1933 IN FILM

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

Films released in 1933

Serials

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Events

★ British Film Institute founded.

★ 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 the estate of creator L. Frank Baum

★ ''Ecstasy'', a Czechoslovak film, shocks audiences when actress Hedy Lamarr is seen naked in the film.

★ ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' becomes the first British film to win an American Academy Award.

Top grossing films

:North America
# ''I'm No Angel''
# ''42nd Street''
# ''She Done Him Wrong''
# ''Peg o' My Heart''
# ''Going Hollywood''

Academy Awards

★ Best Picture: ''Cavalcade'' - Fox

★ Best Actor: Charles Laughton - ''The Private Life of Henry VIII''

★ Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - ''Morning Glory''

Films released in 1933

★ ''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

★ ''Damaged Lives''

★ ''Dancing Lady'', starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable

★ ''Deluge''

★ ''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

★ ''Dragnet Girl'', starring Kinuyo Tanaka, directed by Yasujiro Ozu

★ ''Duck Soup'', starring the Marx Brothers

★ ''Ecstasy''

★ ''Employees' Entrance'', starring Warren William and Loretta Young

★ ''Flying Down to Rio'', starring Dolores del Rio and Gene Raymond

★ ''Footlight Parade'', starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler

★ ''The Ghoul'', starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger

★ ''Going Hollywood'', starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby

★ ''Gold Diggers of 1933'', starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William

★ ''Goodbye Again'', starring Joan Blondell 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.

★ ''In the Wake of the Bounty'', starring Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian.

★ ''The Invisible Man'', starring Claude Rains in the title role.

★ ''Island of Lost Souls'', an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau

★ ''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''

★ ''Little Women'', starring Katharine Hepburn

★ ''Lot in Sodom'', starring Friedrich Haak

★ ''Man's Castle'', starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young

★ ''The Mayor of Hell'', starring James Cagney

★ ''The Midnight Patrol'', starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

★ ''Morning Glory'', starring Katharine Hepburn

★ ''Mystery of the Wax Museum'', starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray

★ ''One Sunday Afternoon'', starring Gary Cooper

★ ''Our Betters'', starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, and Anita Louise

★ ''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 in her last film

★ ''She Done Him Wrong'', starring Cary Grant and 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 (see A Study in Scarlet)

★ ''Supernatural'', starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott

★ ''The Testament of Dr. Mabuse'', directed by Fritz Lang

★ ''This Day and Age'', Cecil B. Demille's now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy Montgomery.

★ ''Tillie and Gus'', starring Alison Skipworth and W.C. Fields

★ ''Tonight Is Ours'', starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert

★ ''Topaze (film)'', 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

Serials

★ ''Clancy of the Mounted''

★ ''Fighting with Kit Carson''

★ ''Gordon of Ghost City''

★ ''The Mystery Squadron''

★ ''The Phantom of the Air''

★ ''The Return of Chandu''

★ ''Tarzan The Fearless'', starring Buster Crabbe

★ ''The Three Musketeers'', starring Jack Mulhall and John Wayne

★ ''The Whispering Shadow'', starring Béla Lugosi

★ ''The Wolf Dog'', starring Rin Tin Tin

Short film series

★ ''Buster Keaton'' (1917-1941)

★ ''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)

★ ''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

★ ''Ted Healey and the Three Stooges'' ('1933'-1934)

Animated short film series

★ ''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)

★ ''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)

★ ''Popeye'' (1933-1957)

★ ''Pooch the Pup'' (1932-1933)

★ ''Willie Whopper'' (1933-1934)

★ ''ComiColor Cartoons'' (1933-1936)

★ ''Cubby Bear'' (1933-1934)

★ ''The Little King'' (1933-1934)

Births

★ January 18 - John Boorman, director

★ February 18 - Mary Ure, actress

★ March 22 - May Britt, Swedish actress

★ April 19 - Jayne Mansfield, actress

★ May 20 - Danny Aiello, American actor

★ June 11 - Gene Wilder, American actor

★ October 9 - Judy Tyler, actress

Deaths

★ January 3 - Jack Pickford, actor/director

★ January 25 - Lewis J. Selznick, producer

★ February 15 - Pat Sullivan, director/producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat

★ February 26 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor

★ February 23 - David Horsley, pioneer film executive

★ August 28 - Helen Dunbar, actress

★ October 5 - Renée Adorée, actress

★ James Williamson, film developer and film director