1935 in film

The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood. This period was punctuated by performances from Judy Garland, Clark Gable and Shirley Temple. A significant number of productions also originated in the UK film industry. It was also a period notable in Soviet Russia for the increasing amount of state control exercised over their film industry.

§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.

§Top grossing films

§Academy Awards

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

§Notable films released in 1935

U.S.A. unless stated

• 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

§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 and Jean Harlow
• 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
• Dandy Dick, starring Will Hay - (GB)

§D

• 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
• Devdas - (India)
• The Devil Is a Woman, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Dinky, starring Jackie Cooper and Mary Astor
• Drake of England, starring Matheson Lang and Jane Baxter (GB)

§E

• 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

§F

• The Farmer Takes a Wife, directed by Victor Saville, starring Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda
• Foreign Affaires, directed by and starring Tom Walls - (Britain)
• Four Hours to Kill!, starring Richard Barthelmess
• 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
• 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

• I Live My Life, starring Joan Crawford and Frank Morgan
• The Informer, directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen
• An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)

§J

• Jánošík, directed by Martin Frič - (Czechoslovakia)
• Jedenácté pÅ™ikázání (The Eleventh Commandment) - (Czechoslovakia)

§K

§L

• The Last Days of Pompeii, starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone
• Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) - (Mexico)
• Life Begins at Forty, 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 (AÅ¥ 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
• 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 (XÄ«n nÇšxìng) - (China)
• A Night at the Opera, directed by Sam Wood, starring The Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
• No Limit, starring George Formby - (GB)
• No More Ladies, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery

§O

• Our Little Girl, starring Shirley Temple

§P

• Page Miss Glory, starring Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell
• 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

§Q

§R

• The Raven, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi
• Reckless, a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
• Remember Last Night?, directed by James Whale, starring Edward Arnold and Constance Cummings
• 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 film)
• 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
• Trans-atlantic Tunnel, starring Richard Dix and Leslie Banks - (GB)
• Triumph of the Will - a Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
• Tumbling Tumbleweeds, western with Gene Autry
• Turn of the Tide, starring John Garrick and Geraldine Fitzgerald - (GB)

§U

§V

• Villa for Sale (Ez a villa eladó) - (Hungary)
• The Village Squire, starring Vivien Leigh - (GB)

§W

• 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

§X

§Y

• The Youth of Maxim (Yunost Maksima) - (USSR)

§Z

§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 (1913â€"1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914â€"1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915â€"1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917â€"1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921â€"1945)
• Our Gang (1922â€"1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924â€"1936)
• Wheeler and Woolsey (1929â€"1937)
• The Marx Brothers (1929â€"1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933â€"1962)

§Animated short film series

• Krazy Kat (1925â€"1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927â€"1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928â€"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 (1929â€"1938)
• Looney Tunes (1930â€"1969)
• Terrytoons (1930â€"1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931â€"1969)
• Scrappy (1931â€"1941)
• Betty Boop (1932â€"1939)
• Popeye (1933â€"1957)
• ComiColor Cartoons (1933â€"1936)
• Happy Harmonies (1934â€"1938)
• Cartune Classics (1934â€"1935)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934â€"1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935â€"1936)

§Births

• January 1 - Brian G. Hutton, actor, director
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor (died 1977)
• January 9 - Bob Denver, actor (died 2005)
• April 19 - Dudley Moore, actor, musician (died 2002)
• May 11 - Doug McClure, actor
• July 17
  • Diahann Carroll, singer, actress
  • Donald Sutherland, actor
• October 1 - Julie Andrews, actress
• November 29 - Diane Ladd, actress
• December 1 - Woody Allen, director
• December 8 - Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German 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
• September 28 - William K. Dickson, film pioneer, cancer
• December 16 - Thelma Todd, actress, Carbon monoxide poisoning

§Film Debuts

• Don Ameche - Dante's Inferno
• Pedro Armendáriz - Rosario
• Henry Fonda - The Farmer Takes a Wife
• Joan Fontaine - No More Ladies
• Olivia de Havilland - Captain Blood
• Danny Kaye - Moon Over Manhattan
• Vivien Leigh - Look Up and Laugh
• James Mason - Late Extra
• Roy Rogers - Slightly Static

§References