[edit] Top grossing films [edit] Academy Awards 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 [edit] Short film series [edit] Animated short film series [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)
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