1936 in film

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Years in film

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The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Academy Awards
4 Films released in 1936
5 Serials
6 Short film series
7 Animated short film series
8 Births
9 Deaths

Events

Nov 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon
February 15 - first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, released
September 28 - The Marx Brothers' Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming

Top grossing films

North America

Academy Awards

Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Actor: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse

Films released in 1936

After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March
The Big Noise, starring Guy Kibbee, Alma Lloyd, Warren Hull, and Dick Foran
The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Cafe Mascot, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald
Camille, starring Greta Garbo
Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
Ceiling Zero, starring James Cagney
The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn
Come and Get It
Dodsworth, starring Walter Huston
Dracula's Daughter
Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play of the same name, starring Eddie Anderson -(film mentioned in article)
Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman
The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
Libeled Lady, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow
The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson
Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux
Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
The Moon's Our Home
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; directed by Frank Capra
My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis
Reefer Madness, (also known as Tell Your Children)
Road Gang
Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan
Sabotage, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll
San Francisco, starring Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald
Secret Agent, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll
Small Town Girl, a William Wellman film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor and James Stewart
Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Things to Come, based on the story by H.G. Wells
The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon

Serials

Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The Black Coin
The Clutching Hand
Custer's Last Stand
Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty
Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe
The Phantom Rider
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala
Shadow of Chinatown
Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan
The Vigilantes Are Coming

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

January 22 - Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor
January 28 - Alan Alda, United States actor
February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
March 1 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
May 9 - Glenda Jackson, British actress and politician
August 5 - John Saxon
August 18 - Robert Redford, actor, director
August 25 - Hugh Hudson, director
October 19 - Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
December 25 - Ismail Merchant Indian film producer

Deaths

January 9 – John Gilbert, American actor
June 17 - Henry B. Walthall, actor
October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress
November 26 - Max Schreck, German actor

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