1932 in film

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Years in film:	1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
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Years:	1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Academy Awards 4 Films released in 1932 5 Short film series 6 Animated short film series 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Shirley Temple's film career begins
• Disney released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.

[edit] Top grossing films

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)
• Movie Crazy, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
• The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff
• Murders in the Rue Morgue, starring Bela Lugosi
• 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

[edit] Short film series

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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
• April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)
• April 10 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress (d. 1990)
• Mehmood, Indian actor, director, producer

[edit] Deaths

• August 1 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor
• September 1 - Peg Entwistle, actress
• November 2 - Evelyn Preer, actress, singer