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Academy Awards

• Best Picture
  Academy Award for Best Picture
  
  The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
  : All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal Studios
  Universal Studios
  
  Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
  
• Best Actress
  Academy Award for Best Actress
  
  Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  
  Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
   - The Divorcee
  The Divorcee
  
  The Divorcee is a 1930 in film USA drama film written by Nick Grind?, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, and based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott....
  
• Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : George Arliss
  George Arliss
  
  George Arliss was an England Academy Award-winning actor, author, playwright and film maker who found success in United States. He was the first United Kingdom actor to win an Academy Award....
   - Disraeli
  Disraeli (film)
  
  Disraeli is a film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E....
  
• Best Director:Lewis Milestone
  Lewis Milestone
  
  Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....
   - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)

Films released in 1930

• Alraune
  Alraune (1930 film)
  
  Alraune is a 1930 in film science fiction Horror film film directed by Richard Oswald. Like the Alraune this movie again features Brigitte Helm in the role of Alraune....
  
• L'Âge d'Or
  L'Âge d'Or
  
  L'?ge d'Or is a 1930 in film surrealism film directed by Luis Bu?uel and written by Bu?uel and Salvador Dal?.The film cost a million French franc to produce and was financed by the nobleman Vicomte Charles de Noailles, who beginning in 1928 commissioned a film every year for the birthday of his wife Marie-Laure de Noailles....
  , directed by Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel
  
  Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
  
• All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone
  Lewis Milestone
  
  Lewis Milestone was an Academy Award-winning film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights , All Quiet on the Western Front , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Ocean's Eleven , and Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  
• Animal Crackers
  Animal Crackers (film)
  
  Animal Crackers is a 1930 comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding....
  , starring the Marx Brothers
  Marx Brothers
  
  The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
  
• Anna Christie
  Anna Christie (1930 film)
  
  Anna Christie is a 1930 in film MGM drama film adaptation of the 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul Bern and Irving Thalberg as co-producers....
  , starring Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  
  Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
  
• Big Boy, a musical comedy with Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  
  Al Jolson , born in Lithuania, Russian Empire, was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian, and actor, and, according to PBS, the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America." His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.? Numerous...
  
• The Big House
  The Big House (film)
  
  The Big House is a 1930 in film that was written by Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion and Lennox Robinson, and directed by George W....
  , starring Chester Morris
  Chester Morris
  
  John Chester Brooks Morris was an United States actor.Chester Morris is most famous for his role in the Boston Blackie detective series of the 1940s....
   and Wallace Beery
  Wallace Beery
  
  Wallace Beery was an United States Academy Award-winning actor, arguably best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver in Treasure Island , who appeared in 200 movies over a 36-year span....
  
• The Big Trail
  The Big Trail
  
  The Big Trail is a lavish early widescreen movie shot on location across the Western United States starring John Wayne in his first leading role and directed by Raoul Walsh....
  , starring John Wayne
  John Wayne
  
  John Wayne was an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film actor. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon....
  
• The Big Pond
  The Big Pond
  
  The Big Pond is a romantic comedy film based on a 1928 play of the same name by George Middleton and A.E. Thomas. The film was written by Garrett Fort, Robert Presnell Sr....
  
• Der blaue Engel
  Der blaue Engel
  
  The Blue Angel is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930 in film, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major Germany sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene Dietrich....
   (The Blue Angel), starring Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  
  Marlene Dietrich ; was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself....
  
• The Blood of a Poet
  The Blood of a Poet
  
  The Blood of a Poet is an avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau and financed by Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. Photographer Lee Miller made her only film appearance in this movie, and it also features an appearance by the famed acrobat Barbette ....
   (Le Sang d'un Poete), directed by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  
  Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
  
• The Bride of the Regiment
  The Bride of the Regiment (film)
  
  The Bride of the Regiment is a 1930 in film musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the play The Lady In Ermine that opened on Broadway in 1922 and ran 232 performances....
   (1930)
• Bright Lights
  Bright Lights (film)
  
  Bright Lights is a 1930 in film musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was released late in 1930, but was quickly redrawn when Warner Bros....
   (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor
  Technicolor
  
  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
  
• Call of the Flesh
  Call of the Flesh
  
  Call of the Flesh is a 1930 in film American musical film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Ramon Novarro ....
  , a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
• The Cat Creeps
  The Cat Creeps
  
  The Cat Creeps is a Crime film/mystery film, and a sound remake of The Cat and the Canary . It is one of the many lost films of the early talkie film era....
  
