[edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) [edit] Academy Awards [edit] Films released in 1933 - 42nd Street - starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers - Directed by Lloyd Bacon
- Alice in Wonderland, starring Charlotte Henry and virtually every Paramount star at the time
- Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Blood Money, starring George Bancroft
- Bombshell, starring Jean Harlow
- The Bowery, starring Wallace Beery and George Raft
- Cavalcade, starring Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor and Herbert Mundin
- Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore
- Damaged Lives
- Dancing Lady, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
- Deluge
- Design for Living, starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins
- The Devil's Brother, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Dinner at Eight, featuring an all-star cast
- Adventures of Don Quixote, starring Feodor Chaliapin
- Dragnet Girl, starring Kinuyo Tanaka, directed by Yasujiro Ozu
- Duck Soup, starring the Marx Brothers
- Ecstasy
- Employees' Entrance, starring Warren William and Loretta Young
- Flying Down to Rio, starring Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond. Also starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first of 10 films together
- Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler
- Gabriel Over the White House, starring Walter Huston. Produced by William Randolph Hearst
- The Ghoul, starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger
- Going Hollywood, starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby
- Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William
- Goodbye Again, starring Joan Blondell and Warren William
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, starring Al Jolson
- Hold Your Man, starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
- I'm No Angel, starring Mae West and Cary Grant. West also wrote the story and screenplay.
- In the Wake of the Bounty, starring Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian.
- The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains in the title role. Also starring Gloria Stuart
- Island of Lost Souls, an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau starring Charles Laughton
- Każdemu wolno kochać, by Mieczysław Krawicz
- King Kong, starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
- Ladies They Talk About, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Lady for a Day, starring Warren William and May Robson
- Lady Killer, starring James Cagney
- Liebelei
- Little Women, starring Katharine Hepburn
- Lot in Sodom, starring Friedrich Haak
- Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young
- The Mayor of Hell, starring James Cagney
- The Midnight Patrol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Morning Glory, starring Katharine Hepburn
- Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
- One Sunday Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper
- Our Betters, starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, and Anita Louise
- Parachute Jumper, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, and Frank McHugh
- Peg o' My Heart, starring Marion Davies
- Penthouse, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
- Picture Snatcher, starring James Cagney
- The Power and the Glory, starring Spencer Tracy
- The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton
- The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
- Professional Sweetheart, starring Ginger Rogers
- Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo
- Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill
- Secrets, starring Mary Pickford in her last film
- She Done Him Wrong, starring Mae West and Cary Grant in his first notable film role
- The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
- Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres
- The Story of Temple Drake, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue
- The Stranger's Return, starring Miriam Hopkins and Lionel Barrymore
- A Study in Scarlet, starring Reginald Owen (see A Study in Scarlet)
- Supernatural, starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, directed by Fritz Lang
- This Day and Age, Cecil B. Demille's now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy Montgomery.
- Three Little Pigs
- Tillie and Gus, starring Alison Skipworth and W.C. Fields
- Tonight Is Ours, starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert
- Topaze, starring John Barrymore and Myrna Loy
- Torch Singer, starring Claudette Colbert
- Tugboat Annie, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
- Turn Back the Clock, starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke
- The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
- When Ladies Meet, starring Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy
- Wild Boys of the Road, starring Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips
- The Working Man, starring George Arliss and Bette Davis
[edit] Serials [edit] Short film series [edit] Animated short film series [edit] Births [edit] Film Debuts [edit] Deaths - January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor/director
- January 25 - Lewis J. Selznick, producer
- February 15 - Pat Sullivan, director/producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
- February 26 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor
- February 23 - David Horsley, pioneer film executive
- March 8 - Albert Roscoe, silent screen star
- August 18 - James Williamson, film developer and film director
- August 28 - Helen Dunbar, actress
- October 5 - Renée Adorée, actress
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