1933 in film

The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.
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== Top-grossing films (U.S.) ==
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The top ten 1933 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1933
Rank	Title 	Distributor 	Domestic rentals
1 	Roman Scandals 	United Artists 	$2,443,000
2 	I'm No Angel 	Paramount 	$2,250,000
3 	Gold Diggers of 1933	Warner Bros. 	$2,202,000
4 	She Done Him Wrong 	Paramount 	$2,200,000
5 	The Bowery 	United Artists/Twentieth Century	$2,000,000
6 	Tugboat Annie 	MGM 	$1,917,000
7 	Footlight Parade 	Warner Bros. 	$1,601,000
8 	Dancing Lady 	MGM 	$1,490,000
9 	42nd Street 	Warner Bros. 	$1,438,000
10 	Dinner at Eight 	MGM 	$1,398,000
== Events ==
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The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America.
* Motion picture industry goes under National Recovery Administration code.
* Receivers appointed for Paramount Publix, RKO and Fox Theatres.
* Film industry takes eight week salary cut.
* Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated.
* John D. Hertz withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager.
* Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Fox Film Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930.
* Ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware creates "open market" for sound equipment.
* Nathan Nathanson regains control of Famous Players Canadian circuit.
* Darryl F. Zanuck quits Warner Bros-First National and with Joseph M. Schenck forms Twentieth Century Pictures, turning out eight productions in the first four months, beginning with The Bowery.
* Harold B. Franklin resigns as president of RKO Theaters.
Other notable events include:
* January 11 – Radio City Music Hall in New York City starts showing films.
* January 20 – The film Ecstasy premieres in Czechoslovakia film; its foreign distribution presents difficulties as 18-year-old actress Hedy Lamarr is seen naked in it.
* March – Director Fritz Lang is informed by Joseph Goebbels that release of Lang's crime-thriller The Testament of Dr. Mabuse in Germany will not be permitted by the newly formed Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The German-language premiere takes place on April 21 in Budapest (Hungary). On April 20, Lang divorces his wife, the film's writer Thea von Harbou, and on July 31 leaves Germany permanently, initially settling in Paris.
* March 2 – King Kong premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City; opening weekend takings are estimated at US$90,000.
* March 9 – Punyal na Ginto (The Golden Dagger), the first Filipino-language film made in the Philippines, is released.
* March 11 – 42nd Street sparks a comeback for musical film.
* June 6 – Chemical company executive Richard Hollingshead opens a drive-in theater near Camden, New Jersey, according to his U.S patent granted May 16.
* September 6 – Daily Variety, a trade newspaper, is published for the first time in Hollywood.
* October 10 – John Wayne appears as Singin' Sandy Saunders in Riders of Destiny.
* December 29 – Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appear on screen together for the first time in Flying Down to Rio.
* Ang Aswang, the first sound film made in the Philippines, is released.
* Makata At Paraluman (The Poet and the Maiden), the first talking film in vernacular made in the Philippines, is released.
* 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 shorts, but once again fail to make a deal with the estate of creator L. Frank Baum.
* The Private Life of Henry VIII becomes the first British film to win an American Academy Award. Featured actor Charles Laughton wins the 1933 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. The film is the first British production to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
* The book Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox is published, detailing what William Fox considers to be the conspiracy that forced him from control of Fox Film in 1930.
== Academy Awards ==
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Main article: 6th Academy Awards
The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. They were hosted by Will Rogersand Rogers also presented all of the awards. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.
Most nominations: Cavalcade (Fox Film); A Farewell to Arms (Paramount Pictures) and Lady for a Day (Columbia Pictures) – 4
Major awards:
* Best Picture: Cavalcade – Fox Film
* Best Director: Frank Lloyd – Cavalcade
* Best Actor: Charles Laughton – The Private Life of Henry VIII
* Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn – Morning Glory
Most Awards: Cavalcade – 3 (Outstanding Production; Best Director; Best Art Direction)
