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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 Judy Garland, Clark Gable and Shirley Temple. A significant number of productions also originated in the UK film industry. It was also a period notable in Soviet Russia for the increasing amount of state control exercised over their film industry.

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

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	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$1,621,000^[1]
7	Love Me Forever	Columbia Pictures	$1,655,000^[4]
8	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Steamboat Round the Bend	Paramount Pictures 20th Century Fox	$1,500,000^[4]^[5]
9	Roberta	RKO Radio Pictures	$1,467,000^[2]
10	In Old Kentucky	20th Century Fox	$1,400,000^[5]

Events[edit]

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.^[6]
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[edit]

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[edit]

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.	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[edit]

United States unless stated.

Notable films released in 1935[edit]

0–9[edit]

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

A[edit]

After Office Hours, starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
Ah, Wilderness!, starring Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn
Amphitryon (Germany)
Anna Karenina, starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March
Annie Oakley, starring Barbara Stanwyck
The Arizonian, starring Richard Dix

B[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Escapade, starring William Powell
Escape Me Never, directed by Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner (GB)
Every Night at Eight, starring George Raft and Alice Faye
The Farmer Takes a Wife, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda
Frisco Kid, starring James Cagney
Foreign Affaires, directed by and starring Tom Walls (Britain)
Four Hours to Kill!, starring Richard Barthelmess
Front Page Woman, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bette Davis and George Brent

G[edit]

G Men, starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak
The Ghost Goes West, directed by René Clair, starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette (GB)
The Gilded Lily, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
The Girl from 10th Avenue, starring Bette Davis
The Glass Key, starring George Raft
Go Into Your Dance, starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler
Goin' to Town, starring Mae West
Gold Diggers of 1935, a Busby Berkeley musical starring Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart
The Good Fairy, starring Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall
The Great Impersonation, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Edmund Lowe and Valerie Hobson

H[edit]

Hands Across the Table, starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
Harmony Lane, starring Douglass Montgomery
Home on the Range, starring Jackie Coogan and Randolph Scott
Hop-Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd
Hyde Park Corner, directed by Sinclair Hill, starring Gordon Harker (Britain)

I-J[edit]

I Live My Life, starring Joan Crawford and Frank Morgan
The Informer, directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen
An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
In Old Kentucky, starring Will Rogers
Jánošík, directed by Martin Frič (Czechoslovakia)
Jedenácté přikázání (The Eleventh Commandment) (Czechoslovakia)

L[edit]

The Last Days of Pompeii, starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone
Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) (Mexico)
Life Begins at 40, starring Will Rogers
Little Big Shot, directed by Michael Curtiz
The Little Colonel, starring Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore
Little Mother (Kleine Mutti) (Austria/Hungary)
The Littlest Rebel, starring Shirley Temple
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone
Long Live with Dearly Departed (Ať žije nebožtík) (Czechoslovakia)
Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Abel Gance, starring Edwige Feuillère (France)

M[edit]

Mad Love (aka The Hands of Orlac), starring Peter Lorre
Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor
The Making of a King (Der alte und der junge König), starring Emil Jannings (Germany)
Man of the Moment, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (GB)
Man on the Flying Trapeze, starring W. C. Fields
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, starring Ronald Colman and Joan Bennett
Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Hughie Green and Margaret Lockwood (GB)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle
The Million Ryo Pot (Tange Sazen Yowa: Hyakuman Ryō no Tsubo) (Japan)
Les Misérables, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
Mississippi, starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields and Joan Bennett
Moscow Nights, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Laurence Olivier (GB)
The Murder Man, starring Spencer Tracy
Music Hath Charms, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Henry Hall (Britain)
Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Claude Rains and Valerie Hobson

N[edit]

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[edit]

Our Little Girl, starring Shirley Temple
Page Miss Glory, starring Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, and Patsy Kelly
Party Wire, starring Jean Arthur and Victor Jory
The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt (GB)
Peter Ibbetson, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding
Police Chief Antek (Antek policmajster) (Poland)
Princess Tam Tam, starring Josephine Baker (France)
Private Worlds, starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea
Professional Soldier, starring Victor McLaglen
Public Hero No. 1, starring Lionel Barrymore and Jean Arthur

