. 65% of americans attended movies a week, with over 15,000 theaters in the us there were no shortage of places to see a movie. Comedies, romances, musicals and ganster films were popular during this period. Gone with the Wind was really popular. Radio was also popular with Orson Wells creating War of the Worlds, as was Bob Hope of the Bob Hope Show. The crash of the Hidenberg was brodcast worldwide in 1937. Woodie Guthry was a popular musician of the period writing songs such as Dust Bowl Refugees about the period in which he lived. Many books were written during the 1930s one by African American Richard Wright called Native Sun.
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