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The History of American Cinema: 1935 |
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12/1 - |
Paramount, RKO and Warner Bros. are summoned to appear before a grand jury on charges of Monopolistic practices. [ADD] | |||
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8/1 - |
The premiere of MGM’s David Copperfield is held. Directed by George Cukor, the film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, W. C. Fields (as Mr. Micawber), Violet Kemble Cooper, Frank Lawton, Lennox Pawle and Roland Young. [ADD] | |||
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5/2 - |
Ernst Lubitsch replaces Manny Cohen as production chief of the troubled Paramount studios. [ADD] | |||
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9/3 - |
Porky Pig makes his debut in Friz Freleng’s I Haven’t Got a Hat for Leon Schlesinger’s Merrie Melodies. [ADD] | |||
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15/3 - |
Josef von Sternberg’s adaptation of Pierre Louy’s novel The Devil is a Woman is released. The film stars Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill and Cesar Romero. [ADD] | |||
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29/3 - |
Poverty Row studio Republic Pictures is formed by Herbert J. Yates from the merger of Mascot, Monogram and Liberty. [ADD] | |||
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3/4 - |
The premiere of Richard Boleslawski’s Les Miserables, starring Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Florence Eldridge and Rochelle Hudson takes place before the film goes on general release on the 20th April. [ADD] | |||
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22/4 - |
The Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale’s sequel to his 1931 hit Frankenstein is released. Colin Clive and Boris Karloff reprise their roles as the doctor and his monster respectively, while Elsa Lanchester takes on the role of the eponymous bride. [ADD] | |||
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9/5 - |
John Ford’s The Informer is released by RKO, nine days after its premiere aboard the French transatlantic liner “Normandie”. This second screen version of Liam O'Flaherty’s novel stars Victor McLaglen as the Sinn Fein member who betrays his best friend. [ADD] | |||
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13/5 - |
Universal’s Werewolf of London, starring Henry Hull as an English botanist who is transformed into a werewolf after being bitten by Warner Oland, is released. [ADD] | |||
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27/5 - |
Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck buy a controlling interest in the Fox Corporation following a merger with their own 20th Century. The new company is named 20th Century-Fox. [ADD] | |||
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May - |
The Museum of Modern Art Film Library is founded in New York, with Iris Barry named as its first curator. [ADD] | |||
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13/6 - |
Rouben Mamoulian’s Becky Sharp, the first feature film to use 3-strip Technicolor, is released. The film stars Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke and Billie Burke. [ADD] | |||
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17/6 - |
After an internal re-organisation following its financial difficulties, Paramount Pictures is renamed Paramount Pictures Inc. [ADD] | |||
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