Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Knowlden rụrụ ọrụ nke ọma na fim, ọtụtụ ndị nwere nnukwu mmefu ego, n'afọ ndị 1930. A na-ahọrọkarị ya dị ka nwa nwanyị nke ndị isi, ma ọ bụ dị ka nwanyị na-eduga n'oge ọ bụ nwata. Ịdị ka nwa agbọghọ na-eto eto nke onye na-eme ihe nkiri na-eme ka ọ bụrụ nwanyị na-eduga bụ ihe kpatara ya mere e ji tinye ya n'ọrụ ụfọdụ. N'adịghị ka ọtụtụ ndị na-eme ihe nkiri, ụmụaka na ndị okenye n'otu aka ahụ, n'oge usoro ụlọ ọrụ, ọ dịghị mgbe ha na otu ụlọ ọrụ nkwekọrịta. Ewezuga oge nwa oge n'oge eserese nke "Marie Antoinette" mgbe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Little Red Schoolhouse, ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ ọha kama ịga ụlọ akwụkwọ maka ụmụaka na-eme ihe nkiri na Hollywood. Ọ nọ na Greta Garbo na Clark Gable's 1931 film "Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) " mana ehichapụla ihe nkiri ya na njedebe ikpeazụ. N'afọ 1933, Knowlden nwere ọrụ a na-ekwenyeghị na ya dịka Flora na-eto eto na ihe nkiri pre-code "Little Women", nke Katharine Hepburn gbara, a họpụtara ya maka Academy Award maka Best Picture na
6th Academy Awards na 1934.