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1.Viva Villa!
Viva Villa!

Viva Villa! is a 1934 in film film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O.B....
 
2.The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil (1934 film)

The Painted Veil is a 1934 in film drama film made by MGM. It was directed by Ryszard Boleslawski and produced by Hunt Stromberg from a screenplay by John Meehan , Salka Viertel, and Edith Fitzgerald, adapted from the 1925 in literature W....
 
3.The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw

The Cat?s-Paw is a 1934 in film film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Sam Taylor . It was one of the great silent movie comedian?s few sound films....
 
4.The Black Cat
The Black Cat (1934 film)

The Black Cat is a 1934 in film horror film that became Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year. It was the first of six movies to pair actors B?la Lugosi and Boris Karloff....
 
5.Let's Try Again 
6.One Night of Love
One Night of Love

One Night of Love is a 1934 in film musical romance, set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K....
 
7.It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night is an Cinema of the United States 1934 in film screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ....
 
8.Tarzan and His Mate
Tarzan and His Mate

Tarzan and His Mate is a Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the second in the Tarzan film series to star Johnny Weissmuller....
 
9.Little Miss Marker
Little Miss Marker

Little Miss Marker is a 1934 in film film starring Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell. It is based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon....
 
10.The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 in film suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released by Gaumont Film Company. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period....
 
11.The Richest Girl in the World 
12.Treasure Island
Treasure Island (1934 film)

Treasure Island is a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson?s famous 1883 in literature novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but Piracy led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers? riches and lives....
 
13.The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning , despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett ....









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Events

  • January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn
    Samuel Goldwyn

    Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios....
     (formerly of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) purchases the film rights to The Wonderful 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....
     from the 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....
     estate for $40,000.
  • February 19 - Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     marries Dolores Reade
    Dolores Hope

    Dolores Hope is a singer, philanthropist and the widow of actor Bob Hope.She was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. She is of Italian people and Irish people descent....
  • April 19 - Fox Studios releases Stand Up and Cheer!
    Stand Up and Cheer!

    Stand Up and Cheer! is a 1934 in film motion picture about the Depression Era in the United States, and the efforts undertaken to boost the morale of the citizenry....
    , with five-year-old 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....
     in a relatively minor role. Shirley steals the film and Fox, which had been near bankruptcy, finds itself owning a goldmine.
  • May 18 - Paramount releases Little Miss Marker
    Little Miss Marker

    Little Miss Marker is a 1934 in film film starring Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell. It is based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon....
    , with Shirley Temple, on loan from Fox, in the title role.
  • June 13 - An amendment to the Production Code
    Production Code

    File:Code hays, cover.gifThe Production Code was the set of industry censorship guidelines, and the office enforcing them, which governed the production of Cinema of the United States from 1930 to 1968....
     establishes the Production Code Administration, and requires all films to obtain a certificate of approval before being released.
  • November 12 - The musical Babes in Toyland
    Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

    Babes in Toyland is a 1934 in film musical film comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy.Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland , the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Charley Rogers and Gus Meins, and released to theatres on November 12, 1934 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
     debuts, 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 ....
     as comic relief.
  • December 11 - Fox releases the Sol M. Wurtzel
    Sol M. Wurtzel

    Sol M. Wurtzel was an United States motion picture producer.Born in New York City, New York, Sol M. Wurtzel worked as an executive assistant to William Fox , founding owner of the Fox Film Corporation....
     production of Bright Eyes
    Bright Eyes (film)

    Bright Eyes is a 1934 in film musical film/comedy film, starring Shirley Temple and produced by Sol M. Wurtzel. David Butler directed and co-wrote the movie....
    , starring their hot new property, Shirley Temple. Shirley sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop
    On the Good Ship Lollipop

    "On the Good Ship Lollipop" was the trademark song of child actress Shirley Temple. Temple first sang it in the 1934 movie Bright Eyes . Contrary to popular belief, the ship in the song is an aircraft....
    ", and wins the first Academy Award ever given to a child, for her endearing portrayal of Shirley Blake.


Top grossing films

Rank Title Gross
1.Viva Villa!
Viva Villa!

Viva Villa! is a 1934 in film film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O.B....
 
