1936 in film

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1936
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 The Great Ziegfeld MGM $3,089,000[1]
2 San Francisco $2,868,000[2]
3 The Plainsman Paramount $2,278,533[3]
4 After the Thin Man MGM $1,992,000[1]
5 Modern Times United Artists $1,800,000[4]
6 Anthony Adverse Warner Bros. $1,783,000[5]
7 Strike Me Pink United Artists $1,700,000[4]
8 Rose Marie MGM $1,695,000[1]
9 Swing Time RKO $1,624,000[6]
10 Libeled Lady MGM $1,601,000[1]

Events

Academy Awards
Main article: 9th Academy Awards

Top Ten Money Making Stars

Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll.[7]

Rank Actor/Actress
1. Shirley Temple
2. Clark Gable
3. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
4. Robert Taylor
5. Joe E. Brown
6. Dick Powell
7. Joan Crawford
8. Claudette Colbert
9. Jeanette MacDonald
10. Gary Cooper

Top Western stars

A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.[8]

Rank Actor/Actress
1. Buck Jones
2. George O'Brien
3. Gene Autry
4. William Boyd
5. Ken Maynard
6. Dick Foran
7. John Wayne
8. Tim McCoy
9. Hoot Gibson
10. Buster Crabbe

1936 film releases

United States unless stated.

January–March

April–June
  • April 1936
    • 4 April
      • Till We Meet Again
    • 10 April
      • A Message to Garcia
      • The Moon's Our Home
      • Small Town Girl
    • 11 April
    • 16 April
    • 20 April
      • By the Bluest of Seas (U.S.S.R.)
    • 24 April
      • Captain January
    • 30 April
  • May 1936
    • 6 May
      • It's Love Again (GB)
    • 8 May
      • The Case Against Mrs. Ames
    • 11 May
    • 17 May
    • 19 May
      • Love in Exile (GB)
    • 20 May
      • Broken Blossoms (GB)
    • 26 May
      • Hearts in Bondage
    • 28 May
    • 29 May
  • June 1936
    • 5 June
      • Private Number
    • 6 June
      • Bullets or Ballots
    • 14 June
      • The Last Outlaw
    • 15 June
    • 17 June
      • Poppy
    • 20 June
      • Hearts Divided
    • 26 June

July–September
  • July 1936
  • August 1936
    • 10 August
      • Where There's a Will (GB)
    • 20 August
    • 26 August
      • East Meets West (UK)
    • 27 August
    • 28 August
      • The Gorgeous Hussy
      • Militiaman Bruggler (Germany)
      • The Texas Rangers
  • September 1936
    • 1 September
      • Tudor Rose
    • 2 September
      • The General Died at Dawn
    • 4 September
    • 6 September
    • 9 September
      • Spy of Napoleon (GB)
    • 10 September
      • Dusty Ermine (UK)
    • 11 September
    • 15 September
      • The Children of Captain Grant
    • 23 September
    • 25 September
    • 26 September
      • Cain and Mabel
    • 30 September
      • Yiddle with his Fiddle (Poland/U.S.)

October–December
  • October 1936
    • 1 October
      • Everything Is Thunder (UK)
    • 6 October
      • Allá en el Rancho Grande (Mexico)
    • 9 October
    • 15 October
    • 16 October
      • 15 Maiden Lane
      • Daniel Boone
      • Dimples
      • Hopalong Cassidy Returns
    • 20 October
    • 22 October
      • Crime Over London (GB)
    • 27 October
      • César (France)
      • Rebellion
    • 30 October
      • Our Relations
  • November 1936
    • 1 November
      • Legion of Terror
    • 6 November
    • 12 November
      • Theodora Goes Wild
    • 13 November
      • Go West, Young Man
    • 16 November
    • 20 November
      • Love on the Run
    • 25 November
      • Lloyd's of London
      • Pennies from Heaven
    • 26 November
      • Men Are Not Gods (GB)
    • 27 November
  • December 1936
    • 1 December
      • The Bold Caballero
    • 2 December
    • 11 December
      • General Spanky
      • Les bas-fonds (France)
    • 12 December
    • 20 December
      • Empty Saddles
    • 21 December
      • Forget Me Not (UK)
    • 24 December
      • The Jungle Princess
    • 25 December
    • 26 December
    • 31 December
      • Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)

Notable films released in 1936

United States unless stated.

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  • Yiddle with his Fiddle, starring Molly Picon (Poland/U.S.)

