1938 in film

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Events

• January — MGM announces that 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....
   would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger
  Ray Bolger
  
  Ray Bolger was an United States entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz ....
   is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen
  Buddy Ebsen
  
  Buddy Ebsen was a versatile United States character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he is best remembered for his starring roles as Jed Clampett in the popular 1960s television series, The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the long-running 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones....
   is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence, the roles are switched between the two actors. MGM announces Bert Lahr
  Bert Lahr
  
  Bert Lahr was a American of German-Jewish heritage Tony Award-winning comic actor and vaudeville comedian....
   has been cast as the "Cowardly Lion" on July 25.
• April 5 — Noel Langley
  Noel Langley
  
  Noel Langley was a successful novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. While under contract to MGM he was one of the screenwriters for The Wizard of Oz ....
   completes the first script for The Wizard of Oz.
• May 7 — Lyricist Edgar Yipsel Harburg and composer, Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen
  
  Harold Arlen was an United States Jewish composer of popular music.Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook....
  , begin work on the musical score for The Wizard of Oz.
• October 13 — Filming starts on The Wizard of Oz.
• October 21 — Buddy Ebsen
  Buddy Ebsen
  
  Buddy Ebsen was a versatile United States character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he is best remembered for his starring roles as Jed Clampett in the popular 1960s television series, The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the long-running 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones....
   suffers from a near fatal allergic reaction to the aluminum dust used in his "Tinman" make-up on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Ebsen is replaced by Jack Haley
  Jack Haley
  
  Jack Haley was an American film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz . He also portrayed farmworker Hickory, who appeared in the Kansas sequences, in the film....
  .
• December 23 — Margaret Hamilton
  Margaret Hamilton
  
  Margaret Hamilton was an United States film actress best known for her portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West in the film The Wizard of Oz ....
   is severely burned during a mishap on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Hamilton, who was cast in the role of the "Wicked Witch", left the film for six weeks.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Academy Awards

• Best Picture
  Academy Award for Best Picture
  
  The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
  : You Can't Take it With You
  You Can't Take It with You
  
  You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936 and played for 837 performances....
   - Columbia
• 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....
   - You Can't Take It with You
  You Can't Take It with You
  
  You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936 and played for 837 performances....
  
• 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....
  : Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
   - Boys Town
  Boys Town (1938 film)
  
  Boys Town is a biographical film drama film based on Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Girls and Boys Town"....
  
• 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...
   - Jezebel
  Jezebel (1938 film)
  
  Jezebel is an United States drama film released in 1938 in film and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell , and Fay Bainter....
  

Films released in 1938

• Adiós Buenos Aires
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
  The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)
  
  The Adventures of Robin Hood is an United States Swashbuckler films released in 1938 in film and directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley....
  , starring Errol Flynn
  Errol Flynn
  
  Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
   and Olivia de Havilland
  Olivia de Havilland
  
  Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
  
• Alexander Nevsky
  Alexander Nevsky (film)
  
  Alexander Nevsky is a historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitry Vasiliev and produced by Mosfilm, based on the life of Alexander Nevsky....
  , starring Nikolai Cherkasov
  Nikolai Cherkasov
  
  Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov , was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union.From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre and elsewhere....
  
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
  Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
  
  Alexander's Ragtime Band is a film, released by Twentieth Century Fox, that takes off from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band", to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of in "serious" music....
  , starring Tyrone Power
  Tyrone Power
  
  'Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr.' , usually credited simply as 'Tyrone Power' and known sometimes as "'Ty Power'", was an United States film and Theatre actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads such as The Mark of Zorro , The Black Swan , Prince of Foxes , T...
  , Don Ameche
  Don Ameche
  
  Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning United Statesn actor....
   and Alice Faye
  Alice Faye
  
  Alice Faye was an United States actor and singer. She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris....
  
• Algiers
  Algiers (film)
  
  Algiers is a 1938 in film film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 in film France film P?p? le Moko, which derived its plot from the Henri La Barthe novel of the same name....
  
• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  
  The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a Warner Bros. crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by Anatole Litvak and written by John Wexley and John Huston based on the first play written by short-story writer Barr? Lyndon, which ran for three months on Broadway with Cedric Hardwicke after play...
  , 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....
  
• Angels with Dirty Faces
  Angels with Dirty Faces
  
  Angels with Dirty Faces is a Warner Bros. gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien , the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft ....
  , 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....
  
