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The History of American Cinema: 1933 |
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| 2/1 - | Louis B. Mayer hires his son-in-law, RKO Radio production chief David Selznick as a producer following the recent illness of Irving Thalberg. [ADD] | |||
| 3/1 - | Frank Capra’s The Bitter Tea of General Yen starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther, becomes the first film to be screened at the newly-opened Radio City Music Hall in the Rockefeller Centre, New York. [ADD] | |||
| 5/1 - | The New York premiere takes place of Noel Coward’s Cavalcade, the story of a privileged English family from the Boer War to the present day. Directed by Frank Lloyd for the Fox studio, the film stars Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard. [ADD] | |||
| 23/1 - | RKO declares itself bankrupt and is placed under judicial supervision. Large numbers of employees are dismissed and spending is drastically cut back. [ADD] | |||
| 27/1 - | She Done Him Wrong, in which Mae West stars opposite a young Cary Grant, premieres. The film helps keep debt-ridden Paramount afloat. The film is based on her smash-hit Broadway play, Diamond Lil, and features the famous (and oft misquoted) line, “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me.” [ADD] | |||
| 2/2 - | Louis B. Mayer, the President of MGM, cancels former silent star Buster Keaton’s contract citing “a valid and sufficient reason.” [ADD] | |||
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| 4/2 - | Barbara Stanwyck stars in Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s Ladies They Talk About with Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot and Dorothy Burgess. She plays a gangster’s moll who is imprisoned in San Quentin. [ADD] | |||
| Feb - | All German films – with the exception of Madschen in Uniform – are withdrawn from cinemas in New York when Adolf Hitler is elected German Chancellor. [ADD] | |||
| 2/3 - | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack’s King Kong is released, introducing the world to some unforgettable scenes – and an equally unforgettable monster. Fay Wray and Bruce Cabot are the leads, but it is Kong, in the form of six 18-inch high models and one giant bust, who is the star of the film. [ADD] | |||
| 6/3 - | Controversy grows over what many see as the decline of moral standards in contemporary films, despite the existence of a code of self-censorship to which all studios agreed in 1930. Even cartoons, in the comely shape of Betty Boop, are criticised. [ADD] | |||
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| 9/3 - | Lloyd Bacon’s 42nd Street, starring Warner Baxter, Dick Powell and Myrna Loy, is released. The backstage musical includes the immortal line, “You’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!” [ADD] | |||
| 27/4 - | Darryl F. Zanuck forms 20th Century Pictures in partnership with producer Joseph M. Schenck following a dispute over studio policy at Warner Brothers. The new company’s films will be distributed through United Artists – of which Schenck is president. [ADD] | |||
| Spring - | Warner Brothers’ Baby Face is rejected by the New York State board of Censors who demand a number of cuts and changes. The uncensored version is not publicly screened until November 2004 when it is shown at the London Film Festival. [ADD] | |||
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