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1932 In Film




Events


*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins
*Shirley Temple's film career begins
*Disney released ''Flowers and Trees'' their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.
*Santa, first sound film made in Mexico released.

Top grossing films


#''Shanghai Express''
#''The Kid from Spain''
#''Grand Hotel''
#''Emma''
#''Tarzan the Ape Man''
#''Movie Crazy''
#''Strange Interlude''
#''As You Desire Me''
#''The Beast of the City''
#''The Saddle Buster''

Academy Awards


*Best Picture: ''Grand Hotel'' - MGM
Note: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films.

Films released in 1932



*''20,000 Years in Sing Sing'', starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis
*''American Madness'', starring Walter Huston, directed by Frank Capra
*''As You Desire Me'', starring Greta Garbo
*''Back Street'', starring Irene Dunne and John Boles
*''The Beast of the City'', starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford
*''The Big Broadcast'', starring Bing Crosby
*''Big City Blues'', starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell
*''The Big Stampede'', starring John Wayne
*''A Bill of Divorcement'', starring John Barrymore -(film mentioned in article)
*''Bird of Paradise'', starring Dolores del Rio and Joel McCrea
*''Das Blaue Licht'', starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl
*''Blonde Venus'', starring Marlene Dietrich
*''Broken Lullaby'', starring Lionel Barrymore
*''The Cabin in the Cotton'', featuring Bette Davis
*''Call Her Savage'', starring Clara Bow
*''The Dentist'', a W.C. Fields short subject produced by Mack Sennett
*''Emma'', starring Marie Dressler
*''A Farewell to Arms'', starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes
*''Flowers and Trees''
*''Freaks'', directed by Tod Browning
*''Grand Hotel'', starring Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt
*''Horse Feathers'', starring the Marx Brothers
*''I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang'', starring Paul Muni
*''If I Had A Million''
*''Impatient Maiden''
*''Love Me Tonight'', starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald
*''The Most Dangerous Game'', starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, and Leslie Banks
*''The Mouthpiece'', starring Warren William
*''Movie Crazy'', a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
*''The Mummy'', starring Boris Karloff
*''Murders in the Rue Morgue'', starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox and Leon Ames
*''The Old Dark House'', starring Boris Karloff
*''One Hour with You'', starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
*''One Way Passage'', starring William Powell and Kay Francis
*''Pack Up Your Troubles'', starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
*''Red Dust'', starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
*''Red-Headed Woman'', starring Jean Harlow
*''Scarface'', starring Paul Muni
* ''Shanghai Express'', starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland
* ''The Sign of the Cross''
*''Smilin' Through'', starring Norma Shearer
*''Tarzan the Ape Man'', starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
*''Three on a Match'', starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis
*''Tiger Shark'', starring Edward G. Robinson
*''Trouble in Paradise'', starring Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins
*''Two Seconds'', starring Edward G. Robinson
*''Unheimliche Geschichten'' remake w/ sound of the 1919 film
*''Union Depot'', starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Blondell
*''Vampyr'', directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
*''Virtue'', starring Carole Lombard and Pat O'Brien
*''White Zombie'', starring Bela Lugosi

Serials



*''The Airmail Mystery''
*''Detective Lloyd''
*''The Devil Horse''
*''Heroes of the West''
*''The Hurricane Express'', starring John Wayne
*''The Jungle Mystery''
*''The Last Frontier''
*''The Last of the Mohicans''
*''The Lost Special''
*''The Shadow of the Eagle'', starring John Wayne

Short film series


*''Buster Keaton'' (1917–1941)
*''Our Gang'' (1922-1944)
*''Laurel and Hardy'' (1921-1943)

Animated short film series


*''Flowers and Trees'' (1933)
*''Aesop's Film Fables'' (1921-1933)
*''Krazy Kat'' (1925-1940)
*''Oswald the Lucky Rabbit'' (1927-1938)
*''Mickey Mouse'' (1928-1953)
*''Silly Symphonies'' (1929-1939)
*''Screen Songs'' (1929-1938)
*''Talkartoons'' (1929-1932)
*''Looney Tunes'' (1930-1969)
*''Flip the Frog'' (1930-1933)
*''Terrytoons'' (1930-1964)
*''Merrie Melodies'' (1931-1969)
*''Scrappy'' (1931-1941)
*''Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren)'' (1931-1933)
*''Betty Boop'' (1932-1939)
*''Pooch the Pup'' (1932-1933)

Births


*January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor
*January 4 - Carlos Saura, director
*February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
*February 13 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
*February 18 – Miloš Forman, director
*February 23 - Majel Barrett, United States actress
*February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress
*April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)
*April 10 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress (d. 1990)
*August 2 - Peter O'Toole, actor
*September 29 - Mehmood, Indian actor, director, producer (d. 2004)
*October 20 - William Christopher, United States actor
*November 15 - Petula Clark, British actress/film composer

Film debuts


* Kate Smith
* Mae West

Deaths


*February 15 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, stage star made silent films
*August 1 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor
*September 1 - Peg Entwistle, actress
*November 2 - Evelyn Preer, actress, singer


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Source: Wikipedia