1932 in film

This is a list of films that were released in 1932.

Events

• Cary Grant's film career begins
• Katharine Hepburn's film career begins
• Shirley Temple's film career begins
• Disney releases Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor
• Santa, first sound film made in Mexico, released
• The term "Tollywood" is first used to describe the cinema of West Bengal, based at Tollygunge

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Grand Hotel - MGM

Note: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films.

Notable films released in 1932

U.S.A. unless stated

• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis
• The Age of Consent, directed by Gregory La Cava
• Air Mail, directed by John Ford
• American Madness, directed by Frank Capra, starring Walter Huston
• The Animal Kingdom, starring Leslie Howard, Ann Harding and Myrna Loy
• Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter (Anton Å pelec, ostrostÅ™elec), directed by Martin Frič - (Czechoslovakia)
• As You Desire Me, starring Greta Garbo
• L'Atlantide, directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Brigitte Helm - (Germany/France)
• Attorney for the Defense, starring Edmund Lowe and Evelyn Brent
• Back Street, starring Irene Dunne and John Boles
• The Bartered Bride (Die verkaufte Braut), directed by Max Ophüls - (Germany)
• The Beast of the City, starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford
• The Big Broadcast, starring Bing Crosby
• Big City Blues, starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell
• The Big Stampede, starring John Wayne
• A Bill of Divorcement, starring John Barrymore, Billie Burke and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut
• Bird of Paradise, starring Dolores del Río, Joel McCrea and Lon Chaney, Jr.
• Das Blaue Licht (The Blue Light), starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
• Blonde Venus, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant
• Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Michel Simon - (France)
• Broken Lullaby, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Lionel Barrymore
• Business and Pleasure, starring Will Rogers
• Cabin in the Cotton, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Richard Barthelmess and Bette Davis
• Call Her Savage, starring Clara Bow
• Charlie Chan's Chance, starring Warner Oland and H.B. Warner
• Cruiser Emden, directed by Louis Ralph - (Germany)
• Dance Pretty Lady, directed by Anthony Asquith (Britain)
• Dancers in the Dark, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack Oakie
• The Dark Horse, starring Warren William and Bette Davis
• The Dentist, a W. C. Fields short produced by Mack Sennett
• Destry Rides Again, starring Tom Mix
• Devil and the Deep, starring Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant
• Downstairs, starring John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce and Hedda Hopper
• Emma, starring Marie Dressler
• F.P.1 (F.P.1 antwortet nicht) - (Germany)
• Faithless, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery
• Fanny, directed by Marc Allegret, starring Raimu - (France)
• A Farewell to Arms, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes
• Fast Life, starring William Haines and Madge Evans
• Flowers and Trees, a Walt Disney animated short
• Forbidden, directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Freaks, directed by Tod Browning
• Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan and Anna Neagle - (GB)
• Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
• Happy Ever After (Ein blonder Traum), starring Lilian Harvey and Jack Hulbert - (Germany)
• Horse Feathers, starring the Marx Brothers with Thelma Todd
• Hotel Splendide, directed by Michael Powell - (GB)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Paul Muni
• I Was Born, But... (Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• If I Had a Million, an anthology comedy film with an all-star cast including W.C. Fields, May Robson, George Raft, Charles Laughton and Gary Cooper
• Impatient Maiden, starring Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke
• Island of Lost Souls, an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen and Bela Lugosi
• Ivan - directed by Alexander Dovzhenko - (U.S.S.R.)
• Jack's the Boy directed by Walter Forde, starring Jack Hulbert - (GB)
• Jewel Robbery, starring William Powell and Kay Francis
• Kuhle Wampe oder: Wem gehört die Welt? (To Whom Does the World Belong?) - (Germany)
• The Last Mile, starring Preston Foster
• Law and Order, starring Walter Huston and Harry Carey
• The Local Bad Man, starring Hoot Gibson
• Love Me Tonight, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald (as Jeanette Mac Donald)
• The Lucky Number, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Gordon Harker - (GB)
• The Man Who Played God (aka The Silent Voice), starring George Arliss and Bette Davis
• Merrily We Go to Hell, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney
• The Midshipmaid, starring Jessie Matthews - (GB)
• Million Dollar Legs, starring Jack Oakie and W. C. Fields
• The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks and Robert Armstrong, involving much of the same cast and crew of the following year's King Kong.
• The Mouthpiece, starring Warren William
• Movie Crazy, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
• The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff
• Murders in the Rue Morgue, starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox and Leon Ames
• Night After Night, starring George Raft and Mae West in her film debut
• Night at the Crossroads (La Nuit du carrefour), directed by Jean Renoir - (France)
• Odds 777 - (Denmark)
• The Old Dark House, directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Ernest Thesiger and Raymond Massey
• One Hour with You, starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
• One Way Passage, directed by Tay Garnett, starring William Powell and Kay Francis
• Pack Up Your Troubles, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Payment Deferred, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan
• Rain, starring Joan Crawford and Walter Huston
• Rasputin and the Empress, starring John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
• Rasputin, Demon with Women (Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen), starring Conrad Veidt - (Germany)
• Razzia in Sankt Pauli (Raid in St. Pauli) - (Germany)
• Red Dust, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
• Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow
• Rome Express, directed by Walter Forde, starring Conrad Veidt and Esther Ralston - (GB)
• Santa - (Mexico)
• Scarface, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft and Boris Karloff
• Scarlet Dawn, directed by William Dieterle, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Nancy Carroll
• Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland
• The Sign of the Cross, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert
• A Simple Case (Prostoy sloochay) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Smilin' Through, starring Norma Shearer
• Spring Shower (Tavaszi zápor) - (Hungary/France)
• Tarzan the Ape Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
• Taxi!, starring James Cagney and Loretta Young
• They Just Had to Get Married, starring Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts
• Three Modern Women, directed by Bu Wancang, starring Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan â€" (China)
• Three on a Match, starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis
• Tiger Shark, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Trouble in Paradise, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall
• Two Seconds, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Unheimliche Geschichten remake w/ sound of the 1919 film - (Germany)
• The Undertaker (Funebrák), directed by Karel Lamač - (Czechoslovakia)
• Union Depot, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Blondell
• Vampyr, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Germany/France)
• Virtue, starring Carole Lombard and Pat O'Brien
• What Price Hollywood?, directed by George Cukor, starring Constance Bennett
• What Scoundrels Men Are! (Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!), starring Vittorio De Sica - (Italy)
• White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi
• Wooden Crosses (Les croix de bois), directed by Raymond Bernard - (France)
• Young America, starring Spencer Tracy

