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e: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years. And there were two awards given in 1932 for 'Best Actor'. That's how there are 3 'Best Actor', 2 'Best Actress' awards for 1931 films.












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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....
    : Cimarron
    Cimarron (1931 film)

    Cimarron is a film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931 in film....
     - MGM
  • 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....
    : Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
     - A Free Soul
    A Free Soul

    A Free Soul is a Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholism defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had previously gotten an acquittal for on a murder charge....
  • 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....
    : 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 Champ
    The Champ

    The Champ is a 1931 in film movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor....
  • 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....
    : Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. and starring Fredric March. The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a crude homicide maniac....
  • 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....
    : Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler

    Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
     - 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....
  • 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....
    : Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes

    Helen Hayes was an United States actress, whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
     - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
    The Sin of Madelon Claudet

    The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 in film United States drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the Play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock....
Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years. And there were two awards given in 1932 for 'Best Actor'. That's how there are 3 'Best Actor', 2 'Best Actress' awards for 1931 films.

Notable Films released in 1931

  • Ā nous la liberté
    Ā nous la liberté

    ? nous la libert? is a 1931 in film Cinema of France, directed by Ren? Clair. With a memorable score by Georges Auric, this film has more music than any of Clair's early films....
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz film of the novel by Alfred Döblin
    Alfred Döblin

    Alfred D?blin was a Germany expressionism novelist, best known for Berlin Alexanderplatz ....
  • The Champ
    The Champ

    The Champ is a 1931 in film movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor....
    , starring 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....
  • Cimarron
    Cimarron (1931 film)

    Cimarron is a film directed by Wesley Ruggles and based on the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1931 in film....
    , starring Richard Dix
    Richard Dix

    Richard Dix was an United States motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent film and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero....
     and Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne

    Irene Dunne was an American film actor and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated for five-time Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama ....
  • City Lights
    City Lights

    City Lights is a Cinema of the United States silent film romantic comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and starring Chaplin alongside Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers....
    , starring Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
  • Dracula
    Dracula (1931 film)

    Dracula is a classic horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring B?la Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal Studios and is based on the Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L....
    , starring Bela Lugosi
    Béla Lugosi

    B?la Lugosi was a Hungarians-born United States actor of theatre and film, well known for playing Count Dracula in the Dracula and subsequent Dracula ....
     and Dwight Frye
    Dwight Frye

    Dwight Iliff Frye was an United States stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula , Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man ....
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a horror film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. and starring Fredric March. The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a crude homicide maniac....
    , starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins
    Miriam Hopkins

    Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
  • Emil und die Detektive
    Emil and the Detectives (1931 film)

    Emil and the Detectives is a 1931 in film adventure film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Rolf Wenkhaus based on the Emil and the Detectives....
    , starring Rolf Wenkhaus
    Rolf Wenkhaus

    Rolf Wenkhaus was a German people child actor who is most likely recalled for his role of Emil Tischbein in the 1931 film Emil and the Detectives ....
    , Käthe Haack
    Käthe Haack

    K?the Haack was a Germany actor. She appeared in over 200 films between 1915 in film and 1980 in film.She was born and died in Berlin, Germany....
     and Fritz Rasp
    Fritz Rasp

    Fritz Heinrich Rasp was a Germany film actor who appeared in 104 films between 1916 in film and 1976 in film. His most notable role was "Der Schmale" in Fritz Lang's 1927 in film Metropolis ; many of the scenes in which he appears are part of the film's footage long believed lost until their recovery in 2008....
  • Frankenstein
    Frankenstein (1931 film)

    Frankenstein is a horror film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as well as the play adapted from it by Peggy Webling....
    , starring Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff

    Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
     and Colin Clive
    Colin Clive

    Colin Clive was a Great Britain stage and screen actor best remembered for his portrayal of Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Studios Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein....
  • A Free Soul
    A Free Soul

    A Free Soul is a Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholism defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had previously gotten an acquittal for on a murder charge....
    , starring Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer

    Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
    , Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard (actor)

    Leslie Howard was an English people Academy Award-nominated Stage and film actor, director, and Theatrical producer. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the film Gone with the Wind ....
    , Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
     and Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
  • Indiscreet
    Indiscreet (1931 film)

    Indiscreet is a United States comedy film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon. The screenplay by Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, based on their story Obey That Impulse, originally was written as a full-fledged musical film, but only two songs - "If You Haven't Got Love" and "Come to Me" -...
    , starring Gloria Swanson
    Gloria Swanson

    Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
  • I Take This Woman
    I Take This Woman (1931 film)

