1936 in film

The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.

§Events

• May 29 - Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.
• February 15 - first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, released

§Top grossing films

§Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Actor: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
• Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
• Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse

§Notable films released in 1936

U.S.A. unless stated

• 15 Maiden Lane, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero

§A-C

• Accused, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Dolores del Río â€" (GB)
• Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), starring Ashok Kumar â€" (India)
• After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch) â€" (Mexico)
• The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant â€" (GB)
• Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
• Anything Goes, starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman
• Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener - (Germany/Poland)
• Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet â€" (France)
• Black Eyes directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)
• Blood on Wolf Mountain (Lang shan die xue ji) - (China)
• The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Born to Dance, starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart
• Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Blondell
• By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet â€" (U.S.S.R.)
• Cain and Mabel, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
• Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly) â€" (Czechoslovakia)
• Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
• Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
• The Case Against Mrs. Ames, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
• Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
• César, directed by Marcel Pagnol â€" (France)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
• Circus (Tsirk) â€" (U.S.S.R.)
• Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea
• Craig's Wife, starring Rosalind Russell
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir â€" (France)
• Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler (GB)
• The Desert Island (Lang tao sha) â€" (China)

§D-K

• Desire, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
• Devdas â€" (India)
• The Devil-Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan
• Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
• Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor
• Dracula's Daughter, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
• Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus (UK)
• East Meets West, starring George Arliss (UK)
• Empty Saddles, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
• Everything Is Thunder, starring Constance Bennett (UK)
• Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner (UK)
• Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
• The General Died at Dawn, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
• Girl Friends (Podrugi) â€" (U.S.S.R.)
• Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
• The Gorgeous Hussy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor
• Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
• The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
• Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie Anderson
• Hearts Divided, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
• Hopalong Cassidy Returns, starring William Boyd
• I'll Give a Million (Darò un milione), starring Vittorio De Sica â€" (Italy)
• Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman â€" (Sweden)
• The Invisible Ray, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
• It Had to Happen, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
• It's Love Again, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young â€" (GB)
• The Jungle Princess, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland
• Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California) - (Germany)

§L-Q

• Laburnum Grove, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke â€" (GB)
• The Last of the Mohicans, starring Randolph Scott
• The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
• Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) â€" (Mexico)
• Libeled Lady, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
• Limelight, starring Anna Neagle â€" (GB)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, starring Freddie Bartholomew
• Lloyd's of London, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Tyrone Power
• Love Before Breakfast, starring Carole Lombard and Preston Foster
• Love in Exile, starring Helen Vinson and Clive Brook (GB)
• Love on the Run. starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
• The Man Who Changed His Mind, starring Boris Karloff â€" (GB)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson â€" (GB)
• Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux â€" (France)
• Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Rex Harrison â€" (GB)
• A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles and Wallace Beery
• Militiaman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler) - (Germany)
• The Milky Way, starring Harold Lloyd
• Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard
• The Mongolian Boy (Монгол Ñ…Ò¯Ò¯), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
• The Moon's Our Home, starring Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
• My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
• Next Time We Love, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland
• Night Mail, documentary â€" (GB)
• The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu â€" (Japan)
• Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi â€" (Japan)
• Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy
• Palm Springs, starring Frances Langford and David Niven
• Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji) â€" (Czechoslovakia)
• Pennies from Heaven, starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans
• The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
• The Plainsman, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
• Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley
• The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
• Private Number, starring Loretta Young and Robert Taylor

§R-Z

• Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
• Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann â€" (Mexico)
• Reefer Madness, (aka Tell Your Children), a cult exploitation film
• Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton â€" (GB)
• Road Gang, starring Donald Woods
• The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Lionel Barrymore and Fredric March
• Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone
• Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka â€" (GB)
• San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
• Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll â€" (GB)
• Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
• The Singing Kid, starring Al Jolson
• Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi â€" (Japan)
• Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, James Stewart
• Sportszerelem â€" (Hungary)
• Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas â€" (GB)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
• Stowaway, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye
• Sutter's Gold, starring Edward Arnold
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter â€" (GB)
• Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Tarzan Escapes, starring Johnny Weissmuller
• The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie
• Theodora Goes Wild, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
• These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea (adapted from Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour)
• Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke â€" (GB)
• Thirteen Hours by Air, starring Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett
• Three Godfathers, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
• Till We Meet Again, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
• Too Many Parents, debut film for Frances Farmer
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, starring Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
• Tudor Rose, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills â€" (GB)
• The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff
• Where There's a Will, starring Will Hay - (GB)
• Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper - (GB)
• Wife vs. Secretary, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy
• Windbag the Sailor, starring Will Hay â€" (GB)
• A Woman Rebels, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall
• Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon â€" (Poland/U.S.A.)

§Serials

• Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
• The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
• The Black Coin
• The Clutching Hand
• Custer's Last Stand
• Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty
• Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe
• The Phantom Rider
• Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala
• Shadow of Chinatown
• Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan
• The Vigilantes Are Coming

§Comedy film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913â€"1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914â€"1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915â€"1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917â€"1928)
• Laurel and Hardy (1927-1940)
• Our Gang (1922â€"1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924-1936)
• Wheeler & Woolsey (1929â€"1937)
• The Marx Brothers (1929â€"1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933â€"1962)

§Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
• Krazy Kat (1925â€"1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927â€"1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928â€"1953)
• Silly Symphonies
  • Elmer Elephant
  • Three Little Wolves
  • Toby Tortoise Returns
  • Three Blind Mousketeers
  • The Country Cousin
  • Mother Pluto
  • More Kittens
• 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 (1933-1936)
• Happy Harmonies (1934â€"1938)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934â€"1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)
• Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937)

§Births

• January 22 - Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
• January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
• January 28 - Alan Alda, United States actor
• February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
• March 1 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
• May 9 - Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
• May 17 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010)
• June 4 - Bruce Dern, American actor
• August 13 - Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, politician, dancer and singer
• August 18 - Robert Redford, American actor and director
• August 25 - Hugh Hudson, English director
• October 16 - Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
• December 8 - David Carradine, American actor and martial artist (d. 2009)
• December 25 - Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005)

§Deaths

• January 9 â€" John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)
• January 24 - Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)
• June 17 - Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1897)
• September 14 - Irving G. Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
• October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889)
• November 26 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)

§Debuts

• Lloyd Bridges - Freshman Love
• Anthony Quinn - The Milky Way