Cinema 1935: 1935 film releases
January–March
January 1935
11 January
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
The Night Is Young
18 January
David Copperfield
23 January
Bordertown
25 January
The Gilded Lily
27 January
The Youth of Maxim (USSR)
31 January
The Good Fairy
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
February 1935
1 February
Home on the Range
2 February
New Women (China)
4 February
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
8 February
Long Live with Dearly Departed (Czechoslovakia)
11 February
Police Chief Antek (Poland)
19 February
Ruggles of Red Gap
22 February
After Office Hours
Death Drives Through
The Little Colonel
Toni (France)
The Whole Town’s Talking
March 1935
8 March
Naughty Marietta
Roberta
The Wedding Night
16 March
Gold Diggers of 1935
22 March
Life Begins at 40
Mississippi
25 March
The New Gulliver (U.S.S.R.)
28 March
Triumph of the Will (Germany)
30 March
Devdas
April 1935
10 April
Villa for Sale
11 April
Four Hours to Kill!
18 April
G Men
19 April
Private Worlds
Reckless
Star of Midnight
20 April
Go Into Your Dance
Little Mother (Austria/Hungary)
Les Misérables
22 April
Bride of Frankenstein
25 April
Goin’ to Town
27 April
Party Wire
30 April
The Scoundrel
May 1935
9 May
The Informer
11 May
Dinky
13 May
Werewolf of London
16 May
Drake of England (GB)
18 May
Black Fury
26 May
The Girl from 10th Avenue
31 May
Public Hero No. 1
June 1935
6 June
The 39 Steps (GB)
7 June
Doubting Thomas
Our Little Girl
13 June
Becky Sharp
15 June
The Glass Key
The Million Ryo Pot (Japan)
28 June
The Arizonian
July 1935
6 July
Escapade
8 July
The Raven
12 July
Mad Love
The Murder Man
She
15 July
The Black Room
The Clairvoyant (GB)
18 July
Amphitryon (Germany)
19 July
Shanghai
20 July
Front Page Woman
26 July
Curly Top
31 July
Dante’s Inferno
August 1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
3 August
Man on the Flying Trapeze
9 August
The Call of the Wild
China Seas
15 August
Alice Adams
19 August
Westward Ho
25 August
Hop-Along Cassidy
29 August
Top Hat
30 August
Anna Karenina
September 1935
5 September
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
6 September
Steamboat Round the Bend
7 September
Little Big Shot
Page Miss Glory
8 September
The Dark Angel
9 September
Harmony Lane
14 September
Special Agent
19 September
She Married Her Boss
20 September
Broadway Melody of 1936
24 September
The Crime of Dr. Crespi
25 September
La Bandera (France)
October 1935
4 October
I Live My Life
5 October
Waterfront Lady
8 October
She Couldn’t Take It
13 October
Barbary Coast
16 October
Way Down East
18 October
Hands Across the Table
The Last Days of Pompeii
24 October
Rendezvous
25 October
The Crusades
Thanks a Million
27 October
Trans-atlantic Tunnel (GB)
28 October
No Limit (GB)
30 October
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
31 October
Peter Ibbetson
November 1935
2 November
Princess Tam Tam (France)
4 November
Remember Last Night?
8 November
Mutiny on the Bounty
14 November
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
15 November
Annie Oakley
A Night at the Opera
21 November
An Inn in Tokyo (Japan)
22 November
Crime and Punishment
In Old Kentucky
Splendor
26 November
Scrooge (GB)
30 November
Frisco Kid
December 1935
3 December
Carnival in Flanders (France)
6 December
Ah, Wilderness!
