1935 in film - Wikiwand

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.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1935 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

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Highest-grossing films of 1935
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Mutiny on the Bounty	MGM	$2,250,000^[1]^[2]
2	Naughty Marietta	$2,100,000^[1]^[2]
3	Top Hat	RKO	$1,782,000^[3]^[4]
4	China Seas	MGM	$1,710,000^[1]^[2]
5	Broadway Melody of 1936	$1,655,000^[1]^[2]
6	David Copperfield	$1,621,000^[1]^[2]
7	Steamboat Round the Bend	20th Century Fox	$1,528,000^[5]
8	The Crusades	Paramount	$1,491,471^[6]
9	Roberta	RKO	$1,467,000^[3]^[4]
10	In Old Kentucky	20th Century Fox	$1,438,000^[5]

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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.

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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

Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Director: John Ford – The Informer
Best Actor: Victor McLaglen – The Informer
Best Actress: Bette Davis – Dangerous

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]

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Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Shirley Temple
2.	Will Rogers
3.	Clark Gable
4.	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
5.	Joan Crawford
6.	Claudette Colbert
7.	Dick Powell
8.	Wallace Beery
9.	Joe E. Brown
10.	James Cagney

1935 film releases

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United States unless stated.

January–March

January 1935
- 11 January
  - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  - The Night Is Young
- 18 January
  - David Copperfield
- 23 January
  - Bordertown
- 25 January
  - The Gilded Lily
- 27 January
  - The Youth of Maxim (USSR)
- 31 January
  - The Good Fairy
  - The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
February 1935
- 1 February
  - Home on the Range
- 2 February
  - New Women (China)
- 4 February
  - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- 8 February
  - Long Live with Dearly Departed (Czechoslovakia)
- 11 February
  - Police Chief Antek (Poland)
- 19 February
  - Ruggles of Red Gap
- 22 February
  - After Office Hours
  - Death Drives Through
  - The Little Colonel
  - Toni (France)
  - The Whole Town's Talking
March 1935
- 8 March
  - Naughty Marietta
  - Roberta
  - The Wedding Night
- 16 March
  - Gold Diggers of 1935
- 22 March
  - Life Begins at 40
  - Mississippi
- 25 March
  - The New Gulliver (U.S.S.R.)
- 28 March
  - Triumph of the Will (Germany)
- 30 March
  - Devdas

April–June

April 1935

- 5 April
  - Brewster's Millions
- 10 April
  - Villa for Sale
- 11 April
  - Four Hours to Kill!
- 18 April
  - G Men
- 19 April
  - Private Worlds
  - Reckless
  - Star of Midnight
- 20 April
  - Go Into Your Dance
  - Little Mother (Austria/Hungary)
  - Les Misérables
- 22 April
  - Bride of Frankenstein
- 25 April
  - Goin' to Town
- 27 April
  - Party Wire
- 30 April
  - The Scoundrel
May 1935
- 9 May
  - The Informer
- 11 May
  - Dinky
- 13 May
  - Werewolf of London
- 16 May
  - Drake of England (GB)
- 18 May
  - Black Fury
- 26 May
  - The Girl from 10th Avenue
- 31 May
  - Public Hero No. 1
June 1935
- 6 June
  - The 39 Steps (GB)
- 7 June
  - Doubting Thomas
  - Our Little Girl
- 13 June
  - Becky Sharp
- 15 June
  - The Glass Key
  - The Million Ryo Pot (Japan)
- 28 June
  - The Arizonian

July–September

July 1935
- 6 July
  - Escapade
- 8 July
  - The Raven
- 12 July
  - Mad Love
  - The Murder Man
  - She
- 15 July
  - The Black Room
  - The Clairvoyant (GB)
- 18 July
  - Amphitryon (Germany)
- 19 July
  - Shanghai
- 20 July
  - Front Page Woman
- 26 July
  - Curly Top
- 31 July
  - Dante's Inferno
August 1935
- 2 August
  - The Farmer Takes a Wife
- 3 August
  - Man on the Flying Trapeze
- 9 August
  - The Call of the Wild
  - China Seas
- 15 August
  - Alice Adams
- 19 August
  - Westward Ho
- 25 August
  - Hop-Along Cassidy
- 29 August
  - Top Hat
- 30 August
  - Anna Karenina
September 1935
- 5 September
  - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- 6 September
  - Steamboat Round the Bend
- 7 September
  - Little Big Shot
  - Page Miss Glory
- 8 September
  - The Dark Angel
- 9 September
  - Harmony Lane
- 14 September
  - Special Agent
- 19 September
  - She Married Her Boss
- 20 September
  - Broadway Melody of 1936
- 24 September
  - The Crime of Dr. Crespi
- 25 September
  - La Bandera (France)

