Overview of the events of 1936 in film
The following is an overview of 1936 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Events January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert , perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as The Merry Widow The Big Parade Bel Air home, aged 38. February 15 – first Republic serial , Darkest Africa May 29 – Fritz Lang 's first Hollywood film, Fury , starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot , is released. September 14 – Film producer Irving Thalberg , often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home in Santa Monica , aged 37.
Academy Awards
Top Ten Money Making Stars Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company 's annual poll.[7]
Top Western stars A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.[8]
1936 film releases United States unless stated.
January–March January 193616 January 17 January 20 January 22 January 24 January 28 January 30 January February 19366 February 7 February 14 February 15 February 19 February 20 February 22 February 25 February 28 February 29 February March 19361 March 2 March 6 March 9 March 13 March 18 March 20 March 22 March 28 March 30 March
April–June April 19364 April 10 April 11 April 16 April 20 April 24 April 30 April May 19366 May 8 May 11 May 17 May 19 May 20 May 26 May 28 May 29 May June 19365 June 6 June 14 June 15 June 17 June 20 June 26 June
July–September July 193610 July 16 July 22 July 24 July 28 July 29 July August 193610 August 20 August 26 August 27 August 28 August September 19361 September 2 September 4 September 6 September 9 September 10 September 11 September 15 September 23 September 25 September 26 September 30 September
October–December October 19361 October 6 October 9 October 15 October 16 October 20 October 22 October 27 October 30 October November 19361 November 6 November 12 November 13 November 16 November 20 November 25 November 26 November 27 November December 19361 December 2 December 11 December 12 December 20 December 21 December 24 December 25 December 26 December 31 December
Notable films released in 1936 United States unless stated.
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A Accused Thornton Freeland , starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río – (GB)Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden)Franz Osten , starring Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani – (India )After the Thin Man W. S. Van Dyke , starring William Powell , Myrna Loy and James Stewart Allá en el Rancho Grande Mexico )The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss Cary Grant (GB)Anthony Adverse Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland Anything Goes Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman Augustus the Strong Paul Wegener – (Germany /Poland )
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C Cain and Mabel Marion Davies and Clark Gable Camel Through the Eye of a Needle Czechoslovakia )Camille Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor Captain January Shirley Temple The Case Against Mrs. Ames Madeleine Carroll and George Brent Ceiling Zero Howard Hawks , starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien César Marcel Pagnol (France )The Charge of the Light Brigade Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland Charlie Chan at the Opera Warner Oland and Boris Karloff The Children of Captain Grant Circus U.S.S.R. )Collegiate Frances Langford and Betty Grable Come and Get It Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea Craig's Wife Rosalind Russell The Crime of Monsieur Lange Jean Renoir (France )Crime Over London Alfred Zeisler (GB)
D Kundal Lal Saigal and Jamuna in Devdas, Barua's 1936 Hindi version. Daniel Boone George O'Brien The Desert Island China )Desire Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper Devdas India )The Devil-Doll Tod Browning , starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan Dimples Shirley Temple Dodsworth William Wyler , starring Walter Huston , Ruth Chatterton , Mary Astor Dracula's Daughter Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden Dusty Ermine Bernard Vorhaus (UK)
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G The Garden of Allah Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer The General Died at Dawn Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll General Spanky Spanky McFarland Girl Friends U.S.S.R. )Go West, Young Man Mae West , adapted by her from Lawrence Riley 's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance Gold Diggers of 1937 Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley The Gorgeous Hussy Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor The Great Ziegfeld William Powell , Myrna Loy , Luise Rainer Green Pastures Rex Ingram and Eddie Anderson
