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e: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films.

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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
's film career begins
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple

Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
's film career begins
Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
released Flowers and Trees
Flowers and Trees

Flowers and Trees is a 1932 in film Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932....
their first cartoon in three-strip 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....
film.
Santa
Santa (film)

Santa is the first Mexican narrative sound film. It was directed by Antonio Moreno and starred Lupita Tovar, based on the novel of the same name by Federico Gamboa....
, first sound film made in Mexico released.

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....
: Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel (film)

Grand Hotel is a 1932 in film MGM Pre-Code Art Deco film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.The plot device of the film?bringing together several unrelated characters into one setting?was popular and effective enough that it was re-used in other films and became known as "the Grand Hotel" formula....
- MGM

Note: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films.

Notable Films released in 1932

American Madness
American Madness

American Madness is a 1932 in film American film directed by Frank Capra and starring Walter Huston as a New York banker embroiled in scandal....
, starring Walter Huston
Walter Huston

Walter Huston was an Academy Award-winning Canada-born American actor....
, directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
As You Desire Me
As You Desire Me (film)

As You Desire Me is a 1932 in film film adaptation of the play by Luigi Pirandello made by MGM. It was produced and directed by George Fitzmaurice with Irving Thalberg as co-producer....
, 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...
Back Street
Back Street (1932 film)

Back Street is a 1932 in film film made by Universal Pictures, directed by John M. Stahl, and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman based on novel by Fannie Hurst....
, starring 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 ....
and John Boles
John Boles (actor)

John Boles was a United States actor....
The Beast of the City
The Beast of the City

The Beast of the City is a 1932 in film pre-Code gangster movie featuring cops as vigilantes – predating Dirty Harry by almost 40 years – and known for its singularly vicious ending....
, starring Walter Huston
Walter Huston

Walter Huston was an Academy Award-winning Canada-born American actor....
, 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 Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford was an England-born United States movie and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build later in life, appeared in a number of movie westerns and B-movies....
The Big Broadcast
The Big Broadcast

The Big Broadcast is a Paramount Pictures production starring Bing Crosby, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. Directed by Frank Tuttle, the musical comedy is the first in the series of Big Broadcast movies....
, starring Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
Big City Blues
Big City Blues (1932 film)

Big City Blues is a 1932 in film Warner Bros. drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The story is based on the play by Ward Morehouse and the film stars Joan Blondell....
, starring Eric Linden
Eric Linden

Eric Linden was an actor who starred in a handful of movies. He began his film career in 1931 and appeared in over 30 movies, including a small role in Gone with the Wind ....
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 Big Stampede
The Big Stampede

The Big Stampede is a 1932 in film film starring John Wayne. It is a remake of the 1927 in film Land Beyond the Law....
, 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....
A Bill of Divorcement
A Bill of Divorcement

A Bill of Divorcement is a United Kingdom play written by Clemence Dane that debuted in 1921 in London. Dane wrote it as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman divorcing her husband....
, 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 ....
-(film mentioned in article)
Bird of Paradise
Bird of Paradise (1932 film)

Bird of Paradise is a film directed by King Vidor made by RKO starred by Dolores del Rio and Joel McCrea released on September 13, in 1932 in film....
, starring Dolores del Rio
Dolores del Río

Dolores del R?o was a Mexico film actor. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood. She became an important actress in Cinema of Mexico later in her life....
and Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea

Joel Albert McCrea, was an Cinema of the United States actor and film star whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films....
Das Blaue Licht
The Blue Light (film)

The Blue Light is a black-and-white 1932 in film written and directed by Leni Riefenstahl and B?la Bal?zs, with uncredited scripting by Carl Mayer....
, starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a Germany film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker....
Blonde Venus
Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus is a 1932 in film drama film starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant. The movie was produced and directed for Paramount Pictures by Josef von Sternberg with a screenplay by Jules Furthman and S....
, 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....
Broken Lullaby, starring Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
Call Her Savage
Call Her Savage

Call Her Savage is a Pre-Code comedy drama film starring Clara Bow as a wild young woman who rebels against the man she believes to be her father....
, 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....
The Dentist
The Dentist (1932 film)

The Dentist is a 1932 United States Comedy film Short subject starring W.C. Fields. The film is one of four short films Fields made with the "king of comedy," Mack Sennett, at Paramount Pictures....
, a W.C. Fields short subject produced by Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett was a Canadian -born Academy Award-winning director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy."...
Emma
Emma (1932 film)

