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• British Film Institute
  British Film Institute
  
  The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:...
   founded.
• March 2 - King Kong
  King Kong (1933 film)
  
  King Kong is a landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "King Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will....
   premieres in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  .
• June 6 - The first drive-in theater
  Drive-in theater
  
  A drive-in theater is a form of movie theater structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a Movie projector Wikt: booth, a concession stand and a large parking lot for automobiles....
   opens, in Camden, New Jersey
  Camden, New Jersey
  
  The City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania....
  .
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) once again expresses interest in the Wizard of Oz
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's literature novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M....
   books for a series of animated cartoons, but they once again failed to make a deal with the estate of creator L. Frank Baum
  L. Frank Baum
  
  Lyman Frank Baum was an United States author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W....
  
• Ecstasy
  Ecstasy (film)
  
  Ecstasy is a Czech film made in 1933 in film by the Austrian people-Czech people director Gustav Machat?. It stars Hedy Lamarr, credited under her original surname Kiesler, and Zvonimir Rogoz....
  , a Czechoslovak
  Czechoslovakia
  
  Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
   film, shocks audiences when actress Hedy Lamarr
  Hedy Lamarr
  
  Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born United States actress and scientist. Though known primarily for her acting , she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication....
   is seen naked in the film.
• The Private Life of Henry VIII
  The Private Life of Henry VIII
  
  The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 in film film about the English king. It was written by Lajos Bir? and Arthur Wimperis, and directed by Sir Alexander Korda....
   becomes the first British film
  Cinema of the United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom has had a profound impact on modern cinema and has one the most respected film industries in the world. Despite a history of successful productions, the industry is characterised by an ongoing debate about its identity and the influences of Cinema of the United States and European cinema, although it is fair to say a brief 'gol...
   to win an American Academy Award
  Academy Awards
  
  The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
  .

Top grossing films (U.S.)

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....
  : Cavalcade
  Cavalcade (film)
  
  Cavalcade is an Academy Award-winning 1933 in film United States drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 Cavalcade by No?l Coward....
   - Fox
• 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....
  : Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton
  
  Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
   - The Private Life of Henry VIII
  The Private Life of Henry VIII
  
  The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 in film film about the English king. It was written by Lajos Bir? and Arthur Wimperis, and directed by Sir Alexander Korda....
  
• 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....
  : 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....
   - Morning Glory

Films released in 1933

• 42nd Street
  42nd Street (film)
  
  42nd Street is a Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , and the script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton , from the novel by Bradford Ropes....
   - starring Dick Powell
  Dick Powell
  
  Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
  , Ruby Keeler
  Ruby Keeler
  
  Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, , was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street ....
  , Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
   - Directed by Lloyd Bacon
  Lloyd Bacon
  
  Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director....
  
• Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (1933 film)
  
  The 1933 in film film version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was an all-movie stars Paramount Pictures classic. It is mostly live-action, except for The Walrus and the Carpenter, which was animated by Max Fleischer's studio....
  , starring Charlotte Henry
  Charlotte Henry
  
  Charlotte Henry was an United States actress. Her first major role was at age 15 in the Broadway theatre play Courage in 1928, also playing in the film version in 1930....
   and virtually every Paramount star at the time
• Baby Face
  Baby Face (film)
  
  Baby Face is a sexually-charged, pre-Code feature film first released in 1933 in film. The film was based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck , written by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola, and directed by Alfred E....
  , 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....
  
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  
  The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a pre-Code 1933 in film film, directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther.The film was the first to play at the Radio City Music Hall upon its opening in January, 1933....
  , 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....
  
• Blood Money, starring George Bancroft
  George Bancroft (actor)
  
  File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-08550, Filmstar George B. Bancrofft in Berlin.jpgGeorge Bancroft was an United States actor.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become one of the top Hollywood stars of the 1920s....
  
• Bombshell
  Bombshell (film)
  
  Bombshell is a film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone....
  , 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......
  