• Chasing Rainbows
  Chasing Rainbows
  
  Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 in film American romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner. The film stars Bessie Love and Charles King ....
  , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Children of Pleasure
  Children of Pleasure
  
  Children of Pleasure is a 1930 in film American MGM musical comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont....
  , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• The Cuckoos
  The Cuckoos
  
  The Cuckoos was a 1930 in film musical comedy, released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in two-strip Technicolor. It features the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey....
  , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Danger Lights
  Danger Lights
  
  Danger Lights is a 1930 in film Film starring Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong , and Jean Arthur.The plot concerns railroading on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St....
  , starring Louis Wolheim
  Louis Wolheim
  
  Louis Wolheim was an United States character actor.His trademark broken nose was the result of an injury sustained while playing American football for Cornell University....
  
• The Divorcee
  The Divorcee
  
  The Divorcee is a 1930 in film USA drama film written by Nick Grind?, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, and based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott....
  , starring Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  
  Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
   and Robert Montgomery
  Robert Montgomery (actor)
  
  Robert Montgomery was an United States actor and director.Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr....
  , director: Robert Z. Leonard
  Robert Z. Leonard
  
  Robert Zigler Leonard was an United States film director, actor, producer and screenwriter.He was born in Chicago, Illinois. At one time, he was married to silent superstar Mae Murray with the two forming Tiffany Pictures to film eight motion pictures that were released by MGM....
  
• Dixiana, a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Elstree Calling
  Elstree Calling
  
  Elstree Calling is a film directed by Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock at Elstree Studios. The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which has been produced by the major studios in the United States...
  , a British revue with color sequences
• Feet First
  Feet First
  
  Feet First is a 1930 in film comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, a very popular comedian during the 1920s and early 1930s. It was Lloyd's second sound feature....
  , a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
  
• Floradora Girl, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Follow Thru (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• Free and Easy, starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  , Anita Page
  Anita Page
  
  Anita Pomares, better known as Anita Page , was an American film actor who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era, 1928....
  , Trixie Friganza
  Trixie Friganza
  
  Trixie Friganza , born Delia O?Callaghan, began her career as an operetta soubrette working her way from the chorus to starring in musical comedies to having her own feature act on the vaudeville circuit....
  , and Robert Montgomery
  Robert Montgomery (actor)
  
  Robert Montgomery was an United States actor and director.Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr....
  
• General Crack
  General Crack
  
  General Crack is an Sound film historical costume drama drama film with Technicolor sequences which was produced by Warner Bros. in 1929 and released early in 1930....
  , a drama with Technicolor sequences starring John Barrymore
  John Barrymore
  
  John Sidney Blyth Barrymore , was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III ....
  
• Good News, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Golden Dawn
  Golden Dawn (film)
  
  Golden Dawn is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers and photographed entirely in Technicolor. The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach....
   (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
• Hell's Angels
  Hell's Angels (film)
  
  Hell's Angels is a Cinema of the United States epic film war film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, and James Hall ....
  , directed by Howard Hughes
  Howard Hughes
  
  Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world....
  , starring Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow
  
  Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her famous platinum blonde hair, and ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time AFI's 100 Years......
  
• Hold Everything
  Hold Everything (1930 film)
  
  Hold Everything is an All-Talking musical comedy that was photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical of the same name that had served as a vehicle for Bert Lahr and starred Winnie Lightner and Joe E....
   (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• Journey's End
  Journey's End (1930 film)
  
  Journey's End is a 1930 film directed by James Whale. Based on the Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, the film tells the story of several British soldiers involved in trench warfare during World War I....
  , directed by James Whale
  James Whale
  
  James Whale was a United Kingdom film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed Frankenstein , The Old Dark House , The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein , all recognized as classics of the genre....
  
• King of Jazz (1930), a revue with Paul Whiteman
  Paul Whiteman
  
  Paul Whiteman was an United States orchestral leader. He was born in Denver, Colorado. After a start as a classical violinist and viola, Whiteman then led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became locally popular in San Francisco, California in 1918....
   and his orchestra entirely in Technicolor
• Ladies Love Brutes
  Ladies Love Brutes
  
  Ladies Love Brutes is a 1930 American motion picture directed by Rowland V. Lee and based on the play "Pardon My Glove" by Zoe Akins....
  , a comedy directed by Rowland V. Lee
  Rowland V. Lee
  
  Rowland V. Lee was an actor, American director, writer, and producer.Lee directed the 1940 in film black-and-white film The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders ....
  
