1938 in film

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The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.

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

The top ten 1938 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1938
Rank Title Studio Box office gross rental
1 Boys Town Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $2,828,000[1]
2 Alexander's Ragtime Band 20th Century Fox $2,630,000[2]
3 Test Pilot Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $2,431,000[1]
4 You Can't Take It with You Columbia Pictures $2,137,575[3]
5 Sweethearts Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $2,017,000[4]
6 In Old Chicago 20th Century Fox $1,964,000[2]
7 The Adventures of Robin Hood Warner Bros. $1,928,000[5]
8 Marie Antoinette
If I Were King 		Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Paramount Pictures 		$1,800,000[1][2]
9 The Adventures of Marco Polo United Artists/Samuel Goldwyn Productions $1,700,000[2]
10 Love Finds Andy Hardy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $1,637,000[1]

Events[]

  • January – MGM announces that Judy Garland will be cast in the role of Dorothy Gale in the upcoming The Wizard of Oz film. Ray Bolger is cast as the Tin Woodman and Buddy Ebsen as the Scarecrow. At Bolger's insistence, the roles are switched between the two actors. On July 25, MGM announces Bert Lahr has been cast as the Cowardly Lion.
  • February 24 – The entertainment trade newspaper Variety reported that the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had bought the rights to adapt L. Frank Baum’s beloved children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the screen
  • April 5 – Noel Langley completes the first script for The Wizard of Oz.
  • April 20 – Leonard Slye appears in his first starring role as Roy Rogers in Under Western Stars. He became one of the most popular Western stars being ranked number one from 1943 to 1952 and would become known as "King of the Cowboys".
  • May 7 – Lyricist Edgar Yipsel Harburg and composer, Harold Arlen, begin work on the musical score for The Wizard of Oz.
  • October 13 – Filming starts on The Wizard of Oz on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio lot in Culver City, California, initially with Richard Thorpe as director.
  • October 21 – Buddy Ebsen suffers from a near fatal allergic reaction to the aluminum dust used in his Tin Woodman make-up on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Ebsen is replaced by Jack Haley.
  • December 23 – Margaret Hamilton is severely burned during a mishap on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Hamilton, who was cast in the role of the Wicked Witch of the West, leaves the film for six weeks.
  • Orson Welles makes Too Much Johnson, starring Joseph Cotten. It is never completed and first released only in 2013.
  • Producer George Minter establishes Renown Pictures, a British film distributor.[6]

Academy Awards[]

Main article: 11th Academy Awards

1938 film releases[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

  • October 1938
    • October 14
      • Young Dr. Kildare
  • November 1938
  • December 1938
    • December 22
      • Sweethearts

Notable films released in 1938[]

United States unless stated

A[]

B[]

  • Bank Holiday, starring Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
  • La Bête humaine (The Human Beast), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Simone Simon – (France)
  • The Big Broadcast of 1938, starring W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
  • Billy the Kid Returns, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
  • Block-Heads, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
  • Blondie, starring Penny Singleton
  • Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert
  • Boys Town, starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
  • Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn – number 14 on the American Film Institute list of best comedy films
  • The Buccaneer, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Fredric March

C[]

D[]

F[]

  • La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker's Wife), directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu – (France)
  • Ferdinand the Bull, a Disney animated short
  • Fools for Scandal, starring Carole Lombard
  • The Four Companions, directed by Carl Froelich, starring Ingrid Bergman (Germany)
  • Four Daughters, starring Claude Rains
  • Four Men and a Prayer, directed by John Ford, starring Loretta Young, Richard Greene, David Niven
  • Four's a Crowd, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles

G[]

  • The Gaunt Stranger, starring Sonnie Hale – (GB)
  • The Girl of the Golden West, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

H[]

I[]

J[]

K[]

L[]

  • The Lady Vanishes, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
  • Listen, Darling, starring Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew
  • Little Miss Broadway, starring Shirley Temple, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver
  • Little Tough Guy, starring Robert Wilcox, Helen Parrish, Marjorie Main
  • Lord Jeff, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney
  • Love Finds Andy Hardy, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

M[]

O[]

P[]

  • Paradise for Three, starring Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor
  • Paweł i Gaweł (Pawel and Gawel) – (Poland)
  • Port of Seven Seas, directed by James Whale, starring Wallace Beery and Maureen O'Sullivan
  • Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Jean Gabin and Michel Simon – (France)
  • Prison Break, starring Barton MacLane and Glenda Farrell
  • Professor Beware, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Professor Mamlock – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Pygmalion, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller – (GB)

R[]

  • Radio City Revels, starring Jack Oakie
  • Rawhide, starring Lou Gehrig, Smith Ballew, and Evalyn Knapp
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, starring Shirley Temple
  • Red River Range, starring John Wayne
  • Room Service, starring the Marx Brothers and Lucille Ball

S[]

T[]

U-V[]

W[]

Y[]

  • A Yank at Oxford, starring Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Vivien Leigh – (GB)
  • You Can't Take It with You, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore – Oscars for best picture and director
  • Young Dr. Kildare, starring Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore
  • The Young in Heart, starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard

Z[]

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)
  • Marx Brothers (1929–1937)
  • The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

Animated short film series[]

  • Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
  • Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
  • Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
  • Silly Symphonies
    • The Moth and the Flame
    • Wynken, Blynken and Nod
    • Farmyard Symphony
    • Merbabies
    • Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
  • 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)
  • Happy Harmonies (1934-1938)
  • Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
  • Donald Duck (1937–1956)
  • Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938–1942)
  • The Captain and the Kids (1938–1939)

Births[]

  • January 1 – Frank Langella, American actor
  • January 3 - Tom Bower (actor), American actor
  • January 6 – Larisa Shepitko, Soviet director (died 1979)
  • January 8 - Bob Eubanks, American television personality and game show host
  • January 9 – Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japanese filmmaker (d. 2020)[7]
  • January 12 – Lewis Fiander, Australian actor (died 2016)
  • January 13 - Billy Gray (actor), American actor
  • January 14 – Jack Jones, American singer, actor
  • January 26 – Henry Jaglom, English-born director and playwright
  • January 29 – Aminah Cendrakasih, Indonesian actress
  • February 12 – Oliver Reed, English actor (died 1999)
  • February 17 – Yvonne Romain, English actress
  • February 19 – René Muñoz, Cuban-born actor, Mexico-based screenwriter (died 2000)
  • February 20 - Richard Beymer, American actor and fillmmaker
  • February 22 - Karin Dor, German actress (died 2017)
  • February 23
    • Jiří Menzel, Czech director (died 2020)
    • Diane Varsi, American actress (died 1992)
  • February 24
    • James Farentino, American actor (died 2012)
    • Robert A. Silverman, Canadian actor
  • February 25 - Diane Baker, American actress and producer
  • March 4 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
  • March 5 – Fred Williamson, American actor
  • March 18 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor (died 2017)
  • March 25 – Hoyt Axton, American country music singer-songwriter, actor (died 1999)
  • April 6 - Roy Thinnes, American actor
  • April 15 – Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
  • May 5 - Michael Murphy (actor), American actor
  • May 12
    • Luana Anders, American actress (died 1996)
    • Millie Perkins, American actress
  • May 17 - Jason Bernard, American actor (died 1996)
  • May 22
    • Richard Benjamin, American actor, director
    • Frank Converse, American actor
    • John Nolan (actor), British actor
  • May 24 - Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor, writer, director, musician, cannabis rights activist and comedian.
  • June 12 – Tom Oliver, Australian actor
  • June 16 – Michael Culver, English actor
  • June 18 – Michael Sheard, Scottish actor (died 2005)
  • June 21
  • June 25 – Giampiero Littera, Italian actor
  • July 6 – Luana Patten, American actress (died 1996)
  • July 8 – Andrey Myagkov, Soviet/Russian actor (died 2021)
  • July 9 – Brian Dennehy, American actor (died 2020)
  • July 11 – Jiří Krampol, Czech actor
  • July 18 – Paul Verhoeven, Dutch director
  • July 20
    • Diana Rigg, English actress (died 2020)
    • Natalie Wood, American actress (died 1981)
  • July 22 - Terence Stamp, English actor
  • July 23 – Ronny Cox, American actor, singer-songwriter
  • July 25 – Pilar Seurat, Philippine-American actress (died 2001)
  • August 6
    • Paul Bartel, American actor, writer and director (died 2000)
    • Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
  • August 8 – Connie Stevens, American actress, singer
  • August 9 - Burton Gilliam, American actor
  • August 15 - Lucille Soong, Chinese-American actress
  • August 19 - Diana Muldaur, American actress
  • August 26 – Susan Harrison, American actress (died 2019)
  • August 29 – Elliott Gould, American actor
  • September 2
    • Clarence Felder, American actor
    • Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (died 2013)
    • Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
  • September 8 – Philip L. Clarke, American voice actor (died 2013)
  • September 26 - Jonathan Goldsmith, American character actor
  • September 28 – Ben E. King, American soul singer (died 2015)
  • October 1
    • Tunç Başaran, Turkish screenwriter, film director, film producer and actor (died 2019)
    • Stella Stevens, American actress
  • October 2 – Rex Reed, American film critic and "actor"
  • October 10 – Steve Gordon, American filmmaker (died 1982)
  • October 22
    • Derek Jacobi, English actor and director
    • Christopher Lloyd, American actor
  • November 13 – Jean Seberg, American actress (died 1979)
  • November 26 - Rich Little, Canadian-American voice actor
  • December 6 - Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
  • December 12 – Connie Francis, American singer, actress
  • December 14 - Hal Williams, American actor
  • December 16 – Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
  • December 18 - Roger E. Mosley, American actor, director and writer
  • December 21 - Larry Bryggman, American actor
  • December 29 – Jon Voight, American actor

Deaths[]

Debuts[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ a b c d "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
  3. ^ Joseph McBride, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success University Press of Mississippi, 1992 p 381
  4. ^ Turk, Edward Baron "Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald" (University of California Press, 1998)
  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 18 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  6. ^ McFarlane, Brian (2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film (fourth ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 1887. ISBN 9781526111968.
  7. ^ Federation of Motion Picture Producers in Asia (1989). 34th Asia-Pacific Film Festival, 18-21 December 1989. Organizing Committee of 34th Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
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