1936 in film

== Top-grossing films (U.S.) ==
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The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1936
Rank	Title 	Distributor 	Domestic rentals
1 	The Great Ziegfeld	MGM 	$3,089,000
2 	San Francisco 	MGM 	$2,868,000
3 	The Plainsman 	Paramount 	$2,278,533
4 	After the Thin Man	MGM 	$1,992,000
5 	Modern Times 	United Artists	$1,800,000
6 	Anthony Adverse 	Warner Bros. 	$1,783,000
7 	Strike Me Pink 	United Artists	$1,700,000
8 	Rose Marie 	MGM 	$1,695,000
9 	Swing Time 	RKO 	$1,624,000
10 	Libeled Lady 	MGM 	$1,601,000
== Events ==
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* January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as The Merry Widow and The Big Parade, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38.
* February 15 – first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, is released.
* May 29 – Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film, Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.
* September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg, often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica, aged 37.
== Academy Awards ==
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Main article: 9th Academy Awards
* Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
* Best Director: Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
* Best Actor: Paul Muni – The Story of Louis Pasteur
* Best Actress: Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld
* Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan – Come and Get It
* Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse
== 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. 	Clark Gable
3. 	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
4. 	Robert Taylor
5. 	Joe E. Brown
6. 	Dick Powell
7. 	Joan Crawford
8. 	Claudette Colbert
9. 	Jeanette MacDonald
10. 	Gary Cooper
=== Top Western stars ===
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A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.
Rank	Actor/Actress
1. 	Buck Jones
2. 	George O'Brien
3. 	Gene Autry
4. 	William Boyd
5. 	Ken Maynard
6. 	Dick Foran
7. 	John Wayne
8. 	Tim McCoy
9. 	Hoot Gibson
10. 	Buster Crabbe
== 1936 film releases ==
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United States unless stated.
