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1937 in film

The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1937 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * April 16 – Laurel and Hardy comedy Way Out West premieres in the US.
 * May 7 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical comedy Shall We Dance premieres in the US.
 * May 11 – Drama Captains Courageous, starring Spencer Tracy, premieres in New York, going into general release on June 25.
 * June 7 – Jean Harlow, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the decade, dies aged 26 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. The official cause of death is listed as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure.
 * June 11 – Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the Races premieres in the U.S.
 * July 9 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
 * July 23 – Six weeks after Jean Harlow's death, her final film, Saratoga, is released. It is an instant box office success and becomes the year's highest-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing film of her career.
 * December 21 – Walt Disney's debut feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length cartoon to be made in America, in Technicolor, and in sound, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. The film opens nationwide on February 4, 1938, and is a massive box office success, briefly holding the record as the highest-grossing sound film of all time.
 * Monogram Pictures, who had merged with Republic Pictures two years earlier, decide to separate and distribute their own films again.

Academy Awards

 * Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola – Warner Bros.
 * Best Director: Leo McCarey – The Awful Truth
 * Best Actor: Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous
 * Best Actress: Luise Rainer – The Good Earth
 * Best Supporting Actor: Joseph Schildkraut – The Life of Emile Zola
 * Best Supporting Actress: Alice Brady – In Old Chicago

January–March

 * January 1937
 * 13 January
 * Thunder in the City (GB)
 * 14 January
 * Action for Slander
 * 17 January
 * Battle of Greed
 * 26 January
 * Without Dowry (U.S.S.R.)
 * 28 January
 * Pépé le Moko (France)
 * 29 January
 * The Good Earth
 * You Only Live Once
 * 30 January
 * Black Legion
 * February 1937
 * 2 February
 * Dreaming Lips (Britain)
 * 4 February
 * The Daughter of the Samurai (Germany/Japan)
 * 12 February
 * Head Over Heels (GB)
 * On the Avenue
 * 13 February
 * The Great O'Malley
 * 19 February
 * The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
 * March 1937
 * 2 March
 * Lost Horizon
 * 3 March
 * Maid of Salem
 * 5 March
 * Fire Over England (GB)
 * History is Made at Night
 * Jump for Glory (GB)
 * 12 March
 * A Family Affair
 * Nancy Steele Is Missing!
 * 22 March
 * Layla and Majnun (Iran)
 * 25 March
 * Seventh Heaven
 * 26 March
 * Maytime
 * Quality Street
 * 27 March
 * Girl Loves Boy

April–June

 * April 1937
 * 5 April
 * Elephant Boy (GB)
 * 9 April
 * The Soldier and the Lady
 * 10 April
 * Marked Woman
 * The Tale of the Fox (Germany)
 * 16 April
 * Way Out West
 * 18 April
 * Love from a Stranger (GB)
 * 20 April
 * A Star Is Born
 * 23 April
 * The Woman I Love
 * 28 April
 * Woman Chases Man
 * 30 April
 * Night Must Fall
 * May 1937
 * 7 May
 * Shall We Dance
 * They Gave Him a Gun
 * 8 May
 * The Prince and the Pauper
 * 9 May
 * Make Way for Tomorrow
 * The Vicar of Bray
 * 19 May
 * Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
 * 21 May
 * Charlie Chan at the Olympics
 * Pick a Star
 * 26 May
 * Kid Galahad
 * 28 May
 * This Is My Affair
 * June 1937
 * 1 June
 * Knight Without Armour (GB)
 * The Road Back
 * 4 June
 * Parnell
 * 8 June
 * Grand Illusion (France)
 * 11 June
 * A Day at the Races
 * 12 June
 * Storm in a Teacup (GB)
 * 17 June
 * King Solomon's Mines (GB)
 * 23 June
 * Slim
 * 25 June
 * Captains Courageous
 * Wee Willie Winkie
 * 30 June
 * Silver Blaze

July–September

 * July 1937
 * 6 July
 * The Edge of the World (GB)
 * 7 July
 * Easy Living
 * 14 July
 * They Won't Forget
 * 15 July
 * Ever Since Eve
 * 16 July
 * Topper
 * 21 July
 * High, Wide, and Handsome
 * 23 July
 * Saratoga
 * 24 July
 * Street Angel (China)
 * August 1937
 * 3 August
 * You Can't Have Everything
 * 4 August
 * Artists and Models
 * 6 August
 * Stella Dallas
 * 9 August
 * Souls at Sea
 * 11 August
 * The Life of Emile Zola
 * 19 August
 * Confession
 * 20 August
 * Broadway Melody of 1938
 * 25 August
 * Humanity and Paper Balloons (Japan)
 * 27 August
 * Dead End
 * 31 August
 * To New Shores (Germany)
 * September 1937
 * 1 September
 * The Firefly
 * 2 September
 * The Prisoner of Zenda
 * 3 September
 * Big City
 * 5 September
 * One Hundred Men and a Girl
 * 7 September
 * It Happened in Hollywood
 * 10 September
 * Annapolis Salute
 * Gribouille (France)
 * 16 September
 * Victoria the Great (GB)
 * 18 September
 * That Certain Woman
 * 24 September
 * Tři vejce do skla (Czechoslovakia)
 * 26 September
 * The Dybbuk
 * 30 September
 * Something to Sing About

October–December

 * October 1937
 * 1 October
 * Madame X
 * 2 October
 * Love Is on the Air
 * 8 October
 * Stage Door
 * 10 October
 * Law for Tombstone
 * 12 October
 * Green Fields
 * 14 October
 * Think Fast, Mr. Moto
 * 15 October
 * The Bride Wore Red
 * Double Wedding
 * Heidi
 * 20 October
 * Bizarre, Bizarre (France)
 * 21 October
 * The Awful Truth
 * 22 October
 * Conquest
 * Yoshiwara (France)
 * 23 October
 * The Perfect Specimen
 * 29 October
 * Ali Baba Goes to Town
 * Angel
 * Stand-In
 * 30 October
 * The Great Garrick
 * November 1937
 * 9 November
 * The Hurricane
 * 12 November
 * The Last Gangster
 * 19 November
 * A Damsel in Distress
 * Navy Blue and Gold
 * 20 November
 * It's Love I'm After
 * 25 November
 * Nothing Sacred
 * December 1937
 * 2 December
 * Andula Won (Czechoslovakia)
 * The Seven Ravens (Germany)
 * 4 December
 * First Lady
 * 7 December
 *  Telephone Operator
 * 10 December
 * Born to the West
 * 17 December
 * Daughter of Shanghai
 * 18 December
 * La Habanera (Germany)
 * 21 December
 * Skeleton on Horseback (Czechoslovakia)
 * 24 December
 * Rosalie
 * True Confession
 * 25 December
 * Tovarich
 * 29 December
 * You're a Sweetheart
 * 31 December
 * Wells Fargo
 * Wise Girl

Notable films released in 1937
United States unless stated.

A

 * Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
 * Action for Slander, starring Clive Brook and Ann Todd (GB)
 * Ali Baba Goes to Town, starring Eddie Cantor
 * Andula Won (Andula vyhrála) (Czechoslovakia)
 * Angel, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Marlene Dietrich
 * Annapolis Salute, starring James Ellison
 * Artists and Models, starring Jack Benny and Ida Lupino
 * The Awful Truth, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant

B

 * Battle of Greed, starring Tom Keene
 * Bezhin Meadow, directed by Sergei Eisenstein (U.S.S.R.)
 * Big City, starring Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy
 * Bizarre, Bizarre (Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Louis Jouvet and Michel Simon (France)
 * Black Legion, starring Humphrey Bogart
 * Born to the West, starring John Wayne
 * The Bride Wore Red, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Joan Crawford
 * Brief Ecstasy, starring Paul Lukas (GB)
 * Broadway Melody of 1938, starring Eleanor Powell and Judy Garland

C

 * Captains Courageous, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy
 * Charlie Chan at the Olympics, starring Warner Oland
 * Confession, starring Kay Francis and Basil Rathbone
 * Conquest, starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer
 * Crossroads (Shi zi jie tou) (China)

D

 * A Damsel in Distress, starring Fred Astaire, George Burns and Gracie Allen
 * The Daughter of the Samurai (Die Tochter des Samurai / Atarashiki tsuchi), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami (Germany/Japan)
 * Daughter of Shanghai, starring Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn
 * A Day at the Races, directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers
 * Dead End, directed by William Wyler, starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
 * Double Wedding, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
 * Dreaming Lips, directed by Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner, Raymond Massey (Britain)
 * Duniya Na Mane (The Unexpected) (India)
 * The Dybbuk, Yiddish language film from (Poland)

E

 * Easy Living, starring Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold
 * The Edge of the World, directed by Michael Powell (GB)
 * Elephant Boy, directed by Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu (GB)
 * España 1936, a documentary produced and co-written by Luis Buñuel (Spain)
 * Ever Since Eve, starring Marion Davies and Robert Montgomery

F

 * A Family Affair, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
 * Fire Over England, starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (GB)
 * The Firefly, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones
 * First Lady, starring Kay Francis and Preston Foster

G

 * Gangway, starring Jessie Matthews (GB)
 * Girl Loves Boy. starring Eric Linden
 * The Good Earth, starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer (Academy Award for Best Actress)
 * Good Morning, Boys, starring Will Hay (GB)
 * Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo (France)
 * The Great Barrier, starring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer (GB)
 * The Great Garrick, starring Brian Aherne and Olivia de Havilland
 * The Great O'Malley, starring Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart
 * Green Fields – a Yiddish language film
 * Gribouille (a.k.a. The Meddler), starring Raimu and Michèle Morgan (France)

H

 * La Habanera, directed by Douglas Sirk (Germany)
 * Head Over Heels, starring Jessie Matthews (GB)
 * Heidi, starring Shirley Temple
 * High, Wide, and Handsome, starring Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott
 * History is Made at Night, starring Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur
 * The Hound of the Baskervilles / Der Hund Von Baskerville (German) Sherlock Holmes film directed by Carl Lamac, starring Bruno Guttner as Holmes, and Fritz Odemar as Watson
 * Humanity and Paper Balloons (Ninjō Kami Fūsen) (Japan)
 * The Hurricane, starring Dorothy Lamour

I

 * It Happened in Hollywood, starring Richard Dix and Fay Wray
 * It's Love I'm After, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland

J

 * Jump for Glory, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Valerie Hobson (GB)

K

 * Kid Galahad, starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
 * King Solomon's Mines, starring Cedric Hardwicke and Paul Robeson (GB)
 * Knight Without Armour, starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat (GB)

L

 * Lancashire Luck, film debut of Wendy Hiller (GB)
 * The Last Gangster, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Stewart
 * The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, starring Joan Crawford and William Powell
 * Law for Tombstone, directed by and starring Buck Jones
 * Layla and Majnun directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)
 * The Life of Emile Zola, starring Paul Muni
 * Lost Horizon, directed by Frank Capra, starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt
 * Love from a Stranger, starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone (GB)
 * Love Is on the Air, directed by Nick Grinde, starring Ronald Reagan and June Travis

M

 * Madame X, starring Gladys George and Warren William
 * Maid of Salem, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
 * Make Way for Tomorrow, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi
 * The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war) (Germany)
 * Marked Woman, starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart
 * Maytime, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
 * Morality Above All Else (Mravnost nade vše) (Czechoslovakia)
 * Murder at the Baskervilles -- see under Silver Blaze below

N

 * Nancy Steele Is Missing!, starring Victor McLaglen and Peter Lorre
 * Navy Blue and Gold, starring Robert Young, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
 * Night Must Fall, starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell
 * Nothing Sacred, directed by William Wellman, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March

O

 * Oh, Mr Porter!, starring Will Hay (GB)
 * O-Kay for Sound, starring The Crazy Gang (GB)
 * The Old Mill, a Silly Symphonies cartoon
 * On the Avenue, starring Dick Powell and Madeleine Carroll, with songs by Irving Berlin
 * One Hundred Men and a Girl, starring Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski

P

 * Parnell, starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy
 * Pépé le Moko, directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Jean Gabin (France)
 * Pick a Star, starring Jack Haley
 * Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
 * The Perfect Specimen, starring Errol Flynn, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al.
 * The Prince and the Pauper, starring Errol Flynn
 * The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll

Q

 * Quality Street, starring Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone

R

 * The Road Back, directed by James Whale
 * Rosalie, starring Eleanor Powell and Nelson Eddy

S

 * Saratoga, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in her last film
 * The Seven Ravens (Germany)
 * Seventh Heaven, starring James Stewart and Simone Simon
 * Shall We Dance, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
 * Sidewalks of London (a.k.a. St. Martin's Lane), starring Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison (GB)
 * Il signor Max, starring Vittorio De Sica (Italy)
 * Silver Blaze (British), a Sherlock Holmes film directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, Ian Fleming as Watson and Lyn Harding as Moriarty; released in U.S. as Murder at the Baskervilles
 * Skeleton on Horseback (Bílá nemoc), directed by and starring Hugo Haas (Czechoslovakia)
 * Slave Ship, starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery
 * Slim, starring Henry Fonda
 * Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first American feature-length animated film. Directed by David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen, starring Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Roy Atwell, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Scotty Mattraw, Billy Gilbert, Eddie Collins, Moroni Olsen, and Stuart Buchanan
 * The Soldier and the Lady
 * Something to Sing About, directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley
 * Song at Midnight (Ye ban ge sheng) (China)
 * Souls at Sea, starring Gary Cooper and George Raft
 * Stage Door, starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers
 * Stand-In, starring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart
 * A Star Is Born, starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March
 * Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck
 * Storm in a Teacup, starring Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison (GB)
 * Street Angel (Malu tianshi), starring Zhou Xuan (China)

T

 * The Tale of the Fox (Germany)
 * That Certain Woman, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda
 * The Three Garridebs, starring Louis Hector, in the first televised adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes character.
 * They Gave Him a Gun, starring Spencer Tracy and Gladys George
 * They Won't Forget, starring Claude Rains
 * Thin Ice, starring Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power
 * Think Fast, Mr. Moto, starring Peter Lorre
 * This Is My Affair, starring Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck
 * Thunder in the City, starring Edward G. Robinson, Nigel Bruce, Ralph Richardson (GB)
 * To New Shores, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Zarah Leander (Germany)
 * Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
 * Tovarich, starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer
 * Tři vejce do skla (Three eggs in a glass) (Czechoslovakia)
 * True Confession, starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore

V

 * The Vicar of Bray, starring Stanley Holloway
 * Victoria the Great, starring Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook (GB)

W

 * Way Out West, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
 * Wee Willie Winkie, starring Shirley Temple
 * Wells Fargo, starring Joel McCrea
 * What Did the Lady Forget? (Shukujo wa nani wo wasureta ka), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
 * Wise Girl, starring Miriam Hopkins and Ray Milland
 * Without Dowry (Bespridannitsa) (U.S.S.R.)
 * Woman Chases Man, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
 * The Woman I Love, starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins

Y

 * Yoshiwara, directed by Max Ophüls, starring Sessue Hayakawa (France)
 * You Can't Have Everything, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Gypsy Rose Lee
 * You Only Live Once, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney
 * Young and Innocent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (GB)
 * You're a Sweetheart
 * You're Only Young Once, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

Z

 * Znachor (The Miracle Man) (Poland)

Serials

 * Blake of Scotland Yard, starring Ralph Byrd and Herbert Rawlinson
 * Dick Tracy, starring Ralph Byrd
 * Jungle Jim
 * Jungle Menace, starring Frank Buck
 * The Mysterious Pilot, starring Frank Hawks
 * The Painted Stallion, starring Ray Corrigan
 * Radio Patrol
 * Secret Agent X-9, starring Scott Kolk
 * S.O.S. Coast Guard, starring Ralph Byrd and Bela Lugosi
 * Tim Tyler's Luck, starring Frankie Thomas
 * Wild West Days
 * Zorro Rides Again, starring John Carroll

Comedy film series

 * Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
 * Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
 * Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
 * Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
 * Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
 * Our Gang (1922–1944)
 * Wheeler and Woolsey (1929–1937)
 * The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
 * The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

 * Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
 * Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
 * Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
 * Silly Symphonies
 * Woodland Café
 * Little Hiawatha
 * The Old Mill
 * Screen Songs (1929–1938)
 * Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
 * Terrytoons (1930–1964)
 * Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
 * Scrappy (1931–1941)
 * Betty Boop (1932–1939)
 * Popeye (1933–1957)
 * Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)
 * Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
 * Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937)
 * Donald Duck (1937–1956)

Births

 * January 1 - Suzy Kendall, English actress
 * January 2 - Jack Rader, American actor
 * January 4 – Dyan Cannon, American actress
 * January 7 – Harvey Evans, American actor (d. 2021)
 * January 10 – John M. Watson Sr., American actor and musician (d. 2006)
 * January 11 – Felix Silla, Italian actor, musician, stunt artist and voice artist (d. 2021)
 * January 12 – Shirley Eaton, English actress and model
 * January 14 – Stefano Satta Flores, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 1985)
 * January 15 – Margaret O'Brien, American actress
 * January 16 – Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress, singer, director and writer
 * January 17 – Dick Durock, American actor and stuntman (d. 2009)
 * January 24 – Julie Gregg, American actress (d. 2016)
 * January 30 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
 * January 31 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
 * February 1 – Garrett Morris, American comedian, actor and singer
 * February 2 – Tom Smothers, American comedian and musician (d. 2023)
 * February 14 – Soher Al Bably, Egyptian actress (d. 2021)
 * February 17 – Benjamin Whitrow, English actor (d. 2017)
 * February 19 – David Margulies, American actor (d. 2016)
 * February 21 – Gary Lockwood, American actor
 * February 24 – Shawn Elliott, American actor and singer (d. 2016)
 * February 25 – Tom Courtenay, English actor
 * February 27 – Barbara Babcock, American character actress
 * March 2 – BarBara Luna, American actress
 * March 3 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
 * March 5 – Sal Borgese, Italian actor
 * March 10 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
 * March 21 – Bill Capizzi, American voice actor (d. 2007)
 * March 22 – Angelo Badalamenti, American screen composer (d. 2022)
 * March 23 – Tony Burton, American actor (d. 2016)
 * March 30
 * Warren Beatty, American actor and director
 * James D. Brubaker, American film producer (d. 2023)
 * April 1 – Jordan Charney, American character actor
 * April 2 – Ken Olfson, American actor (d. 1997)
 * April 3 – Lawrence Dane, Canadian actor and producer (d. 2022)
 * April 6
 * Terrence Hardiman, English actor (d. 2023)
 * Billy Dee Williams, American actor
 * April 9 - Marty Krofft, Canadian puppeteer and film producer (d. 2023)
 * April 13
 * Corinne Cole, American actress
 * Edward Fox, English actor
 * April 15
 * Uldis Pūcītis, Latvian actor (d. 2000)
 * Frank Vincent, American actor (d. 2017)
 * April 18 – Robert Hooks, American actor and producer
 * April 19 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
 * April 20 – George Takei, American actor, author and activist
 * April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
 * April 27 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
 * May 5 – John Martino, American actor
 * May 8 – Shin Seong-il, South Korean actor (d. 2018)
 * May 12
 * George Carlin, American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic and author (d. 2008)
 * Susan Hampshire, English actress
 * May 13 – Zohra Lampert, American actress
 * May 16 – Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015)
 * May 19 – Pat Roach, English actor and professional wrestler (d. 2004)
 * June 1 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and director
 * June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer (d. 2022)
 * June 10 – Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
 * June 11
 * Johnny Brown, American actor and singer (d. 2022)
 * Chad Everett, American actor (d. 2012)
 * June 14 – Jørgen Leth, Danish director
 * June 16 – Charmian May, English character actress (d. 2002)
 * June 17 - Arthur Schmidt, American film editor (d. 2023)
 * June 26 – Sombat Metanee, Thai actor and film director (d. 2022)
 * June 28 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
 * July 2 – Polly Holliday, American retired actress
 * July 6 – Ned Beatty, American character actor (d. 2021)
 * July 12 – Bill Cosby, American stand-up comedian and actor
 * July 16 – Ada Rogovtseva, Ukrainian actress
 * July 19 – Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
 * July 20
 * Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
 * Timothy Scott, American actor (d. 1995)
 * July 21 – Gray Frederickson, American film producer (d. 2022)
 * July 25 – Paul Collins, British actor
 * July 28 – Viktor Merezhko, Russian screenwriter, actor, writer and television presenter (d. 2022)
 * August 3
 * Steven Berkoff, British actor and playwright
 * Richard Foronjy, American actor (d. 2024)
 * August 5 – Alan Howard, English actor (d. 2015)
 * August 6 – Barbara Windsor, English comedy actress (d. 2020)
 * August 8 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
 * August 14
 * Fran Bennett, American actress (d. 2021)
 * Alberta Nelson, American actress (d. 2006)
 * August 16 – Lorraine Gary, American retired actress
 * August 19 – Evadne Baker, English actress (d. 1995)
 * August 26 – Kenji Utsumi, Japanese actor (d. 2013)
 * September 1 – Tsai Chin, Chinese actress, singer and director
 * September 4
 * Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)
 * Nicholas Worth, American character actor (d. 2007)
 * September 6 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian and singer
 * September 7
 * Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor, producer and director (d. 2022)
 * John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
 * September 10 – Brian Murray, South African actor and theatre director (d. 2018)
 * September 13
 * Don Bluth, American director and producer
 * Meeli Sööt, Estonian actress (d. 2024)
 * September 21
 * Ron Cobb, American-Australian graphic and film designer (d. 2020)
 * Aarne Üksküla, Estonian actor (d. 2017)
 * September 24 – Dee Pollock, American actor (d. 2005)
 * September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, American producer and actor (d. 2015)
 * October 7 – Clive Graham, British actor (d. 2007)
 * October 10
 * Vic Tablian, Armenian-British actor
 * Peter White, American actor (d. 2023)
 * October 11 – Ron Leibman, American actor (d. 2019)
 * October 15 – Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
 * October 21 – Édith Scob, French actress (d. 2019)
 * October 22 – Alan Ladd Jr., American film producer (d. 2022)
 * November 4 – Loretta Swit, American actress
 * November 5 – Harris Yulin, American actor
 * November 17 – Peter Cook, English satirist and comedic actor (d. 1995)
 * November 21
 * Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010)
 * Marlo Thomas, American actress and producer
 * November 23 – Dora Cadavid, Colombian actress, singer and announcer (d. 2022)
 * November 27 – Rodney Bewes, English actor (d. 2017)
 * November 30 – Ridley Scott, English director and producer
 * December 4
 * Max Baer Jr., American actor, producer, comedian and director
 * David Bailie, South African actor (d. 2021)
 * December 7 – Kenneth Colley, English actor
 * December 8 – James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
 * December 9 – Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
 * December 12 – Connie Francis, American singer and actress
 * December 16 – Joyce Bulifant, American actress
 * December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress
 * December 29 – Barbara Steele, English actress
 * December 30 – Zaldy Zshornack, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
 * December 31 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

Deaths

 * January 2 – Ross Alexander, 29, American actor, Captain Blood, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Flirtation Walk
 * January 21 – Marie Prevost, 40, Canadian-born American actress, The Marriage Circle, The Racket, The Godless Girl, Cain and Mabel
 * April 7 - Helen Burgess, 20, American actress, The Plainsman, A Doctor's Diary
 * May 1 – Snitz Edwards, 69, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor, The Thief of Bagdad, The Phantom of the Opera, Seven Chances, College
 * May 10 – William Tedmarsh, 61, English-American silent film actor
 * June 7
 * Jean Harlow, 26, American actress, The Public Enemy, Libeled Lady, Suzy, Red Dust
 * Monroe Owsley, 37, American actor, Holiday, Indiscreet, The Keyhole, Ex-Lady
 * June 25 – Colin Clive, 37, British actor, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein
 * September 21 – Osgood Perkins, 45, American actor, Scarface, Gold Diggers of 1937
 * November 13 – Mrs. Leslie Carter, 75, American stage and screen actress, Becky Sharp, Rocky Mountain Mystery
 * December 21 – Ted Healy, 41, American actor and creator of The Three Stooges, San Francisco, Mad Love, Beer and Pretzels, Soup to Nuts

Debuts

 * Jack Carson – You Only Live Once
 * Lee J. Cobb – North of the Rio Grande
 * Broderick Crawford – Woman Chases Man
 * Laraine Day – Stella Dallas
 * Richard Farnsworth – A Day at the Races
 * Susan Hayward – Hollywood Hotel
 * Allyn Joslyn – They Won't Forget
 * Carole Landis – The King and the Chorus Girl
 * Donald O'Connor – It Can't Last Forever
 * Ronald Reagan – Love Is on the Air
 * Victor Sen Yung – The Good Earth
 * Peggy Stewart – Wells Fargo
 * Rosella Towne – Varsity Show
 * Lana Turner – They Won't Forget

title: 1937 in film


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1936 in film

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as The Merry Widow and The Big Parade, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38.
 * February 15 – first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, is released.
 * May 29 – Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.
 * September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg, often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica, aged 37.

Academy Awards

 * Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * Best Director: Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
 * Best Actor: Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur
 * Best Actress: Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
 * Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan – Come and Get It
 * Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse

Top Ten Money Making Stars
Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll.

Top Western stars
A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.

1936 film releases
United States unless stated.

January–March

 * January 1936
 * 16 January
 * Ceiling Zero
 * Strike Me Pink
 * 17 January
 * Augustus the Strong (Germany/Poland)
 * 20 January
 * The Invisible Ray
 * 22 January
 * Collegiate
 * 24 January
 * Anything Goes
 * 28 January
 * Rose Marie
 * 30 January
 * Next Time We Love
 * February 1936
 * 6 February
 * The Petrified Forest
 * 7 February
 * The Milky Way
 * 14 February
 * The Bohemian Girl
 * It Had to Happen
 * 15 February
 * The Lawless Nineties
 * 19 February
 * Girl Friends (U.S.S.R.)
 * 20 February
 * Follow the Fleet
 * Things to Come (GB)
 * 22 February
 * The Story of Louis Pasteur
 * 25 February
 * Modern Times
 * 28 February
 * The Prisoner of Shark Island
 * Wife vs. Secretary
 * 29 February
 * Mayerling (France)
 * The Walking Dead
 * March 1936
 * 1 March
 * Sutter's Gold
 * 2 March
 * Man of the Frontier
 * 6 March
 * Little Lord Fauntleroy
 * Three Godfathers
 * 9 March
 * Love Before Breakfast
 * 13 March
 * The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
 * 18 March
 * These Three
 * 20 March
 * Silly Billies
 * 22 March
 * The Great Ziegfeld
 * 28 March
 * Road Gang
 * 30 March
 * Too Many Parents

April–June

 * April 1936
 * 4 April
 * Till We Meet Again
 * 10 April
 * A Message to Garcia
 * The Moon's Our Home
 * Small Town Girl
 * 11 April
 * Desire
 * The Singing Kid
 * 16 April
 * Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
 * 20 April
 * By the Bluest of Seas (U.S.S.R.)
 * 24 April
 * Captain January
 * 30 April
 * Thirteen Hours by Air
 * May 1936
 * 6 May
 * It's Love Again (GB)
 * 8 May
 * The Case Against Mrs. Ames
 * 11 May
 * Dracula's Daughter
 * 17 May
 * Show Boat
 * 19 May
 * Love in Exile (GB)
 * 20 May
 * Broken Blossoms (GB)
 * 26 May
 * Hearts in Bondage
 * 28 May
 * Osaka Elegy (Japan)
 * 29 May
 * Fury
 * June 1936
 * 5 June
 * Private Number
 * 6 June
 * Bullets or Ballots
 * 14 June
 * The Last Outlaw
 * 15 June
 * Secret Agent (GB)
 * 17 June
 * Poppy
 * 20 June
 * Hearts Divided
 * 26 June
 * San Francisco

July–September

 * July 1936
 * 10 July
 * The Devil-Doll
 * 16 July
 * Green Pastures
 * 22 July
 * Satan Met a Lady
 * 24 July
 * Poor Little Rich Girl
 * 28 July
 * The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (GB)
 * 29 July
 * Anthony Adverse
 * August 1936
 * 10 August
 * Where There's a Will (GB)
 * 20 August
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * 26 August
 * East Meets West (UK)
 * 27 August
 * Swing Time
 * 28 August
 * The Gorgeous Hussy
 * Militiaman Bruggler (Germany)
 * The Texas Rangers
 * September 1936
 * 1 September
 * Tudor Rose
 * 2 September
 * The General Died at Dawn
 * 4 September
 * The Last of the Mohicans
 * The Road to Glory
 * 6 September
 * My Man Godfrey
 * 9 September
 * Spy of Napoleon (GB)
 * 10 September
 * Dusty Ermine (UK)
 * 11 September
 * The Man Who Changed His Mind (GB)
 * 15 September
 * The Children of Captain Grant
 * 23 September
 * Dodsworth
 * 25 September
 * Craig's Wife
 * Ramona
 * 26 September
 * Cain and Mabel
 * 30 September
 * Yiddle with his Fiddle (Poland/U.S.)

October–December

 * October 1936
 * 1 October
 * Everything Is Thunder (UK)
 * 6 October
 * Allá en el Rancho Grande (Mexico)
 * 9 October
 * Libeled Lady
 * 15 October
 * The Garden of Allah
 * Sisters of the Gion (Japan)
 * 16 October
 * 15 Maiden Lane
 * Daniel Boone
 * Dimples
 * Hopalong Cassidy Returns
 * 20 October
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade
 * 22 October
 * Crime Over London (GB)
 * 27 October
 * César (France)
 * Rebellion
 * 30 October
 * Our Relations
 * November 1936
 * 1 November
 * Legion of Terror
 * 6 November
 * Come and Get It
 * Rembrandt (GB)
 * Tarzan Escapes
 * A Woman Rebels
 * 12 November
 * Theodora Goes Wild
 * 13 November
 * Go West, Young Man
 * 16 November
 * Intermezzo (Sweden)
 * Laburnum Grove (GB)
 * The Plainsman
 * 20 November
 * Love on the Run
 * 25 November
 * Lloyd's of London
 * Pennies from Heaven
 * 26 November
 * Men Are Not Gods (GB)
 * 27 November
 * Born to Dance
 * December 1936
 * 1 December
 * The Bold Caballero
 * 2 December
 * Sabotage (GB)
 * 11 December
 * General Spanky
 * Les bas-fonds (France)
 * 12 December
 * Camille
 * 20 December
 * Empty Saddles
 * 21 December
 * Forget Me Not (UK)
 * 24 December
 * The Jungle Princess
 * 25 December
 * After the Thin Man
 * Stowaway
 * 26 December
 * Gold Diggers of 1937
 * 31 December
 * Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)

Notable films released in 1936
United States unless stated.

0–9

 * 15 Maiden Lane, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero

A

 * Accused, directed by Thornton Freeland, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río – (GB)
 * Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), directed by Franz Osten, starring Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani – (India)
 * After the Thin Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
 * Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch) (Mexico)
 * The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant (GB)
 * Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
 * Anything Goes, starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman
 * Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener – (Germany/Poland)

B

 * Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet (France)
 * Black Eyes directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)
 * Blood on Wolf Mountain (Lang shan die xue ji) – (China)
 * The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
 * The Bold Caballero, starring Robert Livingston
 * Born to Dance, starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart
 * Broken Blossoms, starring Emlyn Williams and Dolly Haas
 * Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Blondell
 * By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet (U.S.S.R.)

C

 * Cain and Mabel, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
 * Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly) (Czechoslovakia)
 * Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
 * Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
 * The Case Against Mrs. Ames, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
 * Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
 * César, directed by Marcel Pagnol (France)
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
 * Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
 * The Children of Captain Grant
 * Circus (Tsirk) (U.S.S.R.)
 * Collegiate, starring Frances Langford and Betty Grable
 * Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea
 * Craig's Wife, starring Rosalind Russell
 * The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir (France)
 * Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler (GB)

D

 * Daniel Boone, starring George O'Brien
 * The Desert Island (Lang tao sha) (China)
 * Desire, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
 * Devdas (India)
 * The Devil-Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan
 * Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
 * Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor
 * Dracula's Daughter, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
 * Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus (UK)

E

 * East Meets West, starring George Arliss (UK)
 * Empty Saddles, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
 * Everything Is Thunder, starring Constance Bennett (UK)

F

 * Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
 * Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner (UK)
 * The Four Musketeers (Italy)
 * Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy

G

 * The Garden of Allah, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer
 * The General Died at Dawn, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
 * General Spanky, starring Spanky McFarland
 * Girl Friends (Podrugi) (U.S.S.R.)
 * Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
 * Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
 * The Gorgeous Hussy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor
 * The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
 * Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie Anderson

H

 * Hearts Divided, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
 * Hearts in Bondage, starring David Manners and Mae Clarke
 * Hopalong Cassidy Returns, starring William Boyd

I

 * I'll Give a Million (Darò un milione), starring Vittorio De Sica (Italy)
 * Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman (Sweden)
 * The Invisible Ray, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
 * It Had to Happen, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
 * It's Love Again, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young (GB)

J

 * The Jungle Princess, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland

K

 * Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California) – (Germany)
 * Klondike Annie, starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen

L

 * Laburnum Grove, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke (GB)
 * The Last of the Mohicans, starring Randolph Scott
 * The Last Outlaw, starring Harry Carey
 * The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
 * Legion of Terror, starring Bruce Cabot
 * Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) (Mexico)
 * Libeled Lady, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
 * Limelight, starring Anna Neagle (GB)
 * Little Lord Fauntleroy, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith
 * Lloyd's of London, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Tyrone Power
 * Love Before Breakfast, starring Carole Lombard and Preston Foster
 * Love in Exile, starring Helen Vinson and Clive Brook (GB)
 * Love on the Run. starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable

M

 * The Man Who Changed His Mind, starring Boris Karloff (GB)
 * The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson (GB)
 * Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux (France)
 * Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Rex Harrison (GB)
 * A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles and Wallace Beery
 * Militiaman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler) – (Germany)
 * The Milky Way, starring Harold Lloyd
 * Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard
 * The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
 * The Moon's Our Home, starring Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan
 * Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
 * My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard

N

 * Next Time We Love, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland
 * Night Mail, documentary (GB)

O

 * The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
 * Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
 * Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy

P

 * Palm Springs, starring Frances Langford and David Niven
 * Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji) (Czechoslovakia)
 * Pennies from Heaven, starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans
 * The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
 * Poppy, starring W.C. Fields
 * The Plainsman, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
 * Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley
 * The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
 * Private Number, starring Loretta Young and Robert Taylor

R

 * Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
 * Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)
 * Ramona, starring Don Ameche and Loretta Young
 * Rebellion, starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth
 * Reefer Madness, (aka Tell Your Children), a cult exploitation film
 * Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
 * Road Gang, starring Donald Woods
 * Robin Hood, Jr. (1936), directed by Leslie Goodwins
 * The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Lionel Barrymore and Fredric March
 * Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone
 * Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

S

 * Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)
 * San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
 * Satan Met a Lady, starring Warren William and Bette Davis
 * Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll (GB)
 * Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
 * The Singing Kid, starring Al Jolson
 * Silly Billies starring Wheeler & Woolsey
 * Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
 * Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, James Stewart
 * Sportszerelem (Hungary)
 * Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas (GB)
 * The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
 * Stowaway, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye
 * Sutter's Gold, starring Edward Arnold
 * Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter (GB)
 * Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

T

 * Tarzan Escapes, starring Johnny Weissmuller
 * The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie
 * Theodora Goes Wild, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
 * These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea (adapted from Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour)
 * Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke (GB)
 * Thirteen Hours by Air, starring Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett
 * Three Godfathers, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
 * Till We Meet Again, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
 * Too Many Parents, debut film for Frances Farmer
 * The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, starring Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
 * Tudor Rose, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills (GB)

W

 * The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff
 * Where There's a Will, starring Will Hay – (GB)
 * Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper – (GB)
 * Wife vs. Secretary, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy
 * Windbag the Sailor, starring Will Hay (GB)
 * A Woman Rebels, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall

Y

 * Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon (Poland/U.S.)

Serials

 * Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
 * The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
 * The Black Coin
 * The Clutching Hand
 * Custer's Last Stand
 * Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty
 * Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe
 * The Phantom Rider
 * Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala
 * Shadow of Chinatown
 * Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan
 * The Vigilantes Are Coming

Comedy film series

 * Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
 * Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
 * Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
 * Buster Keaton (1917–1928)
 * Laurel and Hardy (1927–1940)
 * Our Gang (1922–1944)
 * Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
 * Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937)
 * The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
 * The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

 * Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
 * Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
 * Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
 * Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
 * Silly Symphonies
 * Elmer Elephant
 * Three Little Wolves
 * Toby Tortoise Returns
 * Three Blind Mousketeers
 * The Country Cousin
 * Mother Pluto
 * More Kittens
 * Screen Songs (1929–1938)
 * Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
 * Terrytoons (1930–1964)
 * Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
 * Scrappy (1931–1941)
 * Betty Boop (1932–1939)
 * Popeye (1933–1957)
 * ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936)
 * Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)
 * Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
 * Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)
 * Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936–1937)

Births

 * January 9 – K Callan, American author and actress
 * January 18 – Tim Barlow, English actor (d. 2023)
 * January 22 – Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
 * January 27 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
 * January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor
 * February 3 – Jeanine Basinger, American film historian
 * February 4 – Gary Conway, American actor and screenwriter
 * February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018)
 * February 12
 * Joe Don Baker, American character actor
 * Paul Shenar, American actor (d. 1989)
 * February 14
 * Joan O'Brien, American actor, singer
 * Andrew Prine, American actor (d. 2022)
 * February 17 – Jim Brown, American actor (d. 2023)
 * February 29 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
 * March 1 – Georgina Spelvin, born Shelley Graham, American pornographic film actress
 * March 5 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
 * March 8 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress
 * March 9 – Marty Ingels, American actor, comedian, comedy sketch writer and theatrical agent (d. 2015)
 * March 19 – Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
 * March 23 – Luisa Mattioli, Italian actress (d. 2021)
 * April 9 – Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian (d. 2002)
 * April 12 – Charles Napier, American character actor (d. 2011)
 * April 19 – Andy Romano, American actor (d. 2022)
 * May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French director (d. 2006)
 * May 4 – Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. 2024)
 * May 9
 * Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
 * Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023)
 * May 12 – Millie Perkins, American former actress
 * May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, actor (d. 1973)
 * May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010)
 * May 20 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
 * May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. 2023)
 * May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor (d. 2024)
 * May 28 – John Wilder, American producer, writer and former actor
 * May 30 – Keir Dullea, American actor
 * June 3 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
 * June 4 – Bruce Dern, American actor
 * June 8 – James Darren, American actor, director and singer
 * June 19 - Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor and narrator (d. 2012)
 * June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, American retired actor, musician and songwriter
 * June 24
 * Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (d. 2021)
 * Paul L. Smith, American-Israeli actor and director (d. 2012)
 * June 27 – Shirley Anne Field, English actress (d. 2023)
 * July 1 – Ron Masak, American actor (d. 2022)
 * July 5 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
 * July 9 – Dick Richards, American director, producer and screenwriter
 * July 9 - Richard Wilson Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster
 * July 24
 * Ruth Buzzi, American actress, comedian and singer
 * Mark Goddard, American actor (d. 2023)
 * July 25 - August Schellenberg, Canadian actor (d. 2013)
 * August 5 - John Saxon, American actor (d. 2020)
 * August 13 – Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, politician, dancer and singer
 * August 15 - Pat Priest, American actress
 * August 16 - Anita Gillette, American actress
 * August 17 – Floyd Westerman, American musician, political activist, and actor (d. 2007)
 * August 18 – Robert Redford, American actor and director
 * August 20 – Philip Voss, British actor (d. 2020)
 * August 25 – Hugh Hudson, English director (d. 2023)
 * September 7 – Bruce Gray, Canadian actor (d. 2017)
 * September 11 - Charles Dierkop, American character actor (d. 2024)
 * September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor and screenwriter
 * September 19 - Anna Karen, British-South African actress (d. 2022)
 * September 20
 * Andrew Davies, Welsh writer
 * Pepper Martin, Canadian-American actor (d. 2022)
 * September 21 - Burr DeBenning, American character actor (d. 2003)
 * September 24 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer, animator, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
 * October 8 - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
 * October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor
 * October 16
 * Peter Bowles, English actor (d. 2022)
 * Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
 * October 19 - Tony Lo Bianco, Italian-American actor (d. 2024)
 * October 23 - Philip Kaufman, American director and screenwriter
 * October 24 – David Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
 * October 26 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
 * October 28 - Joe Spinell, American character actor (d. 1989)
 * November 4 - Jan Tříska, Czech actor (d. 2017)
 * November 9 – Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. 2007)
 * November 19 - Dick Cavett, American television personality, comedian and former talk show host
 * November 25 - Matt Clark, American actor
 * November 27 – Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
 * December 1 - Melissa Jaffer, Australian actress
 * December 3
 * Mary Alice, American actress (d. 2022)
 * Sir Horace Ové, Trinidadian-born British filmmaker (d. 2023)
 * December 5 - John Erwin, American voice actor
 * December 6 - David Ossman, American writer and comedian
 * December 8 – David Carradine, American actor and martial artist (d. 2009)
 * December 10 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director and producer (d. 2014)
 * December 13 - Cliff Emmich, American actor (d. 2022)
 * December 18 - Gary Gray, American child actor (d. 2006)
 * December 22 – Hector Elizondo, American actor
 * December 23
 * Frederic Forrest, American actor (d. 2023)
 * James Stacy, American actor (d. 2016)
 * December 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
 * December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)

Deaths

 * January 9
 * John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)
 * Frank Rice, American actor (b. 1892)
 * January 24 – Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)
 * February 20 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
 * February 28 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859)
 * April 6 – Väinö Lehmus, Finnish actor (b. 1886)
 * June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878)
 * July 11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
 * September 14 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
 * October 17 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889)

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1935 in film

The following is an overview of 1935 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood. This period was punctuated by performances from Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and the first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. A significant number of productions also originated in the UK film industry.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1935 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Events

 * February 22 – The Little Colonel premieres starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Robinson, featuring a famous stair dance with Hollywood's first interracial dance couple
 * February 23 – Gene Autry stars as himself as the Singing Cowboy in the serial The Phantom Empire. He would later be voted the number one Western star from 1937 to 1942.
 * February 27 – Seven-year-old Shirley Temple wins the first special Academy Juvenile Award.
 * March – The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment is started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.
 * May 31 – Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures merge to form 20th Century Fox.
 * June 13 – Following the merger of six smaller independent film companies including Monogram Pictures, Mascot Pictures, Liberty Pictures and Majestic Pictures, Herbert J. Yates completed the formation of Republic Pictures.
 * August 15 – Will Rogers who the previous year was voted the Top Money Making Star dies in a plane crash.
 * August 25 – William Boyd appears in his first of 66 films as Hopalong Cassidy in Hop-Along Cassidy.
 * September – Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
 * September 5 – Gene Autry appears in his first film for the newly formed Republic Pictures – Tumbling Tumbleweeds, named after his second million-selling record.
 * November 30 – The British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, opens in the U.S. after its U.K. release on November 26. Seymour Hicks plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD.

Academy Awards
The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars".

Most nominations: Mutiny on the Bounty (MGM) – 8

Major Awards

 * Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 * Best Director: John Ford – The Informer
 * Best Actor: Victor McLaglen – The Informer
 * Best Actress: Bette Davis – Dangerous

Most Awards: The Informer (RKO) – 4 (Actor, Director, Adaptation, Scoring)

Top Ten Money Making Stars
Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll.

1935 film releases
United States unless stated.

January–March

 * January 1935
 * 11 January
 * The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
 * The Night Is Young
 * 18 January
 * David Copperfield
 * 23 January
 * Bordertown
 * 25 January
 * The Gilded Lily
 * 27 January
 * The Youth of Maxim (USSR)
 * 31 January
 * The Good Fairy
 * The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
 * February 1935
 * 1 February
 * Home on the Range
 * 2 February
 * New Women (China)
 * 4 February
 * The Mystery of Edwin Drood
 * 8 February
 * Long Live with Dearly Departed (Czechoslovakia)
 * 11 February
 * Police Chief Antek (Poland)
 * 19 February
 * Ruggles of Red Gap
 * 22 February
 * After Office Hours
 * Death Drives Through
 * The Little Colonel
 * Toni (France)
 * The Whole Town's Talking
 * March 1935
 * 8 March
 * Naughty Marietta
 * Roberta
 * The Wedding Night
 * 16 March
 * Gold Diggers of 1935
 * 22 March
 * Life Begins at 40
 * Mississippi
 * 25 March
 * The New Gulliver (U.S.S.R.)
 * 28 March
 * Triumph of the Will (Germany)
 * 30 March
 * Devdas

April–June

 * April 1935
 * 10 April
 * Villa for Sale
 * 11 April
 * Four Hours to Kill!
 * 18 April
 * G Men
 * 19 April
 * Private Worlds
 * Reckless
 * Star of Midnight
 * 20 April
 * Go Into Your Dance
 * Little Mother (Austria/Hungary)
 * Les Misérables
 * 22 April
 * Bride of Frankenstein
 * 25 April
 * Goin' to Town
 * 27 April
 * Party Wire
 * 30 April
 * The Scoundrel
 * May 1935
 * 9 May
 * The Informer
 * 11 May
 * Dinky
 * 13 May
 * Werewolf of London
 * 16 May
 * Drake of England (GB)
 * 18 May
 * Black Fury
 * 26 May
 * The Girl from 10th Avenue
 * 31 May
 * Public Hero No. 1
 * June 1935
 * 6 June
 * The 39 Steps (GB)
 * 7 June
 * Doubting Thomas
 * Our Little Girl
 * 13 June
 * Becky Sharp
 * 15 June
 * The Glass Key
 * The Million Ryo Pot (Japan)
 * 28 June
 * The Arizonian

July–September

 * July 1935
 * 6 July
 * Escapade
 * 8 July
 * The Raven
 * 12 July
 * Mad Love
 * The Murder Man
 * She
 * 15 July
 * The Black Room
 * The Clairvoyant (GB)
 * 18 July
 * Amphitryon (Germany)
 * 19 July
 * Shanghai
 * 20 July
 * Front Page Woman
 * 26 July
 * Curly Top
 * 31 July
 * Dante's Inferno
 * August 1935
 * 2 August
 * The Farmer Takes a Wife
 * 3 August
 * Man on the Flying Trapeze
 * 9 August
 * The Call of the Wild
 * China Seas
 * 15 August
 * Alice Adams
 * 19 August
 * Westward Ho
 * 25 August
 * Hop-Along Cassidy
 * 29 August
 * Top Hat
 * 30 August
 * Anna Karenina
 * September 1935
 * 5 September
 * Tumbling Tumbleweeds
 * 6 September
 * Steamboat Round the Bend
 * 7 September
 * Little Big Shot
 * Page Miss Glory
 * 8 September
 * The Dark Angel
 * 9 September
 * Harmony Lane
 * 14 September
 * Special Agent
 * 19 September
 * She Married Her Boss
 * 20 September
 * Broadway Melody of 1936
 * 24 September
 * The Crime of Dr. Crespi
 * 25 September
 * La Bandera (France)

October–December

 * October 1935
 * 4 October
 * I Live My Life
 * 5 October
 * Waterfront Lady
 * 8 October
 * She Couldn't Take It
 * 13 October
 * Barbary Coast
 * 16 October
 * Way Down East
 * 18 October
 * Hands Across the Table
 * The Last Days of Pompeii
 * 24 October
 * Rendezvous
 * 25 October
 * The Crusades
 * Thanks a Million
 * 27 October
 * Trans-atlantic Tunnel (GB)
 * 28 October
 * No Limit (GB)
 * 30 October
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * 31 October
 * Peter Ibbetson
 * November 1935
 * 2 November
 * Princess Tam Tam (France)
 * 4 November
 * Remember Last Night?
 * 8 November
 * Mutiny on the Bounty
 * 14 November
 * The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
 * 15 November
 * Annie Oakley
 * A Night at the Opera
 * 21 November
 * An Inn in Tokyo (Japan)
 * 22 November
 * Crime and Punishment
 * In Old Kentucky
 * Splendor
 * 26 November
 * Scrooge (GB)
 * 30 November
 * Frisco Kid
 * December 1935
 * 3 December
 * Carnival in Flanders (France)
 * 6 December
 * Ah, Wilderness!
 * 9 December
 * The Great Impersonation
 * 17 December
 * The Ghost Goes West (GB)
 * 19 December
 * The Littlest Rebel
 * 20 December
 * Lucrezia Borgia
 * 25 December
 * The Bride Comes Home
 * Dangerous
 * 27 December
 * Professional Soldier
 * A Tale of Two Cities
 * 28 December
 * Captain Blood
 * 30 December
 * Magnificent Obsession
 * 31 December
 * Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)

Notable films released in 1935

 * See also: United States unless stated.

0–9

 * The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll (GB)

A

 * After Office Hours, starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
 * Ah, Wilderness!, starring Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
 * Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn
 * Amphitryon (Germany)
 * Anna Karenina, starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March
 * Annie Oakley, starring Barbara Stanwyck
 * The Arizonian, starring Richard Dix

B

 * La Bandera, directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin (France)
 * Barbary Coast, starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea
 * Becky Sharp, starring Miriam Hopkins (first feature made in Three Strip Technicolor)
 * Black Fury, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Paul Muni
 * The Black Room, starring Boris Karloff
 * Bordertown, starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis
 * Boys Will Be Boys, starring Will Hay (GB)
 * Brewster's Millions, starring Jack Buchanan and Lili Damita (GB)
 * The Bride Comes Home, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
 * Bride of Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester
 * Broadway Melody of 1936, starring Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor

C

 * The Call of the Wild, starring Clark Gable
 * Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
 * Car of Dreams, starring John Mills (Britain)
 * Carnival in Flanders (La Kermesse héroïque), directed by Jacques Feyder (France)
 * Charlie Chan in Egypt, starring Warner Oland
 * China Seas, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery
 * Coal Face, a documentary directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (GB)
 * Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Peter Lorre
 * The Crime of Dr. Crespi, starring Erich Von Stroheim
 * The Crusades, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Henry Wilcoxon and Loretta Young
 * Curly Top, starring Shirley Temple

D

 * Dandy Dick, starring Will Hay (GB)
 * Dangerous, starring Bette Davis and Franchot Tone
 * Dante's Inferno, starring Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor
 * The Dark Angel, starring Fredric March and Merle Oberon
 * David Copperfield, directed by George Cukor, starring Edna May Oliver, Freddie Bartholomew, W. C. Fields
 * Death Drives Through, directed by Edward L. Cahn
 * Devdas (India)
 * The Devil Is a Woman, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich
 * Dinky, starring Jackie Cooper and Mary Astor
 * Doubting Thomas, starring Will Rogers
 * Drake of England, starring Matheson Lang and Jane Baxter (GB)

E-F

 * Escapade, starring William Powell
 * Escape Me Never, directed by Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner (GB)
 * Every Night at Eight, starring George Raft and Alice Faye
 * The Farmer Takes a Wife, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda
 * Foreign Affaires, directed by and starring Tom Walls (Britain)
 * Four Hours to Kill!, starring Richard Barthelmess
 * Frisco Kid, starring James Cagney
 * Front Page Woman, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bette Davis and George Brent

G

 * G Men, starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak
 * The Ghost Goes West, directed by René Clair, starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette (GB)
 * The Gilded Lily, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
 * The Girl from 10th Avenue, starring Bette Davis
 * The Glass Key, starring George Raft
 * Go Into Your Dance, starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler
 * Goin' to Town, starring Mae West
 * Gold Diggers of 1935, a Busby Berkeley musical starring Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart
 * The Good Fairy, starring Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall
 * The Great Impersonation, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Edmund Lowe and Valerie Hobson

H

 * Hands Across the Table, starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
 * Harmony Lane, starring Douglass Montgomery
 * Home on the Range, starring Jackie Coogan and Randolph Scott
 * Hop-Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd
 * Hyde Park Corner, directed by Sinclair Hill, starring Gordon Harker (Britain)

I-J

 * I Live My Life, starring Joan Crawford and Frank Morgan
 * In Old Kentucky, starring Will Rogers
 * The Informer, directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen
 * An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
 * Jánošík, directed by Martin Frič (Czechoslovakia)
 * Jedenácté přikázání (The Eleventh Commandment) (Czechoslovakia)

L

 * The Last Days of Pompeii, starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone
 * Life Begins at 40, starring Will Rogers
 * Little Big Shot, directed by Michael Curtiz
 * The Little Colonel, starring Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore
 * Little Mother (Kleine Mutti) (Austria/Hungary)
 * The Littlest Rebel, starring Shirley Temple
 * The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone
 * Long Live with Dearly Departed (Ať žije nebožtík) (Czechoslovakia)
 * Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Abel Gance, starring Edwige Feuillère (France)

M

 * Mad Love (aka The Hands of Orlac), starring Peter Lorre
 * Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor
 * The Making of a King (Der alte und der junge König), starring Emil Jannings (Germany)
 * Man of the Moment, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (GB)
 * Man on the Flying Trapeze, starring W. C. Fields
 * The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, starring Ronald Colman and Joan Bennett
 * Men of Action, starring Frankie Darro and Barbara Worth
 * Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Hughie Green and Margaret Lockwood (GB)
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle
 * The Million Ryo Pot (Tange Sazen Yowa: Hyakuman Ryō no Tsubo) (Japan)
 * Les Misérables, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
 * Mississippi, starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields and Joan Bennett
 * Moscow Nights, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Laurence Olivier (GB)
 * The Murder Man, starring Spencer Tracy
 * Music Hath Charms, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Henry Hall (Britain)
 * Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton
 * The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Claude Rains and Valerie Hobson

N

 * Naughty Marietta, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
 * The New Gulliver, directed by Aleksandr Ptushko, a stop motion-animated film (U.S.S.R.)
 * New Women (Xīn nǚxìng) (China)
 * A Night at the Opera, directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
 * The Night Is Young, starring Ramon Navarro
 * No Limit, starring George Formby (GB)
 * No More Ladies, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery

O-P

 * Our Little Girl, starring Shirley Temple
 * Page Miss Glory, starring Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, and Patsy Kelly
 * Party Wire, starring Jean Arthur and Victor Jory
 * The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt (GB)
 * Peter Ibbetson, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding
 * Police Chief Antek (Antek policmajster) (Poland)
 * Princess Tam Tam, starring Josephine Baker (France)
 * Private Worlds, starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea
 * Professional Soldier, starring Victor McLaglen
 * Public Hero No. 1, starring Lionel Barrymore and Jean Arthur

R

 * The Raven, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi
 * Reckless, a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
 * Red Passport, directed by Guido Brignone, starring Isa Miranda (Italy)
 * Remember Last Night?, directed by James Whale, starring Edward Arnold and Constance Cummings
 * Rendezvous (1935), starring William Powell
 * Roberta, a musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, with an uncredited appearance by  Lucille Ball
 * Royal Cavalcade, a historical film celebrating George V's silver jubilee with six directors and a large ensemble cast (GB)
 * Ruggles of Red Gap, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Laughton

S

 * The Scoundrel, starring Noël Coward
 * Scrooge (GB)
 * She, starring Randolph Scott
 * She Couldn't Take It, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett
 * She Married Her Boss, starring Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas
 * Sheela (Indian)
 * Shanghai, starring Charles Boyer and Loretta Young
 * The Silent Code, starring Kane Richmond and Blanche Mehaffey
 * So Red the Rose, starring Margaret Sullavan
 * Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (Fengyun ernu) (China)
 * The Soul of the Accordion (El alma de bandoneón) (Argentina)
 * Special Agent, starring Bette Davis and George Brent
 * Splendor, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
 * Squibs directed by Henry Edwards and starring Betty Balfour (Britain)
 * Star of Midnight, starring William Powell and Ginger Rogers
 * Steamboat Round the Bend, starring Will Rogers

T

 * A Tale of Two Cities, starring Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan
 * Thanks a Million, starring Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak
 * Toni by Jean Renoir (France) – the most significant precursor to the Italian neorealist movement
 * Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
 * The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (British), a Sherlock Holmes film directed by Leslie Hiscott based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Valley of Fear, starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, and Ian Fleming as Watson
 * Triumph of the Will – Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl (Germany)
 * Tumbling Tumbleweeds, western with Gene Autry
 * Trans-atlantic Tunnel, starring Richard Dix and Leslie Banks (GB)
 * Turn of the Tide, starring John Garrick and Geraldine Fitzgerald (GB)

V-Y

 * Villa for Sale (Ez a villa eladó) (Hungary)
 * The Village Squire, starring Vivien Leigh (GB)
 * Waterfront Lady, starring Ann Rutherford, Frank Albertson
 * The Wedding Night, starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten
 * Werewolf of London, starring Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
 * Westward Ho, starring John Wayne
 * The Whole Town's Talking, starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur
 * Way Down East, starring Henry Fonda
 * Xin nü xing (directed by: Chusheng Cai), starring: Ruan Lingyu, Naidong Wang and Junli Zheng.
 * The Youth of Maxim (Yunost Maksima) (USSR)

