Overview of the events of 1936 in film
The following is an overview of1936 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The highest grossing international film of the year wasSan Francisco [ 1]
[ edit ] 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 $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]
January 9 – Silent screen actorJohn Gilbert , perhaps best known for his appearances in films such asThe Merry Widow The Big Parade Bel Air home, aged 38. February 15 – The firstRepublic serial ,Darkest Africa May 29 –Fritz Lang 's first Hollywood film,Fury Spencer Tracy andBruce Cabot , is released. September 14 – Film producerIrving Thalberg , often referred by many as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", dies from pneumonia at his home inSanta Monica , aged 37. Top Ten Money Making Stars [ edit ] Exhibitors selected the following as theTop Ten Money Making Stars of the Year inQuigley Publishing Company 's annual poll.[ 8]
A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.[ 9]
United States unless stated.
Accused Thornton Freeland , starringDouglas Fairbanks Jr. andDolores del Río – (GB )Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden)Franz Osten , starringAshok Kumar andDevika Rani – (India )After the Thin Man W. S. Van Dyke , starringWilliam Powell ,Myrna Loy andJames Stewart Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch)Fernando de Fuentes , starringTito Guízar andEsther Fernández – (Mexico )The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss Alfred Zeisler , starringCary Grant andMary Brian – (GB )Anthony Adverse Mervyn LeRoy , starringFredric March andOlivia de Havilland Anything Goes Lewis Milestone , starringBing Crosby ,Ethel Merman andIda Lupino Augustus the Strong (August der Starke)Paul Wegener , starringMichael Bohnen – (Germany /Poland )Black Eyes (Cheshmhay-e Siah)Abdolhossein Sepanta – (Iran )Blood on Wolf Mountain (Láng shān dié xuě jì)Fei Mu , starringLi Lili – (China )The Bohemian Girl James W. Horne andCharley Rogers , starringLaurel and Hardy The Bold Caballero Wells Root , starringRobert Livingston Born to Dance Roy Del Ruth , starringEleanor Powell ,James Stewart andUna Merkel Broken Blossoms John Brahm , starringDolly Haas andEmlyn Williams – (GB )Bullets or Ballots William Keighley , starringEdward G. Robinson ,Joan Blondell andHumphrey Bogart By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya)Boris Barnet – (USSR )Cain and Mabel Lloyd Bacon , starringMarion Davies andClark Gable Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly)Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia )Camille George Cukor , starringGreta Garbo ,Robert Taylor andLionel Barrymore Captain January David Butler , starringShirley Temple The Case Against Mrs. Ames William A. Seiter , starringMadeleine Carroll andGeorge Brent Ceiling Zero Howard Hawks , starringJames Cagney andPat O'Brien César Marcel Pagnol , starringRaimu – (France )The Charge of the Light Brigade Michael Curtiz , starringErrol Flynn andOlivia de Havilland Charlie Chan at the Opera H. Bruce Humberstone , starringWarner Oland andBoris Karloff The Children of Captain Grant (Deti kapitana Granta)Vladimir Vajnshtok – (USSR )Circus (Tsirk)Grigori Aleksandrov , starringLyubov Orlova – (USSR )Collegiate Ralph Murphy , starringJack Oakie ,Frances Langford andBetty Grable Come and Get It Howard Hawks andWilliam Wyler , starringEdward Arnold ,Joel McCrea andWalter Brennan Craig's Wife Dorothy Arzner , starringRosalind Russell andJohn Boles The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange)Jean Renoir , starringRené Lefèvre – (France )Crime Over London Alfred Zeisler , starringMargot Grahame andPaul Cavanagh – (GB )Kundal Lal Saigal and Jamuna in Devdas, Barua's 1936 Hindi version. Daniel Boone David Howard , starringGeorge O'Brien The Desert Island (Lang tao sha)Wu Yonggang – (China )Desire Frank Borzage , starringMarlene Dietrich andGary Cooper Devdas Pramathesh Barua , starringK. L. Saigal – (India )The Devil Doll Tod Browning , starringLionel Barrymore andMaureen O'Sullivan Dimples William A. Seiter , starringShirley Temple andFrank Morgan Dodsworth William Wyler , starringWalter Huston ,Ruth Chatterton ,Mary Astor andDavid Niven Dracula's Daughter Lambert Hillyer , starringOtto Kruger andGloria Holden Dusty Ermine Bernard Vorhaus , directed byBernard Vorhaus , starringAnthony Bushell andJane Baxter – (GB )The Garden of Allah Richard Boleslawski , starringMarlene Dietrich andCharles Boyer The General Died at Dawn Lewis Milestone , starringGary Cooper andMadeleine Carroll General Spanky Fred Newmeyer andGordon Douglas , starringSpanky McFarland Girl Friends (Podrugi)Lev Arnshtam , starringZoya Fyodorova – (USSR )Go West, Young Man Henry Hathaway , starringMae West ,Warren William andRandolph Scott Gold Diggers of 1937 Lloyd Bacon , starringDick Powell ,Joan Blondell andGlenda Farrell The Gorgeous Hussy Clarence Brown , starringJoan Crawford ,Robert Taylor ,Lionel Barrymore ,Franchot Tone ,Melvyn Douglas