1935 in film

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Events

• Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
• Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.
• The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.^[1]

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM
• Best Actor: Victor McLaglen - The Informer
• Best Actress: Bette Davis - Dangerous

Films released in 1935

U.S.A. unless stated

• The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll - (U.K.)
• After Office Hours, starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
• Ah, Wilderness!
• Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn
• Anna Karenina, starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March
• Annie Oakley, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• 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 film 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 - (U.K.)
• Brewster's Millions, starring Jack Buchanan - (U.K.)
• Bride of Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester
• Broadway Melody of 1936
• The Call of the Wild
• Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Car of Dreams, starring John Mills - (U.K.)
• Carnival in Flanders (La Kermesse héroïque), directed by Jacques Feyder - (France)
• Charlie Chan in Egypt
• China Seas, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
• Coal Face, documentary directed by Alberto Cavalcanti - (U.K.)
• Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg
• The Crime of Dr. Crespi, starring Erich Von Stroheim
• The Crusades
• Curly Top
• Dangerous, starring Bette Davis
• Dante's Inferno
• The Dark Angel, starring Fredric March and Merle Oberon
• David Copperfield, starring Edna May Oliver, Freddie Bartholomew and W.C. Fields
• The Devil Is a Woman, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Escapade
• Every Night at Eight, starring George Raft and Alice Faye
• Foreign Affaires - (U.K.)
• G Men, starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak
• The Ghost Goes West, directed by René Clair, starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker and Eugene Pallette - (U.K.)
• The Gilded Lily
• The Girl from 10th Avenue, starring Bette Davis
• Go Into Your Dance, starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler
• 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 and starring Edmund Lowe and Valerie Hobson
• Hands Across the Table, starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
• Hop-Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd
• Hyde Park Corner directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Gordon Harker - (U.K.)
• The Informer starring Victor McLaglen
• An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)
• Let's Go With Pancho Villa (¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!) - (Mexico)
• Life 'Begins at Forty, starring Will Rogers
• Life Returns
• Little Big Shot
• The Little Colonel
• The Littlest Rebel, starring Shirley Temple
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone
• Mad Love ( aka The Hands of Orlac)
• Magnificent Obsession
• Man on the Flying Trapeze, starring W.C. Fields
• Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Hughie Green and Margaret Lockwood - (U.K.)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Les Misérables, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
• Mississippi, starring Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields and Joan Bennett
• Moonlight on the Prairie, starring Dick Foran, Sheila Bromley and George E. Stone
• The Morals of Marcus directed by Miles Mander and starring Lupe Vélez and Ian Hunter (U.K.)
• Moscow Nights directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Laurence Olivier (U.K.)
• The Murder Man, starring Spencer Tracy
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton
• Naughty Marietta, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• The New Gulliver, directed by Aleksandr Ptushko, a stop motion-animated film - (U.S.S.R.)
• A Night at the Opera, directed by Sam Wood, starring The Marx Brothers with Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones
• Our Little Girl
• Page Miss Glory, starring Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien and Dick Powell
• Peter Ibbetson
• Princess Tam Tam, starring Josephine Baker - (France)
• Professional Soldier
• The Raven
• Reckless, a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell and Franchot Tone
• Roberta, a musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott, with an uncredited appearance by a young Lucille Ball^[2]
• Ruggles of Red Gap, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Laughton
• The Scoundrel
• She
• She Couldn't Take It, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett
• She Married Her Boss
• So Red the Rose
• Splendor, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
• Steamboat Round the Bend, starring Will Rogers
• Squibs directed by Henry Edwards and starring Betty Balfour (U.K.)
• A Tale of Two Cities, starring Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan
• Toni by Jean Renoir - (France) - the most significant precursor to the Italian neorealist movement
• Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Triumph of the Will - a Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
• Tumbling Tumbleweeds, western with Gene Autry
• The Wedding Night
• Vintage Wine directed by Henry Edwards (U.K.)
• Werewolf of London
• Westward Ho, western with John Wayne
• Who Killed Cock Robin?, Walt Disney animated short subject, one of the Silly Symphonies (mentioned in article)
• The Whole Town's Talking

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)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
• Wheeler and Woolsey (1929–1937)
• The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

Animated short film series

• Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Silly Symphonies
  • 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
• 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)
• Cartune Classics (1934–1935)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935–1936)

Births

• January 1 - Brian G. Hutton, actor, director
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor (died 1977)
• January 9 - Bob Denver (died 2005)
• April 19 - Dudley Moore (died 2002)
• May 11 - Doug McClure
• July 17 - Diahann Carroll
• July 17 - Donald Sutherland
• October 1 - Julie Andrews
• December 1 - Woody Allen, director
• December 14 - Lee Remick (died 1991)

Deaths

• March 8 - Ruan Lingyu, actress, committed suicide
• March 23 - Florence Moore, singer, actress
• May 4 - Junior Durkin, actor, in a road accident
• August 15 - Will Rogers, humorist, actor

Film Debuts

• Don Ameche
• Ingrid Bergman
• Henry Fonda
• Joan Fontaine
• Olivia de Havilland
• Rita Hayworth
• Danny Kaye
• Vivien Leigh
• James Mason
• Roy Rogers
• Jimmy Stewart

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