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p. 683-684 during the 1930s people were having a hard time finding jobs, and many had little money and means of supporting themselves. However there was a way that almost all Americans used to get away from the hard life they lived for a short time and were able to be happy. This was because the 1930s was a golden age of motion pictures. By the end of the decade almost 75 million people or 60% of the population were attending the movies at least once a week. Many movies were made during the 1930s comedies, musicals, love stories, and tough gangster movies. people loved to go to the movies because people could relate to the movies, or they enjoyed them because of the great story they told and it was a way for them to get away from their own lives. Some of the most popular movies of the time that offered an escape from their hard lives was gone with the wind starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, and flying down to rio which was made in 1933 and featured Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Americans also loved to see movies that they could relate to and that depicted a true sense of the depression in America where a hero faced the problems America was having and rose above the circumstances. Gangster films was a type of realistic film that was especially popular and movies such as little Caesar, and public enemy captured how Americans struggled and what it was really like for an average American person. Movies in the 1930s were a big part of what Americans did. It was a way to get away from the real world and where they could relate and enjoy themselves for a few hours before going back o their own lives.