• La Femme du Boulanger
  The Baker's Wife (film)
  
  The Baker's Wife is a 1938 in film France comedy film directed by Marcel Pagnol. It is based on the novella Jean le Bleu by French author Jean Giono and became the basis of the United States musical The Baker's Wife....
  (The Baker's Wife)
• Block-Heads
  Block-heads
  
  The Blockheads are clay animation characters in the Gumby television series, created by animator Art Clokey; they are a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures, who were Gumby's nemeses....
  , 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 ....
  
• Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
  Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
  
  Bluebeard's Eighth Wife is a 1938 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper....
  , starring Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  
  Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
  
• Boys Town
  Boys Town (1938 film)
  
  Boys Town is a biographical film drama film based on Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Girls and Boys Town"....
  , starring Spencer Tracy
  Spencer Tracy
  
  Spencer Tracy was a two-time Academy Award winning actor of theatre and film, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 in film to 1967 in film. He is generally regarded as one of the finest actors in motion picture history....
   and Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  
• Bringing up Baby
  Bringing up Baby
  
  Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 in film screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It tells the story of a scientist winding up in various predicaments involving a woman with a unique sense of logic and a leopard named Baby....
  , starring Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
   and 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....
  
• A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol (1938 film)
  
  A Christmas Carol is a 1938 in film feature film adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol....
  , starring Reginald Owen
  Reginald Owen
  
  Reginald Owen, or John Reginald Owen, was an England character actor known for playing in many film roles in British and American movies and later in television programs....
  
• The Citadel
  The Citadel (film)
  
  The Citadel is a 1938 in film film based on The Citadel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937. The film was directed by King Vidor and produced by Victor Saville....
  , 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....
   and Rosalind Russell
  Rosalind Russell
  
  Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
  ; directed by King Vidor
  King Vidor
  
  King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
  
• Dangerous to Know
  Dangerous to Know
  
  Dangerous to Know is a 1938 in film crime film starring Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, and Anthony Quinn. The movie was directed by Robert Florey....
  
• The Dawn Patrol
  The Dawn Patrol (1938 film)
  
  The Dawn Patrol is a 1938 in film American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 in film The Dawn Patrol . The movie stars Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, and David Niven as British Royal Flying Corps fighter pilots in World War I and was directed by Edmund Goulding....
  , starring Errol Flynn
  Errol Flynn
  
  Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
  
• The Divorce of Lady X
  The Divorce of Lady X
  
  The Divorce of Lady X is a 1938 in film United Kingdom romantic comedy film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was film director by Tim Whelan and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Ian Dalrymple and Arthur Wimperis, adapted by Lajos Bir? from the play Counsel's Opinion by Gilbert Wakefield....
  , with Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Olivier
  
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
  
• The Drum
  The Drum (1938 film)
  
  The Drum is a 1938 in film film from the book by A. E. W. Mason. The film was directed by Zoltan Korda and produced by Alexander Korda. It starred Sabu Dastagir, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, and Valerie Hobson....
  , with Sabu
  Sabu Dastagir
  
  Sabu Dastagir was a film actor of Indian origin?although he later took United States nationality law. He was normally credited only by his first name, Sabu, and is primarily known for his work in 1940s in film....
  
• Ferdinand the Bull
• Fools for Scandal
  Fools for Scandal
  
  Fools for Scandal is a 1938 comedy film starring Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, and Ralph Bellamy. It is now best remembered today as one of Lombard's worst films and one that set her on the course for seeking dramatic roles for the next few years....
  
• Four Daughters
  Four Daughters
  
  Four Daughters is a 1938 in film musical film drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters' romantic lives....
  , 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....
  
• Gunga Din
  Gunga Din (film)
  
  Gunga Din is a 1939 in film RKO adventure film loosely based on the Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling, combined with elements of his novel Soldiers Three....
  , featuring Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
  , Victor McLaglen
  Victor McLaglen
  
  Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an Academy Award winning England actor, Boxing and World War I veteran....
  , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sam Jaffe
  Sam Jaffe (actor)
  
  Sam Jaffe was an United States actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle and appeared in other classic films such as Ben-Hur and The Day the Earth Stood Still ....
  