andJames Stewart The Great Ziegfeld Robert Z. Leonard , starringWilliam Powell ,Myrna Loy ,Luise Rainer andFrank Morgan Green Pastures Marc Connelly andWilliam Keighley , starringRex Ingram andEddie "Rochester" Anderson Laburnum Grove Carol Reed , starringEdmund Gwenn andCedric Hardwicke – (GB )The Last of the Mohicans George B. Seitz , starringRandolph Scott The Last Outlaw Christy Cabanne , starringHarry Carey andHoot Gibson The Lawless Nineties Joseph Kane , starringJohn Wayne Legion of Terror Charles C. Coleman , starringBruce Cabot Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa)Fernando de Fuentes – (Mexico )Libeled Lady Jack Conway , starringJean Harlow ,William Powell ,Myrna Loy andSpencer Tracy Limelight Herbert Wilcox , starringAnna Neagle – (GB )Little Lord Fauntleroy John Cromwell , starringFreddie Bartholomew andDolores Costello Lloyd's of London Henry King , starringFreddie Bartholomew ,Madeleine Carroll andTyrone Power Love Before Breakfast Walter Lang , starringCarole Lombard ,Preston Foster andCesar Romero Love in Exile Alfred L. Werker , starringClive Brook andHelen Vinson – (GB )Love on the Run W. S. Van Dyke . starringJoan Crawford ,Clark Gable andFranchot Tone The Lower Depths (Les Bas-fonds)Jean Renoir , starringJean Gabin – (France )The Man Who Changed His Mind Robert Stevenson , starringBoris Karloff – (GB )Mayerling Anatole Litvak starringCharles Boyer andDanielle Darrieux – (France )Men Are Not Gods Walter Reisch , starringMiriam Hopkins andGertrude Lawrence – (GB )A Message to Garcia George Marshall , starringWallace Beery ,Barbara Stanwyck andJohn Boles The Milky Way Leo McCarey , starringHarold Lloyd andAdolphe Menjou Modern Times Charlie Chaplin film, withPaulette Goddard The Moon's Our Home William A. Seiter , starringMargaret Sullavan ,Henry Fonda andWalter Brennan Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Frank Capra , starringGary Cooper andJean Arthur My Man Godfrey Gregory La Cava , starringWilliam Powell andCarole Lombard Palm Springs Aubrey Scotto , starringFrances Langford ,Guy Standing andDavid Niven Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji)Martin Frič , starringHugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia )Pennies from Heaven Norman Z. McLeod , starringBing Crosby ,Madge Evans andLouis Armstrong The Petrified Forest Archie Mayo , starringLeslie Howard ,Bette Davis andHumphrey Bogart The Plainsman Cecil B. DeMille , starringGary Cooper ,Jean Arthur andCharles Bickford Poor Little Rich Girl Irving Cummings , starringShirley Temple ,Alice Faye andGloria Stuart Poppy A. Edward Sutherland , starringW. C. Fields The Prisoner of Shark Island John Ford , starringWarner Baxter andGloria Stuart Private Number Roy Del Ruth , starringLoretta Young ,Robert Taylor andBasil Rathbone Ramona Henry King , starringLoretta Young andDon Ameche Rebellion Lynn Shores , starringTom Keene andRita Hayworth Red River Valley B. Reeves Eason , starringGene Autry Redes Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico )Reefer Madness Louis J. Gasnier Rembrandt Alexander Korda , starringCharles Laughton – (GB )Road Gang Louis King , starringDonald Woods The Road to Glory Howard Hawks , starringFredric March ,Warner Baxter andLionel Barrymore Romeo and Juliet George Cukor , starringNorma Shearer ,Leslie Howard ,John Barrymore andBasil Rathbone Rose Marie W. S. Van Dyke , starringJeanette MacDonald andNelson Eddy Sabotage Alfred Hitchcock , starringSylvia Sidney andOskar Homolka – (GB )San Francisco W. S. Van Dyke , starringClark Gable ,Jeanette MacDonald andSpencer Tracy Satan Met a Lady William Dieterle , starringBette Davis andWarren William Secret Agent Alfred Hitchcock , starringMadeleine Carroll ,Peter Lorre ,John Gielgud andRobert Young – (GB )Show Boat James Whale , starringIrene Dunne ,Allan Jones andPaul Robeson Silly Billies Fred Guiol , starringWheeler & Woolsey The Singing Kid William Keighley , starringAl Jolson Sisters of the Gion (Gion no kyōdai)Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan )Small Town Girl William Wellman , starringJanet Gaynor ,Robert Taylor ,Lewis Stone andJames Stewart Son of Mongolia (Syn Mongolii)Ilya Trauberg – (Mongolia )Sportszerelem (Love of Sport)László Kardos – (Hungary )Spy of Napoleon Maurice Elvey , starringRichard Barthelmess andDolly Haas – (GB )The Story of Louis Pasteur William Dieterle , starringPaul Muni Stowaway William A. Seiter , starringShirley Temple ,Robert Young andAlice Faye Strike Me Pink Norman Taurog , starringEddie Cantor andEthel Merman Sutter's Gold James Cruze , starringEdward Arnold Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street George King , starringTod Slaughter – (GB )Swing Time George Stevens , starringFred Astaire andGinger Rogers Tarzan Escapes Richard Thorpe , starringJohnny Weissmuller andMaureen O'Sullivan The Texas Rangers King Vidor , starringFred MacMurray ,Jack Oakie andJean Parker Theodora Goes Wild Richard Boleslawski , starringIrene Dunne andMelvyn Douglas These Three William Wyler , starringMiriam Hopkins ,Merle Oberon andJoel McCrea Things to Come William Cameron Menzies , starringRaymond Massey ,Ralph Richardson andCedric Hardwicke – (GB )Three Godfathers Richard Boleslawski , starringChester Morris ,Lewis Stone andWalter Brennan Till We Meet Again Robert Florey , starringHerbert Marshall andGertrude Michael Too Many Parents Robert F. McGowan , starringFrances Farmer The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Henry Hathaway , starringFred MacMurray ,Sylvia Sidney andHenry Fonda Tudor Rose Robert Stevenson , starringCedric Hardwicke ,Nova Pilbeam andJohn Mills – (GB )The Walking Dead Michael Curtiz , starringBoris Karloff ,Ricardo Cortez andEdmund Gwenn Where There's a Will William Beaudine , starringWill Hay andGraham Moffatt – (GB )Whom the Gods Love Basil Dean , starringStephen Haggard – (GB )Wife vs. Secretary Clarence Brown , starringClark Gable ,Jean Harlow ,Myrna Loy andJames Stewart Windbag the Sailor William Beaudine , starringWill Hay ,Moore Marriott andGraham Moffatt – (GB )A Woman Rebels Mark Sandrich , starringKatharine Hepburn andHerbert Marshall United States unless stated.
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 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 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 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 Animated short film series [ edit ] 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 23 –Ed Metzger , American actor and writer 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, Americanpornographic 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 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 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 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 July 11 -John Stride , English actor (d. 2018) July 24 July 25 -August Schellenberg , Canadian actor (d. 2013) July 27 -Nathan George , American actor (d. 2017) July 30 -John P. Ryan , American actor (d. 2007) August 5 -John Saxon , American actor (d. 2020) August 13 –Raymond Serra , American actor (d. 2003) 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 (d. 2025) August 19 -Robert Towers , American actor August 20 August 25 –Hugh Hudson , English director (d. 2023) September 7 –Bruce Gray , Canadian actor (d. 2017) September 11 -Charles Dierkop , American 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 actor (d. 2003) September 24 -Jim Henson , American puppeteer, animator, actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990) September 25 -Louisa Moritz , Cuban-American actress (d. 2019) 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 21 -Jack Taylor , American actor 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 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 11 -Gerda Nicolson , Australian actress (d. 1992) November 17 -José Carlos Ruiz , Mexican actor 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 (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 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) January 9 January 11 –William Morris , American actor (b. 1861) January 13 –Samuel Roxy Rothafel , American film exhibitor (b. 1882) January 24 –Harry T. Morey , American actor (b. 1873) February 7 –O. P. Heggie , Australian actor (b. 1877) February 17 –Alexander Pantages , Film producer and theater owner (b. 1867) February 20 –Max Schreck , German actor (b. 1879) February 22 –Lennox Pawle , English actor (b. 1872) February 28 –Justus Hagman , Swedish actor (b. 1859) April 6 April 7 –Marilyn Miller , American actress (b. 1898) April 21 –Alexandra Carlisle , English actress (b. 1886) April 26 –Tammany Young , American actor (b. 1886) May 17 –Sir Philip Ben Greet , British actor (b. 1857) May 29 –Norman Chaney , American actor (b. 1914) June 7 -Jobyna Howland , American actress (b. 1880) June 17 –Henry B. Walthall , American actor (b. 1878) July 8 -Thomas Meighan , American actor (b. 1879) July 11 -James Murray , American actor (b. 1901) July 16 -Alan Crosland , American actor and director (b. 1894) July 17 -Stephen Roberts , American director (b. 1894) August 15 -John B. O'Brien , American actor and director (b. 1884) September 14 –Irving Thalberg , American film producer (b. 1899) September 20 –Edward Salisbury Field , American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1878) October 5 –Bernard Granville , American actor (b. 1888) October 10 -William H. Tooker , American actor (b. 1869) October 17 –Suzanne Bianchetti , French actress (b. 1889) October 30 November 2 –Laird Doyle , American screenwriter (b. 1907) November 7 –Sam Livesey , Welsh actor (b. 1873) November 18 –Fay Webb , American actress (b. 1907) November 27 –Chester A. Lyons , American cinematographer (b. 1885) December 8 –David Freedman , American writer (b. 1898) December 9 –Lottie Pickford , American actress (b. 1893) December 24 –Irene Fenwick , American actress (b. 1887) ^ 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 . 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