== 1933 film releases ==
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United States unless stated
=== January–March ===
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* January 1933
** 3 January
*** The Bitter Tea of General Yen
** 10 January
*** The Vampire Bat
** 12 January
*** Laughter in Hell
** 13 January
*** The Monkey's Paw
** 20 January
*** Ecstasy (Czechoslovakia)
** 21 January
*** Tonight Is Ours
** 27 January
*** She Done Him Wrong
** 28 January
*** Hard to Handle
*** Parachute Jumper
* February 1933
** 3 February
*** Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
** 4 February
*** Ladies They Talk About
** 10 February
*** State Fair
*** What! No Beer?
** 17 February
*** Men Must Fight
** 18 February
*** Mystery of the Wax Museum
** 22 February
*** The House of Dora Green (Germany)
** 23 February
*** Our Betters
** 24 February
*** Perfect Understanding (GB)
*** Topaze
** 28 February
*** The Good Companions
*** Oliver Twist
* March 1933
** 2 March
*** King Kong
** 10 March
*** Fast Workers
*** King of the Jungle
*** Liebelei (Germany)
** 11 March
*** 42nd Street
** 15 March
*** In the Wake of the Bounty (Australia)
** 21 March
*** The Flower of Hawaii (Die Blume von Hawaii)
** 24 March
*** Pick-Up
** 25 March
*** Okraina (The Outskirts) (U.S.S.R.)
** 31 March
*** Gabriel Over the White House
=== April–June ===
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* April 1933
** 7 April
*** Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite) (France)
** 14 April
*** Today We Live
** 15 April
*** Cavalcade
** 20 April
*** The Working Man
** 21 April
*** Supernatural
** 22 April
*** A Bedtime Story
** 27 April
*** Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna)
** 28 April
*** Looking Forward
* May 1933
** 5 May
*** The Devil's Brother
** 6 May
*** The Eagle and the Hawk
*** Picture Snatcher
** 12 May
*** The Story of Temple Drake
** 14 May
*** A Study in Scarlet
** 15 May
*** Ex-Lady
** 19 May
*** Adorable
** 25 May
*** Don Quixote
** 26 May
*** Peg o' My Heart
** 27 May
*** Gold Diggers of 1933
*** International House
** 29 May
*** Ganga Bruta (Brazil)
* June 1933
** 9 June
*** Professional Sweetheart
** 23 June
*** The Mayor of Hell
*** When Ladies Meet
** 28 June
*** Samarang
** 30 June
*** Hold Your Man
*** Midnight Mary
=== July–September ===
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* July 1933
** 1 July
*** Baby Face
** 3 July
*** Loyalties
** 8 July
*** It's Great to Be Alive
** 14 July
*** Bed of Roses
*** Storm at Daybreak
** 15 July
*** She Done Him Wrong
** 17 June
*** Heroes for Sale
** 20 July
*** Secret of the Blue Room
** 28 July
*** The Stranger's Return
** 29 July
*** Midnight Club
* August 1933
** 1 August
*** Employees' Entrance
** 5 August
*** Voltaire
** 8 August
*** Three-Cornered Moon
** 13 August
*** Deluge
** 16 August
*** The Power and the Glory
** 17 August
*** The Private Life of Henry VIII
** 18 August
*** Morning Glory
*** Pilgrimage
** 25 August
*** This Day and Age
*** Turn Back the Clock
** 29 August
*** Dinner at Eight
** 30 August
*** S.O.S Iceberg (S.O.S. Eisberg) (Germany)
** 31 August
*** Bitter Sweet (GB)
* September 1933
** 1 September
*** Beauty for Sale
*** One Sunday Afternoon
** 7 September
*** Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro) (Japan)
** 8 September
*** Penthouse
*** Torch Singer
** 13 September
*** Lady for a Day
** 15 September
*** Berkeley Square
** 16 September
*** Bureau of Missing Persons
** 22 September
*** Doctor Bull
** 23 September
*** I Loved a Woman
** 26 September
*** Ann Vickers
** 29 September
*** The Emperor Jones
=== October–December ===
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* October 1933
** 6 October
*** I'm No Angel
** 7 October
*** Wild Boys of the Road
** 13 October
*** Bombshell
*** The Bowery
*** Tillie and Gus
** 21 October
*** Footlight Parade
** 26 October
*** After Tonight
** 27 October
*** Man's Castle
** 28 October
*** Ever in My Heart
* November 1933
** 1 November
*** Only Yesterday
** 10 November
*** The Prizefighter and the Lady
** 13 November
*** The Invisible Man
** 16 November
*** Little Women
** 17 November
*** Blood Money
*** Duck Soup
** November 20
*** The Wandering Jew
** 24 November
*** Dancing Lady
** 25 November
*** The World Changes
* December 1933
** 3 December
*** Lady Killer
** 11 December
*** Counsellor at Law
** 14 December
*** Convention City
** 18 December
*** By Candlelight
** 21 December
*** Flying Down to Rio
** 22 December
*** Alice in Wonderland
*** Going Hollywood
*** Mr. Skitch
*** The Son of Kong
** 23 December
*** The House on 56th Street
*** Viktor und Viktoria (Germany)
** 25 December
*** Roman Scandals
** 26 December
*** Queen Christina
** 29 December
*** Design for Living
*** Sons of the Desert
== Notable films released in 1933 ==
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United States unless stated
=== 0-9 ===
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* 42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel and Dick Powell
=== A ===
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* Adorable, directed by William Dieterle, starring Janet Gaynor
* After Tonight, directed by George Archainbaud, starring Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland
* Alice in Wonderland, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper, W. C. Fields, Cary Grantand Jack Oakie
* Ann Vickers, directed by John Cromwell, starring Irene Dunne and Walter Huston
=== B ===
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* Baby Face, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent
* Beauty for Sale, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Madge Evans, Alice Brady and Una Merkel
* Bed of Roses, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea
* A Bedtime Story, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Maurice Chevalier and Helen Twelvetrees
* Berkeley Square, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Leslie Howard
