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Overview of the events of 1935 in film
Overview of the events of 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:
Highest-grossing films of 1935
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Mutiny on the Bounty
MGM
$2,250,000
[1]
[2]
2
Top Hat
RKO
$1,782,000
[3]
[4]
3
China Seas
MGM
$1,710,000
[1]
[2]
4
Broadway Melody of 1936
$1,655,000
[1]
[2]
5
David Copperfield
$1,621,000
[1]
[2]
6
Steamboat Round the Bend
20th Century Fox
$1,528,000
[5]
7
The Crusades
Paramount
$1,491,471
[6]
8
Roberta
RKO
$1,467,000
[3]
[4]
9
In Old Kentucky
20th Century Fox
$1,438,000
[5]
10
The Littlest Rebel
$1,431,000
[5]
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 .
[7]
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
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.
[8]
1935 film releases
United States unless stated.
January–March
January 1935
11 January
18 January
23 January
25 January
27 January
31 January
February 1935
1 February
2 February
4 February
8 February
11 February
19 February
22 February
March 1935
8 March
16 March
22 March
25 March
28 March
30 March
April–June
April 1935
10 April
11 April
18 April
19 April
20 April
22 April
25 April
27 April
30 April
May 1935
9 May
11 May
13 May
16 May
18 May
26 May
31 May
June 1935
6 June
7 June
13 June
15 June
28 June
July–September
July 1935
6 July
8 July
12 July
15 July
18 July
19 July
20 July
26 July
31 July
August 1935
2 August
3 August
9 August
15 August
19 August
25 August
29 August
30 August
September 1935
5 September
6 September
7 September
8 September
9 September
14 September
19 September
20 September
24 September
25 September
October–December
October 1935
4 October
5 October
8 October
13 October
16 October
18 October
24 October
25 October
27 October
28 October
30 October
31 October
November 1935
2 November
4 November
8 November
14 November
15 November
21 November
22 November
26 November
30 November
December 1935
3 December
6 December
9 December
17 December
20 December
25 December
27 December
28 December
30 December
31 December
Notable films released in 1935
See also:
United States unless stated.
0–9
A
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
I-J
L
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
[9]
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
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
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
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
March 11 –
Nancy Kovack , American retired actress
March 15 –
Judd Hirsch , American actor
March 18
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 )
[10]
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 )
[11]
April 20 –
Mario Camus , Spanish director (died 2021)
[12]
April 21 –
Charles Grodin , American actor (died 2021)
[13]
April 22 -
Mario Machado , Chinese-American actor and broadcaster (died 2013)
April 23 -
Franco Citti , Italian actor (died 2016)
April 27
April 29 -
Lennie Weinrib , American actor, comedian and writer (died
2006 )
May 2
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
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 )
[16]
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
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 )
[17]
August 5
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 )
[18]
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
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 )
[19]
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
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
December 1 –
Woody Allen , American comedian, director and actor
[21]
December 2 -
Hy Pyke , American character actor (died 2006)
December 5 –
Basabi Nandi , Indian actress (died
2018 )
December 8
December 10 –
Jaromil Jireš , Czechoslovak director (died
2001 )
December 14
December 18 -
Rosemary Leach , British actress (died 2017)
December 21
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 )
[23]
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 )
[24]
May 13 –
Clarence Geldart , Canadian-American actor (born
1867 )
August 14 –
Léonce Perret , French actor, director and producer (born
1880 )
[25]
August 15 –
Will Rogers , American humorist and actor (born
1879 )
[26]
August 25 –
Mack Swain , American actor (born
1876 )
[27]
September 28 –
William Kennedy Dickson , British film pioneer, cancer (born 1860)
December 16 –
Thelma Todd , American actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)
Film debuts
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