1935 in film

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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.

Events

• 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.^[1]
• September – Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
• 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.

Top-grossing films

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM
• Best Actor: Victor McLaglen - The Informer
• Best Actress: Bette Davis - Dangerous

1935 film releases

U.S.A. unless stated.

January–March

• January 1935
  • 11 January
    • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • 18 January
    • David Copperfield
  • 23 January
    • Bordertown
  • 25 January
    • The Gilded Lily
  • 27 January
    • The Youth of Maxim (USSR)
  • 31 January
    • The Good Fairy
• February 1935
  • 1 February
    • Home on the Range
  • 2 February
    • New Women (China)
  • 4 February
    • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • 8 February
    • Long Live with Dearly Departed (Czechoslovakia)
  • 11 February
    • Police Chief Antek (Poland)
  • 19 February
    • Ruggles of Red Gap
  • 22 February
    • After Office Hours
    • The Little Colonel
    • Toni (France)
    • The Whole Town's Talking
• March 1935
  • 8 March
    • Naughty Marietta
    • Roberta
    • The Wedding Night
  • 16 March
    • Gold Diggers of 1935
  • 22 March
    • Life Begins at 40
    • Mississippi
  • 25 March
    • The New Gulliver (U.S.S.R.)
  • 28 March
    • Triumph of the Will (Germany)
  • 30 March
    • Devdas

April–June

• April 1935
  • 10 April
    • Villa for Sale
  • 11 April
    • Four Hours to Kill!
  • 18 April
    • G Men
  • 19 April
    • Private Worlds
    • Reckless
    • Star of Midnight
  • 20 April
    • Go Into Your Dance
    • Little Mother (Austria/Hungary)
    • Les Misérables
  • 22 April
    • Bride of Frankenstein
  • 25 April
    • Goin' to Town
  • 27 April
    • Party Wire
  • 30 April
    • The Scoundrel
• May 1935
  • 9 May
    • The Informer
  • 11 May
    • Dinky
  • 13 May
    • Werewolf of London
  • 16 May
    • Drake of England (GB)
  • 18 May
    • Black Fury
  • 26 May
    • The Girl from 10th Avenue
  • 31 May
    • Public Hero No. 1
• June 1935
  • 6 June
    • The 39 Steps (GB)
  • 7 June
    • Our Little Girl
  • 13 June
    • Becky Sharp
  • 15 June
    • The Glass Key
    • The Million Ryo Pot (Japan)

July–September

• July 1935
  • 6 July
    • Escapade
  • 8 July
    • The Raven
  • 12 July
    • Mad Love
    • The Murder Man
    • She
  • 15 July
    • The Black Room
  • 18 July
    • Amphitryon (Germany)
  • 20 July
    • Front Page Woman
  • 26 July
    • Curly Top
  • 31 July
    • Dante's Inferno
• August 1935
  • 3 August
    • Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • 9 August
    • The Call of the Wild
    • China Seas
  • 15 August
    • Alice Adams
  • 19 August
    • Westward Ho
  • 21 August
    • The Crusades
  • 25 August
    • Broadway Melody of 1936
    • Hop-Along Cassidy
  • 29 August
    • Top Hat
  • 30 August
    • Anna Karenina
• September 1935
  • 5 September
    • Tumbling Tumbleweeds
  • 6 September
    • Steamboat Round the Bend
  • 7 September
    • Little Big Shot
    • Page Miss Glory
  • 8 September
    • The Dark Angel
  • 14 September
    • Special Agent
  • 19 September
    • She Married Her Boss
  • 24 September
    • The Crime of Dr. Crespi
  • 25 September
    • La Bandera (France)

