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The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Films released in 1936 5 Serials 6 Short film series 7 Animated short film series 8 Births 9 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Nov 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon
• February 15 - first Republic serial, Darkest Africa, released
• September 28 - The Marx Brothers' Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. San Francisco
2. The Great Ziegfeld
3. These Three
4. Modern Times
5. Strike Me Pink
6. Three Smart Girls
7. Dodsworth
8. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
9. Camille starring Greta Garbo
10. Libeled Lady
11. The Milky Way
12. Red River Valley
13. Rose-Marie
14. Man of the Frontier
15. Come and Get It
16. The Story of Louis Pasteur
17. Anthony Adverse
18. Go West, Young Man
19. Romeo and Juliet

[edit] Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Actor: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
• Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan - Come and Get It
• Best Supporting Actress: Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse

[edit] Films released in 1936

• After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant
• Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
• The Big Noise, starring Guy Kibbee, Alma Lloyd, Warren Hull, and Dick Foran
• The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Cafe Mascot, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald
• Camille, starring Greta Garbo
• Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
• Ceiling Zero, starring James Cagney
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Come and Get It
• Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
• Dodsworth, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor
• Dracula's Daughter
• Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
• Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
• The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
• Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play of the same name, starring Eddie Anderson -(film mentioned in article)
• Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman
• The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
• Libeled Lady, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson
• Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux
• Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins
• Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
• The Moon's Our Home
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; directed by Frank Capra
• My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
• Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
• The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
• The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis
• Poor Little Rich Girl
• Reefer Madness, (also known as Tell Your Children)
• Road Gang
• Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
• Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
• Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan
• Sabotage, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka
• San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy
• Secret Agent, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll
• Small Town Girl, a William Wellman film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor and James Stewart
• Stowaway
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter
• Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea. (Adapted from the Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour)
• Things to Come, based on the story by H.G. Wells
• The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
• Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon

[edit] Serials

• Ace Drummond, starring John (Dusty) King
• The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
• The Black Coin
• The Clutching Hand
• Custer's Last Stand
• Darkest Africa, starring Clyde Beatty
• Flash Gordon, starring Buster Crabbe
• The Phantom Rider
• Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island, starring Ray Mala
• Shadow of Chinatown
• Undersea Kingdom, starring Ray Corrigan
• The Vigilantes Are Coming

[edit] Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921-1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• The Three Stooges (1934-1959)

[edit] Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919-1936)
• Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
• Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
• Screen Songs (1929-1938)
• Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
• Terrytoons (1930-1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
• Scrappy (1931-1941)
• Betty Boop (1932-1939)
• Popeye (1933-1957)
• ComiColor Cartoons (1933-1936)
• Happy Harmonies (1934-1938)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934-1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935-1936)
• Meany, Miny, and Moe (1936-1937)

[edit] Births

• January 22 - Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
• January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor
• January 28 - Alan Alda, United States actor
• February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
• March 1 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
• May 9 - Glenda Jackson, British actress and politician
• May 17 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist
• August 5 - John Saxon
• August 18 - Robert Redford, actor, director
• August 25 - Hugh Hudson, director
• October 19 - Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
• December 25 - Ismail Merchant Indian film producer

[edit] Deaths

• January 9 – John Gilbert, American actor
• January 24 - Harry T. Morey, American actor
• June 17 - Henry B. Walthall, American actor
• October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress
• November 26 - Max Schreck, German actor