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• Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  
  Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
   signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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1. Mutiny on the Bounty
   Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
   
   Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
   
2. Top Hat
   Top Hat
   
   Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
   
3. Captain Blood
4. The Crusades
   The Crusades (film)
   
   The Crusades is a 1935 in film film directed by Cecil B. DeMille....
   
5. China Seas
6. Captain Blood
7. David Copperfield
   Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
   
   The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger is a 1935 in film film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield ....
   
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream
   A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
   
   A Midsummer Night's Dream is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C....
   
9. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
   Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935 film)
   
   Tumbling Tumbleweeds is a 1935 musical film Western film scripted by Ford Beebe, directed by Joseph Kane, and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Gabby Hayes....
   
10. The Miracle Rider
    The Miracle Rider
    
    The Miracle Rider is a 1935 in film Mascot Pictures movie serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Armand Schaefer. The serial stars Tom Mix....
    
11. Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina (1935 film)
    
    Anna Karenina is a critically acclaimed 1935 in film drama film, directed by Clarence Brown. It is based on the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy....
    
12. Westward Ho
    Westward Ho (film)
    
    Westward Ho is a 1935 in film film starring John Wayne....
    
13. The Woman in Red
    The Woman in Red (1935 film)
    
    The Woman in Red is a 1935 in film film directed by Robert Florey and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Raymond....
    
14. Bride of Frankenstein
    Bride of Frankenstein
    
    Bride of Frankenstein is a horror film, the first sequel to the influential Frankenstein . Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale and stars Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster, Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of his mate and Mary Shelley, Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, and Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus...
    
15. The Informer
    The Informer (film)
    
    The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
    
16. Dangerous
    Dangerous (film)
    
    Dangerous is a 1935 in film United States drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame....
    
17. A Night at the Opera
    A Night at the Opera (film)
    
    A Night at the Opera is a comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle Hart, Allan Jones , Margaret Dumont, Siegfried Rumann, and Walter Woolf King....
    

• 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....
  : Mutiny on the Bounty
  Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
  
  Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  - MGM
• Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
  : Victor McLaglen
  Victor McLaglen
  
  Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an Academy Award winning England actor, Boxing and World War I veteran....
  - The Informer
  The Informer (film)
  
  The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
  
• 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....
  : 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...
  - Dangerous
  Dangerous (film)
  
  Dangerous is a 1935 in film United States drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame....
  

• The 39 Steps
  The 39 Steps (1935 film)
  
  The 39 Steps is a Cinema of the UK thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir....
  , 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....
   and 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....
  
• After Office Hours
  After Office Hours
  
  After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and film director by Robert Z. Leonard....
  , 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 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....
  
• Ah, Wilderness!
  Ah, Wilderness! (film)
  
  Ah, Wilderness! is an adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill Ah, Wilderness!. The movie was filmed in Grafton, Massachusetts, directed by Clarence Brown, stars Wallace Beery as the drunken uncle later portrayed on Broadway theatre by Jackie Gleason, and features Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, and a young Micke...
  
• Alice Adams
  Alice Adams (film)
  
  Alice Adams, also known as Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, is a 1935 in film romantic film remake made by RKO. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S....
  
• Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina (1935 film)
  
  Anna Karenina is a critically acclaimed 1935 in film drama film, directed by Clarence Brown. It is based on the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy....
  
• Boys Will Be Boys
• Bride of Frankenstein
  Bride of Frankenstein
  
  Bride of Frankenstein is a horror film, the first sequel to the influential Frankenstein . Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale and stars Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster, Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of his mate and Mary Shelley, Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, and Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Septimus...
  
• Broadway Melody of 1936
  Broadway Melody of 1936
  
  Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935 in film, despite the title. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929 in film, although beyond the title and some music there is no story connection with the earlier film....
  
• Captain Blood
• Carnival in Flanders
  Carnival in Flanders (film)
  
  Carnival in Flanders is a 1935 in film French historical romantic comedy film directed by Jacques Feyder. Its original French title is La Kermesse h?ro?que and it is widely known under that name....
  
• Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg
  Josef von Sternberg
  
  Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-United States film Film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematography, writer, and film editor....
   (only mentioned in article)
• The Crusades
  The Crusades (film)
  
  The Crusades is a 1935 in film film directed by Cecil B. DeMille....
  
• Dangerous
  Dangerous (film)
  
  Dangerous is a 1935 in film United States drama film directed by Alfred E. Green. The screenplay by Laird Doyle is based on his story Hard Luck Dame....
  
• Dante's Inferno
• David Copperfield
  Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
  
  The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger is a 1935 in film film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield ....
  
• G Men
  G Men
  
  G Men is a Warner Bros. film starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak that is based on the mythologized origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States....
  
• The Gilded Lily
  The Gilded Lily (1935 film)
  
  The Gilded Lily is a 1935 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and C....
  
• Go Into Your Dance
  Go Into Your Dance
  
  Go Into Your Dance is a 1935 in film musical film, directed by Archie Mayo....
  , 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...
   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 ....
  
• Gold Diggers of 1935
  Gold Diggers of 1935
  
  Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed and choregraphed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Wini Shaw, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh....
  , a 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....
   musical starring Dick Powell
  Dick Powell
  
  Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an United States singer, actor, Film producer, Film director and studio boss....
   and 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 ....
  
• The Informer
  The Informer (film)
  
  The Informer is a 1935 in film dramatic film, released by RKO. The plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence, set in 1922....
  starring Victor McLaglen
  Victor McLaglen
  
  Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an Academy Award winning England actor, Boxing and World War I veteran....
  
• Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (1935 film)
  
  Les Mis?rables is a film based upon the famous Victor Hugo Les Mis?rables. It was adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and directed by Richard Boleslawski....
  
• Life Returns
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  
  The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 in film adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns United Kingdom soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives....
  
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
  
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C....
  
• Mutiny on the Bounty
  Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
  
  Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 in film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty ....
  
• Naughty Marietta, starring 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 ....
   and Nelson Eddy
  Nelson Eddy
  
  Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs....
  
• The New Gulliver
  The New Gulliver
  
  The New Gulliver is a Soviet Union stop motion-animation cartoon, and the first to make such extensive use of puppet animation, running almost all the way through the film ....
  , directed by Aleksandr Ptushko
  Aleksandr Ptushko
  
  Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko is a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and Meritorious Artist. Ptushko is frequently referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," due to his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen....
   (Soviet stop motion-animated film)
• A Night at the Opera
  A Night at the Opera (film)
  
  A Night at the Opera is a comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle Hart, Allan Jones , Margaret Dumont, Siegfried Rumann, and Walter Woolf King....
  
• Reckless
  Reckless (1935 film)
  
  Reckless is a 1935 in film musical film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, William Powell and Franchot Tone....
  , a musical 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......
  , 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 Franchot Tone
  Franchot Tone
  
  Franchot Tone was an United States actor....
  
• Roberta
  Roberta (1935 film)
  
  Roberta is a 1935 in film musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a Broadway theatre Roberta, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller....
  , a musical starring Irene Dunne
  Irene Dunne
  
  Irene Dunne was an American film actor and singer of the 1930s and 1940s. Dunne was nominated for five-time Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama ....
  , 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....
  , 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 Randolph Scott
  Randolph Scott
  
  Randolph Scott was an United States film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962....
  , with an uncredited appearance by a young 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....
  
• Ruggles of Red Gap
  Ruggles of Red Gap
  
  Ruggles of Red Gap is a 1915 novel by Harry Leon Wilson , adapted for the Broadway theatre as a Musical theatre the same year , and made into a movie several times , most famously in 1935 in film....
  
• The Scoundrel
  The Scoundrel
  
  The Scoundrel is a drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and starring Noel Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, and Lionel Stander....
  
