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The History of American Cinema: 1935 |
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17/7 - |
Variety, the entertainment trade paper, runs its famous headline, ‘Sticks Nix Hick Pix’ about rural filmgoers dislike of Hollywood’s image of them. [ADD] | |||
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30/8 - |
Mark Sandrich’s Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, is released. By the 13th September its takings at Radio City Music Hall are $245,000, beating previous box-office records. [ADD] | |||
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8/9 - |
Busby Berkeley is pulled from the burning wreck of his Roadster on the Pacific Coast Highway after crashing into oncoming traffic following the blow-out of his left front tyre. Two people in the car he collides with die instantly, and a third dies later. [ADD] | |||
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21/9 - |
A preliminary hearing at the Los Angeles Municipal Court orders that Busby Berkeley face two counts of second-degree murder following the three car collision in which he was involved on 8th September. [ADD] | |||
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11/10 - |
Joan Crawford marries Franchot Tone in New Jersey. [ADD] | |||
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7/11 - |
Henry Hathaway’s adaptation of George De Maurier’s novel Peter Ibbetson is released. The film stars Gary Cooper and Ann Harding. [ADD] | |||
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8/11 - |
Frank Lloyd’s Mutiny on the Bounty is released for MGM. Clark Gable bares his chest as Fletcher Christian opposite Charles Laughton’s Captain Bligh. [ADD] | |||
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15/11 - |
A Night at the Opera, the Marx Brothers’ first film for MGM, is released. It is directed by Sam Wood. [ADD] | |||
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19/12 - |
The release of The Littlest Rebel consolidates seven-year-old Shirley Temple’s position as a major star. [ADD] | |||
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26/12 - |
Michael Curtiz’s Captain Blood, featuring Errol Flynn opposite Olivia de Havilland in his first starring role, is released. [ADD] | |||
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31/12 - |
Mae West’s earnings for the year total $480,833, making her the highest-earning woman in America. [ADD] | |||
| – The Justice Department attempts to reform film distribution practices and separate exhibition and distribution. [ADD] | ||||
| – Eastman Kodak introduce three-colour subtractive Kodachrome film. [ADD] | ||||
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| – Oscar Micheaux’s Murder in Harlem, starring Clarence Brooks and Dorothy Van Engle, is released. [ADD] | ||||
| – Warner Bros hire animator Tex Avery who starts the Termite Terrace Unit. [ADD] | ||||
| – At MGM, sound technician Douglas Shearer develops a two-way speaker system that becomes a standard feature in cinemas for the next twenty years. [ADD] | ||||
| – Special Effects pioneer Howard Lydecker becomes head of special effects for Republic Pictures, producer of countless movie serials. [ADD] | ||||
| – David O. Selznick founds Selznick International Pictures. [ADD] | ||||
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Top Ten
Money-making Stars of 1935 2. Will Rogers 3. Clark Gable 4. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 7. Dick Powell 9. Joe E. Brown 10. James Cagney Source: Quigley Poll |
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Other Key American Films of 1935 |
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| Alice Adams (George Stevens) [ADD] | ||||
| China Seas (Tay Garnett) [ADD] | ||||
| The Crusades (Cecil B. DeMille) [ADD] | ||||
| Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley) [ADD] | ||||
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway) [ADD] | ||||
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle) [ADD] | ||||
| Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey) [ADD] | ||||
| The Scoundrel (Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur) [ADD] | ||||
| Steamboat Around the Bend (John Ford) [ADD] | ||||
| The History of Cinema: 1935 | ||||
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