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Overview of the events of 1930 in film
Overview of the events of 1930 in film
The following is an overview of 1930 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1930 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1930
Rank
Title
Studio
Domestic rentals
1
Whoopee! United Artists /Samuel Goldwyn Productions
$2,655,000[1]
2
Check and Double Check RKO Radio Pictures
$1,751,000[2]
3
All Quiet on the Western Front Universal Pictures
$1,634,000[3]
4
Hell's Angels United Artists
$1,600,000[4]
5
The Big House Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
$1,279,000[5]
6
Common Clay Fox Film Corporation
$1,246,000[3]
7
Min and Bill Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
$1,223,000[5]
8
Song o' My Heart Fox Film Corporation
$1,200,000[6]
9
Son of the Gods First National Pictures
$1,069,000[7]
10
The Dawn Patrol $1,061,000[7]
Events February 21: Anna Christie Greta Garbo 's first sound film is released, it grosses $1.5 million.
February 23: Silent screen legend Mabel Normand dies at the age of 37 in Monrovia, California after a lengthy battle with tuberculosis.
March 10: Release of Goodbye Argentina Adiós Argentina ), the first Argentine film with a (musical) soundtrack. Ada Cornaro has her first starring role and Libertad Lamarque makes her film debut.
April 6: William Fox sells his interest in Fox Film for $18 million and Harley L. Clarke becomes president.[8] [9]
May 27: Howard Hughes ' epic film Hell's Angels Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and features Jean Harlow in her first major role as well as some impressive aerial sequences. Although not a financial success upon its release due to its bloated budget, the film is acclaimed by critics and launches Harlow as one of the 1930s' biggest stars.
September 3: The Hollywood Reporter is first published.
September 19: The Love Parade Academy Award nominations.
November 1: The Big Trail John Wayne in his first starring role is released in both 35mm and a very early form of 70mm film. It is the first large scale big-budget film of the sound era, costing over $2 million. The film is praised for its aesthetic quality and realism that will not become commonplace until many decades later. However, due to the new film format and the film's release during the Great Depression , the film will go on to become a financial failure at the box office. Academy Awards Notable films released in 1930 United States unless stated
A Abi and Rabi Ovanes Ohanian – (Iran )Abraham Lincoln D. W. Griffith , starring Walter Huston and Una Merkel L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age)Luis Buñuel – (France )All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone , starring Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim Alraune Richard Oswald – (Germany )Animal Crackers Victor Heerman , starring the Marx Brothers Anna Christie Clarence Brown , starring Greta Garbo The Arizona Kid Alfred Santell , starring Warner Baxter and Carole Lombard B The Bad Man Clarence G. Badger , starring Walter Huston The Bat Whispers Roland West , starring Chester Morris and Una Merkel The Benson Murder Case Frank Tuttle , starring William Powell Big Boy Alan Crosland , starring Al Jolson The Big House George Hill , starring Chester Morris , Wallace Beery , Lewis Stone and Robert Montgomery The Big Pond Hobart Henley , starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert The Big Trail Raoul Walsh , starring John Wayne Billy the Kid King Vidor , starring Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings – (Germany )The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète)Jean Cocteau – (France )Borderline Kenneth Macpherson , starring Paul Robeson – (GB )Bride of the Regiment John Francis Dillon , starring Walter Pidgeon Bright Lights Michael Curtiz C Call of the Flesh Charles Brabin , starring Ramón Novarro The Cat Creeps Rupert Julian , starring Helen Twelvetrees Chasing Rainbows Charles Reisner , starring Charles King , Bessie Love , Jack Benny and Marie Dressler Check and Double Check Melville W. Brown , starring Amos 'n' Andy Children of Pleasure Harry Beaumont City Girl F. W. Murnau , starring Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell Common Clay Victor Fleming , starring Constance Bennett and Lew Ayres The Cuckoos Paul Sloane , starring Wheeler & Woolsey D Danger Lights George B. Seitz , starring Louis Wolheim , Robert Armstrong and Jean Arthur The Dawn Patrol Howard Hawks , starring Richard Barthelmess , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Neil Hamilton The Devil to Pay! George Fitzmaurice , starring Ronald Colman , Loretta Young and Myrna Loy The Divorcee Robert Z. Leonard , starring Norma Shearer , Chester Morris , Conrad Nagel and Robert Montgomery Dixiana Luther Reed , starring Bebe Daniels and Wheeler & Woolsey Doughboys Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton and Cliff Edwards E F Fast and Loose Fred C. Newmeyer , starring Miriam Hopkins , Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan Feet First Clyde Bruckman , starring Harold Lloyd The Florodora Girl Harry Beaumont , starring Marion Davies The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci)Gustav Ucicky , starring Otto Gebühr – (Germany )Follow Thru Laurence Schwab and Lloyd Corrigan , starring Charles 'Buddy' Rogers Free and Easy Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton , Anita Page and Robert Montgomery G H Hell's Angels Howard Hughes , starring Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon Her Man Tay Garnett , starring Helen Twelvetrees High Society Blues David Butler , starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell Hold Everything Roy Del Ruth , starring Joe E. Brown Holiday Edward H. Griffith , starring Ann Harding and Mary Astor I J K L Ladies Love Brutes Rowland V. Lee , starring George Bancroft , Mary Astor and Fredric March Ladies of Leisure Frank Capra , starring Barbara Stanwyck A Lady to Love Victor Sjöström , starring Vilma Bánky and Edward G. Robinson Leathernecking Edward F. Cline , starring Irene Dunne Let's Go Native Leo McCarey , starring Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald Liliom Frank Borzage , starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart Lightnin' Henry King , starring Will Rogers , Louise Dresser and Joel McCrea Loose Ankles Ted Wilde , starring Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Lord Byron of Broadway Harry Beaumont and William Nigh The Lottery Bride Paul L. Stein , starring Jeanette MacDonald , Joe E. Brown and ZaSu Pitts M Madam Satan Cecil B. DeMille , starring Kay Johnson Mamba Albert S. Rogell , starring Jean Hersholt and Eleanor Boardman Mammy Michael Curtiz , starring Al Jolson The Man from Blankley's Alfred E. Green , starring John Barrymore and Loretta Young A Man from Wyoming Rowland V. Lee , starring Gary Cooper Manslaughter George Abbott , starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March Min and Bill George Hill , starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery Montana Moon Malcolm St. Clair , starring Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown Monte Carlo Ernst Lubitsch , starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald Morocco Josef von Sternberg , starring Gary Cooper , Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou Murder! Alfred Hitchcock , starring Herbert Marshall – (GB )The Mystery of the Yellow Room [fr ] (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune)Marcel L'Herbier – (France )N O P Paid Sam Wood , starring Joan Crawford , Robert Armstrong and Marie Prevost Paramount on Parade Peacock Alley Mae Murray People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer – (Germany )Prix de Beauté (Beauty Prize)Augusto Genina , starring Louise Brooks – (France )Puttin' On the Ritz Edward Sloman , starring Harry Richman and Joan Bennett Q R Raffles George Fitzmaurice , starring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis Reaching for the Moon Edmund Goulding , starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bebe Daniels Renegades Victor Fleming , starring Warner Baxter , Myrna Loy and Noah Beery Sr. The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu Rowland V. Lee , starring Warner Oland , Jean Arthur and Neil Hamilton The Rogue Song Lionel Barrymore , starring Lawrence Tibbett The Royal Family of Broadway George Cukor and Cyril Gardner , starring Fredric March and Mary Brian S Show Girl in Hollywood Mervyn LeRoy , starring Alice White Son of the Gods Frank Lloyd . starring Richard Barthelmess and Constance Bennett Song o' My Heart Frank Borzage , starring John McCormack The Song of Love (La canzone dell'amore)Gennaro Righelli – (Italy )Soup to Nuts Benjamin Stoloff , starring Ted Healy and His Stooges Spring Is Here John Francis Dillon St. Jorgen's Day (Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena)Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R. )Street of Chance John Cromwell , starring William Powell , Jean Arthur and Kay Francis Sweet Kitty Bellairs Alfred E. Green , starring Claudia Dell and Walter Pidgeon T Tarakanova Raymond Bernard – (France )The Temporary Widow Gustav Ucicky , starring Lilian Harvey and Laurence Olivier – (GB /Germany )Three Faces East Roy Del Ruth , starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim The Three from the Filling Station (Die Drei von der Tankstelle)Wilhelm Thiele , starring Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch – (Germany )Tom Sawyer John Cromwell , starring Jackie Coogan True to the Navy Frank Tuttle , starring Clara Bow and Fredric March Two Hearts in Waltz Time (Zwei Herzen im 3/4 Takt)Géza von Bolváry – (Germany )U V W Y Serials Short film series Animated short film series Births January 3
January 10 – Roy E. Disney , American film executive and Walt Disney's nephew (died 2009)[11]
January 11 – Rod Taylor , Australian actor (died 2015 )[12]
January 12 – Edgar Landsbury , British-born Irish-American producer
January 13 – Frances Sternhagen , American actress
