1935 in film

The following is an overview of 1935 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood. This period was punctuated by performances from Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and the first teaming of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. A significant number of productions also originated in the UK film industry.
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== Top-grossing films (U.S.) ==
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The top ten 1935 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1935
Rank	Title 	Distributor 	Domestic rentals
1 	Mutiny on the Bounty 	MGM 	$2,250,000
2 	Top Hat 	RKO 	$1,782,000
3 	China Seas 	MGM 	$1,710,000
4 	Broadway Melody of 1936 	MGM 	$1,655,000
5 	David Copperfield 	MGM 	$1,621,000
6 	Steamboat Round the Bend	20th Century Fox	$1,528,000
7 	The Crusades 	Paramount 	$1,491,471
8 	Roberta 	RKO 	$1,467,000
9 	In Old Kentucky 	20th Century Fox	$1,438,000
10 	The Littlest Rebel 	20th Century Fox	$1,431,000
== Events ==
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* February 22 – The Little Colonel premieres starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Robinson, featuring a famous stair dance with Hollywood's first interracial dance couple
* 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.
* May 31 – Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures merge to form 20th Century Fox.
* June 13 – Following the merger of six smaller independent film companies including Monogram Pictures, Mascot Pictures, Liberty Pictures and Majestic Pictures, Herbert J. Yates completed the formation of Republic Pictures.
* 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 Hicksplays 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 ==
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Main article: 8th Academy Awards
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 ==
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Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll.
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 ==
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United States unless stated.
=== January–March ===
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* January 1935
** 11 January
*** The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
*** The Night Is Young
** 18 January
*** David Copperfield
** 23 January
*** Bordertown
** 25 January
*** The Gilded Lily
** 27 January
*** The Youth of Maxim (USSR)
** 31 January
*** The Good Fairy
*** The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
* 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
*** Death Drives Through
*** 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 ===
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* 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
*** Doubting Thomas
*** Our Little Girl
** 13 June
*** Becky Sharp
** 15 June
*** The Glass Key
*** The Million Ryo Pot (Japan)
** 28 June
*** The Arizonian
=== July–September ===
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* July 1935
** 6 July
*** Escapade
** 8 July
*** The Raven
** 12 July
*** Mad Love
*** The Murder Man
*** She
** 15 July
*** The Black Room
*** The Clairvoyant (GB)
** 18 July
*** Amphitryon (Germany)
** 19 July
*** Shanghai
** 20 July
*** Front Page Woman
** 26 July
*** Curly Top
** 31 July
*** Dante's Inferno
* August 1935
** 2 August
*** The Farmer Takes a Wife
** 3 August
*** Man on the Flying Trapeze
** 9 August
*** The Call of the Wild
*** China Seas
** 15 August
*** Alice Adams
** 19 August
*** Westward Ho
** 25 August
*** 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
** 9 September
*** Harmony Lane
** 14 September
*** Special Agent
** 19 September
*** She Married Her Boss
** 20 September
*** Broadway Melody of 1936
** 24 September
*** The Crime of Dr. Crespi
** 25 September
*** La Bandera (France)
=== October–December ===
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* October 1935
** 4 October
*** I Live My Life
** 5 October
*** Waterfront Lady
** 8 October
*** She Couldn't Take It
** 13 October
*** Barbary Coast
** 16 October
*** Way Down East
** 18 October
*** Hands Across the Table
*** The Last Days of Pompeii
** 24 October
*** Rendezvous
** 25 October
*** The Crusades
*** 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
*** In Old Kentucky
*** Splendor
** 26 November
*** Scrooge (GB)
** 30 November
*** Frisco Kid
* December 1935
** 3 December
*** Carnival in Flanders (France)
** 6 December
*** Ah, Wilderness!
** 9 December
*** The Great Impersonation
** 17 December
*** The Ghost Goes West (GB)
** 19 December
*** The Littlest Rebel
** 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 ==
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: See also: United States unless stated.
=== 0–9 ===
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* The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll (GB)
=== A ===
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* 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 ===
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* 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
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* 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, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery
* 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 ===
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* 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 ===
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* 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
* Foreign Affaires, directed by and starring Tom Walls (Britain)
* Four Hours to Kill!, starring Richard Barthelmess
* Frisco Kid, starring James Cagney
* Front Page Woman, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bette Davis and George Brent
=== G ===
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* 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 ===
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* 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 ===
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* I Live My Life, starring Joan Crawford and Frank Morgan
* In Old Kentucky, starring Will Rogers
* The Informer, directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen
* An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
* Jánošík, directed by Martin Frič (Czechoslovakia)
* Jedenácté přikázání (The Eleventh Commandment) (Czechoslovakia)
=== L ===
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* The Last Days of Pompeii, starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone
* 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 ===
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* 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
* Men of Action, starring Frankie Darro and Barbara Worth
* 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 ===
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* 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 ===
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* 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 ===
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* 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
* 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 ===
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* 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
* The Silent Code, starring Kane Richmond and Blanche Mehaffey
* 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 ===
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* 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 (British), a Sherlock Holmes film directed by Leslie Hiscott based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Valley of Fear, starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, and Ian Fleming as Watson
* 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 ===
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* 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)