• Having Wonderful Time
  Having Wonderful Time
  
  Having Wonderful Time is a 1938 romantic comedy film released by RKO Pictures....
  Starring Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
   and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Holiday
  Holiday (1930 film)
  
  Holiday is a 1930 in film romantic comedy film which tells the story of a playboy who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fianc?e's family....
  , 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 Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  
  Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
  
• Jezebel
  Jezebel (1938 film)
  
  Jezebel is an United States drama film released in 1938 in film and directed by William Wyler. It stars Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, supported by George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell , and Fay Bainter....
  , 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...
   and Henry Fonda
  Henry Fonda
  
  Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
  
• Judge Hardy's Children Starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• Kentucky
  Kentucky (film)
  
  Kentucky is a 1938 in film Technicolor film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler . It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the American Civil War and is kept alive by Sally's Uncle Peter....
  , starring Loretta Young
  Loretta Young
  
  Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
  , Richard Greene
  Richard Greene
  
  Richard Marius Joseph Greene - some sources list his birth date as 1914 - was a noted England movie and television actor. A matinee idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role in the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood , which ran 143 episodes from 1955 to 1960....
  , and Walter Brennan
  Walter Brennan
  
  Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning United States actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history....
  .
• If I Were King
  If I Were King
  
  If I Were King is a 1938 in film biopic historical drama film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet Fran?ois Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee....
  
• Love Finds Andy Hardy
  Love Finds Andy Hardy
  
  Love Finds Andy Hardy is a 1938 in film romantic comedy film which tells the story of a Andy Hardy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time....
  , starring Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , 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....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• La Bête humaine
  La Bête Humaine (film)
  
  La B?te Humaine is a drama film directed by Jean Renoir, with cinematography by Curt Courant. The picture features Jean Gabin, and is based on the novel of the La B?te Humaine by Emile Zola....
  (The Human Beast)
• The Lady Vanishes
  The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)
  
  The Lady Vanishes is a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White....
  , starring Michael Redgrave
  Michael Redgrave
  
  Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave Order of the British Empire was a well-known English people stage and film actor, director, manager and author....
   and Margaret Lockwood
  Margaret Lockwood
  
  Margaret Lockwood, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough Pictures movie The Wicked Lady....
  ; 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....
  
• The Mad Miss Manton
  The Mad Miss Manton
  
  The Mad Miss Manton is a 1938 in film comedic mystery film starring Barbara Stanwyck as a madcap socialite who becomes involved in a murder and Henry Fonda as a newspaperman who earns her ire with a scornful editorial about her antics....
  
• A Man to Remember
  A Man to Remember
  
  A Man to Remember is a United States drama film directed by Garson Kanin, his first film credit as a director. The picture was based on the novel The Failure, written by Katharine Haviland-Taylor, and the screenplay was penned by the future Hollywood blacklist writer Dalton Trumbo....
  , starring Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis.
• Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette (1938 film)
  
  Marie Antoinette is a 1938 in film film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was film director by W. S. Van Dyke and starred Norma Shearer as Marie Antoinette, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut and Gladys George....
  , starring Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  
  Edith Norma Shearer was an Academy Awards Canadian-American actor....
   and Tyrone Power
  Tyrone Power
  
  'Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr.' , usually credited simply as 'Tyrone Power' and known sometimes as "'Ty Power'", was an United States film and Theatre actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads such as The Mark of Zorro , The Black Swan , Prince of Foxes , T...
  
• Merrily We Live
  Merrily We Live
  
  Merrily We Live is a 1938 in film film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Constance Bennett, Bonita Granville, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke, Clarence Kolb, Tom Brown, Patsy Kelly, Willie Best, Marjorie Kane, and Ann Dvorak....
  , starring Brian Aherne
  Brian Aherne
  
  Brian Aherne was an Academy Award-nominated United Kingdom actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood....
  , 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....
  , 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 ....
  , Patsy Kelly
  Patsy Kelly
  
  Patsy Kelly was a Tony Award-winning United States stage and film comedic actress....
  , 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 ....
  
• Old Bones of the River
  Old Bones of the River
  
  Old Bones of the River is a comedy film released in 1938 in film starring British actor Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel....
   starring Will Hay
  Will Hay
  
  William Thomson Hay was an England comedian, actor and amateur astronomy....
  , Moore Marriott
  Moore Marriott
  
  Moore Marriott was a United Kingdom character actor. Rather like Clive Dunn and Wilfrid Brambell later, he became typecast as playing old men when he was still relatively young....
   and Graham Moffatt
  Graham Moffatt
  
  Graham Moffatt was a United Kingdom character actor and comedian.Born in Hammersmith, London , he is best know for a number of films where he appeared with Will Hay and Moore Marriott as 'Albert': an insolent, overweight, overgrown-schoolboy type character, loosely reminiscent of Billy Bunter....
  