Marie Dressler starred in this Clarence Brown directed 1932 in film film, Emma, about a mature woman who selflessly and lovingly raises a widower's children, giving them constant care and attention as they grow into heedless and spoiled young adults....
, starring Marie Dressler
Marie Dressler

Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)

A Farewell to Arms is a 1932 United States drama film directed by Frank Borzage. The screenplay by Oliver H.P. Garrett and Benjamin Glazer is based on the A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway....
, 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 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....
Flowers and Trees
Flowers and Trees

Flowers and Trees is a 1932 in film Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932....
Freaks
Freaks

Freaks is a horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers....
, directed by Tod Browning
Tod Browning

Tod Browning was an United States film actor, film director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. Best-known as the director of Dracula , the cult classic Freaks , and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Sr., Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres....
Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel (film)

Grand Hotel is a 1932 in film MGM Pre-Code Art Deco film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.The plot device of the film?bringing together several unrelated characters into one setting?was popular and effective enough that it was re-used in other films and became known as "the Grand Hotel" formula....
, 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...
, Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore

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

Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
and Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt

'Jean Hersholt' was a Danish actor who lived in the United States where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr....
Horse Feathers
Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers was the fourth Marx Brothers film. It stars the four Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx, as well as Thelma Todd as Connie Bailey, and was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S....
, 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....
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a pre-Code 1932 in film Crime film/drama film in which Paul Muni stars as a wrongfully accused escapee from a chain gang....
, starring Paul Muni
Paul Muni

Paul Muni was an United States Academy Awards-winning and Tony Award-winning Stage and film actor.BiographyEarly life and career...
If I Had A Million
If I Had A Million

If I Had a Million is an Cinema of the United States film released by Paramount Pictures Studios in 1932 in film, starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, W....
Impatient Maiden
Impatient Maiden

Impatient Maiden is a 1932 in film drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by James Whale, and starring by Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke....
Love Me Tonight
Love Me Tonight

This is an article about a film. For the song see Love Me Tonight Love Me Tonight is a 1932 in film musical comedy film which tells the story of a penniless nobleman who moves a tailor to whom he owes money into his chateau and passes him off as nobility....
, 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 Jeannette MacDonald
The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game (film)

The Most Dangerous Game is a adaptation of the 1924 The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, the first film version of that story. The plot concerns a big game hunter on an island who chooses to hunt humans for sport....
, starring Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea

Joel Albert McCrea, was an Cinema of the United States actor and film star whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films....
, Fay Wray
Fay Wray

Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actor and the first ever scream queen, originating from her appearances in the 1932 film Doctor X and the 1933 film King Kong ....
, and Leslie Banks
Leslie Banks

Leslie Banks, Commander of the British Empire was an England theatre and film actor, Film director and Record producer.Born in West Derby, England, a suburb of Liverpool, he made his acting debut in 1911 in regional vaudeville before moving to London to appear at the "Vaudeville Theatre" in 191]....
The Mouthpiece
The Mouthpiece

The Mouthpiece is a 1932 in film crime drama film directed by James Flood and Elliott Nugent....
, starring Warren William
Warren William

Warren William was a Broadway theatre and Hollywood actor, born the son of Freeman E. and Frances Krech, Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minnesota....
Movie Crazy
Movie Crazy

Movie Crazy is a 1932 in film comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, a popular comedian of the 1920s and early 1930s. It was Lloyd's third 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....
The Mummy
The Mummy (1932 film)

The Mummy is a horror film from Universal Studios directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest. The movie also features Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward van Sloan....
, 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....
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 film)

Murders in the Rue Morgue is a Universal Pictures pre-Code horror film loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Bela Lugosi, one year after his legendary performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist who abducts women and injects them with fresh blood from his vicious caged ape....
, 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 ....
, Sidney Fox
Sidney Fox

Sidney Fox was an American actress....
and Leon Ames
Leon Ames (actor)

Leon Ames was an United States film and television actor....
One Hour with You
One Hour with You

One Hour with You is a 1932 in film film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Samson Raphaelson and his assistant Sam Bellas from the Lothar Schmidt play Only a Dream, and was directed by George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch....
, 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"....
, Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald

Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
, Genevieve Tobin
Genevieve Tobin