• So Red the Rose
  So Red the Rose (1935 film)
  
  So Red the Rose is a 1935 in film motion picture drama directed by King Vidor. The American Civil War-era romance is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Stark Young....
  
• A Tale of Two Cities
  A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
  
  A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 in film film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. The film stars Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods and Elizabeth Allan ....
  
• Toni
  Toni (film)
  
  Toni is a 1935 in film by Jean Renoir. It was notable for its use of non-professional actors, though it was made at the height of Renoir's career....
  by Jean Renoir
  Jean Renoir
  
  Jean Renoir , born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir....
  , the most significant precursor to the Italian neorealist movement
• Top Hat
  Top Hat
  
  Top Hat is a 1935 in film Screwball comedy film musical film comedy in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ....
  
• Triumph of the Will
  Triumph of the Will
  
  Triumph of the Will is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various List of Nazi Party leaders and officials at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage of massed party members....
  , a Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl
  Leni Riefenstahl
  
  Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a Germany film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker....
  
• Tumbling Tumbleweeds
  Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935 film)
  
  Tumbling Tumbleweeds is a 1935 musical film Western film scripted by Ford Beebe, directed by Joseph Kane, and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Gabby Hayes....
  , western with Gene Autry
  Gene Autry
  
  Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
  
• The Wedding Night
  The Wedding Night
  
  The Wedding Night is a 1935 motion picture directed by King Vidor starring Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, and Ralph Bellamy....
  
• Werewolf of London
  Werewolf of London
  
  Werewolf of London is a werewolf movie starring Henry Hull and produced in 1935 by Universal Pictures. Jack Pierce 's eerie werewolf make-up was simpler than his version six years later for Lon Chaney, Jr....
  
• Westward Ho
  Westward Ho (film)
  
  Westward Ho is a 1935 in film film starring John Wayne....
  , western with 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....
  
• Who Killed Cock Robin?, Walt Disney animated short subject, one of the 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....
   (mentioned in article)

• The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
  The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
  
  The Adventures of Rex and Rinty is a Mascot Pictures Serial starring Rex and canine actor Rin Tin Tin....
  , starring Rex the Wonder Horse
  Rex (horse)
  
  Rex, also known as Rex the Wonder Horse and King of the Wild Horses, was a 16 Hand Morgan horse stallion who starred in films and Serial in the 1920s and 30s....
   and Rin Tin Tin
  Rin Tin Tin
  
  Rin Tin Tin was the name given to several related German Shepherd Dog featured in fictional stories on film, radio, and television....
  
• The Call of the Savage
  The Call of the Savage
  
  The Call of the Savage is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the story Jan of the Jungle by Otis Adelbert Kline....
  , directed by Lew Landers
  Lew Landers
  
  Lew Landers was a prolific United States film director and television director....
  
• The Fighting Marines
  The Fighting Marines
  
  The Fighting Marines is a Mascot Pictures Serial . This was the last serial ever produced by Mascot. The studio was bought out and merged with others to become Republic Pictures....
  
• The Lost City
  The Lost City (1935 serial)
  
  The Lost City is an independently made film Serial produced in 1935 in film directed by Harry Revier....
  
• The Miracle Rider
  The Miracle Rider
  
  The Miracle Rider is a 1935 in film Mascot Pictures movie serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Armand Schaefer. The serial stars Tom Mix....
  , starring Tom Mix
  Tom Mix
  
  Thomas Edwin Mix was an United States film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 in film and 1935 in film, all but nine of which were silent features....
  
• The New Adventures of Tarzan
  The New Adventures of Tarzan
  
  The New Adventures of Tarzan is a 1935 in film United States film serial in 12 chapters. It is a more authentic version of the character than most other adaptations, with Tarzan as a cultured and well educated gentleman as in the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels....
  , starring Herman Brix
• The Phantom Empire
  The Phantom Empire
  
  The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy, was a 12-chapter 1935 in film Mascot Pictures Serial that combined the western , Musical theatre, and science fiction genres....
  , starring Gene Autry
  Gene Autry
  
  Orvon Gene Autry was an United States performing arts who gained fame as "Singing cowboy" on the Radio in the United States, in Cinema of the United States and on Television in the United States for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s....
  
