1931 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Academy Awards 3 Notable Films released in 1931 4 Serials 5 Short film series 6 Animated short film series 7 Births 8 Film Debuts 9 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM
• Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
• Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ
• Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Best Actress: Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
• Best Actress: Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years. And there were two awards given in 1932 for 'Best Actor'. That's how there are 3 'Best Actor', 2 'Best Actress' awards for 1931 films.

[edit] Notable Films released in 1931

• À nous la liberté
• Berlin Alexanderplatz film of the novel by Alfred Döblin
• The Champ, starring Wallace Beery
• Cimarron, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
• City Lights, starring Charlie Chaplin
• Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins
• Emil und die Detektive, starring Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack and Fritz Rasp
• Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff and Colin Clive
• A Free Soul, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable
• Indiscreet, starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon
• I Take This Woman, starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
• Little Caesar, starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Mädchen in Uniform, directed by Carl Froelich, starring Hertha Thiele
• M, starring Peter Lorre
• Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore
• The Millionaire, starring George Arliss
• Monkey Business, starring Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx
• Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ben Lyon
• Platinum Blonde, starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow
• Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• The Public Enemy, starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow and Joan Blondell
• The Sin of Madelon Claudet, starring Helen Hayes
• Smart Money, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney
• The Smiling Lieutenant, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert
• The Stolen Jools, starring Gary Cooper, Laurel and Hardy, and Norma Shearer
• Tabu, directed by F.W. Murnau
• This Modern Age, starring Joan Crawford
• Waterloo Bridge, directed by James Whale

[edit] Serials

• Battling with Buffalo Bill
• Danger Island
• Finger Prints
• The Galloping Ghost, starring Harold Grange
• Heroes of the Flames
• King of the Wild
• The Lightning Warrior, starring Rin Tin Tin
• The Mystery Trooper
• The Phantom of the West
• The Sign of the Wolf
• The Spell of the Circus
• The Vanishing Legion

[edit] Short film series

• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Charley Chase (1924-1940)
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
• Screen Songs (1929-1938)
• Talkartoons (1929-1932)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Flip the Frog (1930-1933)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Toby the Pup (1930-1931)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) (1931-1933)

[edit] Births

• January 5 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
• January 14 - Caterina Valente, singer, actress
• January 17 - James Earl Jones, actor
• January 19 - Tippi Hedren, actress
• February 6 - Mamie Van Doren
• February 8 - James Dean, actor
• March 22 - William Shatner, actor
• July 1 - Leslie Caron, French actress
• September 17 - Anne Bancroft, actress (d. 2005)
• Sylvia Lopez, European actress († 1959)

[edit] Film Debuts

• Bruce Cabot
• Bette Davis
• Otto Preminger director, producer

[edit] Deaths

• November 27 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)