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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
The top ten 1930 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1930
Rank
Title
Studio
Box office gross rental
1
Whoopee!
United Artists
$2,600,000[1]
2
Check and Double Check
RKO Radio Pictures
$1,810,000[2]
3
Common Clay
Fox Film Corporation
$1,700,000[1]
4
Hell's Angels
United Artists
$1,600,000[3]
5
All Quiet on the Western Front
Universal Pictures
$1,500,000[1]
6
The Big House
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
$1,300,000[4]
7
Min and Bill
$1,223,000[4]
8
Song o' My Heart
Fox Film Corporation
$1,200,000[1]
9
Son of the Gods
Warner Bros.
$1,069,000[5]
10
Hold Everything
$1,018,000[5]
Events
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.[6] [7]
September 3: The Hollywood Reporter is first published.
September 19: The Love Parade receives a record six Academy Award nominations.
November 1: The Big Trail featuring a young 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.
November 15: Howard Hughes epic film Hell's Angels is released and features Jean Harlow in her first major role as well as some impressive aerial sequences. The film is a huge success and would go on to gross $8 million and launch Harlow as one of the 1930s' biggest stars.
Academy Awards
Notable films released in 1930
United States unless stated
A
Abi and Rabi by Ovanes Ohanian (Iran)
Abraham Lincoln , starring Walter Huston November 8, 1930
L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age), directed by Luis Buñuel November 29, 1930 – (France )
Alraune March 2, 1930 – (Germany )
All Quiet on the Western Front , directed by Lewis Milestone , starring Lew Ayres April 21, 1930
A Lady to Love , starring Edward G. Robinson and Vilma Bánky
A Man from Wyoming , starring Gary Cooper
Animal Crackers , starring the Marx Brothers August 23, 1930
Anna Christie , starring Greta Garbo February 21, 1930
The Arizona Kid , starring Warner Baxter and Carole Lombard
B
The Bad Man , starring Walter Huston
The Benson Murder Case , starring William Powell
The Bat Whispers , starring Chester Morris and Una Merkel
Big Boy , a musical comedy with Al Jolson
The Big House , starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
The Big Pond , starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert
The Big Trail , starring John Wayne
Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel ), directed by Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings – (Germany )
Billy the Kid , starring Johnny Mack Brown
The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poete ), directed by Jean Cocteau – (France )
Borderline , starring Paul Robeson – (GB )
Bride of the Regiment , starring Walter Pidgeon
Bright Lights , directed by Michael Curtiz , a musical comedy in Technicolor
C
Call of the Flesh , starring Ramón Novarro , a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
The Cat Creeps , starring Helen Twelvetrees , a mystery film released by Universal
Chasing Rainbows , starring Bessie Love , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
Check and Double Check , a comedy based on Amos 'n' Andy radio show
Children of Pleasure , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
City Girl , directed by F. W. Murnau
Common Clay , starring Constance Bennett
The Cuckoos , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
D
Danger Lights , starring Louis Wolheim
The Dawn Patrol , directed by Howard Hawks , starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The Devil to Pay! , starring Ronald Colman , Loretta Young , Myrna Loy
The Divorcee , directed by Robert Z. Leonard , starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
Dixiana , starring Bebe Daniels , a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
Doughboys , a World War I comedy starring Buster Keaton
E
F
G
H
I
J-K
L
Ladies Love Brutes , a comedy directed by Rowland V. Lee , starring George Bancroft and Mary Astor
Ladies of Leisure , starring Barbara Stanwyck
Leathernecking , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences starring Irene Dunne
Let's Go Native , starring Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald
Liliom , starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart
Loose Ankles , comedy drama starring Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , directed by Ted Wilde
Lord Byron of Broadway , a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
The Lottery Bride , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences starring Jeanette MacDonald
M
Madam Satan , directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Mamba , first talking drama entirely in Technicolor starring Jean Hersholt and Eleanor Boardman
Mammy , a musical comedy starring Al Jolson with Technicolor sequences
The Man from Blankley's , comedy drama directed by Alfred E. Green starring John Barrymore
Manslaughter , starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March
