1934 in film

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The following is an overview of 1934 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)[]

The top ten 1934 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1934
Rank Title Studio Box office gross rental
1 Cleopatra Paramount Pictures $1,929,000[1]
2 One Night of Love Columbia Pictures $1,700,000[1]
3 Broadway Bill $1,400,000[1]
4 Forsaking All Others Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,399,000[2]
5 It Happened One Night Columbia Pictures $1,366,000[1]
6 Chained Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,301,000[2]
7 Belle of the Nineties Paramount Pictures $1,300,000[1]
8 Wonder Bar Warner Bros. $1,264,000[3]
9 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,258,000[2]
10 Here Comes the Navy Warner Bros. $1,183,000[3]

Events[]

  • January 26 – Samuel Goldwyn (formerly of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.
  • February 19 – Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade.
  • April 19 – Fox Studios releases Stand Up and Cheer!, with five-year-old Shirley Temple in a relatively minor role. Shirley steals the film and Fox, which had been near bankruptcy, finds itself owning a goldmine.
  • May 18 – Paramount releases Little Miss Marker, with Shirley Temple, on loan from Fox, in the title role.
  • June 13 – An amendment to the Production Code establishes the Production Code Administration, and requires all films to obtain a certificate of approval before being released.
  • July 28 – Canadian-born actress Marie Dressler, best known for starring in films such as Min and Bill and Emma, dies from cancer in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 65. For her performance in Min and Bill, Dressler received the Academy Award for Best Actress.
  • October 12 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers wham audiences again in their first joint starring roles with The Gay Divorcee grossing $1.8 million[4] to add to the $1.5 million[4] earned by Flying Down to Rio released at the end of 1933
  • November 12 – The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief.
  • December 11 – Fox releases the Sol M. Wurtzel production of Bright Eyes, starring their hot new property, Shirley Temple. Shirley sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop", and wins the first Academy Award ever given to a child, for her endearing portrayal of Shirley Blake.

Academy Awards[]

Main article: 7th Academy Awards

The 7th Academy Awards was held on February 27, 1935, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. For the first time, the Academy standardized the practice – still in effect, notwithstanding changes to the 93rd and 94th Academy Awards as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – that the award eligibility period for a film would be the preceding calendar year.

Most nominations: One Night of Love (Columbia Pictures) – 6

Major Awards

  • Best Picture: It Happened One Night – Columbia Pictures
  • Best Director: Frank Capra – It Happened One Night
  • Best Actor: Clark Gable – It Happened One Night
  • Best Actress: Claudette Colbert – It Happened One Night

Most Awards: It Happened One Night – 5

It Happened One Night became the first film to perform a "clean sweep" of the top five award categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. This feat would later be duplicated by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1992. It also was the first romantic comedy to be named Best Picture.

1934 film releases[]

United States unless stated

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Notable films released in 1934[]

United States unless stated

0-9[]

A[]

  • All of Me, starring Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March
  • Amok, directed by Fedor Ozep – (France)
  • Angèle, directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Fernandel – (France)
  • Anne of Green Gables, starring Anne Shirley
  • Are We Civilized?, starring William Farnum
  • L'Atalante, directed by Jean Vigo, starring Michel Simon – (France)

B[]

  • Babes in Toyland, starring Laurel and Hardy
  • Baby Take a Bow, starring Shirley Temple
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton
  • The Battle, starring Merle Oberon, Charles Boyer and John Loder – (GB/France)
  • Belle of the Nineties, starring Mae West and Johnny Mack Brown
  • The Big Road (Dalu), directed by Sun Yu – (China)
  • The Big Shakedown, starring Bette Davis and Charles Farrell
  • The Black Cat, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
  • Bolero, starring George Raft and Carole Lombard
  • Boots! Boots!, starring George Formby – (GB – first film by Blakeley's Productions)
  • Born to Be Bad, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Jackie Kelk
  • Bright Eyes, starring Shirley Temple
  • Broadway Bill, directed by Frank Capra, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
  • Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, starring Ronald Colman

C[]

  • The Captain Hates the Sea, starring Victor McLaglen and John Gilbert in his last film role
  • Carolina, starring Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore
  • The Case of the Howling Dog, starring Warren William (as Perry Mason)
  • The Cat and the Fiddle, starring Ramón Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald
  • The Cat's-Paw, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Chained, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
  • Chapayev – winner of National Board of Review "Best Foreign Film" Award in 1935 – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Charlie Chan in London, starring Warner Oland and Ray Milland
  • Charlie Chan's Courage, starring Warner Oland
  • The Circus Clown, starring Joe E. Brown
  • City Limits
  • Cleopatra, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William
  • Colonel Blood, starring Frank Cellier
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Robert Donat
  • Crime Without Passion, starring Claude Rains

