1933 in film

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Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Films released in 1933
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Animated short film series
8 Births
9 Deaths
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[edit] Events
British Film Institute founded.
March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.
June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) once again expresses interest in the Wizard of Oz books for a series of animated cartoons, but they once again failed to make a deal with the estate of creator L. Frank Baum
Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film, shocks audiences when actress Hedy Lamarr is seen naked in the film.
The Private Life of Henry VIII becomes the first British film to win an American Academy Award.

[edit] Top grossing films
North America
I'm No Angel
42nd Street
She Done Him Wrong
Peg o' My Heart
Going Hollywood

[edit] Academy Awards
Best Picture: Cavalcade - Fox
Best Actor: Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory

[edit] Films released in 1933
42nd Street - starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers - Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Alice in Wonderland, starring Charlotte Henry
Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck
The Bitter Tea of General Yen, starring Barbara Stanwyck
Blood Money, starring George Bancroft
Bombshell, starring Jean Harlow
The Bowery, starring Wallace Beery and George Raft
Cavalcade, starring Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor and Herbert Mundin
Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore
Damaged Lives
Dancing Lady, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
Deluge
Design for Living, starring Fredric March and Gary Cooper
The Devil's Brother, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Dinner at Eight, featuring an all-star cast
Dragnet Girl, starring Kinuyo Tanaka, directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Duck Soup, starring the Marx Brothers
Ecstasy
Employees' Entrance, starring Warren William and Loretta Young
Flying Down to Rio, starring Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond
Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler
The Ghoul, starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger
Going Hollywood, starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby
Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William
Goodbye Again, starring Joan Blondell and Warren William
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, starring Al Jolson
Hold Your Man, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
I'm No Angel, starring Mae West and Cary Grant. West also wrote the story and screenplay.
In the Wake of the Bounty, starring Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian.
The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains in the title role.
Island of Lost Souls, an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau
Każdemu wolno kochać, by Mieczysław Krawicz
King Kong, starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
Ladies They Talk About, starring Barbara Stanwyck
Lady for a Day, starring Warren William and May Robson
Lady Killer, starring James Cagney
Liebelei
Little Women, starring Katharine Hepburn
Lot in Sodom, starring Friedrich Haak
Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young
The Mayor of Hell, starring James Cagney
The Midnight Patrol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Morning Glory, starring Katharine Hepburn
Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
One Sunday Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper
Our Betters, starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, and Anita Louise
Parachute Jumper, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, and Frank McHugh
Peg o' My Heart, starring Marion Davies
Penthouse, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
Picture Snatcher, starring James Cagney
The Power and the Glory, starring Spencer Tracy
The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton
The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
Professional Sweetheart, starring Ginger Rogers
Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo
Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill
Secrets, starring Mary Pickford in her last film
She Done Him Wrong, starring Cary Grant and Mae West
The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres
The Story of Temple Drake, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue
A Study in Scarlet, starring Reginald Owen (see A Study in Scarlet)
Supernatural, starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, directed by Fritz Lang
This Day and Age, Cecil B. Demille's now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy Montgomery.
Tillie and Gus, starring Alison Skipworth and W.C. Fields
Tonight Is Ours, starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert
Topaze (film), starring John Barrymore and Myrna Loy
Torch Singer, starring Claudette Colbert
Tugboat Annie, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
Turn Back the Clock, starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke
The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
When Ladies Meet, starring Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy
Wild Boys of the Road, starring Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips
The Working Man, starring George Arliss and Bette Davis

[edit] Serials
Clancy of the Mounted
Fighting with Kit Carson
Gordon of Ghost City
The Mystery Squadron
The Phantom of the Air
The Return of Chandu
Tarzan The Fearless, starring Buster Crabbe
The Three Musketeers, starring Jack Mulhall and John Wayne
The Whispering Shadow, starring Béla Lugosi
The Wolf Dog, starring Rin Tin Tin

[edit] Short film series
Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
Our Gang (1922-1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1926- 1935)
Ted Healey and the Three Stooges (1933-1934)

[edit] Animated short film series
Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
Screen Songs (1929-1938)
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Flip the Frog (1930-1933)
Terrytoons (1930-1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Scrappy (1931-1941)
Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) (1931-1933)
Betty Boop (1932-1939)
Popeye (1933-1957)
Pooch the Pup (1932-1933)
Willie Whopper (1933-1934)
ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936)
Cubby Bear (1933-1934)
The Little King (1933-1934)

[edit] Births
January 18 - John Boorman, director
February 18 - Mary Ure, actress
March 22 - May Britt, Swedish actress
April 19 - Jayne Mansfield, actress
May 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
June 11 - Gene Wilder, American actor
October 9 - Judy Tyler, actress

[edit] Deaths
January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor/director
January 25 - Lewis J. Selznick, producer
February 15 - Pat Sullivan, director/producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
February 26 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor
February 23 - David Horsley, pioneer film executive
August 28 - Helen Dunbar, actress
October 5 - Renée Adorée, actress
James Williamson, film developer and film director