* Bitter Sweet, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle – (GB)
* The Bitter Tea of General Yen, directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther
* Blood Money, directed by Rowland Brown, starring George Bancroft
* Bombshell, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien and Una Merkel
* The Bowery, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper and Fay Wray
* Bureau of Missing Persons, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien and Glenda Farrell
* By Candlelight, directed by James Whale
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* Cash, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Robert Donat – (GB)
* Cavalcade, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook
* Convention City (lost), directed by Archie Mayo, starring Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell and Mary Astor
* Counsellor at Law, directed by William Wyler, starring John Barrymore and Bebe Daniels
=== D ===
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* Dancing Lady, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone
* Daybreak (Tiānmíng), directed by Sun Yu – (China)
* Deluge, directed by Felix E. Feist, starring Sidney Blackmer
* The Deserter (Dezertir), directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R.)
* Design for Living, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins
* The Devil's Brother, directed by Hal Roach, starring Laurel and Hardy
* Dick Turpin, directed by Victor Hanbury, starring Victor McLaglen – (GB)
* Dinner at Eight, directed by George Cukor, starring Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy and Billie Burke
* Doctor Bull, directed by John Ford, starring Will Rogers
* Don Quixote, directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Feodor Chaliapin – (France/GB)
* Dora's Dunking Doughnuts, directed by Harry Edwards, starring Shirley Temple
* Dragnet Girl (Hijōsen no Onna), directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Kinuyo Tanaka – (Japan)
* Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey, starring the Marx Brothers
=== E ===
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* The Eagle and the Hawk, directed by Stuart Walker, starring Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Jack Oakie
* Ecstasy (Extase), directed by Gustav Machatý, 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
=== F ===
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* Fast Workers, starring John Gilbert and Mae Clarke
* The Flower of Hawaii (Die Blume von Hawaii), directed by Richard Oswald – (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)
=== G ===
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* 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
=== H ===
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* 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)
* The Hymn of Leuthen, directed by Carl Froelich – (Germany)
=== I ===
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* I Loved a Woman (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis
* 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
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* Każdemu wolno kochać (Anybody Can Love), by Mieczysław Krawicz – (Poland)
* The Kennel Murder Case, starring William Powell and Mary Astor, directed by Michael Curtiz
* The Keyhole, starring Kay Francis and George Brent, directed by Michael Curtiz
* King Kong, starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
* King of the Jungle, starring Buster Crabbe
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* 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)
=== M ===
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* 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.
* Mr. Skitch, starring Will Rogers
* Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
=== O ===
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* Okraina (The Outskirts) – (U.S.S.R.)
* Oliver Twist, starring Dickie Moore
* One Sunday Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray
* Only Yesterday, starring Margaret Sullavan
* Our Betters, starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland and Anita Louise
=== P ===
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* 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 Sidney 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
=== Q-R ===
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* Queen Christina, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
* Refugees – (Germany)
* Roman Scandals, starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart
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* 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
* Storm at Daybreak, starring Walter Huston and Kay Francis
* 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, Sherlock Holmes film written by Robert Florey, directed by Edwin Marin, starring Reginald Owen as Holmes and Warburton Gamble as Watson
* Supernatural, starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
=== T ===
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* 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 Is America, the first full-length documentary feature film ever made.
* 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
=== V-W ===
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* 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 Wandering Jew, starring Conrad Veidt
* What! No Beer?, starring Buster Keaton
* The White Rose, directed by Mohammed Karim, starring Mohammed Abdel Wahab – (Egypt)
* 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
=== Y-Z ===
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* You Made Me Love You starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd – (GB)
* Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite), directed by Jean Vigo – (France)
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