• The Bowery
  The Bowery (1933 film)
  
  The Bowery is a 1933 in film historical film about the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the century. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh and featured Wallace Beery as saloon owner Chuck Connors, George Raft as Steve Brodie , the first man to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge and live, Jackie Cooper as a pugnacious child, Fay Wray...
  , 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....
   and George Raft
  George Raft
  
  George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
  
• Cavalcade
  Cavalcade (film)
  
  Cavalcade is an Academy Award-winning 1933 in film United States drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 Cavalcade by No?l Coward....
  , starring Diana Wynyard
  Diana Wynyard
  
  Diana Wynyard was an English stage and film actress.Born Dorothy Isobel Cox in London, Wynyard began her career on the stage. After success in Liverpool and London, she attracted attention on Broadway theatre and appeared first in Rasputin and the Empress in 1932, with Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, and Lionel Barrymore....
  , Clive Brook
  Clive Brook
  
  Clive Brook was an England actor....
  , Una O'Connor
  Una O'Connor
  
  Una O'Connor was an Irish actor who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a notable character actor in film....
   and Herbert Mundin
  Herbert Mundin
  
  Herbert Mundin was an England-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowelled features and cheerful Cockney disposition....
  
• Counsellor at Law
  Counsellor at Law
  
  Counsellor at Law is a 1933 in film drama film directed by William Wyler. It is based on a play by Elmer Rice....
  , 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 ....
  
• Damaged Lives
  Damaged Lives
  
  Damaged Lives is an United States exploitation film produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer about a couple that contracts a venereal disease....
  
• Dancing Lady
  Dancing Lady
  
  Dancing Lady is a 1933 in film musical motion picture starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. In the film, Crawford plays Janie Barlow, a young New York City burlesque dancer rescued from jail by a rich man....
  , 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......
  
• Deluge
• Design for Living
  Design for Living
  
  Design for Living is a comedy Play written by No?l Coward in 1932. It concerns a trio of artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo, and their complicated three-way relationship....
  , starring Fredric March and 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....
  
• The Devil's Brother, 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 ....
  
• Dinner at Eight
  Dinner at Eight (film)
  
  Dinner at Eight is a Pre-Code 1933 in film comedy of manners/drama produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J....
  , featuring an all-star cast
• Adventures of Don Quixote
  Adventures of Don Quixote (film)
  
  Adventures of Don Quixote is a film adaptation of the classic Miguel de Cervantes novel, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, starring the famous operatic bass Feodor Chaliapin....
  , starring Feodor Chaliapin
  Feodor Chaliapin
  
  Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin was the most famous Russian opera singer of the 20th century. The possesor of a large and expressive Bass voice, he is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form....
  
• Dragnet Girl, starring Kinuyo Tanaka
  Kinuyo Tanaka
  
  Kinuyo Tanaka was a Japanese actor and Film director.Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujiro Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929....
  , directed by Yasujiro Ozu
  Yasujiro Ozu
  
  was an influential Japanese people filmmaker. Known for his distinctive technical style, developed since the silent films, marriage and family were among the most persistent themes in his body of work....
  
• Duck Soup
  Duck Soup
  
  Duck Soup is a Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey....
  , 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....
  
• Ecstasy
  Ecstasy (film)
  
  Ecstasy is a Czech film made in 1933 in film by the Austrian people-Czech people director Gustav Machat?. It stars Hedy Lamarr, credited under her original surname Kiesler, and Zvonimir Rogoz....
  
• Employees' Entrance
  Employees' Entrance
  
  Employees' Entrance is a 1933 in film Pre-Code film about the manager of a New York department store and an employee ....
  , 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....
   and Loretta Young
  Loretta Young
  
  Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
  
• Flying Down to Rio
  Flying Down to Rio
  
  Flying Down to Rio is a musical film made by RKO Pictures and released on December 29, in 1933 in film.The film was directed by Thornton Freeland and produced by Merian C....
  , 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 Gene Raymond
  Gene Raymond
  
  Gene Raymond born Raymond Guion was an United States film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a composer, writer, director, producer, and decorated military pilot....
  
• Footlight Parade
  Footlight Parade
  
  Footlight Parade is a Warner Bros. musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly....
  , 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....
  , 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....
   and Ruby Keeler
  Ruby Keeler
  
  Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, , was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street ....
  
