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The History of American Cinema: 1936 |
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16/7 - |
Marc Connolly and William Keighley’s The Green Pastures is released. The all-black film is voted the years’ ninth best in the Film Daily annual poll of critics. [ADD] |
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22/7 - |
William Dieterle’s Satan Met a Lady is released. Starring Warren Williams as detective Ted Shayne, it is the second film version of Dashiell Hamett’s The Maltese Falcon to be filmed in five years following Ricardo Cortez’s portrayal in 1931. [ADD] |
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23/7 - |
The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League is founded. Among its founder members are Fritz Lang, Fredric March and Dorothy Parker. The League will later be denounced as a communist organization by the HUAC. [ADD] |
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27/8 - |
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers team up for the sixth time in three years for RKO’s Swing Time, directed by George Stevens. [ADD] |
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15/9 - |
Irving Thalberg, the MGM ‘boy-wonder’ producer, dies of pneumonia at the age of 37. [ADD] |
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20/10 - |
Warner Brothers release Michael Curtiz’s Charge of the Light Brigade starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. [ADD] |
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30/10 - |
Our Relations, Laurel & Hardy’s first film since breaking with Hal Roach, is released under the Stan Laurel Productions banner. [ADD] |
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27/11 - |
Max Fleischer’s Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor is released. It is the first Technicolor Popeye film; it is also the first to-reel special, which appears as a main attraction in some cinemas, and is filmed on a 3D background. [ADD] |
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29/12 - |
The National Board of Review in New York votes Jacques Feyder’s La Kermesse Heroique its film of the year. [ADD] |
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– Pare Lorentz’s short documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains is released. [ADD] |
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– Fifteen Hollywood directors found the Directors Guild of America: King Vidor (President), Frank Borzage, John Cromwell, Howard Hawks, William K. Howard, Gregory LaCava, Rowland V. Lee, Leo McCarey, Rouben Mamoulian, Lewis Milestone, Wesley Ruggles, A Edward Sutherland, Frank Tuttle, Richard Wallace and William Wellman. [ADD] |
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– Walt Disney receives the French Legion of Honour award. [ADD] |
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Top Ten US Box Office Stars 1936: 2. Clark Gable 3. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 5. Joe E. Brown 6. Dick Powell 10. Gary Cooper Source: The Quigley Poll |
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Other Key American Films of 1936 |
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Camille (George Cukor) [ADD] |
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Craig’s Wife (Dorothy Arzner) [ADD] |
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The Devil Doll (Tod Browning) [ADD] |
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Flash Gordon (serial) (Frederick Stephani) [ADD] |
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The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo) [ADD] |
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The Plainsman (Cecil B. DeMille) [ADD] |
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Rose-Marie (Willard Van Dyke) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1936 |
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