• Out West with the Hardys Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer....
  , Mickey Rooney
  Mickey Rooney
  
  Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  , Cecilia Parker
  Cecilia Parker
  
  Cecilia Parker was a film actress.She was brought to southern California as a child by her mother, Mrs. Naudy Anna Parker. Her father was an England soldier....
  , and Fay Holden
  Fay Holden
  
  Fay Holden , was an United States actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1935 in film and 1958 in film, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Emily Hardy, Mickey Rooney's mother in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Andy Hardy movie series....
  
• Pygmalion
  Pygmalion (1938 film)
  
  Pygmalion is a 1938 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion , and adapted by him for the screen. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay and three more nominations....
  , 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 Wendy Hiller
  Wendy Hiller
  
  Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller Order of the British Empire was an English people film and theatre actor. The Academy Awards-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years....
  
• Radio City Revels
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938 film)
  
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 20th Century Fox musical film feature film starring Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott in a story about a talented orphan's trials and tribulations after winning a radio audition to represent a breakfast ceral....
  , 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....
  
• Red River Range
  Red River Range
  
  Red River Range is a 1938 in film "The Three Mesquiteers" film starring John Wayne....
  , 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....
  
• Room Service
  Room Service (1938 film)
  
  Room Service is an RKO film comedy starring the three Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray....
  , starring the Marx Brothers
  Marx Brothers
  
  The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
  
• Suez
  Suez (film)
  
  Suez is a 1938 in film film account of the building of the Suez Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps, played by Tyrone Power. It was so highly fictionalized that de Lesseps' descendants sued for libel....
  , a 1938 epic film starring Tyrone Power
  Tyrone Power
  
  'Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr.' , usually credited simply as 'Tyrone Power' and known sometimes as "'Ty Power'", was an United States film and Theatre actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads such as The Mark of Zorro , The Black Swan , Prince of Foxes , T...
   and Loretta Young
  Loretta Young
  
  Loretta Young was an Academy Award, three time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actress....
  
• Sweethearts
  Sweethearts (film)
  
  Sweethearts is a 1938 in film Musical film romance, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first feature-length Technicolor film. It was directed by Woody Van Dyke and starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy....
  , 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....
  
• Test Pilot
  Test Pilot (film)
  
  Test Pilot Is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming. Featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore, it tells the story of a daredevil test pilot, his wife and his best friend....
  , 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 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....
  
• There Goes My Heart, Frederic March, Virginia Bruce
  Virginia Bruce
  
  Virginia Bruce was an United States actress and singerBorn Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bruce began her acting career in minor roles in Hollywood in 1929....
  , Arthur Lake (actor)
  Arthur Lake (actor)
  
  Arthur Lake was an United States actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie to life in film, radio, and television....
   and Patsy Kelly
  Patsy Kelly
  
  Patsy Kelly was a Tony Award-winning United States stage and film comedic actress....
  
• Vivacious Lady
  Vivacious Lady
  
  Vivacious Lady is a United States black-and-white romantic comedy film starring Ginger Rogers and James Stewart , produced and directed by George Stevens, and released by RKO Radio Pictures....
  , starring Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  
  Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
   and James Stewart
  James Stewart (actor)
  
  James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
  
• White Banners
  White Banners
  
  White Banners is a 1938 in film Warner Bros. drama film film starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson....
  
• You Can't Take It with You
  You Can't Take It with You
  
  You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936 and played for 837 performances....
  

• Dick Tracy Returns
  Dick Tracy Returns
  
  Dick Tracy Returns is a Republic Pictures Movie serial based on the Dick Tracy comic strip. It was the eleventh of the sixty six serials Republic produced and a sequel to the 1937 in film serial Dick Tracy , with Ralph Byrd reprising his role as the title character....
  , starring Ralph Byrd
  Ralph Byrd
  
  Ralph Byrd was an United States actor. He was most famous for playing the comic strip character Dick Tracy on screen, in Serial s, Film and Television program....
  
• The Fighting Devil Dogs
  The Fighting Devil Dogs
  
  The Fighting Devil Dogs is a 12-Chapter Republic Pictures Serial starring Lee Powell and Herman Brix. It was directed by William Witney and John English ....
  , starring Lee Powell
  Lee Powell (actor)
  
  Lee Powell was a film actor famed for the leading roles in several serials. During World War II he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps seeing action on several Pacific Islands and died of alcohol poisoning....
   and Herman Brix
• Flaming Frontiers
  Flaming Frontiers
  
  Flaming Frontiers is a Universal Pictures Serial . This was a remake of Heroes of the West . It was re-edited into a TV series in 1966 in television....
  
• Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
  Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
  
  Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars is a 1938 in film Serial of 15 episodes, based on the comic strip Flash Gordon. It is the second of three Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940....
  , starring Buster Crabbe
  Buster Crabbe
  
  Buster Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular Serial in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
• The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
  The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
  
  The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is a Columbia Pictures Serial . It was the fourth of the fifty-seven serials released by Columbia and their first Western serial....
  
• Hawk of the Wilderness
  Hawk of the Wilderness
  
  Hawk of the Wilderness is a Republic Pictures Movie serial based on the Kioga novel of the same name by Pulp magazine writer William L. Chester....
  , starring Herman Brix
• The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger (serial)
  
  The Lone Ranger is a Republic Pictures Movie serial. It was the ninth of the sixty-six serials produced by Republic, the fourth Western and the first of 1938....
  
• The Secret of Treasure Island
  The Secret of Treasure Island
  
  The Secret of Treasure Island is a Columbia Pictures Serial based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. The serial is broken into fifteen chapters....
  
• The Spider's Web
  The Spider's Web
  
  The Spider's Web is a Columbia Pictures Serial based on the pulp magazine character The Spider. The 15-chapter adventure was directed by serial and western specialist Ray Taylor and comedy and serial veteran James W....
  
• Red Barry
  Red Barry (serial)
  
  Red Barry is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the comic strip "Red Barry" by Will Gould....
  

• 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
  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....
  )
• 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
  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)
• 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)
• 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....
  )
• 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
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1938)
• 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
  1934 in film
  
  Events*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Hope...
  -1949
  1949 in film
  
  The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Donald Duck
  Donald Duck
  
  Donald Duck is a cartoon fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet....
  (1937
  1937 in film
  
  The year 1937 in film involved some significant events....
  -1956
  1956 in film
  
  The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• Walter Lantz Cartunes (also known as New Universal Cartoons or Cartune Comedies) (1938-1942
  1942 in film
  
  The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
  )
• The Captain and the Kids (1938-1939
  1939 in film
  
  The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
  )

• January 14 — Jack Jones
  Jack Jones (singer)
  
  Jack Jones is an United States jazz and pop music singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s....
  , American singer, actor
• February 23 — Diane Varsi
  Diane Varsi
  
  Diane Marie Antonia Varsi was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, in which she played Lana Turner's daughter, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the Streets ....
  , American actress (died 1992
  1992 in film
  
  The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
  )
• April 17 — Pérette Pradier, French actress
• July 22 — Terence Stamp
  Terence Stamp
  
  Terence Henry Stamp is an Academy Award-nominated English actor. He is best known for having played the character General Zod in the Superman movie franchise....
  , actor
• October 22— Christopher Lloyd
  Christopher Lloyd
  
  Christopher Allen Lloyd is a three-time Emmy Award-winning United States actor known for his gruff eloquent voice. He is of Wales ancestry and is well known for his roles as Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, as well a...
  , actor (still active)
• November 13 — Jean Seberg
  Jean Seberg
  
  Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in France. Seberg became even more of an icon after her roles in numerous French films and the tragedy of her turbulent life and eventual suicide....
  , American actress (died 1979
  1979 in film
  
  The year 1979 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• December 12 — Connie Francis
  Connie Francis
  
  Connie Francis is an United States pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid"....
  , American singer, actress

Deaths

• August 4 - Pearl White
  Pearl White
  
  Pearl Fay White was an United States film actress, the so-called "Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline ....
  , American silent film star
• August 6 - Warner Oland
  Warner Oland
  
  Warner Oland was a Sweden actor most remembered for his role as "Charlie Chan."...
  , Swedish-born actor
• September 19 - Pauline Frederick
  Pauline Frederick
  
  Pauline Frederick was an actor best known for her Hollywood films....
  , stage & film actress.
• December 28 - Florence Lawrence
  Florence Lawrence
  
  Florence Lawrence was a Canada inventor and silent film actress, who is often referred to as "The First Movie Star". She was also known as "The Biograph Girl", "The Imp Girl" and "The Girl of a Thousand Faces"....
  , Hollywood's first "star"