2.The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil (1934 film)

The Painted Veil is a 1934 in film drama film made by MGM. It was directed by Ryszard Boleslawski and produced by Hunt Stromberg from a screenplay by John Meehan , Salka Viertel, and Edith Fitzgerald, adapted from the 1925 in literature W....
 
3.The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw

The Cat?s-Paw is a 1934 in film film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Sam Taylor . It was one of the great silent movie comedian?s few sound films....
 
4.The Black Cat
The Black Cat (1934 film)

The Black Cat is a 1934 in film horror film that became Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year. It was the first of six movies to pair actors B?la Lugosi and Boris Karloff....
 
5.Let's Try Again 
6.One Night of Love
One Night of Love

One Night of Love is a 1934 in film musical romance, set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K....
 
7.It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night is an Cinema of the United States 1934 in film screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ....
 
8.Tarzan and His Mate
Tarzan and His Mate

Tarzan and His Mate is a Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the second in the Tarzan film series to star Johnny Weissmuller....
 
9.Little Miss Marker
Little Miss Marker

Little Miss Marker is a 1934 in film film starring Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell. It is based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon....
 
10.The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 in film suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released by Gaumont Film Company. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period....
 
11.The Richest Girl in the World 
12.Treasure Island
Treasure Island (1934 film)

Treasure Island is a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson?s famous 1883 in literature novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but Piracy led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers? riches and lives....
 
13.The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning , despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett ....


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....
    : It Happened One Night
    It Happened One Night

    It Happened One Night is an Cinema of the United States 1934 in film screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ....
     - Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
  • 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....
    : 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......
     - It Happened One Night
  • 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....
    : 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....
     - It Happened One Night
  • Academy Award for Best Director: 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....
     - It Happened One Night


Films released in 1934

  • Anne of Green Gables
    Anne of Green Gables (1934 film)

    Anne of Green Gables is a 1934 film directed by George Nichols Jr., based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The actress who portrayed Anne Shirley , Dawn O'Day, changed her stage name to Anne Shirley after making this film....
    , starring Anne Shirley
  • Babes in Toyland
    Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

    Babes in Toyland is a 1934 in film musical film comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy.Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland , the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Charley Rogers and Gus Meins, and released to theatres on November 12, 1934 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
    , starring 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....
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street
    The Barretts of Wimpole Street

    The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning , despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett ....
    , starring Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer

    Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
    , Fredric March and 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....
  • Belle of the Nineties
    Belle of the Nineties

    Belle of the Nineties was Mae West's fourth motion picture. It was released by Paramount Pictures in 1934 in film and directed by Leo McCarey....
    , 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....
    , Roger Pryor and Johnny Mack Brown
    Johnny Mack Brown

    This article is for the college football player, for the head coach see Mack Brown.Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college football player and film actor....
  • The Black Cat
    The Black Cat (1934 film)

    The Black Cat is a 1934 in film horror film that became Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year. It was the first of six movies to pair actors B?la Lugosi and Boris Karloff....
    , starring Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff

    Boris Karloff was an Cinema of the United Kingdom who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s. He is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein , 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and 1939 film Son of Frankenstein....
     and 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 ....
  • Bolero
    Bolero (1934 film)

    Bolero is a film starring George Raft and Carole Lombard. The movie was a rare chance for Raft to star and to play a dancer, which had been his profession in New York City, rather than a gangster....
    , starring George Raft
    George Raft

    George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
     and Carole Lombard
    Carole Lombard

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

    Bright Eyes is a 1934 in film musical film/comedy film, starring Shirley Temple and produced by Sol M. Wurtzel. David Butler directed and co-wrote the movie....
    , starring 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....
  • Broadway Bill
    Broadway Bill

    Broadway Bill is a horse-racing comedy film from 1934 in film, directed by Frank Capra and starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy. In the UK the film was released as Strictly Confidential....
    , 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....
    , 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....
  • Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
    Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

    Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is a 1934 in film United States mystery film/adventure film directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film stars Ronald Colman and Loretta Young....
    , starring Ronald Colman
    Ronald Colman

    Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
  • The Case of the Howling Dog
    The Case of the Howling Dog

