1936 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films in North America 3 Academy Awards 4 Movies released 5 Short film series 6 Animated short film series 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

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

Top grossing films in North America

1. Red River Valley

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

Movies released

Movies released in 1936 include:

• After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
• The Alamo
• 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
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson
• 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
• Things to Come, based on the story by H.G. Wells
• The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
• A Tale of Two Cities

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1926-1940)

Animated short film series

• 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)

Births

• 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, British actress and politician
• December 25 - Ismail Merchant Indian film producer

Deaths

• January 9 – John Gilbert, American actor
• October 17 - Suzanne Bianchetti, French actressde:Filmjahr 1936

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