[edit] Events [edit] Academy Awards Note: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films. [edit] Notable films released in 1932 - American Madness, starring Walter Huston, directed by Frank Capra
- As You Desire Me, starring Greta Garbo
- Back Street, starring Irene Dunne and John Boles
- The Beast of the City, starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford
- The Big Broadcast, starring Bing Crosby
- Big City Blues, starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell
- The Big Stampede, starring John Wayne
- A Bill of Divorcement, starring John Barrymore, Billie Burke and Katharine Hepburn in her film debut
- Bird of Paradise, starring Dolores del Rio and Joel McCrea
- Das Blaue Licht, starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl
- Blonde Venus, starring Marlene Dietrich
- Broken Lullaby, starring Lionel Barrymore
- Call Her Savage, starring Clara Bow
- Dancers in the Dark, starring Miriam Hopkins
- The Dentist, a W.C. Fields short subject produced by Mack Sennett
- Emma, starring Marie Dressler
- A Farewell to Arms, starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes
- Flowers and Trees
- Freaks, directed by Tod Browning
- Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
- Horse Feathers, starring the Marx Brothers
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, starring Paul Muni
- If I Had a Million
- Impatient Maiden
- Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald
- The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, and Leslie Banks
- The Mouthpiece, starring Warren William
- Movie Crazy, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
- The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff
- Murders in the Rue Morgue, starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox and Leon Ames
- Night After Night, starring George Raft and Mae West in her film debut
- One Hour with You, starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
- One Way Passage, starring William Powell and Kay Francis
- Pack Up Your Troubles, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Red Dust, starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
- Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow
- Scarface, starring Paul Muni
- Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland
- The Sign of the Cross
- Smilin' Through, starring Norma Shearer
- Tarzan the Ape Man, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
- Three on a Match, starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis
- Tiger Shark, starring Edward G. Robinson
- Trouble in Paradise, starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall
- Two Seconds, starring Edward G. Robinson
- Unheimliche Geschichten remake w/ sound of the 1919 film
- Union Depot, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Blondell
- Vampyr, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
- White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series [edit] Animated short film series [edit] Births - January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor
- January 4 - Carlos Saura, director
- February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- February 13 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
- February 18 – Miloš Forman, director
- February 23 - Majel Barrett, United States actress (d. 2008)
- February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress
- April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)
- April 10 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress (d. 1990)
- August 2 - Peter O'Toole, actor
- September 29 - Mehmood, Indian actor, director, producer (d. 2004)
- October 20 - William Christopher, United States actor
- November 15 - Petula Clark, British actress/film composer
- December 7 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
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