• Gabriel Over the White House
  Gabriel Over the White House
  
  Gabriel Over the White House is a 1933 in film film depicting a fictional President of the United States who has a religious experience and attempts to solve his country's problems through authoritarianism means....
  , starring Walter Huston
  Walter Huston
  
  Walter Huston was an Academy Award-winning Canada-born American actor....
  . Produced by William Randolph Hearst
  William Randolph Hearst
  
  William Randolph Hearst I was an United States History of American newspapers Business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father received a northern California newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner, as payment of a gambling debt....
  
• The Ghoul, 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....
  , Cedric Hardwicke
  Cedric Hardwicke
  
  Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke Order of the British Empire was a notable England actor....
   and Ernest Thesiger
  Ernest Thesiger
  
  Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger Order of the British Empire , sometimes credited as Ernst Thesiger, was an England stage and film actor. He is best known for his performance as Doctor Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's film Bride of Frankenstein ....
  
• Going Hollywood
  Going Hollywood
  
  Going Hollywood is a movie directed by Raoul Walsh, written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film tells the story of Sylvia , a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love....
  , starring Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  
  Marion Davies was an United States film actress.Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst....
   and 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....
  
• Gold Diggers of 1933
  Gold Diggers of 1933
  
  Gold Diggers of 1933 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley....
  , 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....
  , Ruby Keeler
  Ruby Keeler
  
  Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, , was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street ....
  , Dick Powell
  Dick Powell
  
  Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
  , Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
   and 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....
  
• Goodbye Again
  Goodbye Again (1933 film)
  
  Goodbye Again is a 1933 in film comedy film made by First National Pictures/Warner Bros.. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by...
  , 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....
   and 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....
  
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
  Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)
  
  Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 in film United States Musical film comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone in the The Great Depression.The film stars Al Jolson as Bumper, a popular New York tramp, and both romanticizes and satirizes the hobo lifsetyle that many people were forced into by the economic conditions of the time....
  , 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...
  
• Hold Your Man
  Hold Your Man
  
  Hold Your Man is an American romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable....
  , 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......
  
• I'm No Angel
  I'm No Angel
  
  I'm No Angel is Mae West third motion picture. Mae West received sole story and screenplay credit. A young Cary Grant plays the male lead....
  , starring 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....
   and Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
  . West also wrote the story and screenplay.
• In the Wake of the Bounty
  In the Wake of the Bounty
  
  In the Wake of the Bounty was an Australian film retelling of the story of the Bounty that preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty by two years and featured the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian....
  , starring Errol Flynn
  Errol Flynn
  
  Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
   as Fletcher Christian.
• The Invisible Man
  The Invisible Man (1933 film)
  
  The Invisible Man is a 1933 in film horror film based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The Invisible Man, published in 1897, as adapted by R....
  , starring Claude Rains in the title role.
• Island of Lost Souls
  Island of Lost Souls (1933 film)
  
  Island of Lost Souls is a science fiction film/horror film starring Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi. Produced by Paramount Pictures in 1933 in film from a script co-written by science fiction legend Philip Wylie, the movie was the first film adaptation of the H....
  , an adaptation of H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  
  Herbert George Wells , known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was an England author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction"....
  ' The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton
  
  Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
  
• Kazdemu wolno kochac, by Mieczyslaw Krawicz
• King Kong
  King Kong (1933 film)
  
  King Kong is a landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "King Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will....
  , starring 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 Robert Armstrong
  Robert Armstrong (actor)
  
  Robert Armstrong was an United States film actor best remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures....
  
• Ladies They Talk About
  Ladies They Talk About
  
  Ladies They Talk About is a 1933 Pre-Code prison film about a woman sent to San Quentin. Based on the play Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles, the film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lillian Roth....
  , 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....
  
• Lady for a Day
  Lady for a Day
  
  Lady for a Day is a 1933 in film film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Riskin, based on the Damon Runyon story Madame la Gimp....
  , 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....
   and May Robson
• Lady Killer
  Lady Killer (1933 film)
  
  Lady Killer is a 1933 in film film starring James Cagney, Mae Clarke, and Margaret Lindsay, based on the story "The Finger Man" by Rosalind Keating Shaffer....
  , 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....
  
