1933 in film

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The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

In 1933, the top three grossing films in the United States were Queen Christina with $2,887,000; I'm No Angel with $2,850,000 and King Kong with $2,847,000.

EventsEdit

March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.
June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
British Film Institute founded.
GPO Film Unit established in the United Kingdom under John Grierson, taking over responsibility for documentary film making from the Empire Marketing Board.
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.

Top Grossing Films U.S.A.Edit

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Queen Christina	MGM	Greta Garbo	$2,887,285
2.	I'm No Angel	Paramount	Mae West	$2,850,000
3.	King Kong	RKO	Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, and Robert Armstrong	$2,847,000
4.	42nd Street	Warner Bros.	Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell	$2,250,000
5.	She Done Him Wrong	Paramount	Mae West	$2,200,000
6.	State Fair	Fox	Janet Gaynor	$1,800,000
7.	Dinner at Eight	MGM	Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore and Billie Burke	$1,207,068
8.	Hold Your Man	MGM	Jean Harlow and Clark Gable	$1,100,000
9. (tie)	Little Women	RKO	Katharine Hepburn	unknown
9. (tie)	Design for Living	Paramount	Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins	unknown

Academy AwardsEdit

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

1933 film releasesEdit

U.S.A. unless stated

Notable films released in 1933Edit

U.S.A. unless stated

42nd Street, Directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers
Adorable, directed by William Dieterle, starring Janet Gaynor
Don Quixote, directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Feodor Chaliapin - (France/GB)
After Tonight, starring Constance Bennett
Alice in Wonderland, starring Charlotte Henry and virtually every Paramount star at the time
Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent
Beauty for Sale, starring Madge Evans and Alice Brady
Bed of Roses, starring Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea
A Bedtime Story, starring Maurice Chevalier
Berkeley Square
Bitter Sweet, starring Anna Neagle - (GB)
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
Bureau of Missing Persons, starring Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien
By Candlelight, directed by James Whale
Cash, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Robert Donat - (GB)
Cavalcade, starring Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor and Herbert Mundin
Der Choral von Leuthen (The Hymn of Leuthen), directed by Carl Froelich - (Germany)
Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore and Bebe Daniels
Dancing Lady, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
Daybreak (Tiānmíng) - (China)
Deluge, starring Sidney Blackmer
The Deserter - (U.S.S.R.)
Design for Living, starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins
The Devil's Brother, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Dick Turpin, directed by Victor Hanbury, starring Victor McLaglen (GB)
Dinner at Eight, directed by George Cukor and featuring an all-star cast
Doctor Bull, starring Will Rogers
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts, starring Shirley Temple
Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna), starring Kinuyo Tanaka, directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey, starring the Marx Brothers
The Eagle and the Hawk, starring Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard
Ecstasy, starring Hedy Lamarr - (Czechoslovakia)
The Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson
Employees' Entrance, starring Warren William and Loretta Young
Ever in My Heart, starring Barbara Stanwyck
Ex-Lady, starring Bette Davis
Fast Workers, starring John Gilbert and Mae Clarke
The Flower of Hawaii (Die Blume von Hawaii), directed by Richard Oswald - (Germany)
Flüchtlinge (Refugees) - (Germany)
Flying Down to Rio, starring Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond. Also starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first of 10 films together
Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler
Friday the Thirteenth, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews - (GB)
Gabriel Over the White House, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Walter Huston, Produced by William Randolph Hearst
Ganga Bruta, directed by Humberto Mauro, starring Durval Bellini and Déa Selva (Brazil)
The Ghoul, starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger - (GB)
The Ghost Camera, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Ida Lupino, John Mills - (GB)
Going Hollywood, starring Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Patsy Kelly, Fifi D'Orsay, and Sterling Holloway
Gold Diggers of 1933, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William
The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn and John Gielgud - (GB)
Goodbye Again, starring Joan Blondell and Warren William
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, starring Al Jolson
Hard to Handle, starring James Cagney
Heroes for Sale, starring Loretta Young and Richard Barthelmess
Hold Your Man, starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
The House on 56th Street, starring Kay Francis
The House of Dora Green, directed by Henrik Galeen, starring Mady Christians - (Germany)
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 - (Australia)
International House, starring W. C. Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen
The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains in the title role with Gloria Stuart
It's Great to Be Alive, directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Raul Roulien and Gloria Stuart
Każdemu wolno kochać (Anybody Can Love), by Mieczysław Krawicz - (Poland)
King Kong, starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
Ladies They Talk About, starring Barbara Stanwyck
Lady for a Day, directed by Frank Capra, starring Warren William and May Robson
Lady Killer, starring James Cagney
Liebelei, directed by Max Ophüls - (Germany)
Life Is a Dog (Život je pes), directed by Martin Frič - (Czechoslovakia)
Little Toys (Xiáo wǎnyì), directed by Sun Yu - (China)
Little Women, directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett
Looking Forward, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Lionel Barrymore
Lot in Sodom, starring Friedrich Haak
Loyalties, starring Basil Rathbone - (GB)
Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young
The Mayor of Hell, starring James Cagney
Men Must Fight, starring Diana Wynyard
Midnight Club, starring George Raft and Clive Brook
Midnight Mary, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Loretta Young
The Midnight Patrol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Money for Speed, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring John Loder and Ida Lupino - (GB)
The Monkey's Paw, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack
Morning Glory, starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
Okraina (The Outskirts) - (U.S.S.R.)
One Sunday Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray
Only Yesterday, starring Margaret Sullavan
Our Betters, starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, and Anita Louise
Parachute Jumper, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, and Frank McHugh
Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
Peg o' My Heart, starring Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, and J. Farrell MacDonald
Penthouse, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
Perfect Understanding, starring Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier - (GB)
Pick-Up, starring Sylvia Sydney and George Raft
Picture Snatcher, starring James Cagney
Pilgrimage, directed by John Ford
The Power and the Glory, starring Spencer Tracy
The Private Life of Henry VIII, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton - (GB)
The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
Professional Sweetheart, starring Ginger Rogers
Queen Christina, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
Roman Scandals, starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart
S.O.S Iceberg (S.O.S. Eisberg), starring Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
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 Mae West and Cary Grant in his first notable film role
She Had to Say Yes, starring Loretta Young and Lyle Talbot, directed by Busby Berkeley and George Amy
The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
A Southern Maid, starring Bebe Daniels and Clifford Mollison - (GB)
'Spring Silkworms (Chung Can) - (China)
State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres
The Story of Temple Drake, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue
The Stranger's Return, starring Miriam Hopkins and Lionel Barrymore
A Study in Scarlet, starring Reginald Owen
Supernatural, starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Otto Wernicke - (Germany)
This Day and Age, Cecil B. Demille's now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy.
This Week of Grace' directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Gracie Fields - (Britain)
Three-Cornered Moon, starring Claudette Colbert and Richard Arlen
Three Little Pigs, an animated short
Tillie and Gus, starring Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields
Today We Live, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper
Tonight Is Ours, starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert
Topaze, 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
Viktor und Viktoria - (Germany)
Voltaire, starring George Arliss
When Ladies Meet, starring Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy
The World Changes, starring Mary Astor and Paul Muni
Wild Boys of the Road, starring Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips
The Working Man, starring George Arliss and Bette Davis
You Made Me Love You starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd - (GB)
Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite), directed by Jean Vigo - (France)

