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. The highest grossing international film of the year was San Francisco, earning more than $5 million dollars worldwide.^[1]

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1936
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	The Great Ziegfeld	MGM	$3,089,000^[2]
2	San Francisco	MGM	$2,868,000^[3]
3	The Plainsman	Paramount	$2,278,533^[4]
4	After the Thin Man	MGM	$1,992,000^[2]
5	Modern Times	United Artists	$1,800,000^[5]
6	Anthony Adverse	Warner Bros.	$1,783,000^[6]
7	Strike Me Pink	United Artists	$1,700,000^[5]
8	Rose Marie	MGM	$1,695,000^[2]
9	Swing Time	RKO	$1,624,000^[7]
10	Libeled Lady	MGM	$1,601,000^[2]

Events

January 9 – Silent screen actor John Gilbert, perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as The Merry Widow and The Big Parade, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Bel Air home, aged 38.
February 15 – The first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, is released.
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

Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Best Director: Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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

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.^[8]

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Shirley Temple
2.	Clark Gable
3.	Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
4.	Robert Taylor
5.	Joe E. Brown
6.	Dick Powell
7.	Joan Crawford
8.	Claudette Colbert
9.	Jeanette MacDonald
10.	Gary Cooper

Top Western stars

A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.^[9]

Rank	Actor/Actress
1.	Buck Jones
2.	George O'Brien
3.	Gene Autry
4.	William Boyd
5.	Ken Maynard
6.	Dick Foran
7.	John Wayne
8.	Tim McCoy
9.	Hoot Gibson
10.	Buster Crabbe

1936 film releases

United States unless stated.

Notable films released in 1936

United States unless stated.

0–9

13 Hours by Air, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett and ZaSu Pitts
15 Maiden Lane, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero

A

Accused, directed by Thornton Freeland, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río – (GB)
Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), directed by Franz Osten, starring Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani – (India)
After the Thin Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch), directed by Fernando de Fuentes, starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández – (Mexico)
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Cary Grant and Mary Brian – (GB)
Anthony Adverse, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
Anything Goes, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and Ida Lupino
Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener, starring Michael Bohnen – (Germany/Poland)

B

Black Eyes (Cheshmhay-e Siah), directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta – (Iran)
Blood on Wolf Mountain (Láng shān dié xuě jì), directed by Fei Mu, starring Li Lili – (China)
The Bohemian Girl, directed by James W. Horne and Charley Rogers, starring Laurel and Hardy
The Bold Caballero, directed by Wells Root, starring Robert Livingston
Born to Dance, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Eleanor Powell, James Stewart and Una Merkel
Broken Blossoms, directed by John Brahm, starring Dolly Haas and Emlyn Williams – (GB)
Bullets or Ballots, directed by William Keighley, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart
By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet – (USSR)

C

Cain and Mabel, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly), directed by and starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia)
Camille, directed by George Cukor, starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore
Captain January, directed by David Butler, starring Shirley Temple
The Case Against Mrs. Ames, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
César, directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu – (France)
The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
Charlie Chan at the Opera, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
The Children of Captain Grant (Deti kapitana Granta), directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok – (USSR)
Circus (Tsirk), directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, starring Lyubov Orlova – (USSR)
Collegiate, directed by Ralph Murphy, starring Jack Oakie, Frances Langford and Betty Grable
Come and Get It, directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea and Walter Brennan
Craig's Wife, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir, starring René Lefèvre – (France)
Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Margot Grahame and Paul Cavanagh – (GB)

D

Daniel Boone, directed by David Howard, starring George O'Brien
The Desert Island (Lang tao sha), directed by Wu Yonggang – (China)
Desire, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
Devdas, directed by Pramathesh Barua, starring K. L. Saigal – (India)
The Devil Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan
Dimples, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple and Frank Morgan
Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor and David Niven
Dracula's Daughter, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Anthony Bushell and Jane Baxter – (GB)

E

East Meets West, directed by Herbert Mason, starring George Arliss – (GB)
Empty Saddles, directed by Lesley Selander, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
Everything Is Thunder, directed by Milton Rosmer, starring Constance Bennett – (GB)

F

Follow the Fleet, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott
Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner – (GB)
The Four Musketeers (I quattro moschettieri), directed by Carlo Campogalliani – (Italy)
Fury, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy

G

The Garden of Allah, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer
The General Died at Dawn, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
General Spanky, directed by Fred Newmeyer and Gordon Douglas, starring Spanky McFarland
Girl Friends (Podrugi), directed by Lev Arnshtam, starring Zoya Fyodorova – (USSR)
Go West, Young Man, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Mae West, Warren William and Randolph Scott
Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell
The Gorgeous Hussy, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas and James Stewart
The Great Ziegfeld, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer and Frank Morgan
Green Pastures, directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