• Leathernecking, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Lord Byron of Broadway
  Lord Byron of Broadway
  
  Lord Byron of Broadway is a 1930 in film musical drama film, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh.The film was produced majorly in black and white, but was partially filmed in Technicolor....
  , a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
• Lottery Bride, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• The Life of the Party
  The Life of the Party (1930 film)
  
  The Life of the Party is a 1930 in film musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. The musical numbers of this film were cut out before general release in the United States because the public had grown tired of musicals by late 1930....
   (1930), musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• Mamba
  Mamba (film)
  
  Mamba is a film directed by Albert S. Rogell and released by Tiffany Pictures. It was shot entirely in Technicolor and stars Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes,...
   (1930), first talking drama entirely in Technicolor
• Madam Satan
  Madam Satan
  
  Madam Satan was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille as a musical drama for MGM, one of the few films DeMille made for the Culver City studio....
  , directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  
  Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
  
• Mammy
  Mammy (1930 film)
  
  Mammy is an musical drama film, with Technicolor sequences, which was released by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, Say It With Songs ....
  , a musical comedy starring Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  
  Al Jolson , born in Lithuania, Russian Empire, was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian, and actor, and, according to PBS, the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America." His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.? Numerous...
   with Technicolor sequences
• Melody Man, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Min and Bill
  Min and Bill
  
  Min and Bill is a film based on Lorna Moon's novel Dark Star, adapted by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson.The movie tells the story of dockside innkeeper Min's tribulations as she tries to protect the innocence of her adopted daughter Nancy, all while loving and fighting with boozy fisherman Bill, who resides at the inn....
  
• Morocco, starring Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  
  Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
   and Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  
  Marlene Dietrich ; was a German-born American actress, singer and entertainer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself....
  
• Murder!
  Murder!
  
  Murder! is a 1930 in film film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson....
  , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
  
• New Movietone Follies of 1930, a musical revue with Technicolor
  Technicolor
  
  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
   sequences
• No No Nanette
  No No Nanette (1930 film)
  
  No, No, Nanette is an All-Talking musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from No, No, Nanette of the same title by Otto A....
  , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Not So Dumb
  Not So Dumb
  
  Not So Dumb is a 1930 comedy motion picture starring Marion Davies and directed by King Vidor.It is based on the stage play Dulcy by George S....
  
• Paramount on Parade
  Paramount on Parade
  
  Paramount on Parade is an all-star revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed byseveral directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V....
  , an all-star revue with Technicolor sequences
• Peacock Alley
  Peacock Alley (1930 film)
  
  Peacock Alley is a 1930 in film black-and-white Sound film remake of the Peacock Alley . Like the 1921 version, Mae Murray starred in the leading female role and Robert Z....
  , a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
• Puttin' on the Ritz
  Puttin' on the Ritz (film)
  
  Puttin' on the Ritz is a 1930 in film musical film, directed by Edward Sloman and starred Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, and James Gleason. The screenplay was written by James Gleason and William K....
  , directed by Edward Sloman
  Edward Sloman
  
  Edward Sloman was an England silent film Film director, actor, screenwriter and radio broadcaster. He directed over 100 films and starred in over 30 films as an actor between 1913 in film and 1938 in film....
  , with Technicolor sequences
• Raffles
  Raffles (1930 film)
  
  Raffles is a 1930 in film film starring Ronald Colman as the A. J. Raffles, a gentleman who is also secretly a notorious jewel thief. Kay Francis plays the woman with whom Raffles falls in love....
  , featuring Ronald Colman
  Ronald Colman
  
  Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
   and Kay Francis
  Kay Francis
  
  Kay Francis was an Cinema of the United States stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway theatre in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Bros....
  
• The Rogue Song
  The Rogue Song (film)
  
  The Rogue Song is a Romance film musical film which tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister....
   (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
• Showgirl in Hollywood, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Son of the Gods
  Son of the Gods
  
  Son of the Gods is an All-Talking musical drama film with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from the novel by Rex Beach....
  , a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess
  Richard Barthelmess
  
  Richard "Dick" Semler Barthelmess was an Academy Award for Best Actor silent film star.The son of an actress, Barthelmess began acting in college, doing amateur productions....
  
• Song of the Flame
  Song of the Flame (film)
  
  Song of the Flame is a musical film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the first color film to feature a widescreen sequence using a process called Vitascope the trademark name for Warner Bros.' widescreen process....
   (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
• Song of the West
  Song of the West (film)
  
  Song of the West is a 1930 in film musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the 1928 musical play Rainbow by Oscar Hammerstein II and Laurence Stallings and was the first all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors....
   (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor
• Sunny
  Sunny (1930 film)
  
  Sunny is a musical comedy film released by Warner Brothers. The movie was based on the Broadway theatre stage hit, Sunny , produced by Charles Dillingham, which played from September 22, 1925 to December 11, 1926....
  , a musical comedy with Marilyn Miller
  Marilyn Miller
  
  Marilyn Miller was one of the most popular Broadway theatre musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, but it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences....
  
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs
  Sweet Kitty Bellairs (film)
  
  Sweet Kitty Bellairs is a musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. In contrast to usual historical costume dramas, the picture never takes itself seriously and is a delightful satire of the England of 1793 in the city of Bath....
   (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• True to the Navy, starring Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress and sex symbol who rose to fame in the silent film era of the 1920s. Bow was renowned for her sexual magnetism, vivaciousness and high-spirited personality, and became known around the world as "The It girl", where "It" was commonly understood to mean sex appeal....
   and Fredric March
• Under a Texas Moon
  Under a Texas Moon (film)
  
  Under A Texas Moon is a 1930 in film musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the novel Two-Gun Man which was written by Stewart Edward White....
   (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Vagabond King
  The Vagabond King (1930 film)
  
  The Vagabond King is a 1930 in film musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film was based on the 1901 play, "If I Were King," by Justin McCarthy....
   (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor
• Whoopee!
  Whoopee! (film)
  
  Whoopee is an "All-Talking All-Color" musical comedy film from 1930 in film photographed in Technicolor#Two-color Technicolor. The film closely followed the Whoopee! produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928....
   (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor
  
  Eddie Cantor was an United States comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway theatre, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five children....
  

Serials

• Across the World with Mr & Mrs Martin Johnson
• Hunting Tigers in India
• The Indians Are Coming
  The Indians Are Coming
  
  The Indians Are Coming is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the book The Great West That Was by Buffalo Bill. The serial was the first "all-talking" film of its kind....
  
• The Jade Box
  The Jade Box
  
  The Jade Box is a Universal Pictures Serial . It was a partially sound film with large Silent film elements. Only an incomplete version survives today....
  
• The Lightning Express
  The Lightning Express
  
  The Lightning Express is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
  
• The Lone Defender
  The Lone Defender
  
  The Lone Defender is a Mascot Pictures Serial starring Rin Tin Tin. This was Mascot's first all sound serial . This was Rin Tin Tin's first serial at Mascot, after being dropped by Warner Bros....
  , starring Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin
  
  Rin Tin Tin was the name given to several related German Shepherd Dog featured in fictional stories on film, radio, and television....
  
• Terry of the Times
  Terry of the Times
  
  Terry of the Times is a Universal Pictures Serial film. It was the 73rd of the 137 serials released by the studio and the 5th to include sound elements....
  
• The Voice from the Sky
  The Voice from the Sky
  
  The Voice from the Sky is a 1930 in film science fiction film film serial directed by Ben F. Wilson. It was considered to be lost, but was recently rediscovered....
  

Short film series

• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
   (1917-1941)
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together....
   (1922
  1922 in film
  
  Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
  -1944
  1944 in film
  
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
   (1921-1943
  1943 in film
  
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
  )

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  
  File:Felix for Judy.pngFelix the Cat is a animated cartoon fictional character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combined to make Felix one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world....
   (1919
  1919 in film
  
  The year 1919 in film involved some significant events....
  -1936)
• Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables
  
  Aesop's Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects, created by United States cartoonist Paul Terry . Terry came upon the inspiration for the series by young actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop's Fables....
   (1921
  1921 in film
  
  Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
  -1933
  1933 in film
  
  Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
  )
• Krazy Kat
  Krazy Kat
  
  Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
   (1925
  1925 in film
  
  Events...
  -1940
  1940 in film
  
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
  
  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Studios in the 1920s and 1930s....
   (1927
  1927 in film
  
  Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
  -1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse
  
  Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
   (1928
  1928 in film
  
  EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
  -1953
  1953 in film
  
  The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Silly Symphonies
  Silly Symphonies
  
  Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by The Walt Disney Company from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles....
   (1929
  1929 in film
  
  EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
  -1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Screen Songs
  Screen Songs
  
