1936 in film

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of years in film
  • … 1926
  • 1927
  • 1928
  • 1929
  • 1930
  • 1931
  • 1932
  • 1933
  • 1934
  • 1935
  • 1936
  • 1937
  • 1938
  • 1939
  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1942
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946 …
In television
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
Years in film
A reel of film (vector logo)
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
  • 1910
  • 1911
  • 1912
  • 1913
  • 1914
1920s
  • 1925
  • 1926
  • 1927
  • 1928
  • 1929
1930s
  • 1930
  • 1931
  • 1932
  • 1933
  • 1934
  • 1935
  • 1936
  • 1937
  • 1938
  • 1939
1940s
  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1942
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946
  • 1947
  • 1948
  • 1949
1950s
  • 1950
  • 1951
  • 1952
  • 1953
  • 1954
  • 1955
  • 1956
  • 1957
  • 1958
  • 1959
1960s
  • 1960
  • 1961
  • 1962
  • 1963
  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1966
  • 1967
  • 1968
  • 1969
1970s
  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1975
  • 1976
  • 1977
  • 1978
  • 1979
1980s
  • 1980
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1987
  • 1988
  • 1989
1990s
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
2000s
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
2010s
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
2020s
  • v
  • t

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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

The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1936
Rank Title Studio Box office gross rental
1 The Great Ziegfeld Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $3,089,000[1]
2 San Francisco $2,868,000[2]
3 The Plainsman Paramount Pictures $2,278,000[3]
4 After the Thin Man Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,992,000[1]
5 Modern Times United Artists $1,800,000[4]
6 Anthony Adverse Warner Bros. $1,783,000[5]
7 Strike Me Pink United Artists/Samuel Goldwyn Productions $1,700,000[4]
8 Rose Marie Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,695,000[1]
9 Swing Time RKO Radio Pictures $1,624,000[6]
10 Libeled Lady Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,601,000[1]

Events[]

  • January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as The Merry Widow and The Big Parade, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38.
  • February 15 – first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, is released.
  • May 29 – Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.
  • September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg, often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica, aged 37.

Academy Awards[]

Main article: 9th Academy Awards
  • Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Best Director: Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • 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

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.[7]

Rank Actor/Actress
1. Shirley Temple
2. Clark Gable
3. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
4. Robert Taylor
5. Joe E. Brown
6. Dick Powell
7. Joan Crawford
8. Claudette Colbert
9. Jeanette MacDonald
10. Gary Cooper

Top Western stars[]

A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.[8]

Rank Actor/Actress
1. Buck Jones
2. George O'Brien
3. Gene Autry
4. William Boyd
5. Ken Maynard
6. Dick Foran
7. John Wayne
8. Tim McCoy
9. Hoot Gibson
10. Buster Crabbe

1936 film releases[]

United States unless stated.

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Notable films released in 1936[]

United States unless stated.

0–9[]

A[]

  • Accused, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Dolores del Río (GB)
  • Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), starring Ashok Kumar (India)
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italy)
  • After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch) (Mexico)
  • The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant (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)

B[]

  • Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet (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
  • The Bold Caballero, starring Robert Livingston
  • Born to Dance, starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart
  • Broken Blossoms, starring Emlyn Williams and Dolly Haas
  • Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Blondell
  • By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet (U.S.S.R.)

C[]

D[]

Kundal Lal Saigal and Jamuna in Devdas, Barua's 1936 Hindi version.

E[]

  • East Meets West, starring George Arliss (UK)
  • Empty Saddles, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
  • Everything Is Thunder, starring Constance Bennett (UK)

F[]

  • Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner (UK)
  • The Four Musketeers (Italy)
  • Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy

G[]

H[]

I[]

J[]

  • The Jungle Princess, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland

K[]

  • Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California) – (Germany)

L[]

M[]

  • Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
  • The Man Who Changed His Mind, starring Boris Karloff (GB)
  • The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson (GB)
  • Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux (France)
  • Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Rex Harrison (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
  • (Монгол хүү), 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

N[]

  • Next Time We Love, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland
  • Night Mail, documentary (GB)

O[]

  • The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
  • Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
  • Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy

P[]

R[]

  • Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
  • Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)
  • Ramona, starring Don Ameche and Loretta Young
  • Rebellion, starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth
  • Reefer Madness, (aka Tell Your Children), a cult exploitation film
  • Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
  • Road Gang, starring Donald Woods
  • Robin Hood, Jr. (1936), directed by Leslie Goodwins
  • 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

S[]

  • Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)
  • San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
  • Satan Met a Lady, starring Warren William and Bette Davis
  • Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll (GB)
  • Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
  • The Singing Kid, starring Al Jolson
  • Silly Billies starring Wheeler & Woolsey
  • Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
  • Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, James Stewart
  • Sportszerelem (Hungary)
  • Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas (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 (GB)
  • Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

T[]

W[]

Y[]

  • Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon (Poland/U.S.)

