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The History of American Cinema: 1933 |
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| 7/9 - | The premiere takes place in New York of Frank Capra’s Lady for a Day, starring Warren William and May Robson. [ADD] | |||
| 21/9 - | Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Henry VIII sets a world record for a single day’s box office revenue when it takes $18,400 on its first day of release at Radio City Music Hall in New York. [ADD] | |||
| 22/9 - | The release of Sergei Eisenstein’s ‘American film’, Thunder Over Mexico, starring Martin Hernandez and Isabel Villsenor, causes controversy when novelist Upton Sinclair accuses the Russian director of using negatives from Que Viva Mexico!, the unfinished Eisenstein film that was financially backed by the writer. [ADD] | |||
| 25/9 - | Silent cowboy film star Tom Mix appears in the first of his radio shows – which will run until June 1950. [ADD] | |||
| 30/9 - | Lloyd Bacon’s Footlight Parade, featuring the choreography of Busby Berkeley and the footwork of former song-and-dance man James Cagney, is released. [ADD] | |||
| 6/10 - | Premiere of I’m No Angel, in which Mae West and Cary Grant once again play opposite one another. [ADD] | |||
| 7/10 - | 20th Century’s first film, The Bowery, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery, is released. [ADD] | |||
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| 31/10 - | 13-year-old Joseph Yule Jr. signs a contract with MGM and changes his name to Mickey Rooney. [ADD] | |||
| 13/11 - | James Whales’ The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains in the title role (employed at the director’s’ request when the Universal earmarked Boris Karloff for the role), is released. [ADD] | |||
| 16/11 - | George Cukor’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, starring Katharine Hepburn as Jo, is released. [ADD] | |||
| 17/11 - | The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey, is released. It is the last film to feature Zeppo, who announces his retirement from the movies at the completion of filming. [ADD] | |||
| 31/11 - | After meeting Paulette Goddard on the yacht of 20th Century president Joseph M. Schenck, Charlie Chaplin signs her as the female lead for his forthcoming film, Modern Times. [ADD] | |||
| Nov - | A committee of archbishops, led by the papal delegate Amleto Cicognani, founds the National Legion of Decency with the aim of preventing all forms of ‘incitement to moral depravity.’ [ADD] | |||
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| 22/12 - | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are paired for the first time in Thornton Freeland’s Flying Down to Rio for RKO. [ADD] | |||
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25/12 - |
The premiere of Roman Scandals, starring Eddie Cantor, takes place in New York. [ADD] | |||
| – 547 films are produced in the US in 1933, but gross cinema revenue is down to $480m, and Hollywood studios suffer a combined net loss of $55m. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Screen Writers Guild becomes affiliated with the Authors League. [ADD] | ||||
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Top Ten Money-making Stars
of 1933 2. Will Rogers 3. Janet Gaynor 4. Eddie Cantor 6. Jean Harlow 7. Clark Gable 8. Mae West 10. Joan Crawford Source: Quigley Poll |
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Other Key American Films of 1933 |
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| Alice in Wonderland (Norman Z. McLeod) [ADD] | ||||
| Christopher Strong (Dorothy Arzner) [ADD] | ||||
| Cradle Song (Mitchell Leisen) [ADD] | ||||
| Hallejulah, I’m a Bum (Lewis Milestone) [ADD] | ||||
| Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz) [ADD] | ||||
| Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter) [ADD] | ||||
| Wild Boys of the Road (William Wellman) [ADD] | ||||
| Zoo in Budapest (Rowland V. Lee) [ADD] | ||||
The History of Cinema: 1933 |
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| USA January - April | ||||
| USA May - August | ||||
