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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.

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

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

Highest-grossing films of 1935
Rank Title Studio Box office gross rental
1 Mutiny on the Bounty Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $2,250,000[1]
2 Top Hat RKO Radio Pictures $1,782,000[2]
3 China Seas Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,710,000[1]
4 The Crusades Paramount Pictures $1,700,000[3]
5 Broadway Melody of 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,655,000[1]
6 David Copperfield $1,621,000[1]
7 Love Me Forever Columbia Pictures $1,600,000[4]
8 Steamboat Round the Bend 20th Century Fox $1,528,000[4]
9 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Paramount Pictures $1,500,000[4]
10 Roberta RKO Radio Pictures $1,467,000[2]

Events[]

  • February 22 – The Little Colonel premieres starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Robinson, featuring 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.[5]
  • May – Formation of Republic Pictures following merger of smaller companies including Monogram Pictures, Mascot Pictures, Liberty Pictures and Majestic Pictures.
  • May 31 – Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures merge to form 20th Century Fox.
  • 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.

Academy Awards[]

Main article: 8th 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.[6]

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[]

United States unless stated.

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Notable films released in 1935[]

See also: United States unless stated.

0–9[]

  • The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll (GB)

A[]

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

D[]

  • Dandy Dick, starring Will Hay (GB)
  • 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
  • Death Drives Through, directed by Edward L. Cahn
  • Devdas (India)
  • The Devil Is a Woman, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • Dinky, starring Jackie Cooper and Mary Astor
  • Doubting Thomas , starring Will Rogers
  • Drake of England, starring Matheson Lang and Jane Baxter (GB)

E-F[]

G[]

H[]

I-J[]

L[]

M[]

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 (Xīn nǚxìng) (China)
  • A Night at the Opera, directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
  • The Night Is Young, starring Ramon Navarro
  • No Limit, starring George Formby (GB)
  • No More Ladies, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery

O-P[]

R[]

  • The Raven, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi
  • Reckless, a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
  • Red Passport, directed by Guido Brignone, starring Isa Miranda (Italy)
  • Remember Last Night?, directed by James Whale, starring Edward Arnold and Constance Cummings
  • Rendezvous (1935), starring William Powell
  • Roberta, a musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, with an uncredited appearance by Lucille Ball[7]
  • 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[]

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
  • The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes, starring Arthur Wontner
  • Triumph of the Will – Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl (Germany)
  • Tumbling Tumbleweeds, western with Gene Autry
  • Trans-atlantic Tunnel, starring Richard Dix and Leslie Banks (GB)
  • Turn of the Tide, starring John Garrick and Geraldine Fitzgerald (GB)

V-Y[]

Serials[]

Comedy film series[]

  • Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
  • Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
  • Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
  • Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
  • Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
  • 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)
  • (1934–1935)
  • Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
  • Rainbow Parades (1935–1936)

Births[]

  • January 1 – Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (died 2014)
  • January 2 - John Considine (actor), American writer and actor
  • January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock singer and actor (died 1977)
  • January 9 – Bob Denver, American comic actor (died 2005)
  • January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (died 2019)
  • January 30 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress (died 2017)
  • 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 11 - Nancy Kovack, American retired actress
  • March 15 - Judd Hirsch, American actor
  • March 18
    • Oumarou Ganda, Nigerien director and actor (died 1981)
    • Leslie Parrish, American actress, writer and producer
  • March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh, American character actor and comedian
  • March 24 - Mary Berry, English television presenter
  • March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
  • April 4 – Kenneth Mars, American actor and voice actor (died 2011)[8]
  • April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996)
  • April 10 – Álvaro de Luna, Spanish actor (died 2018)
  • April 16 - Bobby Vinton, American singer, songwriter and actor
  • April 19 – Dudley Moore, English-born comic actor and musician (died 2002)[9]
  • April 20 – Mario Camus, Spanish director (died 2021)[10]
  • April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor (died 2021)[11]
  • April 23 - Franco Citti, Italian actor (died 2016)
  • April 27
    • Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (died 2012)[12]
    • Nikki van der Zyl, German voice-over artist (died 2021)
  • May 2 – Lance LeGault, American film and television actor (died 2012)
  • May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (died 1995)
  • May 19 - David Hartman (TV personality), American television personality and media host
  • May 26 – Sheila Steafel, British actress (died 2019)
  • May 27
    • Carole Lesley, English actress (died 1974)
    • Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen and actress[13]
  • May 28 - Anne Reid, English actress
  • May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
  • June 3 - Irma P. Hall, American actress
  • June 16 – James Bolam, English actor
  • June 21 - Monte Markham, American actor
  • June 27 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (died 2007)
  • July 1 – David Prowse, English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor (died 2020)[14]
  • July 5 – Christian Doermer, German actor
  • July 8 - Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor
  • July 13 – Gregorio Casal, Mexican actor (died 2018)
  • July 15 – Gianni Garko, Croatian-born Italian actor
  • July 17
    • Diahann Carroll, African American singer and actress (died 2019)
    • Donald Sutherland, Canadian-born actor
  • August 2 – Amidou, Moroccan-French actor (died 2013)
  • August 3 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor and voice actor (died 2019)[15]
  • 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)[16]
  • August 15 - Jim Dale, English actor, director and singer
  • August 29 - William Friedkin, American director, producer and screenwriter
  • August 31 – Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (died 2018)
  • September 9 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, comedian and producer
  • September 21 - Henry Gibson, American actor, singer and songwriter (died 2009)
  • September 24 – Sean McCann, Canadian actor (died 2019)
  • October 1 – Julie Andrews, English-born singer and actress
  • October 3 – Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (died 2020)[17]
  • October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (died 2006)
  • October 20 – Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (died 2004)
  • October 24 – Rosamaria Murtinho, Brazilian actress
  • November 7 - Billy "Green" Bush, American actor
  • November 8 - Alain Delon, French actor
  • November 21 – Michael Chapman, American cinematographer (died 2020)
  • November 24 – Salim Khan, Indian Bollywood screenwriter
  • November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress[18]
  • December 1 – Woody Allen, American comedian, director and actor[19]
  • December 5 – Basabi Nandi, Indian actress (died 2018)
  • December 8
  • December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak director (died 2001)
  • December 14 – Lee Remick, American actress (died 1991)
  • December 21 - Phil Donahue, American media personality, writer and producer

Deaths[]

  • January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton, American comedy actor (born 1899)[21]
  • February 7 – Frederick Warde, English Shakespearean actor (born 1851)
  • March 8 – Ruan Lingyu, Chinese silent film actress, committed suicide (born 1910)
  • March 23 – Florence Moore, American singer and silent film actress (born 1886)
  • May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor, in a road accident (born 1915)[22]
  • May 13 – Clarence Geldart, Canadian-American actor (born 1867)
  • August 14 – Léonce Perret, French actor, director and producer (born 1880)[23]
  • August 15 – Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (born 1879)[24]
  • August 25 – Mack Swain, American actor (born 1876)[25]
  • September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, British film pioneer, cancer (born 1860)
  • December 16 – Thelma Todd, American actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)

Film debuts[]

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