October–December

October 1935
- 4 October
  - I Live My Life
- 5 October
  - Waterfront Lady
- 8 October
  - She Couldn't Take It
- 13 October
  - Barbary Coast
- 16 October
  - Way Down East
- 18 October
  - Hands Across the Table
  - The Last Days of Pompeii
- 24 October
  - Rendezvous
- 25 October
  - The Crusades
  - Thanks a Million
- 27 October
  - Trans-atlantic Tunnel (GB)
- 28 October
  - No Limit (GB)
- 30 October
  - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 31 October
  - Peter Ibbetson
November 1935
- 2 November
  - Princess Tam Tam (France)
- 4 November
  - Remember Last Night?
- 8 November
  - Mutiny on the Bounty
- 14 November
  - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
- 15 November
  - Annie Oakley
  - A Night at the Opera
- 21 November
  - An Inn in Tokyo (Japan)
- 22 November
  - Crime and Punishment
  - In Old Kentucky
  - Splendor
- 26 November
  - Scrooge (GB)
- 30 November
  - Frisco Kid
December 1935
- 3 December
  - Carnival in Flanders (France)
- 6 December
  - Ah, Wilderness!
- 9 December
  - The Great Impersonation
- 17 December
  - The Ghost Goes West (GB)
- 19 December
  - The Littlest Rebel
- 20 December
  - Lucrezia Borgia
- 25 December
  - The Bride Comes Home
  - Dangerous
- 27 December
  - Professional Soldier
  - A Tale of Two Cities
- 28 December
  - Captain Blood
- 30 December
  - Magnificent Obsession

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Notable films released in 1935

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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

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Comedy film series

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
- Thicker than Water
Our Gang (1922–1944)
Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
Wheeler and Woolsey (1929–1937)
Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series

Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
Screen Songs (1929–1938)
Silly Symphonies (1929–1939)
- 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
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 2 – John Considine, American writer and actor
January 5 – Gerald R. Molen, American producer and actor
January 6 - Nino Tempo, American musician, singer and actor (died 2025)
January 8 – Elvis Presley, American pop singer, musician 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 (died 2024)
January 30 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress (died 2017)
February 3 - Jeremy Kemp, English actor (died 2019)
February 16 - Brian Bedford, English actor (died 2016)
February 17 – Christina Pickles, British-American actress
February 25 – Sally Jessy Raphael, American former tabloid talk show host
February 26
- Stephen Pearlman, American actor (died 1998)
- Jane Wagner, American writer, director and producer
March 1 - Robert Conrad, American actor, singer and stuntman (died 2020)
March 11 – Nancy Kovack, American retired actress
March 15 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
March 18
- Oumarou Ganda, Nigerian director and actor (died 1981)
- Leslie Parrish, American actress, writer and producer
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)^[9]
April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996)
April 9
- Motomu Kiyokawa, Japanese actor and voice actor (died 2022)
- Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian (died 2002)
April 10 – Álvaro de Luna, Spanish actor (died 2018)
April 16
- Al Israel, American actor (died 2011)
- Bobby Vinton, American singer, songwriter and actor
April 19 – Dudley Moore, English-born comic actor and musician (died 2002)^[10]
April 20 – Mario Camus, Spanish director (died 2021)^[11]
April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor (died 2021)^[12]
April 22 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American actor and broadcaster (died 2013)
April 23 - Franco Citti, Italian actor (died 2016)
April 27
- Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (died 2012)^[13]
- Nikki van der Zyl, German voice-over artist (died 2021)
April 29 - Lennie Weinrib, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2006)
May 2
- Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (died 2014)
- Lance LeGault, American film and television actor (died 2012)
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
- Carole Lesley, English actress (died 1974)
- Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen and actress^[14]
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 28 - John Inman, English actor and singer (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)^[15]
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
- Diahann Carroll, African American singer and actress (died 2019)
- Donald Sutherland, Canadian-born actor (died 2024)
July 22 - Stanley Ralph Ross, American writer and actor (died 2000)
July 24 - Edward Donno, American actor and stunt performer (died 2014)
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)^[16]
August 4 - Carol Arthur, American actress (died 2020)
August 5
- Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (died 2017)
- Wanda Ventham, English actress
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)^[17]
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
- Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-British actor
- Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, comedian and producer (died 2023)
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)^[18]
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
- Billy "Green" Bush, American actor
- Judy Parfitt, English actress
November 8 - Alain Delon, French actor (died 2024)
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
- Diane Ladd, American actress^[19]
- Amanda Walker, English actress
November 30 – Woody Allen, American comedian, director and actor^[20]
December 2 - Hy Pyke, American character actor (died 2006)
December 5 – Basabi Nandi, Indian actress (died 2018)
December 8
- Dharmendra, Indian film actor, producer and politician^[21]
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German director
December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak director (died 2001)
December 14
- Lewis Arquette, American actor, writer and producer (died 2001)
- Lee Remick, American actress (died 1991)
December 18 - Rosemary Leach, British actress (died 2017)
December 21
- John G. Avildsen, American director (died 2017)
- Phil Donahue, American media personality, writer and producer (died 2024)
December 24 - Tommy Dysart, Scottish-born Australian actor (died 2022)
December 28 - William Bassett, American actor (died 2025)
December 30 - Jack Riley, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2016)