    The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 in film American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland. The film stars Warren William and Mary Astor....
    , 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....
     as Perry Mason
    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense Lawyer who originally was the main character in numerous pieces of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner....
  • The Cat and the Fiddle
    The Cat and the Fiddle

    The Cat and the Fiddle is an American MGM romantic musical film directed by William K. Howard based on the hit 1931 Broadway musical by Jerome Kern and Otto A....
    , starring Ramon Novarro
    Ramón Novarro

    Ram?n Novarro was a Mexico actor who achieved fame as a "Latin lover" in silent films....
     and 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 ....
  • Chapayev (USSR), winner of National Board of Review "Best Foreign Film" Award in 1935
  • Charlie Chan in London
    Charlie Chan in London

    Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 in film American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde. The film stars Warner Oland as Charlie Chan, with Drue Leyton....
    , starring Warner Oland
    Warner Oland

    Warner Oland was a Sweden actor most remembered for his role as "Charlie Chan."...
  • Charlie Chan's Courage, starring Warner Oland
    Warner Oland

    Warner Oland was a Sweden actor most remembered for his role as "Charlie Chan."...
  • The Circus Clown
    The Circus Clown

    The Circus Clown is a 1934 in film comedy film about a man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father. It starred Joe E. Brown and Patricia Ellis....
    , starring Joe E. Brown
    Joe E. Brown (comedian)

    Joseph Evans Brown was an United States actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits....
  • The Clairvoyant
    The Clairvoyant

    The Clairvoyant, also known as The Evil Mind, is a 1934 in film drama film made in the UK, starring Claude Rains, Fay Wray, and Jane Baxter, and movie director by Maurice Elvey....
    , starring Claude Rains
    Claude Rains

    William Claude Rains was an England award-winning actor and film star whose career spanned 47 years. He later held Cinema of the United States citizenship and was best known for his many roles in Hollywood films....
     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 ....
  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra (1934 film)

    Cleopatra is a 1934 in film epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille's and distributed by Paramount Pictures, which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt....
    , directed by Cecil B. DeMille
    Cecil B. DeMille

    Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
    , 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....
     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....
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo (1934 film)

    The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1934 in film film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas, p?re's novel The Count of Monte Cristo. It was directed by Rowland V....
     starring Robert Donat
    Robert Donat

    Friedrich Robert Donat , was an England Academy Award-winning film and stage actor.Donat was born in Withington, Manchester, England, to Ernst Emil Donat and his wife Rose Alice nee Green who married at Withington St Paul in 1895....
  • Crime Without Passion starring Claude Rains
    Claude Rains

    William Claude Rains was an England award-winning actor and film star whose career spanned 47 years. He later held Cinema of the United States citizenship and was best known for his many roles in Hollywood films....
  • Dames
    Dames

    Dames is a Warner Bros. musical film comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley and George M. Cohan. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert....
    , choreographed by Busby Berkeley
    Busby Berkeley

    Busby Berkeley , born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical film choreographer....
    , 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....
    , Dick Powell
    Dick Powell

    Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
     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 ....
  • Dark Hazard, 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....
  • Death on the Diamond starring Robert Young
    Robert Young (actor)

    Robert George Young was an Emmy Award winning United States actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. ....
  • Death Takes a Holiday
    Death Takes a Holiday

    Death Takes a Holiday is a romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing, based on a play by Alberto Casella....
    , starring Fredric March
  • Doctor Monica, starring 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....
  • Fashions of 1934
    Fashions of 1934

    Fashions of 1934 is a 1934 United States musical comedy film directed by William Dieterle with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley....
    , 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 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...
  • Fog Over Frisco
    Fog Over Frisco

    Fog Over Frisco is a 1934 in film United States drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Robert N. Lee and Eugene Solow was based on the short story The Five Fragments by George Dyer....
    , starring 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...
  • Forsaking All Others
    Forsaking All Others

    Forsaking All Others is a 1934 in film motion picture directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery ....
    , 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....
    , 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 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....
  • Gambling Lady
    Gambling Lady

    Gambling Lady is a 1934 in film black-and-white film starring Barbara Stanwyck as a professional gambler and Joel McCrea as her upper-class suitor....
    , 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 Gay Bride
    The Gay Bride