October–December

• October 1935
  • 4 October
    • I Live My Life
  • 5 October
    • Waterfront Lady
  • 8 October
    • She Couldn't Take It
  • 13 October
    • Barbary Coast
  • 18 October
    • Hands Across the Table
    • The Last Days of Pompeii
  • 25 October
    • Thanks a Million
  • 27 October
    • Trans-atlantic Tunnel (GB)
  • 28 October
    • No Limit (GB)
  • 30 October
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 31 October
    • Peter Ibbetson
• November 1935
  • 2 November
    • Princess Tam Tam (France)
  • 4 November
    • Remember Last Night?
  • 8 November
    • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • 14 November
    • The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
  • 15 November
    • Annie Oakley
    • A Night at the Opera
  • 21 November
    • An Inn in Tokyo (Japan)
  • 22 November
    • Crime and Punishment
    • The Littlest Rebel
    • Splendor
  • 26 November
    • Scrooge (GB)
• December 1935
  • 3 December
    • Carnival in Flanders (France)
  • 6 December
    • Ah, Wilderness!
  • 9 December
    • The Great Impersonation
  • 17 December
    • The Ghost Goes West (GB)
  • 20 December
    • Lucrezia Borgia
  • 25 December
    • The Bride Comes Home
    • Dangerous
  • 27 December
    • Professional Soldier
    • A Tale of Two Cities
  • 28 December
    • Captain Blood
  • 30 December
    • Magnificent Obsession
  • 31 December
    • Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)

Notable films released in 1935

See also: U.S.A. unless stated.

0-9

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

A

• 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

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
• Devdas (India)
• The Devil Is a Woman, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Dinky, starring Jackie Cooper and Mary Astor
• Drake of England, starring Matheson Lang and Jane Baxter (GB)

E

• 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

F

• The Farmer Takes a Wife, directed by Victor Saville, starring Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda
• 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

• 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

• Hands Across the Table, starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
• 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

• 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)

J

• Jánošík, directed by Martin Frič (Czechoslovakia)
• Jedenácté přikázání (The Eleventh Commandment) (Czechoslovakia)

K

L

• 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

• 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

• 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
• No Limit, starring George Formby (GB)
• No More Ladies, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery

O

• Our Little Girl, starring Shirley Temple

P

• Page Miss Glory, starring Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell
• 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

Q

R

• The Raven, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi
• Reckless, a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
• Remember Last Night?, directed by James Whale, starring Edward Arnold and Constance Cummings
• Roberta, a musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, with an uncredited appearance by Lucille Ball^[5]
• 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

• 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)
• 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

• 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
• 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)

U

V

• Villa for Sale (Ez a villa eladó) (Hungary)
• The Village Squire, starring Vivien Leigh (GB)

W

• 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

X

• Xin nü xing (directed by: Chusheng Cai), starring: Ruan Lingyu, Naidong Wang and Junli Zheng.

Y

• The Youth of Maxim (Yunost Maksima) (USSR)

Z

Serials

• 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

• 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)
• The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

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)
• Cartune Classics (1934–1935)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935–1936)

Births

• January 1 - Brian G. Hutton, actor, director (died 2014)
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor (died 1977)
• January 9 - Bob Denver, actor (died 2005)
• April 19 - Dudley Moore, actor, musician (died 2002)
• April 21 - Charles Grodin, actor
• May 11 - Doug McClure, actor (died 1995)
• July 17
  • Diahann Carroll, singer, actress
  • Donald Sutherland, actor
• October 1 - Julie Andrews, actress
• November 29 - Diane Ladd, actress
• December 1 - Woody Allen, director
• December 8 - Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German director
• December 10 - Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak director (died 2001)
• December 14 - Lee Remick (died 1991)

Deaths

• March 8 - Ruan Lingyu, actress, committed suicide
• March 23 - Florence Moore, singer, actress
• May 4 - Junior Durkin, actor, in a road accident
• August 15 - Will Rogers, humorist, actor
• September 28 - William K. Dickson, film pioneer, cancer
• December 16 - Thelma Todd, actress, carbon monoxide poisoning

Film debuts

• Don Ameche - Dante's Inferno
• Pedro Armendáriz - Rosario
• Henry Fonda - The Farmer Takes a Wife
• Joan Fontaine - No More Ladies
• Olivia de Havilland - Captain Blood
• Danny Kaye - Moon Over Manhattan
• Vivien Leigh - Look Up and Laugh
• James Mason - Late Extra
• Roy Rogers - Slightly Static

References