1930 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of 1930 3 Academy Awards 4 Movies Released 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

Top Grossing Films of 1930

• Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal
• Best Actress: Norma Shearer - The Divorcee

• All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone
• Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers
• Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo
• The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
• The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
• The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Der Blaue Engel, starring Marlene Dietrich
• The Divorcee - Starring: Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Director: Robert Z. Leonard.
• The Indians Are Coming (a serial)
• Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
• Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
• January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
• January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
• January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
• May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
• August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
• October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
• December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor

• February 20 - Mabel Normand, actress
• July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.