    The Gay Bride is a black-and-white gangster film starring Carole Lombard as a wisecracking gold-digger and Chester Morris as the poor man she despises....
    , 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....
  • The Gay Divorcee
    The Gay Divorcee

    The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 in film film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor , Kenneth S....
    , starring 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....
     and 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....
  • The Girl from Missouri
    The Girl from Missouri

    The Girl from Missouri is a film starring Jean Harlow and Franchot Tone. The movie was written by Anita Loos and directed by Jack Conway ....
    , 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......
  • Grand Canary
    Grand Canary (film)

    Grand Canary is a 1934 in film Fox_Film_Corporation film of A. J. Cronin's novel of the same title. The film was produced by Jesse L. Lasky and directed by Irving Cummings....
    , 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....
  • Here Comes the Navy
    Here Comes the Navy

    Here Comes the Navy is a romantic comedy starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Gloria Stuart. It was written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, and was directed by Lloyd Bacon....
    , 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....
     and Pat O'Brien
    Pat O'Brien (actor)

    Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
  • Here Is My Heart,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....
     and Kitty Carlisle
  • The House of Rothschild
    The House of Rothschild (1934 film)

    The House of Rothschild is a 1934 in film film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Nunnally Johnson from the play by George Hembert Westley, and directed by Alfred L....
    , 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 Loretta Young
    Loretta Young

    Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
  • Imitation of Life
    Imitation of Life (1934 film)

    Imitation of Life is a 1934 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 in literature Imitation of Life , was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and Finley Peter Dunne....
    , 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....
     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....
  • It Happened One Night
    It Happened One Night

    It Happened One Night is an Cinema of the United States 1934 in film screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ....
    , 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....
    , 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 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....
  • It's a Gift
    It's a Gift

    It's a Gift is a 1934 in film comedy film starring W. C. Fields....
    , starring W. C. Fields
    W. C. Fields

    W. C. Fields was an United States comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthrope and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women....
  • Jimmy the Gent
    Jimmy the Gent (film)

    Jimmy the Gent is a 1934 in film United States Comedy film-drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Bertram Millhauser was based on The Heir Chaser by Ray Nazarro and Laird Doyle....
    , 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....
     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...
  • Judge Priest
    Judge Priest

    Judge Priest is a 1934 in film comedy film directed by John Ford....
    , starring 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....
  • Kid Millions
    Kid Millions

    Kid Millions is a 1934 in film United States film directed by Roy Del Ruth....
    , starring Eddie Cantor
    Eddie Cantor

    Eddie Cantor was an United States comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway theatre, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five children....
  • L'Atalante
    L'Atalante

    L'Atalante is a 1934 in film France film directed by Jean Vigo and starring Jean Dast?, Dita Parlo and Michel Simon. It has been hailed by many critics as one of the best films of all time....
    , directed by Jean Vigo
    Jean Vigo

    Jean Vigo was a France film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s in film and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s in film and early 1960s in film....
  • Leave It to Blanche
  • Let's Try Again, starring Clive Brook
    Clive Brook

    Clive Brook was an England actor....
     and 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....
  • Limehouse Blues
    Limehouse Blues

    Limehouse Blues is a 1934 in film crime film set in London's Chinese people district and starring George Raft and Anna May Wong. The movie was directed by Alexander Hall....
  • Little Man, What Now?
    Little Man, What Now? (film)

    Little Man, What Now? is a 1934 in film drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Margaret Sullavan. It is based on the novel of the Little Man, What Now?....
    , starring Margaret Sullavan
    Margaret Sullavan

    Margaret Brooke Sullavan . Margaret Sullavan was an American stage and film actress. Sullavan started her career on the stage in 1929. She was especially known for her effortless acting and her distinctive throaty voice....
     and Douglass Montgomery
    Douglass Montgomery

    Douglass Montgomery was an American film actor....
  • The Little Minister
    The Little Minister

    The Little Minister is a 1934 United States drama film directed by Richard Wallace . The screenplay by Jane Murfin, Sarah Y. Mason, and Victor Heerman is based on the 1891 novel and subsequent 1897 play of the same title by J....
    , 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....
     and John Beal
    John Beal (actor)

    John Beal was an American actor.Beal was born James Alexander Bliedung in Joplin, Missouri. He began acting in the 1930s, opposite Katharine Hepburn , among others; one of his notable screen appearances was Les Mis?rables ....
  • Little Miss Marker
    Little Miss Marker

    Little Miss Marker is a 1934 in film film starring Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell. It is based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon....
    , starring 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....
  • A Lost Lady
    A Lost Lady (film)

    A Lost Lady is a 1934 in film film directed by Alfred E. Green and Phil Rosen, and starring by Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan and Ricardo Cortez....
    , 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 Lost Patrol
    The Lost Patrol (1934 film)

    The Lost Patrol is a 1934 in film war film made by RKO Pictures. It was directed and produced by John Ford, with Merian C. Cooper as executive producer and Cliff Reid as associate producer....
    , starring Victor McLaglen
    Victor McLaglen

    Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an Academy Award winning England actor, Boxing and World War I veteran....
    , Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff

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

    The Lucky Texan is a 1934 in film Lonestar Films B-movie western film featuring John Wayne, five years before his breakthrough appearance in Stagecoach , Barbara Sheldon, Gabby Hayes, and legendary stuntman/actor Yakima Canutt....
    , 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....
  • Madame DuBarry, 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....
  • The Man From Utah
    The Man from Utah

    The Man from Utah is a 1934 in film Western movie starring John Wayne, Polly Ann Young , Lafe McKee, Edward Peil Sr., and stuntman/actor Yakima Canutt....
    , 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....
  • Man of Aran
    Man of Aran

    Man of Aran is a documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, a docufiction on life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters who live in premodern conditions and their hardships, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for hu...
     (documentary), directed by Robert Flaherty
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)

    The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 in film suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released by Gaumont Film Company. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period....
    , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
    , starring 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]....
    , Edna Best
    Edna Best

    Edna Best was a United Kingdom actor.Born in Hove, England, Best entered films in 1921. She is best remembered for her role as the mother in the original 1934 film version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much ....
     and Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre

    Peter Lorre , born L?szl? L?wenstein, was a Hungarian people - Austrian - United States actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner....
  • The Man with Two Faces
    The Man with Two Faces

    The Man with Two Faces is a 1975 South Korean horror film.Cast* Ye-chun Lee* Ok-jin Kim* Bong-jin Jin...
    , 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....
  • Manhattan Melodrama
    Manhattan Melodrama

    Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 in film crime melodrama film, produced by MGM.It was film director by W. S. Van Dyke and stars Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, and Isabel Jewell....
    , 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......
    , 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 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....
  • The Merry Widow
    The Merry Widow (1934 film)

    The Merry Widow is a 1934 in film film adaptation of the The Merry Widow by Franz Leh?r. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald....
    , 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 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 ....
  • Of Human Bondage
    Of Human Bondage (film)

    Of Human Bondage is a 1934 in film drama film, the first film adaptation of the 1915 Of Human Bondage by the Great Britain author W. Somerset Maugham....
    , starring Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard (actor)

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

    "The Old Fashioned Way" is the English Language version of Charles Aznavour's "Les plaisirs demodes" song. The song was released in English Language in 1973 and became a hit in the UK....
    , starring W. C. Fields
    W. C. Fields

    W. C. Fields was an United States comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthrope and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women....
  • One Night of Love
    One Night of Love

    One Night of Love is a 1934 in film musical romance, set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K....
    , starring Grace Moore
    Grace Moore

    Grace Moore was an United States operatic soprano and Academy Award-nominated actress in musical theatre and film, nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience....
  • Our Daily Bread
    Our Daily Bread (1934 film)

    Our Daily Bread is a 1934 in film film directed by King Vidor and starring Karen Morley, Tom Keene, and John Qualen. The film depicts a collective of people, some from the big city, who work together on a farm....
    , starring Karen Morley
    Karen Morley

    Karen Morley was an American film actor.Born Mildred Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, Morley lived there until she was thirteen years old. When she came to Hollywood, she attended Hollywood High School, and she later graduated from UCLA....
     and Tom Keene
    Tom Keene

    Tom Keene was an United States actor born in Rochester, New York known mostly for his roles in B Westerns.Little is known of his earlier life but he arrived in Hollywood in the late 20s after college studies at Columbia and Carnegie Tech and immediately made some impact co-starring in The Godless Girl directed by Cecil B....
  • The Richest Girl in the World, starring Miriam Hopkins
    Miriam Hopkins

    Ellen Miriam Hopkins was an Academy Award-nominated American actress....
    , 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....
     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 ....
  • Riptide, starring Norma Shearer
    Norma Shearer

    Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
     and Robert Montgomery
    Robert Montgomery (actor)

    Robert Montgomery was an United States actor and director.Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr. in Beacon, New York, then known as "Fishkill Landing", the son of Mary Weed and Henry Montgomery, Sr....
  • The Scarlet Empress
    The Scarlet Empress

    The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 in film historical drama film made by Paramount Pictures about the life of Catherine the Great . It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg, with Emanuel Cohen as executive producer, from a screenplay by Eleanor McGeary, based on the diary of Catherine II, arranged by Manuel Komroff....
    , 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....
     and John Lodge
    John Davis Lodge

    John Davis Lodge , United States Republican politician, was governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. He was also an actor and U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Argentina and Switzerland....
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)

    The Scarlet Pimpernel is a adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the classic adventure novel by Baroness Orczy. It was produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Harold Young and stars Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon, along with Raymond Massey....
    , starring Leslie Howard
    Leslie Howard (actor)

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

    Merle Oberon , born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was an Academy Award-nominated British film actor....
  • The Silver Streak
    Silver Streak (1934 film)

    The Silver Streak is a 1934 in film film loosely based on the record-setting "dawn-to-dusk" run of the Pioneer Zephyr on May 26 1934. The original Zephyr trainset was used for the exterior shots in the film, while interior scenes were filmed on a soundstage in Hollywood, California....
    , starring Charles Starrett
    Charles Starrett

    Charles Starrett was an United States actor best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid Columbia Pictures Western . He was born in Athol, Massachusetts....
  • Six of a Kind, starring 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....
    , Mary Boland
    Mary Boland

    Mary Boland was an United States stage and film actress....
     and W.C. Fields
  • Something Always Happens
    Something Always Happens

    Something Always Happens is a 1934 British film directed by Michael Powell . It was made as a Cinematograph Films Act 1927....
    , starring, Ian Hunter
    Ian Hunter (actor)

    'Ian Hunter' was a United Kingdom character actor.Among dozens of film roles, his best-remembered appearances include That Certain Woman with Bette Davis, The Adventures of Robin Hood , A Little Princess and Dr....
    , Nancy O'Neil, John Singer
    John Singer

    John Singer may refer to:*John Singer , a legal analyst and media commentator*Seymour Jonathan Singer, a cell biologist and a coauthor of the 1949 scientific paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease"...
    , Peter Gawthorne
    Peter Gawthorne

    Peter Gawthorne was an Irish actor, probably best known for his roles in Will Hay films. Gawthorne was one of Britain's most called-upon bit part actors during the 1940s and 50s....
    , Muriel George
  • Spitfire
    Spitfire (1934 film)

    Spitfire is a 1934 in film drama film based on the play Trigger by Lula Vollmer. It was directed by John Cromwell and starred Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young and Ralph Bellamy....
    , 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....
  • The St. Louis Kid, 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....
  • Stand Up and Cheer!
    Stand Up and Cheer!

    Stand Up and Cheer! is a 1934 in film motion picture about the Depression Era in the United States, and the efforts undertaken to boost the morale of the citizenry....
     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 Madge Evans
    Madge Evans

    Madge Evans was an United States movie actress who began her career as a child performer and model . She possessed classical features and reddish-yellow hair....
    , and featuring five-year-old 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....
    .
  • The Star Packer
    The Star Packer

    The Star Packer is a 1934 in film Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, George Hayes, Yakima Canutt, and Verna Hillie....
    , 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....
  • Tarzan and His Mate
    Tarzan and His Mate

    Tarzan and His Mate is a Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the second in the Tarzan film series to star Johnny Weissmuller....
    , 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....
  • The Thin Man
    The Thin Man (film)

    The Thin Man was the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease....
    , 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 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....
  • The Trail Beyond
    The Trail Beyond

    The Trail Beyond is a 1934 in film movie in the Western genre starring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr., and Noah Beery, Jr.....
    , 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....
  • Treasure Island
    Treasure Island (1934 film)

    Treasure Island is a film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson?s famous 1883 in literature novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but Piracy led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers? riches and lives....
    , 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 Jackie Cooper
    Jackie Cooper

    Jackie Cooper is an American Academy Award-nominated actor, Emmy Award-winning TV television director, and TV Television producer and executive....
  • Twentieth Century
    Twentieth Century (film)

    Twentieth Century is a United States screwball comedy film, set on the 20th Century Limited, a luxury train travelling from Chicago to New York City....
    , 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 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....
  • Twenty Million Sweethearts
    Twenty Million Sweethearts

    Twenty Million Sweethearts is a 1934 in film American musical film comedy directed by Ray Enright. The film stars Pat O'Brien , Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers....
    , starring Pat O'Brien
    Pat O'Brien (actor)

    Pat O'Brien was an American movie actor with over 100 screen credits....
    , Dick Powell
    Dick Powell

    Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
     and 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....
  • Viva Villa!
    Viva Villa!

    Viva Villa! is a 1934 in film film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a Viva Villa! by Edgecumb Pinchon and O.B....
    , 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....
    , Leo Carrillo
    Leo Carrillo

    Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo , was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist....
     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 ....
  • We're Not Dressing
    We're Not Dressing

    We're Not Dressing is a 1934 in film film starring Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, Burns and Allen, Ethel Merman, and Ray Milland. Based on the 1902 J....
    , 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....
     and Carole Lombard
    Carole Lombard

    Carole Lombard , born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated United States Actor. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey....
  • We're Rich Again, starring Edna May Oliver and Billie Burke
    Billie Burke

    Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz ....
  • A Wicked Woman, starring Mady Christians
    Mady Christians

    Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians , was an Austrian actress who achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States....
    , Jean Parker
    Jean Parker

    Jean Parker was an American movie actress.Born as Lois Mae Green in Deer Lodge, Montana, she appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966....
     and Charles Bickford
    Charles Bickford

    Charles Bickford was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette , The Farmer's Daughter , and Johnny Belinda ....
  • Wonder Bar
    Wonder Bar

    Wonder Bar is a 1934 in film movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley....
    , 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...
  • You Belong to Me, 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 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....
  • You're Telling Me!
    You're Telling Me!

    'You?re Telling Me!' is a 1934 comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring W. C. Fields; this film is a remake of his earlier silent film So's Your Old Man , and both films are adapted from the story Mr....
    , starring W. C. Fields
    W. C. Fields

    W. C. Fields was an United States comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthrope and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women....


Serials

  • Burn 'Em Up Barnes
    Burn 'Em Up Barnes

    Burn 'Em Up Barnes is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was a loose remake of the 1921 in film film Burn 'Em Up Barnes ....
     (released June 16) (12-chapter Mascot Pictures action), starring Frankie Darro
    Frankie Darro

    Frankie Darro was an United States voice-over artist, character actor and, initially, a well-known child actor....
     and (as Barnes) 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....
  • Mystery Mountain (released December 3) (12-chapter Mascot Pictures western), starring Ken Maynard
  • The Lost Jungle
    The Lost Jungle

    The Lost Jungle is a Mascot Pictures Serial .A semi-sequel to this serial, Darkest Africa, was released by Republic Pictures in 1936....
  • The Law of the Wild
    The Law of the Wild

    The Law of the Wild is a Mascot Pictures Serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Armand Schaefer....
    , 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....
  • Pirate Treasure
    Pirate Treasure

    Pirate Treasure is a Universal Pictures Serial . It was the twenty-first sound serial released by Universal, of the sixty-nine they released in total ....
  • The Red Rider
    The Red Rider

    The Red Rider is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the story "The Redhead from Sun Dog" by W. C. Tuttle. It is a remake of the 1931 in film John Wayne movie Range Feud....
     (released July 16) (15-chapter Universal Pictures
    Universal Pictures

    This is a partial listing of films produced and/or distributed by Universal Pictures, the main film production company/distribution company arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal.List of films...
     western), starring Buck Jones
    Buck Jones