R[edit]

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^[8]
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[edit]

The Scoundrel, starring Noël Coward
Scrooge (GB)
She, starring Randolph Scott
She Couldn't Take It, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett
She Married Her Boss, starring Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas
Sheela (Indian)
Shanghai, starring Charles Boyer and Loretta Young
So Red the Rose, starring Margaret Sullavan
Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (Fengyun ernu) (China)
The Soul of the Accordion (El alma de bandoneón) (Argentina)
Special Agent, starring Bette Davis and George Brent
Splendor, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
Squibs directed by Henry Edwards and starring Betty Balfour (Britain)
Star of Midnight, starring William Powell and Ginger Rogers
Steamboat Round the Bend, starring Will Rogers

T[edit]

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[edit]

Villa for Sale (Ez a villa eladó) (Hungary)
The Village Squire, starring Vivien Leigh (GB)
Waterfront Lady, starring Ann Rutherford, Frank Albertson
The Wedding Night, starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten
Werewolf of London, starring Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
Westward Ho, starring John Wayne
The Whole Town's Talking, starring Edward G. Robinson and Jean Arthur
Way Down East, starring Henry Fonda
Xin nü xing (directed by: Chusheng Cai), starring: Ruan Lingyu, Naidong Wang and Junli Zheng.
The Youth of Maxim (Yunost Maksima) (USSR)

Serials[edit]

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

Comedy film series[edit]

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 (1933–1962)

Animated short film series[edit]

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[edit]

January 1 – Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (died 2014)
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)
March 18 – Oumarou Ganda, Nigerien director and actor (died 1981)
March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996)
April 10 – Álvaro de Luna, Spanish actor (died 2018)
April 19 – Dudley Moore, English-born comic actor and musician (died 2002)
April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor
May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (died 1995)
May 26 – Sheila Steafel, British actress (died 2019)
May 27 – Carole Lesley, English actress (died 1974)
June 27 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (died 2007)
July 1 – David Prowse, English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor
July 5 – Christian Doermer, German 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 5 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (died 2017)
August 7 – Yoná Magalhães, Brazilian actress (died 2015)
August 31 – Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (died 2018)
October 1 – Julie Andrews, English-born singer and actress
November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress
December 1 – Woody Allen, American comedian, director and actor
December 8 – Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German director
December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak director (died 2001)
December 14 – Lee Remick, American actress (died 1991)

Deaths[edit]

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)
August 15 – Will Rogers, American humorist, actor (born 1879)
September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, British film pioneer, cancer (born 1860)
December 16 – Thelma Todd, American actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)

Film debuts[edit]

Don Ameche – Dante's Inferno
Pedro Armendáriz – Rosario
Joan Davis – Millions in the Air
Buddy Ebsen – Broadway Melody of 1936
Henry Fonda – The Farmer Takes of Wife
Joan Fontaine – No More Ladies
Jon Hall – Women Must Dress
Olivia de Havilland – Alibi Ike
Danny Kaye – Moon Over Manhattan
Frances Langford – Every Night at Eight
Vivien Leigh – Look Up and Laugh
James Mason – Late Extra
Burgess Meredith – The Scoundrel
Roy Rogers – Slightly Static

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^ ^a ^b Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55
^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
^ ^a ^b Annual US Box Office Chart of 1935
^ ^a ^b Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 217
^ Notcutt, L. A.; Latham, G. C. (1937). The African and the Cinema: An Account of the Work of the Bantu Educational Cinema Experiment during the Period March 1935 to May 1937. London: Edinburgh House Press.
^ "The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1934–1935". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Company. December 28, 1935. p. 13. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
^ Lucille Ball on IMDb

[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[rko-2] Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55

[Finler-3] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1935AnnualBoxOfficeChart-4] Annual US Box Office Chart of 1935

[FoxRentals-5] Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 217

[6] Notcutt, L. A.; Latham, G. C. (1937). The African and the Cinema: An Account of the Work of the Bantu Educational Cinema Experiment during the Period March 1935 to May 1937. London: Edinburgh House Press.

[1935Poll-7] "The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1934–1935". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Company. December 28, 1935. p. 13. Retrieved April 24, 2018.

[8] Lucille Ball on IMDb

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