1933 in film

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1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films 1933 3 Academy Awards 4 Movies Released 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.
• June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) once again expresses interest in the Wizard of Oz books for a series of animated cartoons, but they once again failed to make a deal with creator L. Frank Baum
• Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film, shocks audiences when female actor, Hedy Lamarr is seen naked in the film.

• Best Picture: Cavalcade - Fox
• Best Actor: Charles Laughton - The Private Life of Henry VIII
• Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory

• 42nd Street - starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers - Directed by Lloyd Bacon
• Alice in Wonderland, starring Charlotte Henry
• 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
• Dancing Lady, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• Design for Living, starring Fredric March and Gary Cooper
• The Devil's Brother, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Dinner at Eight, featuring an all-star cast
• Duck Soup, starring the Marx Brothers
• Employees' Entrance, starring Warren William and Loretta Young
• Flying Down to Rio, starring Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond
• Footligh Parade, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler
• Going Hollywood, starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby
• Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, starring Al Jolson
• Hold Your Man, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
• I'm No Angel, starring Mae West and Cary Grant. West also wrote the story and screenplay.
• 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
• Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young
• The Mayor of Hell, starring James Cagney
• Morning Glory, starring Katharine Hepburn
• Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionell Atwill and Fay Wray
• One Sunday Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper
• 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
• She Done Him Wrong, starring Cary Grant amd Mae West
• 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
• A Study in Scarlet, starring Reginald Owen
• Supernatural, starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
• Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, directed by Fritz Lang
• 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

• January 18 - John Boorman, director
• April 19 - Jayne Mansfield, actress
• May 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor
• October 9 – Judy Tyler, actress (d. 1957)

• January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy"
• February 15 - Pat Sullivan, director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
• February 23 - David Horsley, pioneer film executive
• October 5 - Renée Adorée, actress