9 December
The Great Impersonation
17 December
The Ghost Goes West (GB)
19 December
The Littlest Rebel
20 December
Lucrezia Borgia
25 December
The Bride Comes Home
Dangerous
27 December
Professional Soldier
A Tale of Two Cities
28 December
Captain Blood
30 December
Magnificent Obsession
31 December
Let’s Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)
Notable Films in 1935
0–9
The 39 Steps, directed by Hitchcock, with Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll (GB)
A
After Office Hours, starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett
Ah, Wilderness!, starring Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore
Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn
Amphitryon (Germany)
Anna Karenina, starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March
Annie Oakley, starring Barbara Stanwyck
The Arizonian, starring Richard Dix
B
La Bandera, directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Jean Gabin (France)
Barbary Coast, starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea
Becky Sharp, starring Miriam Hopkins (first feature in Three Strip Technicolor)
Black Fury, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Paul Muni
The Black Room, starring Boris Karloff
Bordertown, starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis
Boys Will Be Boys, starring Will Hay (GB)
Brewster’s Millions, with Jack Buchanan and Lili Damita (GB)
The Bride Comes Home, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
Bride of Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester
Broadway Melody of 1936, starring Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
C
The Call of the Wild, starring Clark Gable
Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
Car of Dreams, starring John Mills (Britain)
Carnival in Flanders (La Kermesse héroïque), J. Feyder (France)
Charlie Chan in Egypt, starring Warner Oland
China Seas, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery
Coal Face, a documentary directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (GB)
Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Peter Lorre
Crime of Dr. Crespi, The, starring Erich Von Stroheim
Crusades, The, Cecil B. DeMille, starring Henry Wilcoxon, Loretta Young
Curly Top, starring Shirley Temple
D
Dandy Dick, starring Will Hay (GB)
Dangerous, starring Bette Davis and Franchot Tone
Dante’s Inferno, starring Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor
The Dark Angel, starring Fredric March and Merle Oberon
David Copperfield, George Cukor, starring Edna May Oliver, Freddie Bartholomew, W. C. Fields
Death Drives Through, Edward L. Cahn
Devdas (India)
The Devil Is a Woman, Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich
Dinky, starring Jackie Cooper and Mary Astor
Doubting Thomas , starring Will Rogers
Drake of England, starring Matheson Lang and Jane Baxter (GB)
E-F
Escapade, starring William Powell
Escape Me Never, Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner (GB)
Every Night at Eight, starring George Raft and Alice Faye
Farmer Takes a Wife, The, Victor Fleming, starring Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda
Foreign Affaires, directed by and starring Tom Walls (Britain)
Four Hours to Kill!, starring Richard Barthelmess
Frisco Kid, starring James Cagney
Front Page Woman, Michael Curtiz, starring Bette Davis and George Brent
G
G Men, starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak
Ghost Goes West, The, directed by René Clair, starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette (GB)
The Gilded Lily, starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray
The Girl from 10th Avenue, starring Bette Davis
The Glass Key, starring George Raft
Go Into Your Dance, starring Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler
Goin’ to Town, starring Mae West
Gold Diggers of 1935, Busby Berkeley musical, Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart
The Good Fairy, with Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall
Great Impersonation, The, Alan Crosland, starring Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson
H
Hands Across the Table, Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
Harmony Lane, starring Douglass Montgomery
Home on the Range, starring Jackie Coogan and Randolph Scott
Hop-Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd
Hyde Park Corner, directed by Sinclair Hill, starring Gordon Harker (Britain)
I-J
I Live My Life, starring Joan Crawford and Frank Morgan
In Old Kentucky, starring Will Rogers
The Informer, directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen
An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
Jánošík, directed by Martin Frič (Czechoslovakia)
Jedenácté přikázání (The Eleventh Commandment) (Czech)
L
The Last Days of Pompeii, with Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone
Life Begins at 40, starring Will Rogers
Little Big Shot, directed by Michael Curtiz
The Little Colonel, Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore
Little Mother (Kleine Mutti) (Austria/Hungary)
The Littlest Rebel, starring Shirley Temple
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone
Long Live with Dearly Departed (Ať žije nebožtík) (Czech)
Lucrezia Borgia, Abel Gance, starring Edwige Feuillère (France)
M
Mad Love (aka The Hands of Orlac), starring Peter Lorre
Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor
The Making of a King (Der alte und der junge König), starring Emil Jannings (Germany)
Man of the Moment, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (GB)
Man on the Flying Trapeze, starring W. C. Fields
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, starring Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett
Men of Action, starring Frankie Darro and Barbara Worth
Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood (GB)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle
The Million Ryo Pot (Tange Sazen Yowa: Hyakuman Ryō no Tsubo) (Japan)
Les Misérables, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
Mississippi, Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields and Joan Bennett
Moscow Nights, directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Laurence Olivier (GB)
The Murder Man, starring Spencer Tracy
Music Hath Charms, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Henry Hall (Britain)
Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Clark Gable, Charles Laughton
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Claude Rains and Valerie Hobson
N
Naughty Marietta, starring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy
The New Gulliver, Aleksandr Ptushko, stop motion-animated film (U.S.S.R.)