• Queen of the Jungle, directed by Robert F. Hill
  Robert F. Hill
  
  Robert F. Hill was a Canada film director, screenwriter, and actor during the silent film era....
  
• The Roaring West
  The Roaring West
  
  The Roaring West is a Universal Pictures Serial film....
  
• Rustlers of Red Dog
  Rustlers of Red Dog
  
  Rustlers of Red Dog is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the book The Great West That Was by Buffalo Bill. It was a remake of the earlier, 1930 in film serial The Indians are Coming...
  , directed by Lew Landers
  Lew Landers
  
  Lew Landers was a prolific United States film director and television director....
  
• Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery
  Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery
  
  Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the Tailspin Tommy comic strip by Hal Forrest. It was the 96th of the 137 serials released by the studio ....
  

• 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)
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe....
  (1921-1943)
• 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....
  (1922-1944)
• Popular Science
  Popular science
  
  Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many formats, which can include books, televi...
  (1935-1950)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

• 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....
  (1925-1940)
• 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....
  (1927-1938)
• 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....
  (1928-1953)
• 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....
  (1929-1939)
• 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....
  (1929-1938)
• Looney Tunes
  Looney Tunes
  
  Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and is Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series....
  (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons
  Terrytoons
  
  Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
  (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies
  Merrie Melodies
  
  Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animation distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969. The sister series to Warner's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies were originally one-shot musical film cartoon shorts before gradually featuring recurring characters....
  (1931-1969)
• Scrappy
  Scrappy
  
  Scrappy is a cartoon character created by Dick Huemer for Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat Studio. A cute little round-headed boy, Scrappy often found himself involved in off-beat neighborhood adventures....
  (1931-1941)
• Betty Boop
  Betty Boop
  
  Betty Boop is an animation cartoon fictional character designed by Grim Natwick, appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Max Fleischer and released by Paramount Pictures....
  (1932-1939)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Cartune Classics (1934-1935)
• 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)
• Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)

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• January 1 - Brian G. Hutton
  Brian G. Hutton
  
  Brian G. Hutton is an United States motion picture actor and director.According to IMDb he gave up directing to become a plumber....
  , actor, director
• January 8 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  , singer, actor
• January 9 - Bob Denver
  Bob Denver
  
  Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver was an United States comedic actor best known for his role as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island....
  
• April 19 - Dudley Moore
  Dudley Moore
  
  Dudley Stuart John Moore Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, comedian and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the hugely popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook....
  
• May 11 - Doug McClure
  Doug McClure
  
  Douglas Osborne McClure was an United States actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s.McClure was born in Glendale, California, to Donald Reed McClure and the former Clara Clapp....
  
• July 17 - Diahann Carroll
  Diahann Carroll
  
  Diahann Carroll is an American award-winning actress and Singing....
  
• October 1 - Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  
  Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
  
• December 1 - Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  
  Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
  , director
• December 14 - Lee Remick
  Lee Remick
  
  Lee Ann Remick was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder , Days of Wine and Roses , and The Omen ....
  

Deaths

• March 8 - Ruan Lingyu
  Ruan Lingyu
  
  Ruan Lingyu , born as Ruan Fenggen , was a China silent film actor. She was one of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, whose early and tragic death at the age of 24 have led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema....
  , actress, committed suicide
• March 23 - Florence Moore
  Florence Moore
  
  Florence Moore was an United States vaudeville, Broadway theatre performer, and actress in silent films.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Moore began singing in the choir of St....
  , singer, actress
• May 4 - Junior Durkin
  Junior Durkin
  
  Junior Durkin was an United States film actor.Born Trent Bernard Durkin in New York, New York, Durkin began his acting career in theater while a child....
  , actor, in a road accident
• August 15 - 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....
  , humorist, actor