    I Take This Woman is a 1931 in film romance film starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard....
    , 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 Carole Lombard
    Carole Lombard

    Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
  • Little Caesar
    Little Caesar (film)

    Little Caesar is a 1931 in film crime film made during the Pre-Code era which tells the story of a man who works his way up the ranks of the mob until he reaches its upper heights....
    , starring Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson

    Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
     and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
  • Mädchen in Uniform
    Mädchen in Uniform

    M?dchen in Uniform , is a Germany feature-length film based on a novel by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with significant artistic direction from Carl Froelich, who funded the film....
  • M, starring Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre

    Peter Lorre , born L?szl? L?wenstein, was a Hungarian people - Austrian - United States actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner....
  • Mata Hari
    Mata Hari (film)

    Mata Hari is a 1931 in film Hays code film loosely based on the life of Mata Hari , a courtesan executed for espionage during World War I. The film stars Greta Garbo in the title role....
    , 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...
     and Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
  • The Millionaire
    The Millionaire (1931 film)

    The Millionaire is a 1931 in film comedy film starring George Arliss in the title role. The film is actually a remake of the 1922 film called 'The Ruling Passion', which George Arliss also starred in....
    , starring 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....
  • Monkey Business
    Monkey Business (1931 film)

    Monkey Business is the third of the Marx Brothers' movies and the first not to be an adaptation of one of their Broadway theatre shows. The film stars the four brothers: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, and screen comedienne Thelma Todd....
    , starring Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx
  • Night Nurse
    Night Nurse (1931 film)

    Night Nurse is a Pre-Code, Prohibition-era, Warner Bros. crime drama and mystery film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell and Clark Gable....
     starring Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck

    Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
  • Platinum Blonde
    Platinum Blonde (film)

    Plantinum Blonde is a 1931 in film romantic comedy motion picture starring Jean Harlow, Robert Williams , and Loretta Young . The film was written by Jo Swerling and directed by Frank Capra....
    , starring Loretta Young
    Loretta Young

    Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
    , Robert Williams
    Robert Williams (actor)

    Robert Williams was an American actor.It's fair to say that if 'Frank Capra ' hadn't cast Robert "Bobby" Williams in his 1931 film Platinum Blonde the actor would be entirely forgotten today....
     and 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......
  • Possessed
    Possessed (1931 film)

    Possessed is a film directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. The film is the story of Marian Martin, a factory worker who rises to the top as the mistress of a wealthy Lawyer....
    , starring Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
     and Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
  • The Public Enemy
    The Public Enemy

    The Public Enemy is a pre-Code Cinema of the United States crime film drama film film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman....
    , starring James Cagney
    James Cagney

    James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
    , 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......
     and Joan Blondell
    Joan Blondell

    Rose Joan Blondell, known as Joan Blondell, was an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Considered a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Production Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 film and television productions....
  • The Sin of Madelon Claudet
    The Sin of Madelon Claudet

    The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 in film United States drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the Play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock....
    , starring Helen Hayes
    Helen Hayes

    Helen Hayes was an United States actress, whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
  • Smart Money, starring Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson

    Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
     and James Cagney
    James Cagney

    James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
  • The Smiling Lieutenant
    The Smiling Lieutenant

    The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 in film Paramount Pictures film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus , which in turn was based on the novel Nur der Prinzgemahl by Hans M?ller-Einigen....
    , starring Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
     and Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert

    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
  • The Stolen Jools
    The Stolen Jools

    The Stolen Jools is a short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day....
    , 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....
    , 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....
    , and Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer

    Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
  • Tabu
    Tabu (film)

    Tabu is a 1931 in film film which tells the story of two lovers in the South Seas, who must escape their village when the girl is chosen as the holy maid to the gods....
    , directed by F.W. Murnau
  • This Modern Age
    This Modern Age

    This Modern Age is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film directed by Nick Grinde starring Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Frederick and Albert Conti....
    , starring Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
  • Waterloo Bridge
    Waterloo Bridge (1931 film)

    Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 in film drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. The screenplay was by Benn Levy and Tom Reed from the popular Broadway theatre play by Robert E....
    , 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....