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L Laburnum Grove Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke (GB)The Last of the Mohicans Randolph Scott The Last Outlaw Harry Carey The Lawless Nineties John Wayne Legion of Terror Bruce Cabot Let's Go With Pancho Villa Mexico )Libeled Lady Jean Harlow , William Powell , Myrna Loy , Spencer Tracy Limelight Anna Neagle (GB)Little Lord Fauntleroy Freddie Bartholomew , Dolores Costello Barrymore , C. Aubrey Smith Lloyd's of London Freddie Bartholomew , Madeleine Carroll , Tyrone Power Love Before Breakfast Carole Lombard and Preston Foster Love in Exile Helen Vinson and Clive Brook (GB)Love on the Run Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
M The Man Who Changed His Mind Boris Karloff (GB)The Man Who Could Work Miracles Roland Young and Ralph Richardson (GB)Mayerling Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux (France )Men Are Not Gods Miriam Hopkins , Gertrude Lawrence , Rex Harrison (GB)A Message to Garcia George Marshall , starring Barbara Stanwyck , John Boles and Wallace Beery Militiaman Bruggler Germany )The Milky Way Harold Lloyd Modern Times Charles Chaplin , with Paulette Goddard The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian filmThe Moon's Our Home Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Frank Capra , starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur My Man Godfrey Gregory La Cava , starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
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P Palm Springs Frances Langford and David Niven Paradise Road Czechoslovakia )Pennies from Heaven Bing Crosby and Madge Evans The Petrified Forest Leslie Howard , Humphrey Bogart , Bette Davis Poppy W.C. Fields The Plainsman Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur Poor Little Rich Girl Shirley Temple , Alice Faye , Jack Haley The Prisoner of Shark Island John Ford , starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart Private Number Loretta Young and Robert Taylor
R Red River Valley Gene Autry Redes Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico )Ramona Don Ameche and Loretta Young Rebellion Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth Reefer Madness Tell Your Children ), a cult exploitation film Rembrandt Alexander Korda , starring Charles Laughton – (GB)Road Gang Donald Woods Robin Hood, Jr. Leslie Goodwins The Road to Glory Howard Hawks , starring Lionel Barrymore and Fredric March Romeo and Juliet Norma Shearer , Leslie Howard , John Barrymore , Basil Rathbone Rose Marie Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
S Sabotage Alfred Hitchcock , starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)San Francisco Clark Gable , Jeanette MacDonald , Spencer Tracy Satan Met a Lady Warren William and Bette Davis Secret Agent Alfred Hitchcock , starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll (GB)Show Boat Irene Dunne , Allan Jones , Charles Winninger , Paul Robeson , Helen Morgan The Singing Kid Al Jolson Silly Billies Wheeler & Woolsey Sisters of the Gion Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan )Small Town Girl William Wellman , starring Janet Gaynor , Robert Taylor , James Stewart Sportszerelem Hungary )Spy of Napoleon Maurice Elvey , starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas (GB)The Story of Louis Pasteur Paul Muni Stowaway Shirley Temple , Robert Young , Alice Faye Sutter's Gold Edward Arnold Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tod Slaughter (GB)Swing Time Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
T Tarzan Escapes Johnny Weissmuller The Texas Rangers King Vidor , starring Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie Theodora Goes Wild Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas These Three Miriam Hopkins , Merle Oberon , Joel McCrea (adapted from Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour )Things to Come William Cameron Menzies , starring Raymond Massey , Ralph Richardson , Cedric Hardwicke (GB)Thirteen Hours by Air Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett Three Godfathers Chester Morris , Lewis Stone , Walter Brennan Till We Meet Again Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael Too Many Parents Frances Farmer The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Sylvia Sidney , Fred MacMurray , Henry Fonda Tudor Rose Cedric Hardwicke , Nova Pilbeam , John Mills (GB)
W The Walking Dead Michael Curtiz , starring Boris Karloff Where There's a Will Will Hay – (GB)Whom the Gods Love Basil Dean , starring Stephen Haggard , Victoria Hopper – (GB)Wife vs. Secretary Clark Gable , Jean Harlow , Myrna Loy Windbag the Sailor Will Hay (GB)A Woman Rebels Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall
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Serials
