1935 in film

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In television 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 In radio 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
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Events

• Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

Top grossing films

North America

1. Top Hat
2. The Miracle Rider
3. Anna Karenina
4. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
5. Westward Ho
6. Bride of Frankenstein
7. The Informer
8. Dangerous
9. Night at the Opera
10. Mutiny on the Bounty

Academy Awards

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

Films released in 1935

• The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat
• The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
• After Office Hours, starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
• Ah, Wilderness! -(film only mentioned in article)
• Alice Adams
• Anna Karenina
• Boys Will be Boys
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Broadway Melody of 1936
• Carnival in Flanders
• Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg (only mentioned in article)
• The Crusades
• Dangerous
• Dante's Inferno
• David Copperfield
• G Men
• The Gilded Lily
• Gold Diggers of 1935, a Busby Berkeley musical starring Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart
• The Informer starring Victor McLaglen
• Les Misérables
• Life Returns
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Naughty Marietta, starring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy
• The New Gulliver, directed by Aleksandr Ptushko (Soviet stop motion-animated film)
• A Night at the Opera
• 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
• The Scoundrel
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Toni by Jean Renoir, the most significant precursor to the Italian neorealist movement
• Top Hat
• Triumph of the Will, a Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl
• Tumbling Tumbleweeds, western with Gene Autry
• Werewolf of London
• Westward Ho, western with John Wayne
• Who Killed Cock Robin?, Walt Disney animated short subject (mentioned in article)

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

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

Animated short film series

• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
• 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
• January 9 - Bob Denver
• February 6 - Nadine Trintignant
• April 19 - Dudley Moore
• May 11 - Doug McClure
• July 17 - Diahann Carroll
• August 5 - John Saxon
• December 1 - Woody Allen, director
• December 14 - Lee Remick

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