1936 in film

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The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Films released in 1936 5 Serials 6 Comedy film series 7 Animated short film series 8 Births 9 Deaths

[edit] Events

• November 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon
• February 15 - first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, released
• September 28 - The Marx Brothers' Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming

[edit] Top grossing films

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors
1.	San Francisco	MGM	Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald
2.	The Great Ziegfeld	MGM	William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
3.	Modern Times	United Artists	Charlie Chaplin
4.	These Three	United Artists	Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon
5.	Libeled Lady	MGM	Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
6.	Three Smart Girls	Universal	Deanna Durbin
7.	Poor Little Rich Girl	20th Century Fox	Shirley Temple
8.	Camille	MGM	Greta Garbo
9.	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Warner Bros.	Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
10.	Wife vs. Secretary	MGM	Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy
11.	My Man Godfrey	Universal	William Powell and Carole Lombard
12.	Dodsworth	United Artists	Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton
13.	Romeo and Juliet	MGM	Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard
14.	Dimples	20th Century Fox	Shirley Temple
15.	Follow the Fleet	RKO	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
16.	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Warner Bros.	Paul Muni
17.	Anthony Adverse	Warner Bros.	Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
18.	Go West, Young Man	Paramount	Mae West
19.	Suzy	MGM	Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone and Cary Grant
20.	Rose Marie	MGM	Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

[edit] Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Actor: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
• Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
• Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse

[edit] Films released in 1936

• Accused, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Dolores del Río
• After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant
• Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
• Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet
• The Big Noise, starring Guy Kibbee, Alma Lloyd, Warren Hull, and Dick Foran
• The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Bullets or Ballots
• Cafe Mascot, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald
• Cain and Mabel, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
• Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
• Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
• Ceiling Zero, starring James Cagney
• Cesar, directed by Marcel Pagnol
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
• Come and Get It
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange, directed by Jean Renoir
• Desire
• The Devil-Doll
• Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
• Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor
• Dracula's Daughter
• Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
• Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
• The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
• Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play of the same name, starring Eddie Anderson -(film mentioned in article)
• Hopalong Cassidy Returns
• Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman
• The Jungle Princess
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
• Libeled Lady, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Lloyd's of London
• Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson
• Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux
• Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins
• Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin with Paulette Goddard
• The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
• The Moon's Our Home
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
• My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
• The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujiro Ozu
• Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
• Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy
• The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis
• The Plainsman
• Poor Little Rich Girl
• The Prisoner of Shark Island
• Reefer Madness, (also known as Tell Your Children)
• Rembrandt, starring Charles Laughton
• Road Gang
• Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
• Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• Sabotage, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka
• San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy
• Secret Agent, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll
• Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan
• Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
• Small Town Girl, a William Wellman film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor and James Stewart
• The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
• Stowaway
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter
• Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Tarzan Escapes
• Theodora Goes Wild
• These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea. (Adapted from the Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour)
• Things to Come, based on the story by H.G. Wells
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
• Wife vs. Secretary
• Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon

[edit] Serials

• Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
• The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
• The Black Coin
• The Clutching Hand
• Custer's Last Stand
• Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty
• Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe
• The Phantom Rider
• Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala
• Shadow of Chinatown
• Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan
• The Vigilantes Are Coming

[edit] Comedy film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1945)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924-1936)
• Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937)
• The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Silly Symphonies
  • Elmer Elephant
  • Three Little Wolves
  • Toby Tortoise Returns
  • Three Blind Mousketeers
  • The Country Cousin
  • Mother Pluto
  • More Kittens
• Screen Songs (1929-1938)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Betty Boop (1932-1939)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936)
• Happy Harmonies (1934-1938)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)
• Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937)

[edit] Births

• January 22 - Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
• January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor
• January 28 - Alan Alda, United States actor
• February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
• March 1 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
• May 9 - Glenda Jackson, British actress and politician
• May 17 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist
• August 5 - John Saxon
• August 18 - Robert Redford, actor, director
• August 25 - Hugh Hudson, director
• October 19 - Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
• December 25 - Ismail Merchant Indian film producer

[edit] Deaths

• January 9 – John Gilbert, American actor
• January 24 - Harry T. Morey, American actor
• June 17 - Henry B. Walthall, American actor
• October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress
• November 26 - Max Schreck, German actor