[edit] Events - November 1: The Big Trail featuring a young John Wayne in his first starring role is released in both 35mm, and a very early form of 70mm film and was the first large scale big-budget film of the sound era costing over $2 million. The film was praised for its aesthetic quality and realism that wouldn't become commonplace until many decades later. However, due to the new film format and the film's release during the great depression the film would go onto become a financial failure at the box office.
[edit] Top grossing films [edit] Academy Awards [edit] Films released in 1930 - Alraune
- L'Âge d'Or, directed by Luis Buñuel
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone
- Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers
- Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo
- Big Boy, a musical comedy with Al Jolson
- The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
- The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
- The Big Pond
- Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), starring Marlene Dietrich
- The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poete), directed by Jean Cocteau
- Bride of the Regiment (1930)
- Bright Lights (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor
- Call of the Flesh, a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
- The Cat Creeps
- Chasing Rainbows, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Children of Pleasure, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- The Cuckoos, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Danger Lights, starring Louis Wolheim
- The Divorcee, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery, director: Robert Z. Leonard
- Dixiana, a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Elstree Calling, a British revue with color sequences
- Fast and Loose, starring Miriam Hopkins in her film debut, with Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan
- Feet First, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
- The Florodora Girl, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Follow Thru (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- Free and Easy, starring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, and Robert Montgomery
- General Crack, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring John Barrymore
- Good News, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Golden Dawn (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
- Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
- Hold Everything (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- Journey's End, directed by James Whale
- King of Jazz (1930), a revue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra entirely in Technicolor
- Ladies Love Brutes, a comedy directed by Rowland V. Lee
- Leathernecking, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Lord Byron of Broadway, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
- Lottery Bride, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- The Life of the Party (1930), musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- Mamba (1930), first talking drama entirely in Technicolor
- Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Mammy, a musical comedy starring Al Jolson with Technicolor sequences
- Melody Man, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Min and Bill
- Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
- Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- New Movietone Follies of 1930, a musical revue with Technicolor sequences
- No No Nanette, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Not So Dumb
- Paramount on Parade, an all-star revue with Technicolor sequences
- Peacock Alley, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
- Puttin' on the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman, with Technicolor sequences
- Raffles, featuring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis
- The Rogue Song (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
- Showgirl in Hollywood, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Son of the Gods, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess
- Song of the Flame (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor
- Song of the West (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor
- Sunny, a musical comedy with Marilyn Miller
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- True to the Navy, starring Clara Bow and Fredric March
- Under a Texas Moon (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- The Vagabond King (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor
- Whoopee! (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series [edit] Animated short film series [edit] Births - January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
- January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
- January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
- January 30 - Gene Hackman, actor
- February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress
- March 24 - Steve McQueen, actor(d. 1980)
- April 28 - Carolyn Jones, actress (+1983)
- May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
- June 16 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer
- August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
- October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor(d. 2002)
- December 3 - Jean-Luc Godard, director
- December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
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