1936 in film
The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films
Academy Awards
Films released in 1936
U.S.A. unless stated
- 15 Maiden Lane, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero
- Accused, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Dolores del Río - (U.K.)
- Achhoot Kanya, starring Ashok Kumar - (India)
- After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- Allá en el Rancho Grande - (Mexico)
- The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, starring Cary Grant - (U.K.)
- Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland
- Anything Goes, starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman
- Les bas-fonds, (Underworld), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet - (France)
- The Big Noise, starring Guy Kibbee, Alma Lloyd, Warren Hull, and Dick Foran
- The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
- Born to Dance
- Bullets or Ballots
- By the Bluest of Seas, directed by Boris Barnet - (U.S.S.R.)
- Cafe Mascot, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald - (U.K.)
- Cain and Mabel, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
- Camille, starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor
- Captain January, starring Shirley Temple
- Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
- César, directed by Marcel Pagnol - (France)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
- Charlie Chan at the Opera, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
- Circus - (U.S.S.R.)
- Come and Get It
- Craig's Wife, starring Rosalind Russell
- The Crime of Monsieur Lange, directed by Jean Renoir - (France)
- Desire
- Devdas - (India)
- The Devil-Doll
- Dimples, starring Shirley Temple
- Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Astor
- Dracula's Daughter
- Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy
- Go West, Young Man, starring Mae West, adapted by her from Lawrence Riley's 1934 stage play Personal Appearance
- Gold Diggers of 1937
- The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
- Green Pastures, adapted from the 1923 stage play of the same name, starring Eddie Anderson
- Hearts Divided, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
- Hopalong Cassidy Returns
- Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Gösta Ekman - (Sweden)
- It Had to Happen, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
- It's Love Again, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young - (U.K.)
- The Jungle Princess
- Laburnum Grove - (U.K.)
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Lawless Nineties, starring John Wayne
- Libeled Lady, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
- Little Lord Fauntleroy
- Lloyd's of London
- Man of the Frontier, starring Gene Autry
- The Man Who Could Work Miracles, starring Roland Young and Ralph Richardson - (U.K.)
- Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux - (France)
- Men Are Not Gods, starring Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence and Rex Harrison - (U.K.)
- Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin with Paulette Goddard
- The Mongolian Boy (Монгол хүү), directed by Ilya Trauberg is released as the first Mongolian film
- The Moon's Our Home
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
- My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard
- Night Mail, documentary - (U.K.)
- The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)
- Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejii), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
- Our Relations, starring Laurel and Hardy
- The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis
- The Plainsman
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- The Prisoner of Shark Island
- Reefer Madness, (also known as Tell Your Children)
- Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton - (U.K.)
- Road Gang
- Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
- Rose Marie, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
- Sabotage, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka - (U.K.)
- San Francisco, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy
- Secret Agent, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud and Madeleine Carroll - (U.K.)
- Show Boat, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan
- The Singing Kid
- Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi - (Japan)
- Small Town Girl, a William Wellman film starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor and James Stewart
- The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni
- Stowaway
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tod Slaughter - (U.K.)
- Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Tarzan Escapes
- Theodora Goes Wild
- These Three, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea. (Adapted from the Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour)
- Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke - (U.K.)
- Too Many Parents, debut film for Frances Farmer
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- Wife vs. Secretary
- Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon - (Poland/U.S.A.)
Serials
Comedy film series
Animated short film series
Births
- January 22 - Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
- January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
- January 28 - Alan Alda, United States actor
- February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
- March 1 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
- May 9 - Glenda Jackson, British actress and politician
- May 17 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010)
- August 5 - John Saxon
- August 18 - Robert Redford, actor, director
- August 25 - Hugh Hudson, director
- October 19 - Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
- December 25 - Ismail Merchant Indian film producer
Deaths
Debuts