1935 in film

Events

*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

Top grossing films

:North America
# "Mutiny on the Bounty"
# "Top Hat"
# "Captain Blood"
# "The Crusades"
# "China Seas
# "Captain Blood"
# "David Copperfield"
# "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
# "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
# "The Miracle Rider"
# "Anna Karenina"
# "Westward Ho"
# "The Woman in Red"
# "Bride of Frankenstein"
# "The Informer"
# "Dangerous"
# "A Night at the Opera"

Academy Awards

*Best Picture: "Mutiny on the Bounty" - MGM
*Best Actor: "Victor McLaglen" - "The Informer"
*Best Actress: "Bette Davis" - "Dangerous"

Films released in 1935

*"The 39 Steps", directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat
*"After Office Hours", starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
*"Ah, Wilderness!"
*"Alice Adams"
*"Anna Karenina"
*"Boys Will Be Boys"
*"Bride of Frankenstein"
*"Broadway Melody of 1936"
*"Captain Blood"
*"Carnival in Flanders"
*"Crime and Punishment", directed by Josef von Sternberg (only mentioned in article)
*"The Crusades"
*"Dangerous"
*"Dante's Inferno"
*"David Copperfield"
*"G Men"
*"The Gilded Lily"
*"Go Into Your Dance", starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler
*"Gold Diggers of 1935", a Busby Berkeley musical starring Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart
*"The Informer" starring Victor McLaglen
*"Les Misérables"
*"Life Returns"
*"The Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
*"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
*"Mutiny on the Bounty"
*"Naughty Marietta", starring Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy
*"The New Gulliver", directed by Aleksandr Ptushko (Soviet stop motion-animated film)
*"A Night at the Opera"
*"Reckless", a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell and Franchot Tone
*"Roberta", a musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott, with an uncredited appearance by a young Lucille Ball [ imdb name|0000840|Lucille Ball]
*"Ruggles of Red Gap"
*"The Scoundrel"
*"So Red the Rose"
*"A Tale of Two Cities"
*"Toni" by Jean Renoir, the most significant precursor to the Italian neorealist movement
*"Top Hat"
*"Triumph of the Will", a Nazi propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl
*"Tumbling Tumbleweeds", western with Gene Autry
*"The Wedding Night"
*"Werewolf of London"
*"Westward Ho", western with John Wayne
*"Who Killed Cock Robin?", Walt Disney animated short subject, one of the Silly Symphonies (mentioned in article)

erials

*"The Adventures of Rex and Rinty", starring Rex the Wonder Horse and Rin Tin Tin
*"The Call of the Savage", directed by Lew Landers
*"The Fighting Marines"
*"The Lost City"
*"The Miracle Rider", starring Tom Mix
*"The New Adventures of Tarzan", starring Herman Brix
*"The Phantom Empire", starring Gene Autry
*"Queen of the Jungle", directed by Robert F. Hill
*"The Roaring West"
*"Rustlers of Red Dog", directed by Lew Landers
*"Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery"

hort film series

*"Buster Keaton" (1917–1941)
*"Laurel and Hardy" (1921-1943)
*"Our Gang" (1922-1944)
*"Popular Science" (1935-1950)
*"The Three Stooges" (1934-1959)

Animated short film series

*"Krazy Kat" (1925-1940)
*"Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" (1927-1938)
*"Mickey Mouse" (1928-1953)
*"Silly Symphonies" (1929-1939)
*"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)
*"Cartune Classics" (1934-1935)
*"Color Rhapsodies" (1934-1949)
*"Rainbow Parades" (1935-1936)

Births

*January 1 - Brian G. Hutton, actor, director
*January 8 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
*January 9 - Bob Denver
*April 19 - Dudley Moore
*May 11 - Doug McClure
*July 17 - Diahann Carroll
*October 1 - Julie Andrews
*December 1 - Woody Allen, director
*December 14 - Lee Remick

Deaths

*March 8 - Ruan Lingyu, actress, committed suicide
*March 23 - Florence Moore, singer, actress
*May 4 - Junior Durkin, actor, in a road accident
*August 15 - Will Rogers, humorist, actor

References