Serials[]

Comedy film series[]

  • Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
  • Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
  • Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
  • Buster Keaton (1917–1928)
  • Laurel and Hardy (1927–1940)
  • Our Gang (1922–1944)
  • Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
  • Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937)
  • The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
  • The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series[]

  • Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
  • Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
  • Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
  • Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
  • Silly Symphonies
    • Elmer Elephant
    • Three Little Wolves
    • Toby Tortoise Returns
    • Three Blind Mousketeers
    • The Country Cousin
    • Mother Pluto
    • More Kittens
  • Screen Songs (1929–1938)
  • 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)
  • Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
  • Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)
  • Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936–1937)

Births[]

  • January 9 - K Callan, American author and actress
  • January 18 - Tim Barlow, English actor
  • January 22 – Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
  • January 27 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
  • January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor
  • February 3 - Jeanine Basinger, American film historian
  • February 4 - Gary Conway, American actor and screenwriter
  • February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018)
  • February 12 – Joe Don Baker, American character actor
  • February 14 – Andrew Prine, American actor
  • February 17 - Jim Brown, American actor and former football fullback
  • February 29 - Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
  • March 1 – Georgina Spelvin, born Shelley Graham, American pornographic film actress
  • March 5 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
  • March 8 - Sue Ane Langdon, American actress
  • March 19 – Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
  • May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French director (d. 2006)
  • May 9
    • Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
    • Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
  • May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010)
  • May 20 - Anthony Zerbe, American actor
  • May 23 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
  • May 27 - Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
  • May 30 - Keir Dullea, American actor
  • June 3 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
  • June 4 – Bruce Dern, American actor
  • June 8 - James Darren, American actor, director and singer
  • June 22 - Kris Kristofferson, American retired actor, musician and songwriter
  • June 24 – Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (d. 2021)
  • July 5 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
  • July 9 - Dick Richards, American director, producer and screenwriter
  • July 24
    • Ruth Buzzi, American actress, comedian and singer
    • Mark Goddard, American actor
  • August 13 – Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, politician, dancer and singer
  • August 15 - Pat Priest (actress), American actress
  • August 16 - Anita Gillette, American actress
  • August 18 – Robert Redford, American actor and director
  • August 25 – Hugh Hudson, English director
  • September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor and screenwriter
  • October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor
  • October 16 – Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
  • October 19 - Tony Lo Bianco, Italian-American actor
  • October 23 - Philip Kaufman, American director and screenwriter
  • October 24 – David Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
  • October 28 - Joe Spinell, American character actor (d. 1989)
  • November 9 – Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. 2007)
  • November 19 - Dick Cavett, American television personality, comedian and former talk show host
  • November 27 – Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
  • December 6 - David Ossman, American writer and comedian
  • December 8 – David Carradine, American actor and martial artist (d. 2009)
  • December 10 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director and producer (d. 2014)
  • December 22 – Hector Elizondo, American actor
  • December 23
    • Frederic Forrest, American actor
    • James Stacy, American actor (d. 2016)
  • December 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
  • December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)

Deaths[]

  • January 9 – John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)
  • January 24 – Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)
  • February 20 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
  • February 28 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859)
  • April 6 – Väinö Lehmus, Finnish actor (b. 1886)
  • June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878)
  • July 11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
  • September 14 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
  • October 17 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889)

Debuts[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. University of California Press. pp. 364-365. ISBN 0-520-21202-9.
  3. ^ "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
  4. ^ a b Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  5. ^ 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 16 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  6. ^ Richard Jewel (1994) 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol. 14 No. 1, p.55
  7. ^ "The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1936". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Company. January 9, 1937. p. 13. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  8. ^ "Exhibitors Name Biggest Western Draws". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Company. January 9, 1937. p. 18. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
Retrieved from ""