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Contents 1 Top grossing films 2 Academy Awards 3 Notable Films released in 1931 4 Serials 5 Short film series 6 Animated short film series 7 Births 8 Film Debuts 9 Deaths

[edit] Top grossing films

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors
1.	Frankenstein	Universal	Boris Karloff
2.	Cimarron	RKO	Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
3.	Mata Hari	MGM	Greta Garbo
4.	City Lights	United Artists	Charlie Chaplin
5.	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Paramount	Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins
6.	Dracula	Universal	Bela Lugosi
7.	A Free Soul	MGM	Norma Shearer
8.	No Limit	Paramount	Clara Bow
9.	The Public Enemy	Warner Bros.	James Cagney and Jean Harlow
10.	The Smiling Lieutenant	Paramount	Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins

[edit] Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Cimarron - MGM
• Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore - A Free Soul
• Best Actor: Wallace Beery - The Champ
• Best Actor: Fredric March - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Best Actress: Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
• Best Actress: Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years. And there were two awards given in 1932 for 'Best Actor'. That's how there are 3 'Best Actor', 2 'Best Actress' awards for 1931 films.

[edit] Notable Films released in 1931

• Alice in Wonderland, the first sound version
• À nous la liberté
• Berlin Alexanderplatz film of the novel by Alfred Döblin
• The Champ, starring Wallace Beery
• Cimarron, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
• City Lights, starring Charlie Chaplin
• Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins
• Emil und die Detektive, starring Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack and Fritz Rasp
• Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff and Colin Clive
• A Free Soul, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable
• Goldie, starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy
• Indiscreet, starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon
• Iron Man, starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow
• I Take This Woman, starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
• Little Caesar, starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Mädchen in Uniform, directed by Carl Froelich, starring Hertha Thiele
• M, starring Peter Lorre
• Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore
• The Millionaire, starring George Arliss
• Monkey Business, starring Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx
• Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ben Lyon
• Platinum Blonde, starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow
• Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• The Public Enemy, starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow
• The Secret Six, starring Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
• The Sin of Madelon Claudet, starring Helen Hayes
• Smart Money, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney
• The Smiling Lieutenant, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins
• The Stolen Jools, starring Gary Cooper, Laurel and Hardy, and Norma Shearer
• Tabu, directed by F.W. Murnau
• This Modern Age, starring Joan Crawford
• Waterloo Bridge, directed by James Whale

[edit] Serials

• Battling with Buffalo Bill
• Danger Island
• Finger Prints
• The Galloping Ghost, starring Harold Grange
• Heroes of the Flames
• King of the Wild
• The Lightning Warrior, starring Rin Tin Tin
• The Mystery Trooper
• The Phantom of the West
• The Sign of the Wolf
• The Spell of the Circus
• The Vanishing Legion

[edit] Short film series

• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Charley Chase (1924-1940)
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
• Mickey Mouse
  • The Birthday Party
  • Traffic Troubles
  • The Castaway
  • The Moose Hunt
  • The Delivery Boy
  • Mickey Steps Out
  • Blue Rhythm
  • Fishin' Around
  • The Barnyard Broadcast
  • The Beach Party
  • Mickey Cuts Up
  • Mickey's Orphans
• Silly Symphonies
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Mother Goose Melodies
  • The China Plate
  • The Busy Beavers
  • The Cat's Out
  • Epyptian Melodies
  • The Clock Store
  • The Spider and the Fly
  • The Fox Hunt
  • The Ugly Duckling
• Screen Songs (1929-1938)
• Talkartoons (1929-1932)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Flip the Frog (1930-1933)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Toby the Pup (1930-1931)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) (1931-1933)

[edit] Births

• January 5 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
• January 14 - Caterina Valente, singer, actress
• January 17 - James Earl Jones, actor
• January 19 - Tippi Hedren, actress
• February 6 - Mamie Van Doren
• February 6 - Rip Torn
• February 8 - James Dean, actor(d. 1955)
• March 22 - William Shatner, actor
• March 26 - Leonard Nimoy, actor
• May 28 - Carroll Baker, actress
• July 1 - Leslie Caron, French actress
• September 12 - Ian Holm, actor
• September 17 - Anne Bancroft, actress (d. 2005)
• September 30 - Angie Dickinson, actress
• Sylvia Lopez, European actress († 1959)

[edit] Film Debuts

• Bruce Cabot
• Bette Davis
• Otto Preminger director, producer

[edit] Deaths

• November 27 - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
• December 23 - Tyrone Power, Sr., stage and film veteran, father of movie star Tyrone Power (b. 1869)