• Liebelei
  Liebelei (film)
  
  Liebelei is a 1933 in film German film directed by Max Oph%C3%BCls. The film, based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair....
  
• Little Women
  Little Women
  
  Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott . Written and published in two parts in 1868 in literature and 1869 in literature, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters....
  , starring 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....
  
• Lot in Sodom
  Lot in Sodom
  
  Lot in Sodom is a short film silent film experimental film, based on the Biblical tale of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. It was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber....
  , starring Friedrich Haak
• Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
   and Loretta Young
  Loretta Young
  
  Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
  
• The Mayor of Hell, 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....
  
• The Midnight Patrol
  The Midnight Patrol
  
  For the television cartoon, see Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone.The Midnight Patrol is a short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy released August 3, 1933....
  , 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 ....
  
• Morning Glory, starring 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....
  
• Mystery of the Wax Museum
  Mystery of the Wax Museum (film)
  
  Mystery of the Wax Museum is a Mystery film/Horror film Technicolor film released in 1933 in film and directed by Michael Curtiz. It stars Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh....
  , starring Lionel Atwill
  Lionel Atwill
  
  Lionel Atwill was an England stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England.He began his stage career in 1905 in England, and had become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, but was most famous for his horror films roles in the 1930s....
   and 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 ....
  
• One Sunday Afternoon, 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....
  
• Our Betters
  Our Betters
  
  Our Betters is a 1933 in film Cinema of the United States satire comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Harry Wagstaff Gribble is based on the 1923 play of the same title by W....
  , starring Constance Bennett
  Constance Bennett
  
  Constance Campbell Bennett was an United States actor. Known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career, Bennett was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation....
  , Gilbert Roland
  Gilbert Roland
  
  Gilbert Roland was a Mexico-born naturalized United States citizen who starred in many films.He was born Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso in Ciudad Ju?rez, Chihuahua , Mexico and originally intended to become a bullfighter like his father....
  , and Anita Louise
  Anita Louise
  
  Anita Louise was an American film actor....
  
• Parachute Jumper
  Parachute Jumper
  
  Parachute Jumper is a 1933 in film black-and-white drama film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh. It was based on a story by Rian James entitled "Some Call It Love"....
  , starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 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...
  , and Frank McHugh
  Frank McHugh
  
  Frank McHugh was an United States film and television actor.McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and as a young child he performed on stage....
  
• Peg o' My Heart
  Peg o' My Heart (1933 film)
  
  Peg o' My Heart is a 1933 in film film adaptation of the play of the same name by J. Hartley Manners. It starred Marion Davies as a poor Irish girl who stands to inherit a fortune if she satisfies certain conditions....
  , starring Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  
  Marion Davies was an United States film actress.Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst....
  
• Penthouse
  Penthouse (film)
  
  Penthouse is a 1933 in film black-and-white crime film starring Warner Baxter as a lawyer whose clients are less than upright and Myrna Loy as a call girl who helps him with a murder case....
  , starring Warner Baxter
  Warner Baxter
  
  Warner Leroy Baxter was an United States Academy Award-winning actor who is best known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona.Baxter was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to San Francisco, California with his widowed mother in 1898, when he was nine....
   and Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  
• Picture Snatcher, 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....
  
• The Power and the Glory
  The Power and the Glory (film)
  
  The Power and the Glory is a 1933 in film film starring Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore, written by Preston Sturges, and directed by William K....
  , starring Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
  
• The Private Life of Henry VIII
  The Private Life of Henry VIII
  
  The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 in film film about the English king. It was written by Lajos Bir? and Arthur Wimperis, and directed by Sir Alexander Korda....
  , starring Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton
  
  Charles Laughton was an England Academy Award-winning Theatre and film actor, screenwriter, Film producer and one-time Film director.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor....
  
• The Prizefighter and the Lady
  The Prizefighter and the Lady
  
  The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 in film black-and-white Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer crime film romance film comedy film starring Myrna Loy, Max Baer , Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, and Walter Huston....
  , starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  , Primo Carnera
  Primo Carnera
  
  Primo Carnera was an Italian people Boxing who became the List of Heavyweight Champions....
   and Jack Dempsey
  Jack Dempsey
  
  Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey was an United States boxing who held the List of heavyweight boxing champions from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history....
  
