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Overview of the events of 1930 in film
1930 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Events 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.
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. Top grossing films
Rank
Title
Actors
Studio
Gross
1.
Hell's Angels Jean Harlow , Ben Lyon , and James Hall
United Artists
$8,000,000
2.
All Quiet on the Western Front Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres
Universal
$3,000,000
3.
Whoopee! Eddie Cantor
United Artists
$2,655,000
4.
Animal Crackers Groucho Marx , Harpo Marx , Chico Marx , and Zeppo Marx
Paramount
$1,500,000
5.
Anna Christie Greta Garbo , Marie Dressler , and Charles Bickford
MGM
$1,500,000
6.
Feet First Harold Lloyd
Paramount
$1,300,000
7.
The Rogue Song Lawrence Tibbett
MGM
Unknown
8.
The Life of the Party Winnie Lightner
Warner Bros.
Unknown
9.
Hold Everything Winnie Lightner , Joe E. Brown
Warner Bros.
Unknown
10.
Sunny Marilyn Miller
MGM
Unknown
Academy Awards Notable films released in 1930 U.S.A. unless stated
Abi and Rabi Ovanes Ohanian (Iran)Abraham Lincoln Walter Huston November 8, 1930L'Âge d'Or Luis Buñuel November 29, 1930 - (France )Alraune Germany )All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone , starring Lew Ayres April 21, 1930Animal Crackers Marx Brothers August 23, 1930Anna Christie Greta Garbo February 21, 1930The Bad Man Walter Huston The Bat Whispers Chester Morris and Una Merkel Big Boy Al Jolson The Big House Chester Morris and Wallace Beery The Big Pond Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert The Big Trail John Wayne Der blaue Engel The Blue Angel ), directed by Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings - (Germany )The Blood of a Poet Le Sang d'un Poete ), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France )Borderline Paul Robeson - (GB )Bride of the Regiment Walter Pidgeon Bright Lights Michael Curtiz , a musical comedy in Technicolor Call of the Flesh Ramón Novarro , a musical romance with Technicolor sequencesThe Cat Creeps Helen Twelvetrees , a mystery film released by UniversalChasing Rainbows Bessie Love , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequencesCheck and Double Check Amos 'n' Andy radio showChildren of Pleasure City Girl F. W. Murnau Common Clay Constance Bennett The Cuckoos Danger Lights Louis Wolheim The Dawn Patrol Howard Hawks , starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The Devil to Pay! Ronald Colman , Loretta Young , Myrna Loy The Divorcee Robert Z. Leonard , starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery Dixiana Bebe Daniels , a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequencesDoughboys Buster Keaton Earth Alexander Dovzhenko - (U.S.S.R. )Elstree Calling Alfred Hitchcock - (GB )Escape Basil Dean , starring Gerald du Maurier , Edna Best (GB )Fast and Loose Miriam Hopkins in her film debut, with Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan Feet First Harold Lloyd The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci Germany )Follow Thru Charles 'Buddy' Rogers , a musical comedy entirely in TechnicolorGeneral Crack John Barrymore The Girl Said No Sam Wood Good News Bessie Love , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences Hell's Angels Howard Hughes , starring Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon Hell's Heroes William Wyler High Society Blues Janet Gaynor Hold Everything Joe E. Brown , a musical comedy entirely in TechnicolorHoliday Ann Harding and Mary Astor Imperial and Royal Field Marshal Czechoslovakia )Ingagi Journey's End James Whale - (GB /USA )Just Imagine King of Jazz Paul Whiteman and his orchestra entirely in TechnicolorLadies Love Brutes Rowland V. Lee , starring George Bancroft and Mary Astor Ladies of Leisure Barbara Stanwyck Leathernecking Irene Dunne Let's Go Native Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald The Life of the Party Roy Del Ruth Loose Ankles Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , directed by Ted Wilde Lord Byron of Broadway The Lottery Bride Jeanette MacDonald Madam Satan Cecil B. DeMille Mamba Jean Hersholt and Eleanor Boardman