Min and Bill , starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
Montana Moon , starring Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown
Monte Carlo , directed by Ernst Lubitsch , starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald
Morocco , starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
Murder! , directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Herbert Marshall – (GB )
The Mystery of the Yellow Room [fr ] (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune), directed by Marcel L'Herbier – (France )
N-O
P
R
S
Show Girl in Hollywood , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Son of the Gods , a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess
Song o' My Heart , a musical starring Irish tenor John McCormack , directed by Frank Borzage , and shot in both 35mm and 70mm Fox Grandeur formats
The Song of Love (La canzone dell'amore) directed by Gennaro Righelli , starring Dria Paola , Isa Pola – (Italy )
Spring Is Here musical directed by John Francis Dillon
St. Jorgen's Day (Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena) – (U.S.S.R. )
Soup to Nuts , a comedy and film debut for The Three Stooges
Street of Chance , starring William Powell and Jean Arthur
Sweet Kitty Bellairs , a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
T
U-V
W-Y
The W Plan , directed by Victor Saville , starring Brian Aherne and Madeleine Carroll – (GB )
Wara Wara , directed by José Maria Velasco Maidana ; now the only surviving silent Bolivian feature film
Way for a Sailor , starring John Gilbert and Wallace Beery
Westfront 1918 (Vier von der Infanterie), directed by G. W. Pabst – (Germany )
Whoopee! , a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor
Young Man of Manhattan , starring Claudette Colbert , Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers
Young Woodley , directed by Thomas Bentley , starring Madeleine Carroll (Britain)
Serials
Short film series
Animated short film series
Births
January 3 – Robert Loggia , American actor (died 2015)
January 10 – Roy E. Disney , American film executive (died 2009)
January 11 – Rod Taylor , Australian actor (died 2015 )
January 13 – Frances Sternhagen , American actress
January 19 – Tippi Hedren , American actress
January 29 – Benjamin Tatar , American actor (died 2012 )
January 30 – Gene Hackman , American actor
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 (actress) , American actress (died 2011 )
February 27 – Joanne Woodward , American actress
March 6 – Allison Hayes , American actress (died 1977)
March 16 – Lotte Ledl , Austrian actress
March 24 – Steve McQueen , American actor (died 1980)
March 24 30 – Estella Blain , French actress (died 1982)
April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney , American actress (died 2015)
April 13 – Roger Browne , American actor
April 14 – Bradford Dillman , American actor (died 2018)
April 18 – Clive Revill , New Zealand actor
April 21 – Silvana Mangano , Italian actress (died 1989)
April 24 – Richard Donner , American director and producer
April 25 – Paul Mazursky , American director and actor (died 2014)
April 28 – Carolyn Jones , American actress (died 1983)
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 – Edward Woodward , English actor and singer (died 2009)
June 15 – Odile Versois , French actress (died 1980)
June 19
June 29 – Ariadna Welter , Mexican actress (died 1998)
July 10 – Bruce Boa , Canadian actor (died 2004)
July 18 – Burt Kwouk , British-Chinese actor (died 2016)
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
September 16 – Anne Francis , American actress (died 2011)
September 21 – Dawn Addams , English actress (died 1985)
October 1 – Richard Harris , Irish actor (died 2002)
October 5 – Yuriy Yakovlev , Bulgarian actor (died 2002)
October 23 – Gérard Blain , French actor and director (died 2000)
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard , French director
December 9 – Francesco Maselli , Italian director
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor
December 17 – Armin Mueller-Stahl , German actor
Deaths
Film debuts
References
^ a b c d Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357 . ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 .
^ Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television , Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56
^ Balio, Tino (1976). United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950: The Company Built by the Stars, Volume 1 . ISBN 0-299-06940-0 . During the seven years it was in United Artists distribution, Hell's Angels grossed $1.6 million in the domestic market, of which Hughes' share was $1.2 million.
^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
^ 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
^ "Fox Controversy is Settled" . The Film Daily . April 7, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .
^ "The Fox Reorganization" . Variety . April 9, 1930. p. 3. Retrieved May 8, 2018 .