• Professional Sweetheart, starring Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
  
• Queen Christina
  Queen Christina (film)
  
  Queen Christina is a Cinema of the United States Pre-Code historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The film was written by Viertel LeVino and Margaret "Peg" LeVino, with dialogue by S....
  , 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...
  
• Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas
  Paul Lukas
  
  Paul Lukas was a Hungary Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor.Born P?l Luk?cs in Budapest, he arrived in Hollywood in 1927 after a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with Max Reinhardt ....
  , Gloria Stuart
  Gloria Stuart
  
  Gloria Frances Stewart, also known as Gloria Stuart is an American actor. Over a Hollywood career that spans more than 70 years, Stuart appeared on stage , television and film, and is best known as for her roles as Claude Rains' sweetheart in The Invisible Man and as the 100-year-old Rose in the film Titanic ....
   and Lionel Atwill
  Lionel Atwill
  
  Lionel Atwill was an England stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England.He began his stage career in 1905 in England, and had become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, but was most famous for his horror films roles in the 1930s....
  
• Secrets
  Secrets (film)
  
  Secrets is a film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Mary Pickford in her last film role. The film is a remake of Secrets , a silent film starring Norma Talmadge....
  , starring Mary Pickford
  Mary Pickford
  
  Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canada film actor, as well as a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
   in her last film
• She Done Him Wrong
  She Done Him Wrong
  
  She Done Him Wrong is a Pre-Code 1933 in film Paramount Pictures comedy film/romance film film starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., and Rochelle Hudson....
  , starring Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
   and 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....
  
• The Son of Kong
  The Son of Kong
  
  Son of Kong is a 1933 in film Adventure film and a sequel to the successful film King Kong ....
  , starring Robert Armstrong
  Robert Armstrong (actor)
  
  Robert Armstrong was an United States film actor best remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong by RKO Pictures....
   and Helen Mack
  Helen Mack
  
  Helen Mack is one of the earliest examples of pioneering women who were successful in the entertainment industry, first as a performer and then orchestrating behind the scenes....
  
• Sons of the Desert
  Sons of the Desert
  
  Sons of the Desert is a 1933 in film film starring Laurel and Hardy, and directed by William A. Seiter. It was first released in the United States on December 29 1933 and is regarded as one of Laurel and Hardy's greatest films....
  , 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 ....
  
• State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor
  Janet Gaynor
  
  Janet Gaynor was an American actor.One of the most popular actresses of the silent films era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise , Seventh Heaven , and Street Angel ....
  , Will Rogers
  Will Rogers
  
  William Penn Adair ?Will? Rogers was a Cherokee-United States cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentary, vaudeville performer and actor. He was the father of U.S....
   and Lew Ayres
  Lew Ayres
  
  Lew Ayres was an American actor....
  
• The Story of Temple Drake
  The Story of Temple Drake
  
  The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 in film Pre-Code drama film adapted from the highly controversial novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner....
  , starring Miriam Hopkins
  Miriam Hopkins
  
  Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
   and Jack La Rue
  Jack La Rue
  
  Jack La Rue was a film and stage actor.He worked on the New York stage; the Internet Broadway Database lists seven Broadway theatre credits for him from 1923 to 1931....
  
• A Study in Scarlet
  A Study in Scarlet (1933 film)
  
  A Study in Scarlet is a drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Anna May Wong and Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes. The title comes from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel A Study in Scarlet, however the story is original....
  , starring Reginald Owen
  Reginald Owen
  
  Reginald Owen, or John Reginald Owen, was an England character actor known for playing in many film roles in British and American movies and later in television programs....
   (see A Study in Scarlet
  A Study in Scarlet
  
  A Study in Scarlet is a detective Mystery fiction novel written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887....
  )
• Supernatural, starring 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....
  , Alan Dinehart
  Alan Dinehart
  
  Alan Dinehart was an American Broadway actor, director, writer, stage manager and later, a B-movie supporting player featured in at least 88 films between 1931 and 1944....
  , Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
  Randolph Scott
  
  Randolph Scott was an United States film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962....
  