Mammy Al Jolson with Technicolor sequencesThe Man from Blankley's Alfred E. Green starring John Barrymore Manslaughter Claudette Colbert and Fredric March Min and Bill Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery Monte Carlo Ernst Lubitsch , starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald Morocco Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich Murder! Alfred Hitchcock , starring Herbert Marshall - (GB )The Mystery of the Yellow Room Marcel L'Herbier - (France )Nerone Alessandro Blasetti - (Italy )Night Birds Richard Eichberg (Germany /GB )No, No, Nanette Clarence G. Badger Not So Dumb King Vidor , starring Marion Davies The Other Robert Wiene - (Germany )Outside the Law Tod Browning , starring Edward G. Robinson Paid Joan Crawford and Robert Armstrong Paramount on Parade Peacock Alley Mae Murray People on Sunday Robert Siodmak - (Germany )Prix de Beauté Louise Brooks - (France )Puttin' on the Ritz Edward Sloman , starring Joan Bennett , with Technicolor sequencesRaffles Ronald Colman and Kay Francis The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu Warner Oland and Jean Arthur The Rogue Song Lionel Barrymore Show Girl in Hollywood Mervyn LeRoy Son of the Gods Richard Barthelmess Song o' My Heart John McCormack , directed by Frank Borzage , and shot in both 35mm and 70mm Fox Grandeur formatsThe Song of Love Gennaro Righelli , starring Dria Paola , Isa Pola - (Italy )Spring Is Here John Francis Dillon St. Jorgen's Day U.S.S.R. )Soup to Nuts The Three Stooges Street of Chance William Powell and Jean Arthur Sweet Kitty Bellairs Tarakanova Raymond Bernard - (France)The Temporary Widow Lilian Harvey and Laurence Olivier - (GB )The Three from the Filling Station Wilhelm Thiele and starring Willy Fritsch , Lilian Harvey - (Germany )Tom Sawyer Jackie Coogan True to the Navy Clara Bow and Fredric March Two Hearts in Waltz Time Germany )Under a Texas Moon Michael Curtiz Under the Roofs of Paris René Clair - (France )The Vagabond King Jeanette MacDonald Viejo smoking Argentina )The W Plan Victor Saville , starring Brian Aherne and Madeleine Carroll - (GB )Wara Wara José Maria Velasco Maidana ; now the only surviving silent Bolivian feature filmWay for a Sailor John Gilbert and Wallace Beery Westfront 1918 G. W. Pabst - (Germany )Whoopee! Eddie Cantor Young Man of Manhattan Claudette Colbert , Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers Young Woodley Thomas Bentley , starring Madeleine Carroll (Britain)The March of Time , directed by Charles Reisner - (United States )Serials Short film series Animated short film series Beary Bear (1930 - 1970)
Dirty Dishes (May, 23, 1930)
The Picnic (May, 23, 1930)
Happy Follies (June, 1, 1930)
Garden Isle (June, 21, 1930)
The Plane (June, 30, 1930)
The Haunted House (July, 16, 1930)
Beary's Lunch-Room (July, 27, 1930)
The Beanie Buggies (August, 18, 1930) Births January 3 - Robert Loggia , actor (died 2015)
January 10 - Roy E. Disney , film executive (died 2009)
January 13 - Frances Sternhagen , actress
January 19 - Tippi Hedren , actress
January 30 - Gene Hackman , actor
February 10 - Robert Wagner , actor
February 27 - Joanne Woodward , actress
March 6 - Allison Hayes , actress (died 1977)
March 24 - Steve McQueen , actor (died 1980)
April 18 - Clive Revill , actor
April 21 - Silvana Mangano , actress (died 1989)
April 24 - Richard Donner , director, producer
April 25 - Paul Mazursky , director, actor (died 2014)
April 28 - Carolyn Jones , actress (died 1983)
May 9 - Joan Sims , actress (died 2001)
May 11 - Bud Ekins , American actor and stuntman (died 2007)
May 31 - Clint Eastwood , actor, director, producer
June 1 - Edward Woodward , actor, singer (died 2009)
June 19 - Gena Rowlands , actress
August 25 - Sir Sean Connery , actor
September 16 - Anne Francis , actress (died 2011)
September 21 - Dawn Addams , actress (died 1985)
October 1 - Sir Richard Harris , actor (died 2002)
October 5 - Yuriy Yakovlev , Bulgarian actor (died 2002)
December 3 - Jean-Luc Godard , director
December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant , actor
December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl , actor Deaths Film debuts References
