Abstract-1930s is defined by many scholars as the golden age of Hollywood. Women's roles were changing along with the social transformations. Film became a powerful tool to portray women's images. This paper analyzes women's images on screen in 1930s using Grand Hotel (1932) as an example, as well as some other representative films, aiming to explain how and why women were portrayed in certain ways on screen in golden age Hollywood. It interweaves key principles and methodologies including feminist theory, gender studies, spectatorship, and film history. It is found that the most influential factors are female filmmakers' status in the industry, psychological needs of the spectators, and the controls on motion pictures.