1935 in film

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Events

• Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
• Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.
• The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.

Top grossing films

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors
1.	Mutiny on the Bounty	MGM	Clark Gable and Charles Laughton
2.	Becky Sharp	RKO	Miriam Hopkins
3.	Top Hat	RKO	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
4.	The Littlest Rebel	20th Century Fox	Shirley Temple
5.	The Informer	RKO	Victor McLaglen
6.	China Seas	MGM	Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
7.	Barbary Coast	United Artists	Miriam Hopkins and Edward G. Robinson
8.	Captain Blood	Warner Bros.	Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
9.	Anna Karenina	MGM	Greta Garbo
10.	Curly Top	20th Century Fox	Shirley Temple

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM
• Best Actor: Victor McLaglen - The Informer
• Best Actress: Bette Davis - Dangerous

Films released in 1935

U.S.A. unless stated

• The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll - (U.K.)
• After Office Hours, starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
• Ah, Wilderness!
• Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn
• Anna Karenina, starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March
• Annie Oakley, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Barbary Coast starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea
• Becky Sharp starring Miriam Hopkins (First feature film 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 - (U.K.)
• Brewster's Millions, starring Jack Buchanan - (U.K.)
• Bride of Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester
• Broadway Melody of 1936
• The Call of the Wild
• Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Car of Dreams, starring John Mills - (U.K.)
• Carnival in Flanders (La Kermesse héroïque), directed by Jacques Feyder - (France)
• Charlie Chan in Egypt
• China Seas, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
• Coal Face, documentary directed by Alberto Cavalcanti - (U.K.)
• Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg
• The Crime of Dr. Crespi, starring Erich Von Stroheim
• The Crusades
• Curly Top
• Dangerous, starring Bette Davis
• Dante's Inferno
• The Dark Angel, starring Fredric March and Merle Oberon
• David Copperfield, starring Edna May Oliver, Freddie Bartholomew and W.C. Fields
• The Devil Is a Woman, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Escapade
• Every Night at Eight, starring George Raft and Alice Faye
• Foreign Affaires - (U.K.)
• G Men, starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak
• The Ghost Goes West, directed by René Clair, starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker and Eugene Pallette - (U.K.)
• The Gilded Lily
• The Girl from 10th Avenue, starring Bette Davis
• Go Into Your Dance, starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler
• 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 and starring Edmund Lowe and Valerie Hobson
• Hands Across the Table, starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
• Hop-Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd
• Hyde Park Corner directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Gordon Harker - (U.K.)
• The Informer starring Victor McLaglen
• An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)
• Let's Go With Pancho Villa (¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!) - (Mexico)
• Life 'Begins at Forty, starring Will Rogers
• Life Returns
• Little Big Shot
• The Little Colonel
• The Littlest Rebel, starring Shirley Temple
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, starring Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone
• Mad Love ( aka The Hands of Orlac)
• Magnificent Obsession
• Man on the Flying Trapeze, starring W.C. Fields
• Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Hughie Green and Margaret Lockwood - (U.K.)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Les Misérables, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
• Mississippi, starring Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields and Joan Bennett
• Moonlight on the Prairie, starring Dick Foran, Sheila Bromley and George E. Stone
• The Morals of Marcus directed by Miles Mander and starring Lupe Vélez and Ian Hunter (U.K.)
• Moscow Nights directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Laurence Olivier (U.K.)
• The Murder Man, starring Spencer Tracy
• Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton
• Naughty Marietta, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• The New Gulliver, directed by Aleksandr Ptushko, a stop motion-animated film - (U.S.S.R.)
• A Night at the Opera, directed by Sam Wood, starring The Marx Brothers with Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones
• Our Little Girl
• Page Miss Glory, starring Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien and Dick Powell
• Peter Ibbetson
• Princess Tam Tam, starring Josephine Baker - (France)
• Professional Soldier
• The Raven
• Reckless, a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell and Franchot Tone
• Roberta, a musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott, with an uncredited appearance by a young Lucille Ball
• Ruggles of Red Gap, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Laughton
• The Scoundrel
• She
• She Couldn't Take It, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett
• She Married Her Boss
• So Red the Rose
• Splendor, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
• Steamboat Round the Bend, starring Will Rogers
• Squibs directed by Henry Edwards and starring Betty Balfour (U.K.)
• A Tale of Two Cities, starring Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan
• Toni by Jean Renoir - (France) - the most significant precursor to the Italian neorealist movement
• Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Triumph of the Will - a Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
• Tumbling Tumbleweeds, western with Gene Autry
• The Wedding Night
• Vintage Wine directed by Henry Edwards (U.K.)
• Werewolf of London
• Westward Ho, western with John Wayne
• Who Killed Cock Robin?, Walt Disney animated short subject, one of the Silly Symphonies (mentioned in article)
• The Whole Town's Talking

Serials

• The Adventures of Rex and Rinty, starring Rex the Wonder Horse and Rin Tin Tin
• The Call of the Savage, directed by Lew Landers
• The Fighting Marines
• The Lost City
• The Miracle Rider, starring Tom Mix
• The New Adventures of Tarzan, starring Herman Brix
• The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry
• Queen of the Jungle, directed by Robert F. Hill
• The Roaring West
• Rustlers of Red Dog, directed by Lew Landers
• Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery

Comedy film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
• Wheeler and Woolsey (1929–1937)
• The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

Animated short film series

• Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Silly Symphonies
  • The Tortoise and the Hare
  • The Golden Touch
  • The Robber Kitten
  • Water Babies
  • The Cookie Carnival
  • Who Killed Cock Robin?
  • Music Land
  • Three Orphan Kittens
  • Cock o' the Walk
  • Broken Toys
• Screen Songs (1929–1938)
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931–1941)
• Betty Boop (1932–1939)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• ComiColor Cartoons (1933–1936)
• Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)
• Cartune Classics (1934–1935)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935–1936)

Births

• January 1 - Brian G. Hutton, actor, director
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor (died 1977)
• January 9 - Bob Denver (died 2005)
• April 19 - Dudley Moore (died 2002)
• May 11 - Doug McClure
• July 17 - Diahann Carroll
• July 17 - Donald Sutherland
• October 1 - Julie Andrews
• December 1 - Woody Allen, director
• December 14 - Lee Remick (died 1991)

Deaths

• March 8 - Ruan Lingyu, actress, committed suicide
• March 23 - Florence Moore, singer, actress
• May 4 - Junior Durkin, actor, in a road accident
• August 15 - Will Rogers, humorist, actor

Film Debuts

• Don Ameche
• Ingrid Bergman
• Henry Fonda
• Joan Fontaine
• Olivia de Havilland
• Rita Hayworth
• Danny Kaye
• Vivien Leigh
• James Mason
• Roy Rogers
• Jimmy Stewart