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Deaths

January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton, American comedy actor (born 1891)^[22]
February 7 – Frederick Warde, English Shakespearean actor (born 1851)
March 8 – Ruan Lingyu, Chinese silent film actress, committed suicide (born 1910)
March 20 - William "Stage" Boyd, American actor, (born 1886)
March 21 - William Conklin, American silent film actor, (born 1872)
March 23 – Florence Moore, American singer and silent film actress (born 1886)
May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor, in a road accident (born 1915)^[23]
May 13 – Clarence Geldart, Canadian-American actor (born 1867)
August 14 – Léonce Perret, French actor, director and producer (born 1880)^[24]
August 15 – Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (born 1879)^[25]
August 25 – Mack Swain, American actor (born 1876)^[26]
September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, British film pioneer, cancer (born 1860)
December 16 – Thelma Todd, American actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)

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Film debuts

Don Ameche – Dante's Inferno
Pedro Armendáriz – Rosario
Ewald Balser – Jana, the Girl from the Bohemian Forest
Benny Bartlett – Millions in the Air
William Benedict – $10 Raise
Nana Bryant – Unknown Woman
Sebastian Cabot – Foreign Affaires
Elisa Cegani – Aldebaran
Charles Coburn – The People's Enemy
Joan Davis – Millions in the Air
Olivia de Havilland – Alibi Ike
Buddy Ebsen – Broadway Melody of 1936
Edythe Elliott – Show Them No Mercy!
Fred Emney – Brewster's Millions
Henry Fonda – The Farmer Takes of Wife
Joan Fontaine – No More Ladies
Pina Gallini – Red Passport
Leo Genn – Immortal Gentleman
Gorella Gori – The Three-Cornered Hat
Paul Guilfoyle – Special Agent
Jon Hall – Women Must Dress
Walter Hudd – Moscow Nights
Vida Hope – The 39 Steps
Marsha Hunt – The Virginia Judge
Frieda Inescort – The Dark Angel
Douglas Kennedy – G Men
Jeni Le Gon – Hooray for Love
Leny Marenbach – Jana, the Girl from the Bohemian Forest
Howard Marion-Crawford – Me and Marlborough
James Mason – Late Extra
Carole Mathews – Here's to Romance
Burgess Meredith – The Scoundrel
Kenneth More – Look Up and Laugh
Robert Morley – Scrooge
Lloyd Nolan – G Men
Amalia Pellegrini – The Three-Cornered Hat
Jacqueline Porel – Les beaux jours
Anthony Quayle – Moscow Nights
Roy Rogers – Slightly Static
Janet Shaw – She Married Her Boss
Alastair Sim – The Riverside Murder
Lionel Stander – The Scoundrel
James Stewart – The Murder Man
Milburn Stone – Ladies Crave Excitement
Mária Sulyok – Dream Love
Karl Swenson – Strangers All
Joan Valerie – Fighting Youth
Dorothy Vaughn – Annapolis Farewell
Margaret Withers – The Guv'nor
Hank Worden – Barbary Coast
Will Wright – It's a Small World

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