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  
  The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a 1933 in film movie by director Fritz Lang, a sequel to two of his previous works, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and M ....
  , directed by Fritz Lang
  Fritz Lang
  
  Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-Germany-United States filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known ?migr?s from Germany's school of German Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute....
  
• This Day and Age
  This Day and Age (film)
  
  This Day and Age is a 1933 in film film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is one of his rarest films and has not been released on DVD....
  , 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....
  's now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell
  Richard Cromwell (actor)
  
  Richard Cromwell, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh , was an United States actor. His family and friends called him Roy, though he was also professionally known and signed autographs as Dick Cromwell....
   and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy Montgomery.
• Three Little Pigs
  Three Little Pigs (film)
  
  Three Little Pigs is an animation short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett....
  
• Tillie and Gus
  Tillie and Gus
  
  Tillie and Gus is a 1933 United States comedy film directed by Francis Martin. The screenplay by Walter DeLeon is based on a short story by Rupert Hughes entitled Don't Call Me Madame....
  , starring Alison Skipworth
  Alison Skipworth
  
  Alison Skipworth was an English stage and screen actress.Skipworth made her first stage appearance at Daly's Theater in London in 1894, in A Gaiety Girl....
   and W.C. Fields
• Tonight Is Ours
  Tonight Is Ours
  
  Tonight Is Ours is a 1933 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Stuart Walker , and starring Claudette Colbert, Fredric March and Alison Skipworth....
  , starring Fredric March 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....
  
• Topaze, 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 ....
   and Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  
• Torch Singer
  Torch Singer
  
  Torch Singer is a 1933 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners and Lyda Roberti....
  , starring 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....
  
• Tugboat Annie
  Tugboat Annie
  
  Tugboat Annie is a 1933 in film movie starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat....
  , starring Marie Dressler
  Marie Dressler
  
  Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
   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....
  
• Turn Back the Clock
  Turn Back the Clock (film)
  
  Turn Back the Clock is a 1933 in film MGM comedy drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn, written by Edgar Selwyn and Ben Hecht, and starring by Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke....
  , starring Lee Tracy
  Lee Tracy
  
  Lee Tracy was an Academy Award-nominated United States actor.Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia , he studied electrical engineering at Union College, and then he served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I....
   and Mae Clarke
  Mae Clarke
  
  Mae Clarke was an American film actress.Mae Clarke was born Violet Mary Klotz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started her career as a dancer and subsequently starred in many films for Universal Studios, including the original screen version of The Front Page and the first sound version of Frankenstein with Boris Karl...
  
• The Vampire Bat
  The Vampire Bat
  
  The Vampire Bat is a 1933 in film horror movie starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas and Dwight Frye....
  , starring Lionel Atwill
  Lionel Atwill
  
  Lionel Atwill was an England stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England.He began his stage career in 1905 in England, and had become a star in Broadway theatre by 1918, but was most famous for his horror films roles in the 1930s....
   and 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 ....
  
• When Ladies Meet
  When Ladies Meet (1933 film)
  
  When Ladies Meet is a 1933 in film film starring Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery , and Alice Brady. The film is the first adaptation of the 1932 Rachel Crothers play....
  , starring Ann Harding
  Ann Harding
  
  Ann Harding was an American theatre, film, radio, and television actress....
  , 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....
   and Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
  
• Wild Boys of the Road, starring Frankie Darro
  Frankie Darro
  
  Frankie Darro was an United States voice-over artist, character actor and, initially, a well-known child actor....
   and Edwin Phillips
• The Working Man
  The Working Man
  
  The Working Man is a 1933 United States comedy film directed by John G. Adolfi. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Maude T. Howell is based on the story The Adopted Father by Edgar Franklin....
  , 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....
   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...
  

Serials

• Clancy of the Mounted
  Clancy of the Mounted
  
  Clancy of the Mounted is a Universal Pictures Northern Serial based on the poem s:Clancy of the Mounted Police by Robert W. Service. This was Universal's 85th serial and the 17th with sound....
  
