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Overview of the events of 1934 in film
Overview of the events of 1934 in film
The following is an overview of 1934 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1934 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1934
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Cleopatra
Paramount
$1,929,161
[1]
2
Forsaking All Others
MGM
$1,399,000
[2]
3
It Happened One Night
Columbia
$1,366,000
[3]
4
Chained
MGM
$1,301,000
[2]
5
Wonder Bar
Warner Bros. /
First National
$1,264,000
[4]
6
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
MGM
$1,258,000
[2]
7
Here Comes the Navy
Warner Bros.
$1,183,000
[4]
8
Judge Priest
Fox Film
$1,176,000
[3]
9
Treasure Island
MGM
$1,164,000
[2]
10
The Gay Divorcee
RKO
$1,077,000
[5]
Events
January 26 –
Samuel Goldwyn (formerly of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ) purchases the film rights to
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the
L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.
February 19 –
Bob Hope marries
Dolores Reade .
April 19 –
Fox Studios releases
Stand Up and Cheer! , with five-year-old
Shirley Temple in a relatively minor role. Shirley steals the film and Fox, which had been near bankruptcy, finds itself owning a goldmine.
May 18 – Paramount releases
Little Miss Marker , with Shirley Temple, on loan from Fox, in the title role.
June 13 – An amendment to the
Production Code establishes the
Production Code Administration , and requires all films to obtain a certificate of approval before being released.
July 28 – Canadian-born actress
Marie Dressler , best known for starring in films such as
Min and Bill and
Emma , dies from cancer in
Santa Barbara, California at the age of 65. For her performance in Min and Bill , Dressler received the
Academy Award for Best Actress .
October 12 –
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers wham audiences again with their first joint starring roles in
The Gay Divorcee , grossing $1.8 million
[5] to add to the $1.5 million
[5] earned by
Flying Down to Rio released at the end of 1933.
November 12 – The musical
Babes in Toyland debuts, starring
Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy as comic relief.
December 11 – Fox releases the
Sol M. Wurtzel production of
Bright Eyes , starring their hot new property, Shirley Temple. Shirley sings "
On the Good Ship Lollipop ", and wins the first
Academy Award ever given to a child, for her endearing portrayal of Shirley Blake.
Academy Awards
The 7th Academy Awards was held on February 27, 1935, at the
Biltmore Hotel in
Los Angeles . They were hosted by
Irvin S. Cobb . For the first time, the
Academy standardized the practice – still in effect, notwithstanding changes to the
93rd and
94th Academy Awards as a result of the
COVID-19 pandemic – that the award eligibility period for a film would be the preceding calendar year.
Most nominations:
One Night of Love (
Columbia Pictures ) – 6
Major Awards
Most Awards: It Happened One Night – 5
It Happened One Night became the first film to perform a
"clean sweep" of the top five award categories : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and
Best Screenplay . This feat would later be duplicated by
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in
1976 and
The Silence of the Lambs in
1992 . It also was the first romantic comedy to be named Best Picture.
1934 film releases
United States unless stated
January–March
January 1934
6 January
19 January
22 January
26 January
Unknown
February 1934
1 February
2 February
3 February
9 February
10 February
14 February
16 February
22 February
23 February
25 February
March 1934
3 March
17 March
30 March
31 March
April–June
April 1934
5 April
7 April
9 April
10 April
15 April
16 April
26 April
27 April
May 1934
1 May
2 May
3 May
4 May
9 May
15 May
18 May
25 May
26 May
31 May
June 1934
1 June
2 June
4 June
6 June
8 June
13 June
28 June
30 June
July–September
July 1934
6 July
13 July
20 July
21 July
30 July
August 1934
3 August
4 August
6 August
13 August
15 August
16 August
17 August
19 August
23 August
24 August
30 August
31 August
September 1934
5 September
11 September
12 September
14 September
15 September
17 September
19 September
21 September
22 September
28 September
October–December
October 1934
1 October
2 October
4 October
5 October
8 October
12 October
13 October
18 October
19 October
22 October
November 1934
2 November
3 November
9 November
10 November
16 November
17 November
23 November
26 November
29 November
30 November
December 1934
1 December
7 December
9 December
10 December
11 December
14 December
21 December
23 December
28 December
31 December
Notable films released in 1934
United States unless stated
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Babes in Toyland , starring
Laurel and Hardy
Baby, Take a Bow , starring
Shirley Temple
The Barretts of Wimpole Street , starring
Norma Shearer ,
Fredric March and
Charles Laughton
The Battle , starring
Merle Oberon ,
Charles Boyer and
John Loder – (
GB /
France )
Belle of the Nineties , starring
Mae West and
Johnny Mack Brown
The Big Road (Dalu), directed by
Sun Yu – (
China )
The Big Shakedown , starring
Bette Davis and
Charles Farrell
The Black Cat , starring
Boris Karloff and
Bela Lugosi
Bolero , starring
George Raft and
Carole Lombard
Boots! Boots! , starring
George Formby – (
GB – first film by
Blakeley's Productions )
Born to Be Bad , starring
Cary Grant ,
Loretta Young ,
Jackie Kelk
Bright Eyes , starring
Shirley Temple
Broadway Bill , directed by
Frank Capra , starring
Warner Baxter and
Myrna Loy
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back , starring
Ronald Colman
C
The Captain Hates the Sea , starring
Victor McLaglen and
John Gilbert in his last film role
Carolina , starring
Janet Gaynor and
Lionel Barrymore
The Case of the Howling Dog , starring
Warren William (as
Perry Mason )
The Cat and the Fiddle , starring
Ramón Novarro and
Jeanette MacDonald
The Cat's-Paw , starring
Harold Lloyd
Chained , starring
Joan Crawford and
Clark Gable
Chapayev – winner of
National Board of Review "Best Foreign Film" Award in 1935 – (
U.S.S.R. )
Charlie Chan in London , starring
Warner Oland and
Ray Milland
Charlie Chan's Courage , starring
Warner Oland
The Circus Clown , starring
Joe E. Brown
City Limits
Cleopatra , directed by
Cecil B. DeMille , starring
Claudette Colbert and
Warren William
Colonel Blood , starring
Frank Cellier
The Count of Monte Cristo , starring
Robert Donat
Crime Without Passion , starring
Claude Rains
D
Dames , choreographed by
Busby Berkeley , starring
Joan Blondell ,
Dick Powell and
Ruby Keeler
David Harum starring
Will Rogers
Dark Hazard , starring
Edward G. Robinson
Death on the Diamond , starring
Robert Young
Death Takes a Holiday , starring
Fredric March
The Dream Car (Meseautó), directed by
Béla Gaál and starring
Zita Perczel ,
Ella Gombaszögi and
Klári Tolnay – (
Hungary )
Don't Make Grandpa Angry (Nezlobte dědečka), directed by
Karel Lamač , starring
Vlasta Burian ,
Čeněk Šlégl and
Adina Mandlová – (
Czechoslovakia )
E
F
G
Gambling , starring
George M. Cohan
Gambling Lady , starring
Barbara Stanwyck
The Gay Bride , starring
Carole Lombard
The Gay Divorcee , starring
Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers
The Girl from Missouri , starring
Jean Harlow
Girl o' My Dreams , starring
Mary Carlisle ,
Edward J. Nugent ,
Lon Chaney Jr. ,
Sterling Holloway
Glamour , starring
Paul Lukas
The Goddess (Shen nu) – (
China )
Grand Canary , starring
Warner Baxter
Le Grand Jeu (The Great Game), directed by
Jacques Feyder – (
France )
Great Expectations , starring
Henry Hull and
Jane Wyatt
H
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J
K
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The Lady Is Willing , starring
Leslie Howard and
Cedric Hardwicke – (
GB )
The Last Round-Up , starring
Randolph Scott
Lieutenant Kijé – (
U.S.S.R. )
Liliom , directed by
Fritz Lang , starring
Charles Boyer – (
France )
Limehouse Blues , starring
George Raft and
Jean Parker
Little Man, What Now? , starring
Margaret Sullavan and
Douglass Montgomery
The Little Minister , starring
Katharine Hepburn and
John Beal
Little Miss Marker , starring
Shirley Temple
A Lost Lady , starring
Barbara Stanwyck
The Lost Patrol , starring
Victor McLaglen ,
Boris Karloff and
Wallace Ford
The Lucky Texan , starring
John Wayne
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Madame Du Barry , starring
Dolores del Río
The Man from Utah , starring
John Wayne
Man of Aran (documentary), directed by
Robert Flaherty – (
GB )
The Man Who Knew Too Much , directed by
Alfred Hitchcock , starring
Leslie Banks ,
Edna Best and
Peter Lorre – (
GB )
The Man with Two Faces , starring
Edward G. Robinson
Managed Money , starring
Shirley Temple
Mandalay , starring
Kay Francis
Manhattan Melodrama , starring
Clark Gable ,
William Powell and
Myrna Loy