New Women (Xīn nǚxìng) (China)
A Night at the Opera, Sam Wood, Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
The Night Is Young, starring Ramon Navarro
No Limit, starring George Formby (GB)
No More Ladies, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery
O-P
Our Little Girl, starring Shirley Temple
Page Miss Glory, starring Marion Davies, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, and Patsy Kelly
Party Wire, starring Jean Arthur and Victor Jory
The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt (GB)
Peter Ibbetson, Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding
Police Chief Antek (Antek policmajster) (Poland)
Princess Tam Tam, starring Josephine Baker (France)
Private Worlds, starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea
Professional Soldier, starring Victor McLaglen
Public Hero No. 1, Lionel Barrymore and Jean Arthur
R
The Raven, starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi
Reckless, a musical starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
Red Passport, directed by Guido Brignone, starring Isa Miranda (Italy)
Remember Last Night? James Whale, starring Edward Arnold and Constance Cummings
Rendezvous (1935), starring William Powell
Roberta, a musical starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, uncredited Lucille Ball
Royal Cavalcade, historical film celebrating George V’s silver jubilee, six directors and large ensemble cast (GB)
Ruggles of Red Gap, Leo McCarey, starring Charles Laughton
S
The Scoundrel, starring Noël Coward
Scrooge (GB)
She, starring Randolph Scott
She Couldn’t Take It, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett
She Married Her Boss, starring Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas
Sheela (Indian)
Shanghai, starring Charles Boyer and Loretta Young
The Silent Code, starring Kane Richmond and Blanche Mehaffey
So Red the Rose, starring Margaret Sullavan
Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (Fengyun ernu) (China)
The Soul of the Accordion (El alma de bandoneón) (Argentina)
Special Agent, starring Bette Davis and George Brent
Splendor, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
Squibs directed by Henry Edwards and starring Betty Balfour (Britain)
Star of Midnight, starring William Powell and Ginger Rogers
Steamboat Round the Bend, starring Will Rogers
T
A Tale of Two Cities, Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan
Thanks a Million, starring Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak
Toni by Jean Renoir (France) – the most significant precursor to the Italian neorealist movement
Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (British), a Sherlock Holmes film directed by Leslie Hiscott based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Valley of Fear, starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, and Ian Fleming as Watson
Triumph of the Will, Riefenstahl Nazi propaganda film (Germany)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds, western with Gene Autry
Trans-atlantic Tunnel, Richard Dix and Leslie Banks (GB)
Turn of the Tide, John Garrick and Geraldine Fitzgerald (GB)
V-Y
Villa for Sale (Ez a villa eladó) (Hungary)
The Village Squire, starring Vivien Leigh (GB)
Waterfront Lady, starring Ann Rutherford, Frank Albertson
The Wedding Night, starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten
Werewolf of London, starring Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
Westward Ho, starring John Wayne
The Whole Town’s Talking, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur
Way Down East, starring Henry Fonda
Xin nü xing (directed by: Chusheng Cai), Ruan Lingyu, Naidong Wang and Junli Zheng.
The Youth of Maxim (Yunost Maksima) (USSR)
Births
January 1 – Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (died 2014)
January 2 – John Considine, American writer and actor
January 5 – Gerald R. Molen, American producer and actor
January 8 – Elvis Presley, rock singer and actor (died 1977)
January 9 – Bob Denver, American comic actor (died 2005)
January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (died 2019)
January 28 – Nicholas Pryor, American actor
January 30 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress (died 2017)
February 17 – Christina Pickles, British-American actress
February 25 – Sally Jessy Raphael, tabloid talk show host
February 26
Stephen Pearlman, American actor (died 1998)
Jane Wagner, American writer, director and producer
March 15 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
March 18
Oumarou Ganda, Nigerien director and actor (died 1981)
Leslie Parrish, American actress, writer and producer
March 19 – Burt Metcalfe, Canadian-American actor (died 2022)
March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh, American character actor and comedian
March 24 – Mary Berry, English television presenter
March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
April 4 – Kenneth Mars, US actor and voice actor (died 2011)
April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996)
April 10 – Álvaro de Luna, Spanish actor (died 2018)
April 16 – Bobby Vinton, American singer, songwriter and actor
April 19 – Dudley Moore, English-born comic actor and musician (died 2002)
April 20 – Mario Camus, Spanish director (died 2021)
April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor (died 2021)
April 22 – Mario Machado, Chinese–US actor and broadcaster (died 2013)
April 23 – Franco Citti, Italian actor (died 2016)
April 27
Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker (died 2012)
Nikki van der Zyl, German voice-over artist (died 2021)
April 29 – Lennie Weinrib, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2006)
May 2 – Lance LeGault, American film and television actor (died 2012)
May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (died 1995)
May 19 – David Hartman, TV personality and media host
May 25 – George Roubicek, Austrian actor
May 26 – Sheila Steafel, British actress (died 2019)
May 27
Carole Lesley, English actress (died 1974)
Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen and actress
May 28 – Anne Reid, English actress
May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
June 2 – Roger Brierley, English actor (died 2005)
June 3 – Irma P. Hall, American actress
June 16 – James Bolam, English actor
June 21 – Monte Markham, American actor
June 27 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d 2007)
June 29 – Keith Walker, American writer, producer and actor (died 1996)
July 5 – Christian Doermer, German actor (died 2022)
July 8 – Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor
July 9 – Michael Williams, British actor (died 2001)
July 13 – Gregorio Casal, Mexican actor (died 2018)
July 15
Gianni Garko, Croatian-born Italian actor
Alex Karras, US football player, professional wrestler and actor (died 2012)
July 17
Diahann Carroll, African American singer and actress (d 2019)
Donald Sutherland, Canadian-born actor
July 22 – Stanley Ralph Ross, American writer and actor (died 2000)
July 25 – Barbara Harris, American actress (died 2018)
July 31 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (died 2015)
August 2 – Amidou, Moroccan-French actor (died 2013)
August 3 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor and voice actor (died 2019)[17]
August 5
Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (died 2017)
Wanda Ventham, English actress
August 7 – Yoná Magalhães, Brazilian actress (died 2015)
August 8 – Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer and screenwriter
August 12 – John Cazale, American actor (died 1978)[18]
August 15 – Jim Dale, English actor, director and singer
August 16 – Janet Henfrey, British actress
August 23 – Ronald Falk, Australian actor (died 2016)
August 24 – Lando Buzzanca, Italian actor (died 2022)
August 28 – Sonny Shroyer, American actor and singer
August 29 – William Friedkin, US director, producer (died 2023)
August 31 – Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (died 2018)
September 2 – Kenneth Tsang, Hong Kong actor (died 2022)
September 9
Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-British actor
Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, comedian, actor (died 2023)
September 21 – Henry Gibson, American actor, singer and songwriter (died 2009)
September 24 – Sean McCann, Canadian actor (died 2019)
September 28 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (died 1991)
September 29 – Mylène Demongeot, French actress (died 2022)
October 1 – Julie Andrews, English-born singer and actress
October 3 – Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Soviet-Armenian actor (died 2020)[19]
October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (died 2006)
October 20 – Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (died 2004)
October 24 – Rosamaria Murtinho, Brazilian actress
October 27 – Frank Adonis, American actor (died 2018)
November 7
Billy “Green” Bush, American actor
Judy Parfitt, English actress
November 8 – Alain Delon, French actor
November 13 – Tom Atkins, American actor
November 21 – Michael Chapman, US cinematographer (died 2020)
November 22 – Michael Callan, American actor (died 2022)
November 24 – Salim Khan, Indian Bollywood screenwriter
November 29
Diane Ladd, American actress
Amanda Walker, English actress
December 1 – Woody Allen, US comedian, director and actor
December 2 – Hy Pyke, American character actor (died 2006)
December 5 – Basabi Nandi, Indian actress (died 2018)
December 8
Dharmendra, Indian film actor, producer and politician
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German director
December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak director (died 2001)
December 14
Lewis Arquette, American actor, writer and producer (died 2001)
Lee Remick, American actress (died 1991)
December 18 – Rosemary Leach, British actress (died 2017)
December 21
John G. Avildsen, American director (died 2017)
Phil Donahue, American media personality, writer and producer
December 24 – Tommy Dysart, Scottish-born Australian actor (died 2022)
December 28 – William Bassett, American actor
December 30 – Jack Riley, American actor, comedian and writer (died 2016)
Deaths
January 19 – Lloyd Hamilton, American comedy actor (born 1899)
February 7 – Frederick Warde, English Shakespearean actor (born 1851)
March 8 – Ruan Lingyu, Chinese silent actress, committed suicide (born 1910)
March 23 – Florence Moore, US singer and silent film actress (born 1886)
May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor, in a road accident (born 1915)
May 13 – Clarence Geldart, Canadian-American actor (born 1867)
August 14 – Léonce Perret, French actor, director and producer (born 1880)
August 15 – Will Rogers, US humorist and actor (born 1879)
August 25 – Mack Swain, American actor (born 1876)
September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, British film pioneer (born 1860)
December 16 – Thelma Todd, US actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)
Film Debuts
Don Ameche – Dante’s Inferno
Pedro Armendáriz – Rosario
William Benedict – $10 Raise
Nana Bryant – Unknown Woman
Charles Coburn – The People’s Enemy
Joan Davis – Millions in the Air
Olivia de Havilland – Alibi Ike
Buddy Ebsen – Broadway Melody of 1936
Edythe Elliott – Show Them No Mercy!
Henry Fonda – The Farmer Takes of Wife
Joan Fontaine – No More Ladies
Leo Genn – Immortal Gentleman
Gorella Gori – The Three-Cornered Hat
Jon Hall – Women Must Dress
Vida Hope – The 39 Steps
Marsha Hunt – The Virginia Judge
Douglas Kennedy – G Men
Leny Marenbach – Jana, the Girl from the Bohemian Forest
James Mason – Late Extra
Carole Mathews – Here’s to Romance
Burgess Meredith – The Scoundrel
Kenneth More – Look Up and Laugh
Robert Morley – Scrooge
Lloyd Nolan – G Men
Amalia Pellegrini – The Three-Cornered Hat
Roy Rogers – Slightly Static
Alastair Sim – The Riverside Murder
James Stewart – The Murder Man
Karl Swenson – Strangers All
Hank Worden – Barbary Coast
Will Wright – It’s a Small World