• Fighting with Kit Carson
  Fighting with Kit Carson
  
  Fighting with Kit Carson is a Mascot Pictures Serial ....
  
• Gordon of Ghost City
  Gordon of Ghost City
  
  Gordon of Ghost City is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the novel Oh, Promise Me! by Peter B. Kyne.It is a remake of the 1932 in film film Flaming Guns, which was based on the same book....
  
• The Mystery Squadron
  The Mystery Squadron
  
  The Mystery Squadron is a Mascot Pictures Serial .This serial has four recap chapters ....
  
• The Perils of Pauline
  The Perils of Pauline (1933 serial)
  
  The Perils of Pauline is a serial, and sound film remake, of the Path? The Perils of Pauline . The 1933 12-chapter "cliffhanger" was produced by Universal Studios....
  , starring Evalyn Knapp
  Evalyn Knapp
  
  Evalyn Knapp was an United States of America film actress of the late 1920s, 1930s, and into the 1940s. She was a leading B-movies serial actress in the 1930s....
  
• The Phantom of the Air
  The Phantom of the Air
  
  The Phantom of the Air is a Universal Pictures Serial directed by Ray Taylor ....
  
• The Return of Chandu
• Tarzan the Fearless
  Tarzan the Fearless
  
  Tarzan the Fearless is a 12 chapter Serial film starring Buster Crabbe in his only appearance as Tarzan. It was also released as a 71-minute feature film which comprised the first four chapters of the serial version....
  , starring 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....
  
• The Three Musketeers
  The Three Musketeers (1933 serial)
  
  The Three Musketeers is a 1933 in film Serial film produced by Mascot Pictures which updates Alexandre Dumas, p?re The Three Musketeers by setting the story in contemporary North Africa....
  , starring Jack Mulhall
  Jack Mulhall
  
  Jack Mulhall, born John Joseph Francis Mulhall, was a movie actor since the silent film era and appeared in over 430 films....
   and 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 Whispering Shadow
  The Whispering Shadow
  
  The Whispering Shadow is a Serial film, starring B?la Lugosi in his first serial role. Lugosi received $10,000, the highest known salary of his career, for this film....
  , starring Béla 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 ....
  
• The Wolf Dog
  The Wolf Dog
  
  The Wolf Dog is a Mascot Pictures Serial film. It was directed by Colbert Clark and Harry L. Fraser and starred Frankie Darro and Rin Tin Tin, Jr.....
  , 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....
  

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....
   (1926- 1935)
• Ted Healey and the Three Stooges (1933-1934)

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)
• 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....
  )
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
  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....
  -1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Popeye
  Popeye
  
  File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
   (1933-1957
  1957 in film
  
  The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Pooch the Pup (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....
  -1933)
• Willie Whopper
  Willie Whopper
  
  Willie Whopper is an Animation Fictional character created by United States cartoonist, Ub Iwerks. The Whopper series was the second from the Iwerks studio to be produced by Pat Powers and distributed through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
   (1933-1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  )
• ComiColor Cartoons
  ComiColor Cartoons
  
  The ComiColor Cartoon series was a series of 29 animated short subjects produced by the Ub Iwerks studio from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by the studio; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, the Iwerks studio's senior company Celebrity Pictures had to distribute the films itself....
   (1933-1936
  1936 in film
  
  The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Cubby Bear (1933-1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  )
• The Little King
  The Little King
  
  The Little King was a comic strip created by Otto Soglow, famously telling its stories in a style using images and very few words as a pantomime comic strip....
   (1933-1934
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  )

Births

• January 18 - John Boorman
  John Boorman
  
  John Boorman is an England filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank , Deliverance, Excalibur , Hope and Glory , The General and Zardoz....
  , director
• February 18 - Mary Ure
  Mary Ure
  
  Eileen Mary Ure was a Scotland actress of stage and film....
  , actress
• March 22 - May Britt, Swedish actress
• April 7 - Wayne Rogers
  Wayne Rogers
  
  Wayne M. Rogers is an United States film and television actor, best known for playing the role of Trapper John McIntyre in the long-running United States television series, M*A*S*H ....
  , American actor
• April 19 - Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield
  