Serials

• The Airmail Mystery
• Detective Lloyd
• The Devil Horse
• Heroes of the West
• The Hurricane Express, starring John Wayne
• The Jungle Mystery
• The Last Frontier
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Lost Special
• The Shadow of the Eagle, starring John Wayne

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917â€"1941)
• Our Gang (1922â€"1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Shirley Temple (1932â€"1946)

Animated short film series

• Flowers and Trees (1933)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921â€"1933)
• Krazy Kat (1925â€"1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927â€"1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928â€"1953)
• Silly Symphonies
  • The Bird Store
  • The Bears and the Bees
  • Just Dogs
  • Flowers and Trees
  • King Neptune
  • Bugs in Love
  • Babes in the Woods
  • Santa's Workshop
• Screen Songs (1929â€"1938)
• Talkartoons (1929-1932)
  • Minnie the Moocher (featuring Betty Boop)
  • Sink or Swim S.O.S (featuring Betty Boop)
• Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
• Flip the Frog (1930â€"1933)
• Terrytoons (1930â€"1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
• Scrappy (1931â€"1941)
• Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) (1931â€"1933)
• Betty Boop (1932-1939)
  • Stopping the Show
  • Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
  • Betty Boop, M.D.
  • Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
  • Betty Boop's Ups and Down
  • Betty Boop for President
  • I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You
  • Betty Boop's Museum
• Pooch the Pup (1932-1933)

Births

• January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor
• January 4 - Carlos Saura, director
• January 22 - Piper Laurie, actress
• February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (died 1984)
• February 13 - Susan Oliver, actress, (died 1990)
• February 14 - Alexander Kluge, German director
• February 18 â€" MiloÅ¡ Forman, director
• February 23 - Majel Barrett, actress (died 2008)
• February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (died 2011)
• March 31 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director (died 2013)
• April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, singer, actress, dancer
• April 4
  • Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet director (died 1986)
  • Anthony Perkins, actor (died 1992)
• April 10
  • Delphine Seyrig, French actress (died 1990)
  • Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
• April 27 - Anouk Aimée, French actress
• June 18 - David Herriot, Irish actor (died 2000)
• June 22 - Prunella Scales English actress
• August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Anglo-Irish actor (died 2013)
• September 29 - Mehmood Ali, Indian actor, director, producer (died 2004)
• October 13 - DuÅ¡an Makavejev, Serbian director
• October 20 - William Christopher, actor
• November 10 - Roy Scheider, actor (died 2008)
• November 13 - Richard Mulligan, actor (died 2000)
• November 15 - Petula Clark, British actress, film composer
• November 22 - Robert Vaughn, actor
• December 7 - Ellen Burstyn, actress

Deaths

• February 15 - Mrs. Fiske, American stage star made silent films
• June 30 - Bruno Kastner, German actor
• July 17 - Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor
• August 1 - James R. Quirk, American editor and publisher of Photoplay magazine
• August 10 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor
• September 16 - Peg Entwistle, British-born American actress
• September 25 - Guy Oliver, American actor
• November 2 - Evelyn Preer, American actress, singer

Film debuts

• Ingrid Bergman - Landskamp
• Robert Donat - Over Night
• Cary Grant - This Is the Night
• Katharine Hepburn - A Bill of Divorcement
• Alan Ladd - Tom Brown of Culver
• John Mills - Midshipmaid Gob
• David Niven - There Goes the Bride
• Dick Powell - Blessed Event
• Kate Smith - The Big Broadcast
• Jacques Tati - Oscar, champion de tennis
• Shirley Temple - Runt Page
• Mae West - Night After Night