Genevieve Tobin was an American actress.The daughter of a vaudeville performer, Tobin made her film debut in 1910 in Uncle Tom's Cabin as Eva....
and Charles Ruggles
Charles Ruggles

Charles Sherman ?Charlie? Ruggles was a comic United States actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films....
One Way Passage
One Way Passage

One Way Passage is a romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros....
, starring William Powell
William Powell

William Horatio Powell was a three-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, noted for his sophisticated, cynical roles. He was a major MGM film star and is most widely known for portraying the detective Nick and Nora Charles in six The Thin Man films....
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....
Pack Up Your Troubles
Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack Up Your Troubles is a 1932 in film Laurel and Hardy film directed by George Marshall and Ray McCarey, named after the World War I song "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag"...
, starring Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II....
and Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 31 years, 1926-1957 ....
Red Dust
Red Dust

Red Dust is an United States 1932 in film Romance film drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The picture is the second of six movies Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made together and was produced during the Pre-Code era of Hollywood....
, starring 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......
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......
Red-Headed Woman
Red-Headed Woman

Red-Headed Woman is a 1932 in film of the Pre-Code era, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on a novel by Katherine Brush, and with a screenplay by Anita Loos....
, 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......
Scarface
Scarface (1932 film)

Scarface is a 1932 in film Cinema of the United States gangster film, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C....
, starring Paul Muni
Paul Muni

Paul Muni was an United States Academy Awards-winning and Tony Award-winning Stage and film actor.BiographyEarly life and career...
Shanghai Express
Shanghai Express (film)

Shanghai Express is an United States 1932 in film film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The Pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland....
, 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....
, Clive Brook
Clive Brook

Clive Brook was an England actor....
, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland
Warner Oland

Warner Oland was a Sweden actor most remembered for his role as "Charlie Chan."...
The Sign of the Cross
The Sign of the Cross (film)

The Sign of the Cross is a 1932 in film epic film made by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman, based on the 1896 play by Wilson Barrett....
Smilin' Through
Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through is a 1919 play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, written under a pseudonym, Allan Langdon Martin. Cowl also starred in the play in a double role and co-directed it with Priestly Morrison....
, starring Norma Shearer
Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
Tarzan the Ape Man, starring Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller was an United States swimming and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic Games gold medals and one bronze medal....
and Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen Paula O?Sullivan was an Ireland actor who was considered Ireland's first film star....
Three on a Match
Three on a Match

Three on a Match Warner Bros. drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis. The film also features Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart , Allen Jenkins and Edward Arnold ....
, starring 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....
, Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak was an United Statesn film actor.The only child of two vaudevillians, young Anna was raised in the business that would later make her a star ....
and Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
Tiger Shark
Tiger Shark (film)

Tiger Shark is a film by Howard Hawks. The movie was made the same year as Scarface , which is widely acknowledged to be the director's best film of the early sound era....
, 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....
Trouble in Paradise, starring Herbert Marshall
Herbert Marshall

Herbert Marshall , born Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall, was a popular England cinema and theatre actor.His parents were Percy F. Marshall and Ethel May Turner....
, 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....
and Miriam Hopkins
Miriam Hopkins

Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
Two Seconds
Two Seconds

Two Seconds is a 1932 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson....
, 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....
Unheimliche Geschichten
Unheimliche Geschichten

Unheimliche Geschichten is a 1932 in film German Horror film/black comedy film directed by the prolific Austrian film director Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal....
remake w/ sound of the 1919 film
Union Depot
Union Depot (film)

Union Depot is a 1932 Pre-Code directed by Alfred E. Green for Warner Bros. in 1932, based on an unpublished play by Joe Laurie Jr., Gene Fowler, and Douglas Durkin....
, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr., Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Cross was an United States actor and a highly decorated United States Navy officer of World War II....
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....
Vampyr
Vampyr

Vampyr is an impressionistic horror film by Denmark director Carl Theodor Dreyer, released in 1932 in film. The France-Germany production stars Julian West , Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, and Henriette G?rard....
, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Denmark born film director of Sweden descent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema....
White Zombie
White Zombie (film)

White Zombie is an United States horror film, first released on August 4, 1932. It was the first film to feature zombies.The film was produced independently by minor silent film makers Edward Halperin and Victor Hugo Halperin, from a script by Garnett Weston....
, 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 ....

Serials

The Airmail Mystery
The Airmail Mystery

The Airmail Mystery is a Universal Pictures Serial . It is considered to be lost....
Detective Lloyd
Detective Lloyd

Detective Lloyd is a Universal Pictures Serial . The serial was a co-production between the United States company Universal Studios and the United Kingdom company General Films - it filmed in United Kingdom with United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations actors....
The Devil Horse
The Devil Horse

The Devil Horse is a Mascot Pictures Serial ....
Heroes of the West
Heroes of the West

Heroes of the West is a Universal Pictures Serial ....
The Hurricane Express
The Hurricane Express

The Hurricane Express is a 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial that stars John Wayne as an airplane pilot who goes after a mystery villain named "The Wrecker," the man responsible for a train crash that killed Wayne's father....
, 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 Jungle Mystery
The Jungle Mystery

The Jungle Mystery is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the book The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy....
The Last Frontier
The Last Frontier (serial)

The Last Frontier is a 12-chapter serial, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1932 in film. The serial starred Lon Chaney, Jr. as the zorro-esque hero The Black Ghost....
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans (serial)

The Last of the Mohicans is a Mascot Pictures Serial based on the novel The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper....
The Lost Special
The Lost Special (serial)

The Lost Special is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the story The Lost Special by Arthur Conan Doyle. This adaptation does not include Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes, and moves events to the United States Western ....
The Shadow of the Eagle
The Shadow of the Eagle

The Shadow of the Eagle is a Mascot Pictures Serial film starring John Wayne in his first serial role. This serial is now in the public domain....
, 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....

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

Flowers and Trees
Flowers and Trees

Flowers and Trees is a 1932 in film Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932....
(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....
)
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)
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....
)
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
1931 in film

Events...
-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
1931 in film

Events...
-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
1931 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....
)
Betty Boop
Betty Boop

Betty Boop is an animation cartoon fictional character designed by Grim Natwick, appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures....
(1932-1939
1939 in film

The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
)
Pooch the Pup (1932-1933
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 3 - Dabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman

Dabney Wharton Coleman is an United States actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache.Biography...
, actor
January 4 - Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura is a Spanish people film director....
, director
February 6 - François Truffaut
François Truffaut

Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
, French film director (d. 1984
1984 in film

Events* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*TriStar Entertainment, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
)
February 13 - Susan Oliver
Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver , stage name of Charlotte Gercke, was an Emmy-nominated United States actress, television director and aviator....
, actress, pilot
February 18 – Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
, director
February 23 - Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was an United States Actor and Executive producer. She was also the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry....
, United States actress
February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
, actress
April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russians filmmaker, writer and opera director.Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed film directors; director Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life...
, Russian movie director (d. 1986
1986 in film

Events*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver....
)
April 10 - Delphine Seyrig
Delphine Seyrig

Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig was a stage and film actress and a film director....
, French actress (d. 1990)
August 2 - Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole

Peter Seamus O'Toole is an Irish people actor of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom in 1962 playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia ....
, actor
September 29 - Mehmood
Mehmood

Mehmood Ali popularly known simply as Mehmood , was an Indian actor, director and producer. He was known and appreciated for playing comic roles in Hindi films....
, Indian actor, director, producer (d. 2004
2004 in film

The year '2004 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Shrek 2, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs....
)
October 20 - William Christopher
William Christopher

William Christopher is an United States actor who is best known for playing Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy on the television television series M*A*S*H and Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C....
, United States actor
November 15 - Petula Clark
Petula Clark

Petula Clark, Order of the British Empire , is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II....
, British actress/film composer

Film debuts

Kate Smith
Kate Smith

Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
Mae West
Mae West

Mae West was an United States actor, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the theatre in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the film industry....

Deaths

February 15 - Minnie Maddern Fiske
Mrs. Fiske

Minnie Maddern Fiske , often billed as simply "Mrs. Fiske", was one of the leading American actor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
, stage star made silent films
August 1 - 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....
, canine actor
September 1 - Peg Entwistle
Peg Entwistle

Peg Entwistle was a Welsh people-born actress of theatre and film, who gained notoriety after she killed herself by jumping from the Hollywood sign, shortly following her appearance in the RKO film Thirteen Women....
, actress
November 2 - Evelyn Preer
Evelyn Preer

Eveleyn Preer was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s....
, actress, singer