  Jayne Mansfield was an United States actor working both on Broadway theatre and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield, like Marilyn Monroe, was a Playboy Playmate, and appeared in the magazine several more times over the years....
  , actress
• May 20 - Danny Aiello
  Danny Aiello
  
  'Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr.' is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby , The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, L?on: The Professional, Two Days in the Valley, and ...
  , American actor
• June 11 - Gene Wilder
  Gene Wilder
  
  Gene Wilder is an American Emmy Award-winning and twice Academy Award-nominated theatre and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and author....
  , American actor
• October 9 - Judy Tyler
  Judy Tyler
  
  Judy Tyler was an United States of America actress.Born Judith Mae Hess in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, she came from a show business family and was encouraged to study dance and acting....
  , actress

Film Debuts

• Morris Ankrum
  Morris Ankrum
  
  Morris Ankrum was an United States radio, television and film character actor....
  
• Dame Peggy Ashcroft
• Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  
  Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
  
• Frances Drake
  Frances Drake (actor)
  
  Frances Drake was an United States actress from the 1930s who is best known for playing Eponine in Les Mis?rables . Born in New York City, she was educated in Canada and Britain, and was appearing as a nightclub dancer in London when she made her first film appearances under her birth name of Frances Dean, including Meet My Sister and Th...
  
• Errol Flynn
  Errol Flynn
  
  Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
  
• Margaret Hamilton
  Margaret Hamilton
  
  Margaret Hamilton was an United States film actress best known for her portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz ....
  
• Cesar Romero
  Cesar Romero
  
  Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was a Cuban American film and television actor, best known for his portrayal of Joker's appearances in other media#Batman in the 1960s television series Batman ....
  
• Phil Harris
  Phil Harris
  
  Phil Harris was an United States singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his Voice acting in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-Actor Alice Faye, for eight years....
  
• Lucille Ball
  Lucille Ball
  
  Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
  
• King Kong
  King Kong
  
  King Kong is the name of a fictional giant gorilla from the fictional Skull Island, who has appeared in several works since 1933. These include the groundbreaking King Kong , the film remakes of King Kong and King Kong , and numerous sequels....
  

Deaths

• January 3 - Jack Pickford
  Jack Pickford
  
  Jack Pickford was a Canada-born United States actor. He was best known for his tabloid lifestyle, marriage to the top movie star of his day, and being of the famous Pickford acting family....
  , actor/director
• January 25 - Lewis J. Selznick
  Lewis J. Selznick
  
  Lewis J. Selznick was a Jewish-Ukrainian-English-American film producer.Born Lewis Zeleznik to an impoverished Jewish family in Kiev in what is now the Ukraine, as a young boy he emigrated to London, United Kingdom....
  , producer
• February 15 - Pat Sullivan
  Pat Sullivan (film producer)
  
  Patrick Sullivan was an Australian film producer, best known for producing the first Felix the Cat silent cartoons. Sullivan became a film producer after moving to the United States in the early part of the twentieth century....
  , director/producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of 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....
  
• February 26 - Spottiswoode Aitken
  Spottiswoode Aitken
  
  Frank Spottiswoode Aitken was a Scotland- United States actor of the silent film era.Spottiswoode Aitken was one of the first actors to settle in Los Angeles when the industry was still at its strongest in New York....
  , actor
• February 23 - David Horsley
  David Horsley
  
  David Horsley was England born pioneer of the movie industry who built the first movie studio in Hollywood, California.Born in West Stanley, Durham, England, a small coal mining village where his entire family worked in the mines....
  , pioneer film executive
• March 8 - Albert Roscoe, silent screen star
• August 18 - James Williamson
  James Williamson (film pioneer)
  
  James Williamson was an early film developer and film director.Williamson originally processed film for other early movie makers, and then began production of his own features....
  , film developer and film director
• August 28 - Helen Dunbar
  Helen Dunbar
  
  Helen Dunbar was an United States theatrical performer and silent film actress.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she first appeared with the Weber & Fields Stock Company, when it began its career on the New York stage....
  , actress
• October 5 - Renée Adorée
  Renée Adorée
  
  Ren?e Ador?e was a French actress, who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s....
  , actress