SerialsEdit

Clancy of the Mounted
Fighting with Kit Carson
Gordon of Ghost City
The Mystery Squadron
The Perils of Pauline, starring Evalyn Knapp
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 Bela Lugosi
The Wolf Dog, starring Rin Tin Tin

Comedy film seriesEdit

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
- Dirty Work
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 seriesEdit

Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
Silly Symphonies
- Birds in the Spring
- Father Noah's Ark
- Three Little Pigs
- Old King Cole
- Lullaby Land
- The Pied Piper
- The Night Before Christmas
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)
- Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
- Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
- Is My Palm Read?
- Betty Boop's Penthouse
- Snow White
- Betty Boop's Birthday Party
- Betty Boop's May Party
- Betty Boop's Big Boss
- Mother Goose Land
- Popeye the Sailor (first Popeye cartoon)
- The Old Man of the Mountain
- I Heard
- Morning, Noon and Night
- Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
- Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Popeye (1933-1957)
- Popeye the Sailor (Betty Boop cartoon)
Pooch the Pup (1932-1933)
Willie Whopper (1933-1934)
ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936)
Cubby Bear (1933-1934)
The Little King (1933-1934)

BirthsEdit

January 8 - Jean-Marie Straub, French director (died 2006)
January 12 - Liliana Cavani, Italian director
January 18 - John Boorman, English director
January 23 - Chita Rivera, American actress, dancer and singer
January 28 - Jack Hill, American director and screenwriter
February 13 - Kim Novak, American actress
February 18 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (died 1975)
March 14 - Michael Caine, English actor
April 5 - Frank Gorshin, actor and comedian (died 2005)
April 19 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (died 1967)
April 26 - Carol Burnett, actress, television host and comedian
May 10 - Francoise Fabian, French actress
May 23 - Joan Collins, English actress
June 11 - Gene Wilder, American comic actor (died 2016)
June 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
July 29 - Lou Albano, Italian-born American professional wrestler and actor (died 2009)
August 1 - Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (died 2009)
August 2 - Tom Bell, English actor (died 2006)
August 16 - Julie Newmar, actress, dancer and singer
August 18 - Roman Polanski, Polish director
August 25 - Tom Skerritt, American actor
August 28 - Philip French, English critic (died 2015)
September 18 - Robert Blake, American actor
November 3 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (died 1995)
November 28 - Hope Lange, actress (died 2003)
December 15 - Tim Conway, actor and comedian

DeathsEdit

January 3 – Jack Pickford, Canadian-born American actor and director (born 1896)
January 25 – Lewis J. Selznick, Ukrainian-born American producer (born 1870)
February 15 – Pat Sullivan, Australian-born American director/producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat (born 1885/87)
February 23 – David Horsley, English-born American film executive (born 1873)
February 26 – Spottiswoode Aitken, American actor (born 1868)
March 8 – Alan Roscoe, American actor (born 1886)
March 23 – Francine Mussey, French actress (born 1897)
June 29 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (born 1887)
June 30 – Georg Blomstedt, Swedish actor (born 1872)
August 18 – James Williamson, Scottish film developer and film director (born 1855)
August 28 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (born 1863)
September 24 – Ferdinand Bonn, German actor (born 1861)
October 5 – Renée Adorée, French actress (born 1898)
October 30 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (born 1869)
December 19 – Jimmie Adams, American comedian (born 1888)

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1933 in film

Contents

EventsEdit

Top Grossing Films U.S.A.Edit

Academy AwardsEdit

1933 film releasesEdit

January–MarchEdit

April–JuneEdit

July–SeptemberEdit

October–DecemberEdit