Serials

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Births
  • January 9 – K Callan, American author and actress
  • January 18 – Tim Barlow, English actor (d. 2023)
  • January 22 – Nyree Dawn Porter, English actress (d. 2001)
  • January 27 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
  • January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor
  • February 3 – Jeanine Basinger, American film historian
  • February 4 – Gary Conway, American actor and screenwriter
  • February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018)
  • February 12
  • February 14
  • February 17 – Jim Brown, American actor (d. 2023)
  • February 29 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
  • March 1 – Georgina Spelvin, born Shelley Graham, American pornographic film actress
  • March 5 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
  • March 8 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress
  • March 9 – Marty Ingels, American actor, comedian, comedy sketch writer and theatrical agent (d. 2015)
  • March 19 – Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
  • March 23 – Luisa Mattioli, Italian actress (d. 2021)
  • April 9 – Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian (d. 2002)
  • April 12 – Charles Napier, American character actor (d. 2011)
  • April 19 – Andy Romano, American actor (d. 2022)
  • May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French director (d. 2006)
  • May 4 – Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. 2024)
  • May 9
  • May 12 – Millie Perkins, American former actress
  • May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, actor (d. 1973)
  • May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and performance artist (d. 2010)
  • May 20 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
  • May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. 2023)
  • May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor (d. 2024)
  • May 28 – John Wilder, American producer, writer and former actor
  • May 30 – Keir Dullea, American actor
  • June 3 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
  • June 4 – Bruce Dern, American actor
  • June 8 – James Darren, American actor, director and singer
  • June 19 - Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor and narrator (d. 2012)
  • June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, American retired actor, musician and songwriter
  • June 24
  • June 27 – Shirley Anne Field, English actress (d. 2023)
  • July 1 – Ron Masak, American actor (d. 2022)
  • July 5 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
  • July 9 – Dick Richards, American director, producer and screenwriter
  • July 24
  • July 25 - August Schellenberg, Canadian actor (d. 2013)
  • August 5 - John Saxon, American actor (d. 2020)
  • August 13 – Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, politician, dancer and singer
  • August 15 - Pat Priest, American actress
  • August 16 - Anita Gillette, American actress
  • August 17 – Floyd Westerman, American musician, political activist, and actor (d. 2007)
  • August 18 – Robert Redford, American actor and director
  • August 20 – Philip Voss, British actor (d. 2020)
  • August 25 – Hugh Hudson, English director (d. 2023)
  • September 7 – Bruce Gray, Canadian actor (d. 2017)
  • September 11 - Charles Dierkop, American character actor (d. 2024)
  • September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor and screenwriter
  • September 19 - Anna Karen, British-South African actress (d. 2022)
  • September 20
    • Andrew Davies, Welsh writer
    • Pepper Martin, Canadian-American actor (d. 2022)
  • September 21 - Burr DeBenning, American character actor (d. 2003)
  • September 24 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer, animator, actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
  • October 8 - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022)
  • October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor
  • October 16
    • Peter Bowles, English actor (d. 2022)
    • Irina Demick, French actress (d. 2004)
  • October 19 - Tony Lo Bianco, Italian-American actor
  • October 23 - Philip Kaufman, American director and screenwriter
  • October 24 – David Nelson, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
  • October 26 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
  • October 28 - Joe Spinell, American character actor (d. 1989)
  • November 4 - Jan Tříska, Czech actor (d. 2017)
  • November 9 – Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. 2007)
  • November 19 - Dick Cavett, American television personality, comedian and former talk show host
  • November 25 - Matt Clark, American actor
  • November 27 – Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
  • December 1 - Melissa Jaffer, Australian actress
  • December 3
  • December 5 - John Erwin, American voice actor
  • December 6 - David Ossman, American writer and comedian
  • December 8 – David Carradine, American actor and martial artist (d. 2009)
  • December 10 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director and producer (d. 2014)
  • December 13 - Cliff Emmich, American actor (d. 2022)
  • December 22 – Hector Elizondo, American actor
  • December 23
  • December 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (d. 2005)
  • December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (d. 2017)

Deaths
  • January 9
    • John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)
    • Frank Rice, American actor (b. 1892)
  • January 24 – Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)
  • February 20 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
  • February 28 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859)
  • April 6 – Väinö Lehmus, Finnish actor (b. 1886)
  • June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878)
  • July 11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
  • September 14 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
  • October 17 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress (b. 1889)

Debuts

Notes
  1. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. Turk, Edward Baron (1998). Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. University of California Press. pp. 364-365. ISBN 0-520-21202-9.
  3. Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813123240.
  4. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  5. Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 16 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  6. Richard Jewel (1994) 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 14 No. 1, p.55
  7. "The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1936". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Company. January 9, 1937. p. 13. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  8. "Exhibitors Name Biggest Western Draws". Motion Picture Herald. Quigley Publishing Company. January 9, 1937. p. 18. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
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