H

Hearts Divided, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
Hearts in Bondage, directed by Lew Ayres, starring James Dunn, David Manners and Mae Clarke
Home Guardsman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler), directed by Werner Klingler – (Germany)
Hopalong Cassidy Returns, directed by Nate Watt, starring William Boyd

I

Intermezzo, directed by Gustaf Molander, starring Gösta Ekman and Ingrid Bergman – (Sweden)
The Invisible Ray, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
It Had to Happen, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
It's Love Again, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young – (GB)

J

The Jungle Princess, directed by Wilhelm Thiele, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland

K

Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California), directed by and starring Luis Trenker – (Germany)
Klondike Annie, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen

L

Laburnum Grove, directed by Carol Reed, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
The Last of the Mohicans, directed by George B. Seitz, starring Randolph Scott
The Last Outlaw, directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Harry Carey and Hoot Gibson
The Lawless Nineties, directed by Joseph Kane, starring John Wayne
Legion of Terror, directed by Charles C. Coleman, starring Bruce Cabot
Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa), directed by Fernando de Fuentes – (Mexico)
Libeled Lady, directed by Jack Conway, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
Limelight, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle – (GB)
Little Lord Fauntleroy, directed by John Cromwell, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello
Lloyd's of London, directed by Henry King, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll and Tyrone Power
Love Before Breakfast, directed by Walter Lang, starring Carole Lombard, Preston Foster and Cesar Romero
Love in Exile, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Clive Brook and Helen Vinson – (GB)
Love on the Run, directed by W. S. Van Dyke. starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone
The Lower Depths (Les Bas-fonds), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin – (France)

M

The Man Who Changed His Mind, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Boris Karloff – (GB)
Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux – (France)
Men Are Not Gods, directed by Walter Reisch, starring Miriam Hopkins and Gertrude Lawrence – (GB)
A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles
The Milky Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Harold Lloyd and Adolphe Menjou
Modern Times, a Charlie Chaplin film, with Paulette Goddard
The Moon's Our Home, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda and Walter Brennan
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

N

Next Time We Love, directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland
Night Mail, documentary directed by Harry Watt and Basil Wright – (GB)

O

The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejī), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Isuzu Yamada – (Japan)
Our Relations, directed by Harry Lachman, starring Laurel and Hardy

P

Palm Springs, directed by Aubrey Scotto, starring Frances Langford, Guy Standing and David Niven
Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji), directed by Martin Frič, starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia)
Pennies from Heaven, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Bing Crosby, Madge Evans and Louis Armstrong
The Petrified Forest, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart
The Plainsman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur and Charles Bickford
Poor Little Rich Girl, directed by Irving Cummings, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye and Gloria Stuart
Poppy, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring W. C. Fields
The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
Private Number, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Loretta Young, Robert Taylor and Basil Rathbone

R

Ramona, directed by Henry King, starring Loretta Young and Don Ameche
Rebellion, directed by Lynn Shores, starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth
Red River Valley, directed by B. Reeves Eason, starring Gene Autry
Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)
Reefer Madness, directed by Louis J. Gasnier
Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
Road Gang, directed by Louis King, starring Donald Woods
The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore
Romeo and Juliet, directed by George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
Rose Marie, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

S

Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)
San Francisco, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy
Satan Met a Lady, directed by William Dieterle, starring Bette Davis and Warren William
Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud and Robert Young – (GB)
Show Boat, directed by James Whale, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones and Paul Robeson
Silly Billies, directed by Fred Guiol, starring Wheeler & Woolsey
The Singing Kid, directed by William Keighley, starring Al Jolson
Sisters of the Gion (Gion no kyōdai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Lewis Stone and James Stewart
Son of Mongolia (Syn Mongolii), directed by Ilya Trauberg – (Mongolia)
Sportszerelem (Love of Sport), directed by László Kardos – (Hungary)
Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas – (GB)
The Story of Louis Pasteur, directed by William Dieterle, starring Paul Muni
Stowaway, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young and Alice Faye
Strike Me Pink, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman
Sutter's Gold, directed by James Cruze, starring Edward Arnold
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter – (GB)
Swing Time, directed by George Stevens, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

T

Tarzan Escapes, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie and Jean Parker
Theodora Goes Wild, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
These Three, directed by William Wyler, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea
Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
Three Godfathers, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone and Walter Brennan
Till We Meet Again, directed by Robert Florey, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
Too Many Parents, directed by Robert F. McGowan, starring Frances Farmer
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda
Tudor Rose, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam and John Mills – (GB)

W

The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez and Edmund Gwenn
Where There's a Will, directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay and Graham Moffatt – (GB)
Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard – (GB)
Wife vs. Secretary, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
Windbag the Sailor, directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt – (GB)
A Woman Rebels, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall

Y

Yiddle with his Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl), directed by Joseph Green, starring Molly Picon – (Poland)

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

Comedy film series

Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
Buster Keaton (1917–1928)
Laurel and Hardy (1927–1940)
Our Gang (1922–1944)
Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
Wheeler & Woolsey (1929–1937)
The Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
The Three Stooges (1934–1959)

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)

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
- Joe Don Baker, American character actor (d. 2025)
- Paul Shenar, American actor (d. 1989)
February 14
- Joan O'Brien, American actor, singer (d. 2025)
- Andrew Prine, American actor (d. 2022)
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 17 - Patty Maloney, American actress (d. 2025)
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)
April 29 - Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French director (d. 2006)
May 4 – Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. 2024)
May 9
- Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
- Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023)
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 (d. 2024)
June 19 - Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor and narrator (d. 2012)
June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, American actor, musician and songwriter (d. 2024)
June 24
- Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (d. 2021)
- Paul L. Smith, American-Israeli actor and director (d. 2012)
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 8 - William Cort, American actor (d. 1993)
July 9
- Dick Richards, American director, producer and screenwriter
- Richard Wilson, Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster
July 24
- Ruth Buzzi, American actress, comedian and singer (d. 2025)
- Mark Goddard, American actor (d. 2023)
July 25 - August Schellenberg, Canadian actor (d. 2013)
July 30 - John P. Ryan, American actor (d. 2007)
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
- Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican actress (d. 2017)
- 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
- Andrew Davies, Welsh writer
- Pepper Martin, Canadian-American actor (d. 2022)
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
- Peter Bowles, English actor (d. 2022)
- Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
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 2 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (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
- Mary Alice, American actress (d. 2022)
- Sir Horace Ové, Trinidadian-born British filmmaker (d. 2023)
December 5 - John Erwin, American voice actor (d. 2024)
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
- Frederic Forrest, American actor (d. 2023)
- James Stacy, American actor (d. 2016)
December 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
December 28 - Rhys McConnochie, New Zealand-born Australian actor
December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)

Deaths

January 9
- John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)
- Frank Rice, American actor (b. 1892)
January 24 – Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)
February 20 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
February 28 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859)
April 6 – Väinö Lehmus, Finnish actor (b. 1886)
June 7 - Jobyna Howland, American actress (b. 1880)
June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878)
July 11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
September 14 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
October 10 - William H. Tooker, American actor
October 17 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889)

Film debuts

Gaby André – Hélène
Lloyd Bridges – Freshman Love
J. Edward Bromberg – Under Two Flags
Blanchette Brunoy – Counsel for Romance
Peter Bull – The Secret Voice
Esma Cannon – The Man Behind the Mask
Cyril Chamberlain – The Man Behind the Mask
Jerome Cowan – Beloved Enemy
Janine Darcey – La tendre ennemie
Don DeFore – Reunion
Gloria DeHaven – Modern Times
Eddie Dew – The Story of Louis Pasteur
Leslie Dwyer – Cheer Up
Frank Faylen – Road Gang
Judy Garland – Pigskin Parade
Beatrice Gray – Swing Time
Ethel May Halls – The Milky Way
Harry Hayden – I Married a Doctor
Patricia Hayes – Broken Blossoms
James Hayter – Sensation
Van Heflin – A Woman Rebels
Fay Helm – Fury
Ronald Howard – Romeo and Juliet
Daisuke Katō – Kōchiyama Sōshun
Alma Kruger – These Three
Joan Leslie – Camille
Kay Linaker – The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Charles Lloyd-Pack – Calling the Tune
Hugh Marlowe – Brilliant Marriage
Tony Martin – Follow the Fleet
Mira McKinney – Modern Times
Wayne Morris – China Clipper
John Payne – Dodsworth
Anthony Quinn – The Milky Way
Martha Raye – Rhythm on the Range
Michael Redgrave – Secret Agent
Michael Rennie – Secret Agent
Michael Ripper – Twice Branded
Elizabeth Russell – Forgotten Faces
Margaret Rutherford – Dusty Ermine
Kent Smith – The Garden Murder Case
Madeleine Sologne – Life Belongs to Us
Gale Sondergaard – Anthony Adverse
Louise Stanley – Anything Goes
Nigel Stock – The Man Who Could Work Miracles
John Sutton – The House of a Thousand Candles
Max Terhune – Ride Ranger Ride
Beatrice Varley – Tomorrow We Live
Marjorie Weaver – China Clipper
Frank Wilcox – Postal Inspector
Robert J. Wilke – San Francisco

Notes

^ Turk 1998, p. 184
^ ^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 Schaefer 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

[Turk-1] Turk 1998, p. 184

[Mannix-2] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[HollywoodDivaBook-3] Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. University of California Press. pp. 364-365. ISBN 0-520-21202-9.

[4] Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813123240.

[HollywoodStoryBook-5] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[6] Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 16 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

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