1932 IN FILM

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

Films released in 1932

Serials

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Katharine Hepburn's film Career begins

★ Shirley Temple's film career begins

★ Disney released ''Flowers and Trees'' their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

★ Best Picture: ''Grand Hotel'' - MGM
Note: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films.

Films released in 1932

★ ''20,000 Years in Sing Sing'', starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis

★ ''American Madness'', starring Walter Huston, directed by Frank Capra

★ ''As You Desire Me'', starring Greta Garbo

★ ''Back Street'', starring Irene Dunne and John Boles

★ ''The Beast of the City'', starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford

★ ''The Big Broadcast'', starring Bing Crosby

★ ''Big City Blues'', starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell

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

★ ''A Bill of Divorcement'', starring John Barrymore -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''Bird of Paradise'', starring Dolores del Rio and Joel McCrea

★ ''Das Blaue Licht'', starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl

★ ''Blonde Venus'', starring Marlene Dietrich

★ ''Broken Lullaby'', starring Lionel Barrymore

★ ''The Cabin in the Cotton'', featuring Bette Davis

★ ''Call Her Savage'', starring Clara Bow

★ ''The Dentist'', a W.C. Fields short subject produced by Mack Sennett

★ ''Emma'', starring Marie Dressler

★ ''A Farewell to Arms'', starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''Freaks'', directed by Tod Browning

★ ''Grand Hotel'', starring Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt

★ ''Horse Feathers'', starring the Marx Brothers

★ ''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang'', starring Paul Muni

★ ''If I Had A Million''

★ ''Love Me Tonight'', starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald

★ ''The Most Dangerous Game'', starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks -(film mentioned in article)

★ ''The Mouthpiece'', starring Warren William

★ ''Movie Crazy'', a comedy starring Harold Lloyd

★ ''The Mummy'', starring Boris Karloff

★ ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'', starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox and Leon Ames

★ ''The Old Dark House'', starring Boris Karloff

★ ''One Hour with You'', starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles

★ ''One Way Passage'', starring William Powell and Kay Francis

★ ''Pack Up Your Troubles'', starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

★ ''Red Dust'', starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow

★ ''Red-Headed Woman'', starring Jean Harlow

★ ''Scarface'', starring Paul Muni

★ ''Shanghai Express'', starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland

★ ''Smilin' Through'', starring Norma Shearer

★ ''Tarzan the Ape Man'', starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan

★ ''Three on a Match'', starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis

★ ''Tiger Shark'', starring Edward G. Robinson

★ ''Trouble in Paradise'', starring Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins

★ ''Two Seconds'', starring Edward G. Robinson

★ ''Unheimliche Geschichten'' remake w/ sound of the 1919 film

★ ''Vampyr'', directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

★ ''White Zombie'', starring Bela Lugosi

Serials

★ ''The Airmail Mystery''

★ ''Detective Lloyd''

★ ''The Devil Horse''

★ ''Heroes of the West''

★ ''The Hurricane Express'', starring John Wayne

★ ''The Jungle Mystery''

★ ''The Last Frontier''

★ ''The Last of the Mohicans''

★ ''The Lost Special''

★ ''The Shadow of the Eagle'', starring John Wayne

Short film series

★ ''Buster Keaton'' (1917-1941)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

Animated short film series

★ ''Flowers and Trees'' (1933)

★ ''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)

★ ''Merrie Melodies'' (1931-1969)

★ ''Scrappy'' (1931-1941)

★ ''Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren)'' (1931-1933)

★ ''Betty Boop'' (1932-1939)

★ ''Pooch the Pup'' (1932-1933)

Births

★ January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor

★ January 4 - Carlos Saura, director

★ February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)

★ February 13 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot

★ February 18 – Miloš Forman, director

★ February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress

★ April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)

★ April 10 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress (d. 1990)

★ August 2 - Peter O'Toole, actor

★ Mehmood, Indian actor, director, producer

Deaths

★ August 1 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor

★ September 1 - Peg Entwistle, actress

★ November 2 - Evelyn Preer, actress, singer