D[]

E[]

  • Evelyn Prentice, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • Evergreen, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews – (GB)
  • Everybody's Woman (La signora di tutti), directed by Max Ophüls, starring Isa Miranda – (Italy)

F[]

  • Fashions of 1934, starring William Powell and Bette Davis
  • Ferdowsi, starring Abdolhossein Sepanta and Ardeshir Irani (Iran)
  • Frontier Marshal, starring George O' Brien
  • Fog Over Frisco, starring Bette Davis
  • Forbidden Territory, starring Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire, Binnie Barnes – (GB)
  • Forsaking All Others, starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery

G[]

  • Gambling, starring George M. Cohan
  • Gambling Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck
  • The Gay Bride, starring Carole Lombard
  • The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • The Girl from Missouri, starring Jean Harlow
  • Girl o' My Dreams, starring Mary Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent, Lon Chaney Jr., Sterling Holloway
  • Glamour, starring Paul Lukas
  • The Goddess (Shen nu) – (China)
  • Grand Canary, starring Warner Baxter
  • Le Grand Jeu (The Great Game), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
  • Great Expectations, starring Henry Hull and Jane Wyatt

H[]

  • Here Comes the Navy, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
  • Here is My Heart, starring Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle
  • Hide-Out, starring Robert Montgomery and Margaret Sullavan
  • Hollywood Party, starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante and Lupe Vélez
  • The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and Loretta Young

I[]

  • I've Got Your Number, starring Joan Blondell and Pat O'Brien
  • Imitation of Life, starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William
  • The Iron Duke, starring George Arliss
  • It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Capra, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert – winner of 5 Academy Awards
  • It's a Gift, starring W. C. Fields

J[]

  • Jane Eyre, starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive
  • Jew Suss, starring Conrad Veidt
  • Jimmy the Gent, starring James Cagney and Bette Davis
  • Jolly Fellows (Vesyolye rebyata) – the first Russian musical
  • Juárez y Maximiliano (Juarez and Maximilian) – (Mexico)
  • Judge Priest, starring Will Rogers

K[]

  • The Key, starring William Powell and Edna Best
  • Kid Millions, starring Eddie Cantor
  • Kiss and Make-Up, starring Cary Grant, Helen Mack

L[]

  • The Lady Is Willing, starring Leslie Howard and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
  • The Last Round-Up, starring Randolph Scott
  • Lieutenant Kijé – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Liliom, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Charles Boyer – (France)
  • Limehouse Blues, starring George Raft and Jean Parker
  • Little Man, What Now?, starring Margaret Sullavan and Douglass Montgomery
  • The Little Minister, starring Katharine Hepburn and John Beal
  • Little Miss Marker, starring Shirley Temple
  • A Lost Lady, starring Barbara Stanwyck
  • The Lost Patrol, starring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff and Wallace Ford
  • The Lucky Texan, starring John Wayne

M-N[]

  • Madame Du Barry, starring Dolores del Río
  • Maniac, starring Horace B. Carpenter
  • The Man from Utah, starring John Wayne
  • Man of Aran (documentary), directed by Robert Flaherty – (GB)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best and Peter Lorre – (GB)
  • The Man with Two Faces, starring Edward G. Robinson
  • Managed Money, starring Shirley Temple
  • Mandalay, starring Kay Francis
  • Manhattan Melodrama, starring Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • The Merry Widow (La veuve joyeuse), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald – (France/US)
  • Les Misérables, directed by Raymond Bernard, starring Harry Baur and Charles Vanel – (France)
  • The Mighty Barnum, starring Wallace Beery
  • Murder at Monte Carlo, starring Errol Flynn – (GB)
  • Mauvaise Graine, directed by Billy Wilder – (FR)
  • Now and Forever, starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
  • Now I'll Tell, starring Spencer Tracy

O[]

  • Of Human Bondage, starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis
  • The Old Curiosity Shop, directed by Thomas Bentley – (GB)
  • The Old Fashioned Way, starring W. C. Fields
  • One More River, directed by James Whale
  • One Night of Love, starring Grace Moore
  • Operator 13, starring Marion Davies and Gary Cooper
  • Our Daily Bread, directed by King Vidor, starring Karen Morley and Tom Keene

P[]

R[]

  • Radio Parade of 1935, starring Will Hay – (GB)
  • Red Ensign, starring Leslie Banks – (GB)
  • The Return of Bulldog Drummond, starring Ralph Richardson and Ann Todd – (GB)
  • The Richest Girl in the World, starring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Fay Wray
  • Riptide, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
  • The Rise of Catherine the Great, starring Elisabeth Bergner and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. – (GB)
  • Road House, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Violet Loraine and Gordon Harker (GB)
  • Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (The King of the Champs-Élysées), starring Buster Keaton – (France)

S[]

T[]

  • The Tars – (Netherlands)
  • Tarzan and His Mate, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
  • The Thin Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • Thirty-Day Princess, starring Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant
  • Those Were the Days, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Will Hay and John Mills – (GB)
  • The Trail Beyond, starring John Wayne
  • Treasure Island, starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper
  • Twentieth Century, directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard
  • Twenty Million Sweethearts, starring Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers

U-V[]

  • Unfinished Symphony, directed by Anthony Asquith (GB/Austria)
  • Viva Villa!, starring Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo and Fay Wray

W[]

  • Waltzes from Vienna, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Esmond Knight and Jessie Matthews – (GB)
  • We're Not Dressing, starring Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard
  • We're Rich Again, starring Edna May Oliver and Billie Burke
  • What Every Woman Knows, starring Helen Hayes
  • Whirlpool, starring Jack Holt and Jean Arthur
  • The White Parade, starring Loretta Young
  • A Wicked Woman, starring Mady Christians, Jean Parker and Charles Bickford
  • The Woman of the Port (La Mujer del Puerto) – (Mexico)
  • Wonder Bar, starring Al Jolson
  • Workers, Let's Go (Hej rup!), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)

Y-Z[]

Serials[]

Comedy film series and shorts[]

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
Our Gang (1922–1944)
Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
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  • (short)
  • (short) as Darrow Langdon
  • (short) as Ichabod Somerset Crop
Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937)
The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

Animated short film series[]

Krazy Kat.


Births[]

  • January 6 – Sylvia Syms, English actress
  • January 14 – Richard Briers, English actor
  • January 20 – Tom Baker, British actor
  • January 22 – Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
  • February 11 – Tina Louise, American actress
  • February 12 – Valerio Ruggeri, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2015)
  • February 13 – George Segal, American actor and musician (died 2021)
  • February 17 – Barry Humphries, Austrian comedian, actor, satirist, artist and author
  • February 21 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010)
  • March 5 – Nicholas Smith, English comedy actor (d.2015)
  • March 22 – May Britt, Swedish actress
  • March 26 – Alan Arkin, American actor
  • March 27 – Peter Schamoni, German director (d. 2011)
  • March 31 – Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
  • April 24 – Shirley MacLaine, American actress
  • May 3 – Ivan Andonov, Bulgarian film director (d. 2011)
  • May 10 – Jeanine Basinger, American film historian
  • May 24 – Kiril Gospodinov, Bulgarian actor (d. 2003)
  • May 29 – Marina Cicogna, Italian producer
  • June 1 – Pat Boone, American singer and actor
  • June 16 – Eileen Atkins, British actress
  • June 21 – Maro Kontou, Greek actress, politician
  • July 1
    • Jamie Farr, American actor
    • Jean Marsh, English actress (Upstairs, Downstairs)
    • Ester Pajusoo, Estonian actress [5]
  • July 5 – Nikolay Binev, Bulgarian actor (d. 2003)
  • July 8 – Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
  • July 15 – Eva Krížiková, Slovak actress
  • July 22 – Eric del Castillo, Mexican actor
  • July 29 – Sergio Fiorentini, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2014)
  • August 7 – Marija Kohn, Croatian actress (d. 2018)
  • August 24 – Kenny Baker, English-born actor (d. 2016)
  • August 30 – Helen Craig, English children's author and illustrator (Angelina Ballerina)
  • September 11 – Ian Abercrombie, English-American actor and comedian (d. 2012)
  • September 20
    • Sophia Loren, Italian actress
    • Karen Sharpe, American actress
  • September 28 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
  • October 19 – Glória Menezes, Brazilian actress
  • October 20 – Timothy West, English actor
  • November 5 – Kira Muratova, Russian director (d. 2018)
  • November 11 – Nadine Trintignant, French director, producer and screenwriter
  • November 13 – Garry Marshall, American director, actor, producer, writer and voice artist (d. 2016)
  • November 28 – Jaakko Pakkasvirta, Finnish film director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • December 9 – Judi Dench, English actress
  • December 28 – Maggie Smith, English actress
  • December 29 – Forugh Farrokhzad, Iranian poet and film director (d. 1967)
  • December 30 – Russ Tamblyn, American actor

Deaths[]

  • March 21 – Lilyan Tashman, 34, American actress (cancer)
  • May 31 – Lew Cody, 50, American actor
  • June 8 – Dorothy Dell, 19, American actress (road accident)
  • July 6 – Harry A. Pollard, 55, American actor & director
  • July 28 – Marie Dressler, 65, Canadian-born American Academy Award winning actress (cancer)

Debuts[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990. p. M150.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55
  5. ^ Eesti Draamateater Archived 2017-09-23 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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