January 19 – Tippi Hedren , American actress[13]
January 20 – Henry Woolf , British actor (died 2021 )
January 24 – Terence Bayler , New Zealand actor (died 2016 )
January 29 – Benjamin Tatar , American actor (died 2012 )
January 30 – Gene Hackman , American actor[14]
February 6 – Allan King , Canadian director (died 2009 )
February 10 – Robert Wagner , American actor
February 16 – Ricou Browning , American film director, actor, cinematographer and stuntman
February 20 – Patricia Smith , American actress (died 2011 )
February 24 – Barbara Lawrence , American actress, model (died 2013 )
February 27 – Joanne Woodward , American actress
March 6 – Allison Hayes , American actress (died 1977)
March 12 – Scoey Mitchell , American actor, writer and director (died 2022)
March 13 – Harrison Young , American character actor (died 2005)
March 16 – Lotte Ledl , Austrian actress
March 21 – Pauline Stroud , British actress (died 2022)
March 24 – Steve McQueen , American actor (died 1980)
March 30
April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney , American actress (died 2015)
April 5
Mary Costa , American singer and actressMarietta Marich , American actress, singer, writer, stage director and television host (died 2017)
April 7 – Andrew Sachs , German-born British actor and writer (died 2016)
April 13 – Roger Browne , American actor
April 14 – Bradford Dillman , American actor (died 2018)
April 18 – Clive Revill , New Zealand actor
April 19 – Dick Sargent , American actor (died 1994 )
April 21 – Silvana Mangano , Italian actress (died 1989)
April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer , American actor
April 24 – Richard Donner , American director and producer (died 2021 )
April 25 – Paul Mazursky , American director and actor (died 2014)
April 28 – Carolyn Jones , American actress (died 1983)
April 29 - Jean Rochefort , French actor (died 2017)
May 4 – Lois de Banzie , Scottish-born American actress (died 2021)
May 5 – Will Hutchins , American actor
May 9 – Joan Sims , English actress (died 2001)
May 11 – Bud Ekins , American actor and stuntman (died 2007)
May 31 – Clint Eastwood , American actor, director and producer
June 1
June 4
June 15 – Odile Versois , French actress (died 1980)
June 19
June 29 – Ariadna Welter , Mexican actress (died 1998)
July 5 - Tommy Cook (actor) , American producer, screenwriter and actor
July 8 - Jerry Vale , American actor and singer (died 2014)
July 10
July 12 - Gordon Pinsent , Canadian actor, writer, director and singer
July 18 – Burt Kwouk , British-Chinese actor (died 2016)
July 20 - Sally Ann Howes , English actress and singer (died 2021)[15]
July 24 - Jacqueline Brookes , American actress (died 2013)
July 25 - Annie Ross , British-American singer and actress (died 2020)
July 28 - Alfie Curtis , British actor (died 2017)
July 30 - Tony Lip , American actor (died 2013)
August 1 - Geoffrey Holder , Trinidadian-American actor and musician (died 2014)
August 5 - Joan Weldon , American actress, singer (died 2021)
August 11 - Paul Soles , Canadian actor (died 2021)
August 12 – Peter Weck , Austrian film director and actor
August 14 – Liz Fraser , English actress (died 2018)
August 25 – Sir Sean Connery , Scottish-born actor (died 2020)
September 16 – Anne Francis , American actress (died 2011)
September 17 - David Huddleston , American actor (died 2016)
September 21 – Dawn Addams , English actress (died 1985)
September 26 - Philip Bosco , American actor (died 2018)
October 1 – Richard Harris , Irish actor (died 2002)
October 5
October 6 - Lou Cutell , American actor (died 2021)
October 8 - James Olson (actor) , retired American actor
October 10 - Joan O'Hara , Irish actress (died 2007)
October 13 - Paul Kent (actor) , American actor (died 2011)
October 23 – Gérard Blain , French actor and director (died 2000)
October 24 – Jack Angel , American voice actor and former radio personality (died 2021)
November 3 - Lois Smith , American character actress
November 5 - Joaquín Martínez , Mexican-born American actor (died 2012)
November 20 - Bernard Horsfall , English actor (died 2013)
November 23 - Robert Easton (actor) , American actor (died 2011)
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard , French director (died 2022)
December 9 – Francesco Maselli , Italian director
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor (died 2022)
December 13 - Robert Prosky , American actor (died 2008)
December 17 – Armin Mueller-Stahl , German actor Deaths Film debuts References
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^ a b "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety ^ Eyman, Scott (1997). The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 . ISBN 978-0-6848-1162-8 Hell's Angels was a financial disaster, grossing $1.6 million domestically, with another million coming in from foreign markets. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357 . ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 10 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
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