    Buck Jones was an United States motion picture star of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, best known for his work starring in many popular Western . In his early film appearances, he was billed as Charles Jones....
  • Tailspin Tommy
    Tailspin Tommy (serial)

    Tailspin Tommy is a Universal Pictures Serial film based on the Tailspin Tommy comic strip by Hal Forrest. It was the 97th serial of the 137 released by that studio ....
     (released October 29) (12-chapter Universal Pictures
    Universal Pictures

    This is a partial listing of films produced and/or distributed by Universal Pictures, the main film production company/distribution company arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal.List of films...
     action), starring Maurice Murphy
  • The Vanishing Shadow
    The Vanishing Shadow

    The Vanishing Shadow is a Universal Pictures Serial film....
  • Young Eagles


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
    1917 in film

    The year 1917 in film involved some significant events.Events*Foundation of Universum Film AG , as a propaganda film company, in Berlin....
    -1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 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
    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....
    -1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • Charley Chase
    Charley Chase

    Charley Chase was an United States comedian, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the older brother of comedian/director James Parrott....
     (1924
    1924 in film

    Events* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
    -1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • The Three Stooges (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....
    -1959
    1959 in film

    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
    )


Animated short film series

  • 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....
    )
  • 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....
    )
  • 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
    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....
    -1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • 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
    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....
    -1934)
  • 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
    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....
    -1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Cubby Bear (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....
    -1934)
  • 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
    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....
    -1934)
  • Happy Harmonies
    Happy Harmonies

    Happy Harmonies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and produced by Harman and Ising between 1934 and 1938....
     (1934-1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Cartune Classics (1934-1935
    1935 in film

    Events*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
    )
  • Color Rhapsodies
    Color Rhapsodies

    Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles B. Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies....
     (1934-1949
    1949 in film

    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Amos 'n' Andy
    Amos 'n' Andy

    Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy based on stereotypes of African-Americans and popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s....
     (1934)


Births

  • January 22 - Bill Bixby
    Bill Bixby

    Bill Bixby, born Wilfred Bailey Bixby, was an American film and television actor, television director and frequent game show panelist.His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series, such as My Favorite Martian and The Incredible Hulk ....
    , American actor
  • February 11 - Tina Louise
    Tina Louise

    Tina Louise is an United States model , singer and actor. She is known for her role as "movie star" Ginger Grant on the television program situation comedy Gilligan's Island....
    , American actress
  • March 31 - Shirley Jones
    Shirley Jones

    Shirley Mae Jones is an United States singer and character actress of stage , film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma , Carousel , and The Music Man ....
    , American singer and actress
  • July 1 - Jean Marsh
    Jean Marsh

    Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh is a British actress, occasional screenwriter, and co-creator of the television series Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott....
    , English actress of Upstairs Downstairs fame
  • July 1 - Jamie Farr
    Jamie Farr

    Jamie Farr is an United States television and film actor and popular game show panelist. He is best known for playing the role of cross-dressing Corporal#United States Maxwell Klinger in the 1970s and 1980s United States television sitcom, M*A*S*H ....
    , United States actor
  • September 20 - Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren

    Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning Italian people film actress. She is widely considered to be the most popular Italian actress of her time and is also famous for being a major international sex symbol....
    , Italian actress
  • November 5 - Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova

    Kira Muratova is a Russia film director working in Ukraine, screenwriter and actress. She was born in 1934 in Bessarabia . She is known for her unusual and original directorial style....
    , Russian director
  • November 11 - Nadine Trintignant
    Nadine Trintignant

    Nadine Trintignant is a French people cineast and author. She is also a film director, film producer, and screenwriter with extensive film credits from the 1960s to the present....
  • December 9 - Judi Dench
    Judi Dench

    Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
    , English actress
  • December 28 - Maggie Smith
    Maggie Smith

    Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
    , English actress


Deaths

  • January 30 - Dorothy Dell
    Dorothy Dell

    Dorothy Dell was an American film actress.Born Dorothy Dell Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to entertainers, she spent much of her childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana....
    , 19, actress (road accident)
  • March 21 - Lilyan Tashman
    Lilyan Tashman

    Lilyan Tashman was an American silent film actress....
    , 34, actress (cancer)
  • July 28 - Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler

    Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
    , 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....
     winning actress (cancer)