Maniac , starring
Horace B. Carpenter
Mauvaise Graine , directed by
Billy Wilder – (
FR )
The Merry Widow (La veuve joyeuse), directed by
Ernst Lubitsch , starring
Maurice Chevalier and
Jeanette MacDonald – (
France /
US )
Les Misérables , directed by
Raymond Bernard , starring
Harry Baur and
Charles Vanel – (
France )
The Mighty Barnum , starring
Wallace Beery
Murder at Monte Carlo , starring
Errol Flynn – (
GB )
Now and Forever , starring
Gary Cooper and
Carole Lombard
Now I'll Tell , starring
Spencer Tracy
O
P
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Radio Parade of 1935 , starring
Will Hay – (
GB )
Red Ensign , starring
Leslie Banks – (
GB )
The Return of Bulldog Drummond , starring
Ralph Richardson and
Ann Todd – (
GB )
The Richest Girl in the World , starring
Miriam Hopkins ,
Joel McCrea and
Fay Wray
Riptide , starring
Norma Shearer and
Robert Montgomery
The Rise of Catherine the Great , starring
Elisabeth Bergner and
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. – (
GB )
Road House , directed by
Maurice Elvey , starring
Violet Loraine and
Gordon Harker (GB)
Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (The King of the Champs-Élysées), starring
Buster Keaton – (
France )
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Sadie McKee , starring
Joan Crawford
The Scarlet Empress , directed by
Josef von Sternberg , starring
Marlene Dietrich and
John Lodge
The Scarlet Pimpernel , starring
Leslie Howard and
Merle Oberon – (
GB )
Servants' Entrance , starring
Janet Gaynor
She Loves Me Not , starring
Miriam Hopkins and
Bing Crosby
Shirin and Farhad , starring
Roohangiz Saminejad (Iran)
The Silver Streak , starring
Charles Starrett
Sing as We Go , starring
Gracie Fields and
Stanley Holloway – (
GB )
Six of a Kind , starring
Charles Ruggles ,
Mary Boland and
W. C. Fields
Something Always Happens , directed by
Michael Powell , starring,
Ian Hunter ,
Nance O'Neil ,
Peter Gawthorne ,
Muriel George – (
GB )
The Song of Ceylon ,
documentary directed by
Basil Wright – (
GB )
Song of the Fishermen (Yu guang qu) – (
China )
Spitfire , starring
Katharine Hepburn
The St. Louis Kid , starring
James Cagney
Stand Up and Cheer! , starring
Warner Baxter and
Madge Evans , featuring 5-year-old
Shirley Temple
A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukikusa monogatari), directed by
Yasujirō Ozu – (
Japan )
T
The Tars – (Netherlands)
Tarzan and His Mate , starring
Johnny Weissmuller and
Maureen O'Sullivan
The Thin Man , directed by
W. S. Van Dyke , starring
William Powell and
Myrna Loy
Thirty-Day Princess , starring
Sylvia Sidney and
Cary Grant
Those Were the Days , directed by
Thomas Bentley , starring
Will Hay and
John Mills – (
GB )
The Trail Beyond , starring
John Wayne
Treasure Island , starring
Wallace Beery and
Jackie Cooper
Twentieth Century , directed by
Howard Hawks , starring
John Barrymore and
Carole Lombard
Twenty Million Sweethearts , starring
Pat O'Brien ,
Dick Powell and
Ginger Rogers
U-V
W
Waltzes from Vienna , directed by
Alfred Hitchcock , starring
Esmond Knight and
Jessie Matthews – (
GB )
We're Not Dressing , starring
Bing Crosby and
Carole Lombard
We're Rich Again , starring
Edna May Oliver and
Billie Burke
What Every Woman Knows , starring
Helen Hayes
Whirlpool , starring
Jack Holt and
Jean Arthur
The White Parade , starring
Loretta Young
A Wicked Woman , starring
Mady Christians ,
Jean Parker and
Charles Bickford
The Woman of the Port (La Mujer del Puerto) – (
Mexico )
Wonder Bar , starring
Al Jolson
Workers, Let's Go (Hej rup!), directed by
Martin Frič – (
Czechoslovakia )
Y-Z
Serials
Comedy film series and shorts
Harold Lloyd (
1913 –
1938 )
Lupino Lane (
1915 –
1939 )
Buster Keaton (
1917 –
1944 )
Laurel and Hardy (
1921 –
1945 )
Our Gang (
1922 –
1944 )
Harry Langdon (
1924 –
1936 )
Wheeler & Woolsey (
1929 –
1937 )
Ted Healy and His Stooges (1933–1934 )
The Three Stooges (1934 –
1959 )
Animated short film series
Krazy Kat .
Births
January 6 –
Sylvia Syms , English actress (d.
2023 )
January 8 –
Roy Kinnear , British character actor (d.
1988 )
January 11 –
Mitchell Ryan , American actor (d.
2022 )
January 14 –
Richard Briers , English actor (d.
2013 )
January 20 –
Tom Baker , British actor
January 21
January 22 –
Bill Bixby , American actor (d.
1993 )
January 23 –
Carmine Caridi , American actor (d.
2019 )
January 25 –
Donald W. Ernst , American editor and producer (d.
2023 )
February 5 -
Jimmy Flynn , American actor (d.