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Births January 9 – K Callan , American author and actress January 18 – Tim Barlow , English actor (d. 2023) January 22 – Nyree Dawn Porter , English actress (d. 2001) January 27 – Troy Donahue , American actor (d. 2001) January 28 – Alan Alda , American actor February 3 – Jeanine Basinger , American film historian February 4 – Gary Conway , American actor and screenwriter February 11 – Burt Reynolds , American actor (d. 2018) February 12 February 14 February 17 – Jim Brown , American actor (d. 2023) February 29 – Alex Rocco , American actor (d. 2015) March 1 – Georgina Spelvin , born Shelley Graham, American pornographic film actress March 5 – Dean Stockwell , American actor (d. 2021) March 8 – Sue Ane Langdon , American actress March 9 – Marty Ingels , American actor, comedian, comedy sketch writer and theatrical agent (d. 2015) March 19 – Ursula Andress , Swiss actress March 23 – Luisa Mattioli , Italian actress (d. 2021) April 9 – Avery Schreiber , American actor and comedian (d. 2002) April 12 – Charles Napier , American character actor (d. 2011) April 19 – Andy Romano , American actor (d. 2022) May 1 – Danièle Huillet , French director (d. 2006) May 4 – Eleanor Coppola , American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. 2024) May 9 May 12 – Millie Perkins , American former actress May 14 – Bobby Darin , American singer, songwriter, actor (d. 1973) May 17 – Dennis Hopper , American actor and performance artist (d. 2010) May 20 – Anthony Zerbe , American actor May 23 – Charles Kimbrough , American actor (d. 2023) May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr. , American actor (d. 2024) May 28 – John Wilder , American producer, writer and former actor May 30 – Keir Dullea , American actor June 3 – Larry McMurtry , American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021) June 4 – Bruce Dern , American actor June 8 – James Darren , American actor, director and singer June 19 - Takeshi Aono , Japanese voice actor and narrator (d. 2012) June 22 – Kris Kristofferson , American retired actor, musician and songwriter June 24 June 27 – Shirley Anne Field , English actress (d. 2023) July 1 – Ron Masak , American actor (d. 2022) July 5 – Shirley Knight , American actress (d. 2020) July 9 – Dick Richards , American director, producer and screenwriter July 9 - Richard Wilson Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster July 24 July 25 - August Schellenberg , Canadian actor (d. 2013) August 5 - John Saxon , American actor (d. 2020) August 15 - Pat Priest , American actress August 16 - Anita Gillette , American actress August 17 – Floyd Westerman , American musician, political activist, and actor (d. 2007) August 18 – Robert Redford , American actor and director August 20 – Philip Voss , British actor (d. 2020) August 25 – Hugh Hudson , English director (d. 2023) September 7 – Bruce Gray , Canadian actor (d. 2017) September 11 - Charles Dierkop , American character actor (d. 2024) September 14 - Walter Koenig , American actor and screenwriter September 19 - Anna Karen , British-South African actress (d. 2022) September 20 September 21 - Burr DeBenning , American character actor (d. 2003) September 24 - Jim Henson , American puppeteer, animator, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990) October 8 - Leonid Kuravlyov , Russian actor (d. 2022) October 9 – Brian Blessed , English actor October 16 October 19 - Tony Lo Bianco , Italian-American actor (d. 2024) October 23 - Philip Kaufman , American director and screenwriter October 24 – David Nelson , American actor, director and producer (d. 2011) October 26 - Shelley Morrison , American actress (d. 2019) October 28 - Joe Spinell , American character actor (d. 1989) November 4 - Jan Tříska , Czech actor (d. 2017) November 9 – Teddy Infuhr , American child actor (d. 2007) November 19 - Dick Cavett , American television personality, comedian and former talk show host November 25 - Matt Clark , American actor November 27 – Joel Barcellos , Brazilian actor (d. 2018) December 1 - Melissa Jaffer , Australian actress December 3 December 5 - John Erwin , American voice actor December 6 - David Ossman , American writer and comedian December 8 – David Carradine , American actor and martial artist (d. 2009) December 10 – Howard Smith , American journalist, director and producer (d. 2014) December 13 - Cliff Emmich , American actor (d. 2022) December 18 - Gary Gray , American child actor (d. 2006) December 22 – Hector Elizondo , American actor December 23 December 25 – Ismail Merchant , Indian film producer (d. 2005) December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore , American actress (d. 2017)
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Debuts
Notes ^ a b c d The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study^ Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald . University of California Press. pp. 364-365. ISBN 0-520-21202-9 ^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood . University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813123240 ^ a b Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 ^ Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 16 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551 ^ Richard Jewel (1994) 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , Vol. 14 No. 1, p.55 ^ "The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1936". Motion Picture Herald Quigley Publishing Company . January 9, 1937. p. 13. Retrieved April 24, 2018 . ^ "Exhibitors Name Biggest Western Draws". Motion Picture Herald Quigley Publishing Company . January 9, 1937. p. 18. Retrieved April 24, 2018 .
External links List of 1936 films at IMDb List of 1936 deaths at IMDb List of 1936 births at IMDb
