1930 IN FILM

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Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

Films released in 1930

Serials

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

Top grossing films

# ''Journey's End''
# ''Outward Bound''
# ''All Quiet on the Western Front''
# ''Lightnin'''
# ''So This is London''
# ''The Rogue Song''
# ''The Devil to Pay ''
# ''With Byrd at the South Pole''
# ''Tom Sawyer''
# ''The Lady of Scandal''
# ''Holiday''
# ''Abraham Lincoln''
# ''Anna Christie''
# ''The Man from Blankley's''
# ''Old English''
# ''Madam Satan''
# ''Common Clay''
# ''Song O' My Heart''
# ''The King of Jazz''
# ''Just Imagine''
# ''Animal Crackers''
# ''Kismet''
# ''Monte Carlo''
# ''Royal Family of Broadway''
# ''The Big Trail''
# ''Laughter''
# ''Romance''
# ''New Moon''
# ''The Laughing Lady''
# ''Men Without Women''
# ''Liliom''
# ''Tol'able David''
# ''Scotland Yard''
# ''A Lady's Morals''
# ''Sous les Toits de Paris''
# ''The Texan''
# ''Seven Days' Leave''
# ''Der Blaue Engel'' (''The Blue Angel'')

Academy Awards

★ Best Picture: '''All Quiet on the Western Front''' - Universal Studios

★ Best Actress: 'Norma Shearer' - ''The Divorcee''

★ Best Actor: 'George Arliss' - ''Disraeli''

Films released in 1930

★ ''Alraune''

★ ''L'Âge d'Or'', directed by Luis Buñuel

★ ''All Quiet on the Western Front'', directed by Lewis Milestone

★ ''Animal Crackers'', starring the Marx Brothers

★ ''Anna Christie'', starring Greta Garbo -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''Big Boy'', a musical comedy with Al Jolson.

★ ''The Big House'', starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery

★ ''The Big Trail'', starring John Wayne

★ ''Der blaue Engel'' (''The Blue Angel''), starring Marlene Dietrich

★ ''The Blood of a Poet'' (''Le Sang d'un Poete''), directed by Jean Cocteau

★ ''The Bride of the Regiment'' (1930)

★ ''Bright Lights'' (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor.

★ ''Call of the Flesh'', a musical romance with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Chasing Rainbows'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Children of Pleasure'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Cuckoos, The'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Danger Lights'', starring Louis Wolheim

★ ''The Divorcee'', starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery, director: Robert Z. Leonard

★ ''Dixiana'', a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Elstree Calling'', a British revue with color sequences.

★ ''Feet First'', a comedy starring Harold Lloyd.

★ ''Floradora Girl'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Follow Thru'' (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Free and Easy'', starring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, and Robert Montgomery.

★ ''General Crack'', a drama with Technicolor sequences starring John Barrymore.

★ ''Good News'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Golden Dawn'' (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Hell's Angels'', directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow

★ ''Hold Everything'' (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''The Indians Are Coming'' (a serial)

★ ''Ingagi''

★ ''Journey's End'', by George Pearson (see Journey's End)

★ ''King of Jazz'' (1930), a revue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Leathernecking'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Lord Byron of Broadway'', a musical drama with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Lottery Bride'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''The Life of the Party'' (1930), musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Mamba'' (1930), first talking drama entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Madam Satan'', directed by Cecil B. DeMille

★ ''Mammy'', a musical comedy starring Al Jolson with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Melody Man'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Min and Bill''

★ ''Morocco'', starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich

★ ''Murder!'', directed by Alfred Hitchcock

★ ''New Movietone Follies of 1930'', a musical revue with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''No, No Nanette'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Paramount on Parade'', an all-star revue with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Peacock Alley'', a musical drama with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Puttin' on the Ritz'', directed by Edward Sloman, with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''The Rogue Song'' (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Showgirl in Hollywood'', a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.

★ ''Son of the Gods'', a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess.

★ ''Song of the Flame'' (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Song of the West'' (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Sunny'', a musical comedy with Marilyn Miller.

★ ''Sweet Kitty Bellairs'' (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''True to the Navy'', starring Clara Bow and Fredric March

★ ''Under a Texas Moon'' (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''The Vagabond King'' (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor.

★ ''Whoopee!'' (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor

Serials

★ ''Across the World with Mr & Mrs Martin Johnson''

★ ''Hunting Tigers in India''

★ ''The Indians are Coming''

★ ''The Jade Box''

★ ''The Lightning Express''

★ ''The Lone Defender'', starring Rin Tin Tin

★ ''Terry of the Times''

★ ''The Voice from the Sky''

Short film series

★ ''Buster Keaton'' (1917-1941)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

Animated short film series

★ ''Felix the Cat'' (1919-1930)

★ ''Aesop's Film Fables'' (1921-1933)

★ ''Krazy Kat'' (1925-1940)

★ ''Oswald the Lucky Rabbit'' (1927-1938)

★ ''Mickey Mouse'' (1928-1953)

★ ''Silly Symphonies'' (1929-1939)

★ ''Screen Songs'' (1929-1938)

★ ''Talkartoons'' (1929-1932)

★ ''Looney Tunes'' (1930-1969)

★ ''Flip the Frog'' (1930-1933)

★ ''Terrytoons'' (1930-1964)

★ ''Toby the Pup'' (1930-1931)

Births

★ January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor

★ January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive

★ January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor

★ January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress

★ January 30 - Gene Hackman, actor

★ February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress

★ March 24 - Steve McQueen, actor

★ May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer

★ June 16 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer

★ August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor

★ October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor

★ December 3 - Jean-Luc Godard, director

★ December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor

Deaths

★ January 31 - Dorothy Seastrom, American actress

★ February 20 - Mabel Normand, American actress

★ July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.

★ August 26 - Lon Chaney, American actor

★ September 15 - Milton Sills, American actor

★ December 15 - Diane Ellis, American actress