Serials

  • Battling with Buffalo Bill
    Battling with Buffalo Bill

    Battling with Buffalo Bill is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the book The Great West That Was by Buffalo Bill, which had also been used as the inspiration for the studio's highly successful 1930 in film serial The Indians Are Coming....
  • Danger Island
    Danger Island (serial)

    Danger Island is a Universal Pictures Serial . It is considered to be lost....
  • Finger Prints
    Finger Prints (serial)

    Finger Prints is a Universal Pictures Serial . It is considered to be lost....
  • The Galloping Ghost
    The Galloping Ghost (serial)

    The Galloping Ghost is a Mascot Pictures Serial . The title is actually the nickname of the star, American football player Red Grange....
    , starring Harold Grange
    Red Grange

    Harold Edward "Red" Grange was a professional and college football American football Halfback for the Chicago Bears and the short-lived New York Yankees ....
  • Heroes of the Flames
    Heroes of the Flames

    Heroes of the Flames is a Universal Pictures Serial . It is considered to be lost....
  • King of the Wild
    King of the Wild

    King of the Wild is a Mascot Pictures Serial ....
  • The Lightning Warrior
    The Lightning Warrior

    The Lightning Warrior is a Mascot Pictures Serial starring Rin Tin Tin in his last role. It is regarded as one of the better Mascot serials....
    , 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....
  • The Mystery Trooper
  • The Phantom of the West
    The Phantom of the West

    The Phantom of the West is a Mascot Pictures Serial and the second all-talking serial they produced.Tom Tyler stars as Jim Lester, trying to prove that Francisco Cortez is innocent of killing his own father....
  • The Sign of the Wolf
  • The Spell of the Circus
    The Spell of the Circus

    The Spell of the Circus is a Universal Pictures Serial . This is considered to be a lost film....
  • The Vanishing Legion
    The Vanishing Legion

    The Vanishing Legion is a Mascot Pictures Serial film directed by Ford Beebe and B. Reeves Eason.The stars Harry Carey and Edwina Booth were originally intended to be in the studio's previous serial, King of the Wild, but had to be re-cast when the MGM film Trader Horn over ran it's schedule....


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

  • 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
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -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
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -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
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -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
    1930 in film

    Events...
    -1931)
  • Merrie Melodies
    Merrie Melodies

    Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
     (1931-1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Scrappy
    Scrappy

    Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
     (1931-1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren)
    Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren)

    Tom and Jerry were fictional characters that starred in a series of early sound Animation produced by the Van Beuren Studios, and distributed by RKO....
     (1931-1933
    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....
    )


Births

  • January 5 - Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall

    Robert Selden Duvall is an United States film actor and Film director who has won an Academy Award, two Emmys, and four Golden Globes. He has appeared in films such as To Kill a Mockingbird , The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Natural , Network , THX 1138, MASH , The Great Santini,...
    , actor and director
  • January 14 - Caterina Valente
    Caterina Valente

    Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italy artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown....
    , singer, actress
  • January 17 - James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones

    James Earl Jones is an United Statesn actor of theater and screen, well known for his deep bass voice....
    , actor
  • January 19 - Tippi Hedren
    Tippi Hedren

    Nathalie Kay 'Tippi' Hedren is an United States actress and former fashion model with a career spanning six decades. She is primarily known for her roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, The Birds and Marnie , and her extensive efforts in animal rescue at Shambala Preserve, an wildlife habitat which she founded in 1983....
    , actress
  • February 6 - Mamie Van Doren
    Mamie Van Doren

    Mamie Van Doren is an United States actor and sex symbol....
  • February 8 - James Dean
    James Dean

    James Byron Dean was a two-time Academy Award-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled stereotypical high school rebel Jim Stark....
    , actor
  • March 22 - William Shatner
    William Shatner

    William Alan Shatner is a Canadian double Emmy-, Golden Globe- and Saturn Award-winning actor and novelist. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T....
    , actor
  • July 1 - Leslie Caron
    Leslie Caron

    Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood Musical film stars in the 1950s....
    , French actress
  • September 17 - Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft

    Anne Bancroft was an United States actress associated with the Method acting school of acting....
    , actress (d. 2005
    2005 in film

    The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,The Devil's Rejects, Saw II, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, ''The Ring Two, ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, ''xXx: State of the Union, ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...
    )
  • Sylvia Lopez
    Sylvia Lopez

    Sylvia Lopez was a France model and actress.Born Tatjana Bernt, she was raised in Paris, where she began a career in modelling. Eventually she modeled for couturier Jacques Fath, the first French fashion designer to export his creations to the United States....
    , European actress († 1959)


Film Debuts

  • Bruce Cabot
    Bruce Cabot

    Bruce Cabot was an United States film actor. He is best known as Jack Driscoll in King Kong . He was married twice, to the actresses Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa....
  • Otto Preminger
    Otto Preminger

    Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
     director, producer


Deaths

  • November 27 - Lya De Putti
    Lya De Putti

    Lya De Putti was a Hungarians film actress of the silent film, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters....
    , Hungarian actress (b. 1899
    1899 in film

    The year 1899 in film involved some significant events....
    )