=== January–March ===
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* January 1936
** 16 January
*** Ceiling Zero
*** Strike Me Pink
** 17 January
*** Augustus the Strong (Germany/Poland)
** 20 January
*** The Invisible Ray
** 22 January
*** Collegiate
** 24 January
*** Anything Goes
** 28 January
*** Rose Marie
** 30 January
*** Next Time We Love
* February 1936
** 6 February
*** The Petrified Forest
** 7 February
*** The Milky Way
** 14 February
*** The Bohemian Girl
*** It Had to Happen
** 15 February
*** The Lawless Nineties
** 19 February
*** Girl Friends (U.S.S.R.)
** 20 February
*** Follow the Fleet
*** Things to Come (GB)
** 22 February
*** The Story of Louis Pasteur
** 25 February
*** Modern Times
** 28 February
*** The Prisoner of Shark Island
*** Wife vs. Secretary
** 29 February
*** Mayerling (France)
*** The Walking Dead
* March 1936
** 1 March
*** Sutter's Gold
** 2 March
*** Man of the Frontier
** 6 March
*** Little Lord Fauntleroy
*** Three Godfathers
** 9 March
*** Love Before Breakfast
** 13 March
*** The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
** 18 March
*** These Three
** 20 March
*** Silly Billies
** 22 March
*** The Great Ziegfeld
** 28 March
*** Road Gang
** 30 March
*** Too Many Parents
=== April–June ===
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* April 1936
** 4 April
*** Till We Meet Again
** 10 April
*** A Message to Garcia
*** The Moon's Our Home
*** Small Town Girl
** 11 April
*** Desire
*** The Singing Kid
** 16 April
*** Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
** 20 April
*** By the Bluest of Seas (U.S.S.R.)
** 24 April
*** Captain January
** 30 April
*** Thirteen Hours by Air
* May 1936
** 6 May
*** It's Love Again (GB)
** 8 May
*** The Case Against Mrs. Ames
** 11 May
*** Dracula's Daughter
** 17 May
*** Show Boat
** 19 May
*** Love in Exile (GB)
** 20 May
*** Broken Blossoms (GB)
** 26 May
*** Hearts in Bondage
** 28 May
*** Osaka Elegy (Japan)
** 29 May
*** Fury
* June 1936
** 5 June
*** Private Number
** 6 June
*** Bullets or Ballots
** 14 June
*** The Last Outlaw
** 15 June
*** Secret Agent (GB)
** 17 June
*** Poppy
** 20 June
*** Hearts Divided
** 26 June
*** San Francisco
=== July–September ===
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* July 1936
** 10 July
*** The Devil-Doll
** 16 July
*** Green Pastures
** 22 July
*** Satan Met a Lady
** 24 July
*** Poor Little Rich Girl
** 28 July
*** The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (GB)
** 29 July
*** Anthony Adverse
* August 1936
** 10 August
*** Where There's a Will (GB)
** 20 August
*** Romeo and Juliet
** 26 August
*** East Meets West (UK)
** 27 August
*** Swing Time
** 28 August
*** The Gorgeous Hussy
*** Militiaman Bruggler (Germany)
*** The Texas Rangers
* September 1936
** 1 September
*** Tudor Rose
** 2 September
*** The General Died at Dawn
** 4 September
*** The Last of the Mohicans
*** The Road to Glory
** 6 September
*** My Man Godfrey
** 9 September
*** Spy of Napoleon (GB)
** 10 September
*** Dusty Ermine (UK)
** 11 September
*** The Man Who Changed His Mind (GB)
** 15 September
*** The Children of Captain Grant
** 23 September
*** Dodsworth
** 25 September
*** Craig's Wife
*** Ramona
** 26 September
*** Cain and Mabel
** 30 September
*** Yiddle with his Fiddle (Poland/U.S.)
=== October–December ===
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* October 1936
** 1 October
*** Everything Is Thunder (UK)
** 6 October
*** Allá en el Rancho Grande (Mexico)
** 9 October
*** Libeled Lady
** 15 October
*** The Garden of Allah
*** Sisters of the Gion (Japan)
** 16 October
*** 15 Maiden Lane
*** Daniel Boone
*** Dimples
*** Hopalong Cassidy Returns
** 20 October
*** The Charge of the Light Brigade
** 22 October
*** Crime Over London (GB)
** 27 October
*** César (France)
*** Rebellion
** 30 October
*** Our Relations
* November 1936
** 1 November
*** Legion of Terror
** 6 November
*** Come and Get It
*** Rembrandt (GB)
*** Tarzan Escapes
*** A Woman Rebels
** 12 November
*** Theodora Goes Wild
** 13 November
*** Go West, Young Man
** 16 November
*** Intermezzo (Sweden)
*** Laburnum Grove (GB)
*** The Plainsman
** 20 November
*** Love on the Run
** 25 November
*** Lloyd's of London
*** Pennies from Heaven
** 26 November
*** Men Are Not Gods (GB)
** 27 November
*** Born to Dance
* December 1936
** 1 December
*** The Bold Caballero
** 2 December
*** Sabotage (GB)
** 11 December
*** General Spanky
*** Les bas-fonds (France)
** 12 December
*** Camille
** 20 December
*** Empty Saddles
** 21 December
*** Forget Me Not (UK)
** 24 December
*** The Jungle Princess
** 25 December
*** After the Thin Man
*** Stowaway
** 26 December
*** Gold Diggers of 1937
** 31 December
*** Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)
== Notable films released in 1936 ==
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United States unless stated.
=== 0–9 ===
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* 15 Maiden Lane, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero
=== A ===
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* Accused, directed by Thornton Freeland, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río – (GB)
* Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), directed by Franz Osten, starring Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani – (India)
* After the Thin Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
* Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch) (Mexico)
* The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant (GB)
* Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
* Anything Goes, starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman
* Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener – (Germany/Poland)
=== B ===
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* Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet (France)
* Black Eyes directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)
* Blood on Wolf Mountain (Lang shan die xue ji) – (China)
* The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
* The Bold Caballero, starring Robert Livingston
* Born to Dance, starring Eleanor Powell and James Stewart
* Broken Blossoms, starring Emlyn Williams and Dolly Haas
* Bullets or Ballots, starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Blondell
* By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet (U.S.S.R.)
=== C ===
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* Cain and Mabel, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
* Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly) (Czechoslovakia)
* Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
* Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
* The Case Against Mrs. Ames, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
* Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
* César, directed by Marcel Pagnol (France)
* The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
* Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
* The Children of Captain Grant
* Circus (Tsirk) (U.S.S.R.)