  Screen Songs is the name of a series of animation produced by the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1938....
   (1929
  1929 in film
  
  EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
  -1938
  1938 in film
  
  The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Talkartoons
  Talkartoons
  
  Talkartoons is the name of a series of 42 animation produced by the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1932....
   (1929
  1929 in film
  
  EventsThe days of the silent film were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound film was on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released....
  -1932
  1932 in film
  
  Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
  )
• Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
   (1930-1969
  1969 in film
  
  The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Flip the Frog
  Flip the Frog
  
  Flip the Frog is an Animation Fictional character created by United States cartoonist Ub Iwerks. He starred in a series of cartoons produced by Celebrity Pictures and distributed through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1930 to 1933....
   (1930-1933
  1933 in film
  
  Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
  )
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
   (1930-1964
  1964 in film
  
  The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Toby the Pup
  Toby the Pup
  
  Toby the Pup is an animated cartoon fictional character created by animators Sid Marcus, Dick Huemer, and Arthur Davis. He starred in a series of early sound shorts produced by Charles B....
   (1930-1931
  1931 in film
  
  Events...
  )

Births

• January 3 - Robert Loggia
  Robert Loggia
  
  Robert Loggia is an United States film and television actor who specializes in Character actor....
  , actor
• January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
• January 11 - Rod Taylor
  Rod Taylor (actor)
  
  Rodney Sturt Taylor is an Australian-born film and television actor....
  , Australian actor
• January 13 - Frances Sternhagen
  Frances Sternhagen
  
  Frances Hussey Sternhagen is an United States actor. Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies and on TV ever since the 1950s, and today is among the leading ladies of the New York stage with major roles continuing well into her 70s....
  , actress
• January 30 - Gene Hackman
  Gene Hackman
  
  Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. He came to fame during the 1970s, after his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection , and continued to appear in Hollywood films playing major roles, including Harry Caul in The Conversation, Norman Dale in Hoosiers, Agent Rupert Anderso...
  , actor
• February 27 - Joanne Woodward
  Joanne Woodward
  
  Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an United States Academy Awards-, Golden Globe-, Emmy and Cannes Film Festival award-winning actress. Woodward, widow of Paul Newman, is also a television and theatrical producer....
  , actress
• March 24 - Steve McQueen, actor
• April 28 - Carolyn Jones
  Carolyn Jones
  
  Carolyn Sue Jones was an United States actress.Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising actresses of 1959....
  , actress (+1983
  1983 in film
  
  Events*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York...
  )
• May 31 - Clint Eastwood
  Clint Eastwood
  
  Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
  , actor, director, producer
• June 16 - Vilmos Zsigmond
  Vilmos Zsigmond
  
  Vilmos Zsigmond, A.S.C. is an 50th Academy Awards#Best Cinematography Hungarian-American cinematographer....
  , cinematographer
• August 25 - Sir Sean Connery
  Sean Connery
  
  Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scotland actor and film producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films....
  , actor
• October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
• December 3 - Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard
  
  Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
  , director
• December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant
  Jean-Louis Trintignant
  
  Jean-Louis Trintignant is a France actor....
  , actor

Film debuts

• Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Olivier
  
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
  
• Buster Crabbe
  Buster Crabbe
  
  Buster Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular Serial in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
• Rex Harrison
  Rex Harrison
  
  Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
  
• Ethel Merman
  Ethel Merman
  
  Ethel Merman was an United States actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage"....
  

Deaths

• January 31 - Dorothy Seastrom
  Dorothy Seastrom
  
  Dorothy Seastrom was a motion picture actress from Dallas, Texas....
  , American actress
• February 23 - Mabel Normand
  Mabel Normand
  
  Mabel Normand was an United States silent film comedienne and actress. She was extremely popular during the 1910s, becoming one of the Big Four at Keystone Studios, which was founded by Mack Sennett with whom she shared a turbulent romantic relationship....
  , American actress
• July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle
  Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
  , British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
  Sherlock Holmes
  
  Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
  .
• August 26 - Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an United States actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema....
  , American actor
• September 15 - Milton Sills
  Milton Sills
  
  Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.Milton Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy and highly regarded family....
  , American actor
• December 15 - Diane Ellis
  Diane Ellis
  
  Diane Ellis was an American actress.Ellis worked as a secretary for the "Film Research Bureau" before being cast in several films. She made her film debut in 1927 in Is Zat So? in a featured role, which was followed by a co-starring role opposite Louise Fazenda in The Cradle Snatchers....
  , American actress