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The History of American Cinema: 1932 |
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2/1 - |
Paramount releases Reuben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins. [ADD] | |||
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20/1 - |
Hiram S. Brown resigns as President of RKO, and is replaced by Merlin Aylesworth, President of the NBC radio network. [ADD] | |||
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2/2 - |
Joe Brandt, Columbia’s President, sells his stake in the company to Jack Cohen and Harry Cohn, making Harry both studio head and company president. [ADD] | |||
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2/2 - |
Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich and Clive Brook, is released. [ADD] | |||
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20/2 - |
Tod Browning’s Freaks is released – and meets with universal distaste. The film uses real deformed people to tell its story of a group of circus freaks who take horrible revenge on a beautiful trapeze artist (Olga Baclanova) who marries a midget for his money. The film is banned in Britain and many American states, despite Irving Thalberg, MGM’s head of production, ordering the film to be cut to a running time of just over one hour. [ADD] | |||
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28/2 - |
Cecil B. DeMille leaves MGM to return to Paramount. [ADD] | |||
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14/3 - |
George Eastman, the industrialist responsible for inventing flexible celluloid film with perforations, commits suicide at the age of 77. [ADD] | |||
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25/3 - |
Former Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weismuller appears as Tarzan for the first time in W. S. Van Dyke’s Tarzan the Ape Man. He appears opposite Maureen O’Sullivan as Jane. [ADD] | |||
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31/3 - |
Howard Hawks’ Scarface premieres, and makes a star of its leading man Paul Muni. [ADD] | |||
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12/4 - |
MGM release Grand Hotel, directed by Edmund Goulding. Hailed by the New York Times as “the most important film since the arrival of talking pictures,” its ensemble cast features Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and Lewis Stone. [ADD] | |||
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28/6 - |
The Movietone City Studios on West Pico Boulevard are inaugurated. Built by Fox, they consist of 10 movie sets and numerous outbuildings. [ADD] | |||
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