* Collegiate, starring Frances Langford and Betty Grable
* Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea
* Craig's Wife, starring Rosalind Russell
* The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir (France)
* Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler (GB)
=== D ===
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* Daniel Boone, starring George O'Brien
* The Desert Island (Lang tao sha) (China)
* Desire, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
* Devdas (India)
* The Devil-Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan
* Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
* Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor
* Dracula's Daughter, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
* Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus (UK)
=== E ===
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* East Meets West, starring George Arliss (UK)
* Empty Saddles, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
* Everything Is Thunder, starring Constance Bennett (UK)
=== F ===
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* Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
* Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner (UK)
* The Four Musketeers (Italy)
* Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
=== G ===
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* The Garden of Allah, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer
* The General Died at Dawn, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
* General Spanky, starring Spanky McFarland
* Girl Friends (Podrugi) (U.S.S.R.)
* Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
* Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley
* The Gorgeous Hussy, starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor
* The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
* Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie Anderson
=== H ===
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* Hearts Divided, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
* Hearts in Bondage, starring David Manners and Mae Clarke
* Hopalong Cassidy Returns, starring William Boyd
=== I ===
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* I'll Give a Million (Darò un milione), starring Vittorio De Sica (Italy)
* Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman (Sweden)
* The Invisible Ray, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
* It Had to Happen, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
* It's Love Again, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young (GB)
=== J ===
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* The Jungle Princess, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland
=== K ===
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* Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California) – (Germany)
* Klondike Annie, starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen
=== L ===
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* Laburnum Grove, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke (GB)
* The Last of the Mohicans, starring Randolph Scott
* The Last Outlaw, starring Harry Carey
* The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
* Legion of Terror, starring Bruce Cabot
* Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) (Mexico)
* Libeled Lady, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
* Limelight, starring Anna Neagle (GB)
* Little Lord Fauntleroy, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello Barrymore, C. Aubrey Smith
* Lloyd's of London, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Tyrone Power
* Love Before Breakfast, starring Carole Lombard and Preston Foster
* Love in Exile, starring Helen Vinson and Clive Brook (GB)
* Love on the Run. starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
=== M ===
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* The Man Who Changed His Mind, starring Boris Karloff (GB)
* The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson (GB)
* Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux (France)
* Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Rex Harrison (GB)
* A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles and Wallace Beery
* Militiaman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler) – (Germany)
* The Milky Way, starring Harold Lloyd
* Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin, with Paulette Goddard
* The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
* The Moon's Our Home, starring Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan
* Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
* My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
=== N ===
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* Next Time We Love, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland
* Night Mail, documentary (GB)
=== O ===
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* The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
* Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
* Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy
=== P ===
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* Palm Springs, starring Frances Langford and David Niven
* Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji) (Czechoslovakia)
* Pennies from Heaven, starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans
* The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
* Poppy, starring W.C. Fields
* The Plainsman, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
* Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley
* The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
* Private Number, starring Loretta Young and Robert Taylor
=== R ===
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* Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
* Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)
* Ramona, starring Don Ameche and Loretta Young
* Rebellion, starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth
* Reefer Madness, (aka Tell Your Children), a cult exploitation film
* Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
* Road Gang, starring Donald Woods
* Robin Hood, Jr. (1936), directed by Leslie Goodwins
* The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Lionel Barrymore and Fredric March
* Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone
* Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
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* Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)
* San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
* Satan Met a Lady, starring Warren William and Bette Davis
* Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll (GB)
* Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
* The Singing Kid, starring Al Jolson
* Silly Billies starring Wheeler & Woolsey
* Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan)
* Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, James Stewart
* Sportszerelem (Hungary)
* Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas (GB)
* The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
* Stowaway, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye
* Sutter's Gold, starring Edward Arnold
* Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter (GB)
* Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
=== T ===
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* Tarzan Escapes, starring Johnny Weissmuller
* The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie
* Theodora Goes Wild, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
* These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea (adapted from Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour)
* Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke (GB)
* Thirteen Hours by Air, starring Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett
* Three Godfathers, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan
* Till We Meet Again, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
* Too Many Parents, debut film for Frances Farmer
* The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, starring Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda
* Tudor Rose, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills (GB)
=== W ===
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* The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff
* Where There's a Will, starring Will Hay – (GB)
* Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper – (GB)
* Wife vs. Secretary, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy
* Windbag the Sailor, starring Will Hay (GB)
* A Woman Rebels, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall
=== Y ===
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* Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon (Poland/U.S.)
Category:1930s in film