Serials

 * The Adventures of Rex and Rinty, starring Rex the Wonder Horse and Rin Tin Tin
 * The Call of the Savage, directed by Lew Landers
 * The Fighting Marines
 * The Lost City
 * The Miracle Rider, starring Tom Mix
 * The New Adventures of Tarzan, starring Herman Brix
 * The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry
 * Queen of the Jungle, directed by Robert F. Hill
 * The Roaring West
 * Rustlers of Red Dog, directed by Lew Landers
 * Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery

Comedy film series

 * Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
 * Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
 * Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
 * Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
 * Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
 * Thicker than Water
 * Our Gang (1922–1944)
 * Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
 * Wheeler and Woolsey (1929–1937)
 * Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
 * The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

 * Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
 * Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
 * Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
 * Screen Songs (1929–1938)
 * Silly Symphonies (1929–1939)
 * The Tortoise and the Hare
 * The Golden Touch
 * The Robber Kitten
 * Water Babies
 * The Cookie Carnival
 * Who Killed Cock Robin?
 * Music Land
 * Three Orphan Kittens
 * Cock o' the Walk
 * Broken Toys
 * Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
 * Terrytoons (1930–1964)
 * Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
 * Scrappy (1931–1941)
 * Betty Boop (1932–1939)
 * Popeye (1933–1957)
 * ComiColor Cartoons (1933–1936)
 * Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)
 * Cartune Classics (1934–1935)
 * Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
 * Rainbow Parades (1935–1936)

Births

 * January 2 – John Considine, American writer and actor
 * January 5 – Gerald R. Molen, American producer and actor
 * January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock singer and actor (died 1977)
 * January 9 – Bob Denver, American comic actor (died 2005)
 * January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (died 2019)
 * January 28 – Nicholas Pryor, American actor
 * January 30 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress (died 2017)
 * February 3 - Jeremy Kemp, English actor (died 2019)
 * February 17 – Christina Pickles, British-American actress
 * February 25 – Sally Jessy Raphael, American former tabloid talk show host
 * February 26
 * Stephen Pearlman, American actor (died 1998)
 * Jane Wagner, American writer, director and producer
 * March 11 – Nancy Kovack, American retired actress
 * March 15 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
 * March 18
 * Oumarou Ganda, Nigerien director and actor (died 1981)
 * Leslie Parrish, American actress, writer and producer
 * March 19 - Burt Metcalfe, Canadian-American actor (died 2022)
 * March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh, American character actor and comedian (died 2024)
 * March 24 - Mary Berry, English television presenter
 * March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
 * April 4 – Kenneth Mars, American actor and voice actor (died 2011)
 * April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996)
 * April 9 – Motomu Kiyokawa, Japanese actor and voice actor (died 2022)
 * April 10 – Álvaro de Luna, Spanish actor (died 2018)
 * April 16 – Bobby Vinton, American singer, songwriter and actor
 * April 19 – Dudley Moore, English-born comic actor and musician (died 2002)
 * April 20 – Mario Camus, Spanish director (died 2021)
 * April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor (died 2021)
 * April 22 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American actor and broadcaster (died 2013)
 * April 23 - Franco Citti, Italian actor (died 2016)
 * April 27
 * Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (died 2012)
 * Nikki van der Zyl, German voice-over artist (died 2021)
 * April 29 - Lennie Weinrib, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2006)
 * May 2
 * Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (died 2014)
 * Lance LeGault, American film and television actor (died 2012)
 * May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (died 1995)
 * May 19 - David Hartman, American television personality and media host
 * May 25 - George Roubicek, Austrian actor
 * May 26 – Sheila Steafel, British actress (died 2019)
 * May 27
 * Carole Lesley, English actress (died 1974)
 * Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen and actress
 * May 28 - Anne Reid, English actress
 * May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
 * June 2 - Roger Brierley, English actor (died 2005)
 * June 3 - Irma P. Hall, American actress
 * June 16 – James Bolam, English actor
 * June 21 - Monte Markham, American actor
 * June 26 - Edwin Hodgeman, Australian actor
 * June 27 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (died 2007)
 * June 29 - Keith Walker, American writer, producer and actor (died 1996)
 * July 1 – David Prowse, English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor (died 2020)
 * July 5 – Christian Doermer, German actor (died 2022)
 * July 8 - Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor (died 2024)
 * July 9 - Michael Williams, British actor (died 2001)
 * July 13 – Gregorio Casal, Mexican actor (died 2018)
 * July 15
 * Gianni Garko, Croatian-born Italian actor
 * Alex Karras, American football player, professional wrestler and actor (died 2012)
 * July 17
 * Diahann Carroll, African American singer and actress (died 2019)
 * Donald Sutherland, Canadian-born actor (died 2024)
 * July 22 - Stanley Ralph Ross, American writer and actor (died 2000)
 * July 25 - Barbara Harris, American actress (died 2018)
 * July 31 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (died 2015)
 * August 2 – Amidou, Moroccan-French actor (died 2013)
 * August 3 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor and voice actor (died 2019)
 * August 5
 * Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (died 2017)
 * Wanda Ventham, English actress
 * August 7 – Yoná Magalhães, Brazilian actress (died 2015)
 * August 8 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer and screenwriter
 * August 12 – John Cazale, American actor (died 1978)
 * August 15 – Jim Dale, English actor, director and singer
 * August 16 – Janet Henfrey, British actress
 * August 23 – Ronald Falk, Australian actor (died 2016)
 * August 24 – Lando Buzzanca, Italian actor (died 2022)
 * August 28 – Sonny Shroyer, American actor and singer
 * August 29 – William Friedkin, American director, producer and screenwriter (died 2023)
 * August 31 – Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (died 2018)
 * September 2 – Kenneth Tsang, Hong Kong actor (died 2022)
 * September 9
 * Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-British actor
 * Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, comedian and producer (died 2023)
 * September 21 - Henry Gibson, American actor, singer and songwriter (died 2009)
 * September 24 – Sean McCann, Canadian actor (died 2019)
 * September 28 - Ronald Lacey, English actor (died 1991)
 * September 29 - Mylène Demongeot, French actress (died 2022)
 * October 1 – Julie Andrews, English-born singer and actress
 * October 3 – Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (died 2020)
 * October 4 - Eddie Applegate, American actor (died 2016)
 * October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (died 2006)
 * October 20 – Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (died 2004)
 * October 24 – Rosamaria Murtinho, Brazilian actress
 * October 27 - Frank Adonis, American actor (died 2018)
 * November 7
 * Billy "Green" Bush, American actor
 * Judy Parfitt, English actress
 * November 8 - Alain Delon, French actor
 * November 13 - Tom Atkins, American actor
 * November 21 – Michael Chapman, American cinematographer (died 2020)
 * November 22 - Michael Callan, American actor (died 2022)
 * November 24 – Salim Khan, Indian Bollywood screenwriter
 * November 29
 * Diane Ladd, American actress
 * Amanda Walker, English actress
 * November 30 – Woody Allen, American comedian, director and actor
 * December 2 - Hy Pyke, American character actor (died 2006)
 * December 5 – Basabi Nandi, Indian actress (died 2018)
 * December 8
 * Dharmendra, Indian film actor, producer and politician
 * Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German director
 * December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak director (died 2001)
 * December 14
 * Lewis Arquette, American actor, writer and producer (died 2001)
 * Lee Remick, American actress (died 1991)
 * December 18 - Rosemary Leach, British actress (died 2017)
 * December 21
 * John G. Avildsen, American director (died 2017)
 * Phil Donahue, American media personality, writer and producer
 * December 24 - Tommy Dysart, Scottish-born Australian actor (died 2022)
 * December 28 - William Bassett, American actor
 * December 30 - Jack Riley, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2016)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton, American comedy actor (born 1891)
 * February 7 – Frederick Warde, English Shakespearean actor (born 1851)
 * March 8 – Ruan Lingyu, Chinese silent film actress, committed suicide (born 1910)
 * March 23 – Florence Moore, American singer and silent film actress (born 1886)
 * May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor, in a road accident (born 1915)
 * May 13 – Clarence Geldart, Canadian-American actor (born 1867)
 * August 14 – Léonce Perret, French actor, director and producer (born 1880)
 * August 15 – Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (born 1879)
 * August 25 – Mack Swain, American actor (born 1876)
 * September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, British film pioneer, cancer (born 1860)
 * December 16 – Thelma Todd, American actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)

title: 1935 in film