2022 )
February 10 –
Tatyana Lolova , Bulgarian actress (d.
2021 )
February 11 –
Tina Louise , American actress
February 12
February 13 –
George Segal , American actor and musician (d.
2021 )
February 17
February 21 –
Rue McClanahan , American actress (d.
2010 )
March 4 –
Anne Haney , American actress (d.
2001 )
March 5
March 9
March 12 -
Henryk Bista , Polish actor (d. 1997)
March 22 –
May Britt , Swedish actress
March 26
March 27 –
Peter Schamoni , German director (d. 2011)
March 30 -
Count Prince Miller , British actor and musician (d. 2018)
March 31
April 2 –
Shirley Douglas , Canadian actress (d. 2020)
April 4 -
Helen Hanft , American actress (d. 2013)
April 7 –
Ian Richardson , Scottish actor (d. 2007)
April 14 –
Josef Somr , Czech actor (d. 2022)
April 16 –
Robert Stigwood , Australian-born British producer (d. 2016)
April 24 –
Shirley MacLaine , American actress
April 25 –
Denny Miller , American actor (d. 2014)
May 1 –
John Meillon , Australian character actor (d. 1989)
May 3 –
Ivan Andonov , Bulgarian film director (d. 2011)
May 11 –
André Gregory , French-born American director, writer and actor
May 18 –
Dwayne Hickman , American actor, producer and director (d. 2022)
May 22 –
Fred Roos , American film producer
May 24 –
Kiril Gospodinov , Bulgarian actor (d. 2003)
May 29 –
Marina Cicogna , Italian producer (d. 2023)
June 1
June 8 –
Millicent Martin , English actress, singer and comedian
June 15 –
William Newman , American actor (d. 2015)
June 16
June 21
June 26 –
Josef Sommer , German-American actor
July 1
July 5 –
Nikolay Binev , Bulgarian actor (d. 2003)
July 8 –
Marty Feldman , English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
July 10 –
Jerry Nelson , American puppeteer (d. 2012)
July 15 –
Eva Krížiková , Slovak actress (d. 2020)
July 22
July 23 –
Silvana Bosi , Italian actress (d. 2020)
July 26 –
Ken Pogue , Canadian actor (d. 2015)
July 29 –
Sergio Fiorentini , Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2014)
August 5 –
Zakes Mokae , South African-American actor (d. 2009)
August 7 –
Marija Kohn , Croatian actress (d. 2018)
August 14 –
Vernon Dobtcheff , British actor
August 24 –
Kenny Baker , English-born actor (d. 2016)
August 30 –
Helen Craig , English children's author and illustrator (
Angelina Ballerina )
September 2 -
Chuck McCann , American actor, comedian, puppeteer and television host (d. 2018)
September 5 -
Dennis Letts , American actor (d. 2008)
September 11 –
Ian Abercrombie , English-American actor and comedian (d. 2012)
September 20
September 24 -
Robert Lang , English actor (d. 2004)
September 27
September 28 –
Brigitte Bardot , French actress
September 29 –
Alan Hopgood , Australian actor (d. 2022)
October 13 –
Savely Kramarov , Russian-American actor (d. 1995)
October 15 –
Peter Haskell , American actor (d. 2010)
October 19 –
Glória Menezes , Brazilian actress
October 20 –
Timothy West , English actor
October 28 -
Charles A. Gargano , Italian-American actor
October 31 -
Suzanne Shepherd , American actress (d. 2023)
November 5 –
Kira Muratova , Russian director (d. 2018)
November 10
November 11
November 13 –
Garry Marshall , American director, actor, producer, writer and voice artist (d. 2016)
November 15 –
Joanna Barnes , American actress (d. 2022)
November 21
November 23 –
Michael Wayne , American producer and actor (d. 2003)
November 25 –
Ann Davies , English actress (d. 2022)
November 28 –
Jaakko Pakkasvirta , Finnish film director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
December 9 –
Judi Dench , English actress
December 16 –
Pete Schrum , American actor (d. 2003)
December 26 –
Matt Zimmerman , Canadian actor (d. 2022)
December 28 –
Maggie Smith , English actress
December 29 –
Forugh Farrokhzad , Iranian poet and film director (d. 1967)
December 30 –
Russ Tamblyn , American actor
Deaths
March 21 –
Lilyan Tashman , 34, American actress (cancer)
May 31 –
Lew Cody , 50, American actor
June 8 –
Dorothy Dell , 19, American actress (road accident)
July 6 –
Harry A. Pollard , 55, American actor & director
July 28 –
Marie Dressler , 65, Canadian-born American
Academy Award winning actress (cancer)
Debuts
References
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d The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
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b "All-Time Film Rental Champs".
Variety . October 15, 1990. p. M150.
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b Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
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