1936 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of 1936 3 Academy Awards 4 Movies Released 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon
• September 28 - The Marx Brothers' Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming

• Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Actor: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld

• After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March
• The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Camille, starring Greta Garbo
• Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
• Ceiling Zero, starring James Cagney
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn
• Dodsworth, starring Walter Huston
• Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
• The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
• Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; directed by Frank Capra
• My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
• The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis
• Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry
• Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
• Sabotage, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka
• San Francisco, starring Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald
• Secret Agent, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll
• Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
• A Tale of Two Cities

• January 3 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
• February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
• February 23 - Majel Barrett, United States actress
• May 9 - Glenda Jackson, actress and politician

• October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress