Overview of the events of 1932 in film
Overview of the events of 1932 in film
The following is an overview of 1932 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1932 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1932
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
The Sign of the Cross Paramount
$2,738,993[1]
2
The Kid from Spain United Artists
$2,621,000[2]
3
Emma MGM
$1,409,000[3]
4
Hell Divers $1,244,000[3]
5
Grand Hotel $1,235,000[3]
6
Prosperity $1,166,000[3]
7
Tarzan the Ape Man $1,112,000[3]
8
Smilin' Through $1,004,000[3]
9
Strange Interlude $957,000[3]
10
Horse Feathers Paramount
$945,000[4]
Events
The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading headline events of the year.[5]
Sidney Kent leaves Paramount Pictures and joins Fox Film .
Merlin H Aylesworth succeeds Hiram S Brown as president of RKO .
Jesse L. Lasky leaves Paramount and becomes an independent producer for Fox.Sam Katz leaves Paramount.
James R Grainger leaves Fox and is succeeded by John D Clark, formerly of Paramount.
Publix and Fox decentralization of cinemas.New industry program, including standard exhibition contract along lines of 5-5-5, proposed by Motion Picture Theater Owners of America and Allied.
Joe Brandt retires from Columbia Pictures joins World-Wide and later resigns again.Two Radio City theaters open, under direction of "Roxy" , with coincident acquisition of the Rockefeller interests of 100,000 shares of RKO stock and 100,000 shares of RCA stock.
Experimentation with exclusive runs. Other notable events include:
Top Ten Money Making Stars
Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars for 1931–1932 in Quigley Publishing Company 's first annual poll.[6]
Academy Awards
The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932,[7] The Ambassador Hotel [7] Conrad Nagel .[7] [7]
Major awards:
Note: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no Best Actor , Best Actress or Best Director awards for 1932 films. The 1931–32 awards went to 1931 films.
1932 film releases
United States unless stated
January–March
January 1932
January 2
January 14
January 15
January 16
January 19
January 22
January 23
February 1932
February 6
February 12
February 13
February 18
February 20
February 21
March 1932
March 1
March 6
March 22
March 24
March 30
Santa Mexico )No Man Of Her Own (1932 film not to be confused with the 1950 film of the same title)
April–June
April 1932
April 2
April 9
April 17
April 18
April 29
May 1932
May 6
May 7
May 12
May 14
May 17
May 20
May 21
May 28
June 1932
June 2
June 3
June 8
June 17
June 25
July–September
July 1932
August 1932
August 4
August 6
August 10
August 12
August 13
August 17
August 18
August 19
August 20
September 1932
September 10
September 13
September 16
September 17
September 18
September 22
September 23
September 24
September 30
October–December
October 1932
October 8
October 12
October 14
October 15
October 20
October 21
October 22
October 25
October 28
October 29
October 30
November 1932
November 2
November 3
November 4
November 7
November 8
November 10
November 11
November 12
November 22
November 24
December 1932
December 1
December 2
December 3
December 8
December 16
December 22
December 23
December 24
December 25
December 28
December 30
Notable films released in 1932
United States unless stated
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A
The Age of Consent Gregory La Cava Air Mail John Ford , starring Ralph Bellamy , Gloria Stuart and Pat O'Brien American Madness Frank Capra , starring Walter Huston and Pat O'Brien The Animal Kingdom Edward H. Griffith , starring Ann Harding , Leslie Howard and Myrna Loy Anton Spelec, Sharp-Shooter (Anton Špelec, ostrostřelec)Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia )As You Desire Me George Fitzmaurice , starring Greta Garbo , Melvyn Douglas and Erich von Stroheim L'Atlantide G. W. Pabst , starring Brigitte Helm – (Germany /France )Attorney for the Defense Irving Cummings , starring Edmund Lowe and Evelyn Brent
B
Back Street John M. Stahl , starring Irene Dunne and John Boles The Bartered Bride (Die verkaufte Braut)Max Ophüls – (Germany )The Beast of the City Charles Brabin , starring Walter Huston , Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford The Big Broadcast Frank Tuttle , starring Bing Crosby and Leila Hyams Big City Blues Mervyn LeRoy , starring Joan Blondell and Eric Linden The Big Stampede Tenny Wright , starring John Wayne and Noah Beery A Bill of Divorcement George Cukor , starring John Barrymore , Katharine Hepburn and Billie Burke Bird of Paradise King Vidor , starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea Das blaue Licht (The Blue Light)Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany )A Blonde Dream (Ein blonder Traum)Paul Martin , starring Lilian Harvey , Willy Fritsch and Willi Forst – (Germany )Blonde Venus Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich , Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant Blondie of the Follies Edmund Goulding , starring Marion Davies , Robert Montgomery , Billie Dove , and Jimmy Durante Boudu Saved from Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux)Jean Renoir , starring Michel Simon – (France )Broken Lullaby Ernst Lubitsch , starring Lionel Barrymore Business and Pleasure David Butler , starring Will Rogers
C
D
Dance Pretty Lady Anthony Asquith – (GB )Dancers in the Dark David Burton , starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack Oakie The Dark Horse Alfred E. Green , starring Warren William and Bette Davis The Dentist Leslie Pearce , starring W. C. Fields Destry Rides Again Benjamin Stoloff , starring Tom Mix Devil and the Deep Marion Gering , starring Tallulah Bankhead , Gary Cooper , Charles Laughton and Cary Grant Downstairs Monta Bell , starring John Gilbert
E–F
Emma Clarence Brown , starring Marie Dressler and Myrna Loy F.P.1 (F.P.1 antwortet nicht)Karl Hartl – (Germany )Faithless Harry Beaumont , starring Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Montgomery Fanny Marc Allégret , starring Raimu – (France )A Farewell to Arms Frank Borzage , starring Helen Hayes , Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou Fast Life Harry A. Pollard , starring William Haines , Madge Evans and Conrad Nagel Flesh John Ford , starring Wallace Beery , Ricardo Cortez and Karen Morley Flowers and Trees Walt Disney animated shortForbidden Frank Capra , starring Barbara Stanwyck , Adolphe Menjou and Ralph Bellamy Freaks Tod Browning , starring Wallace Ford and Leila Hyams
G–H
Goodnight, Vienna Herbert Wilcox , starring Jack Buchanan and Anna Neagle – (GB )Grand Hotel Edmund Goulding , starring Greta Garbo , John Barrymore , Joan Crawford , Wallace Beery , Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone Horse Feathers Norman Z. McLeod , starring the Marx Brothers and Thelma Todd Hotel Splendide Michael Powell – (GB )
I
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Mervyn LeRoy , starring Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell I Was Born, But... (Otona no miru ehon – Umarete wa mita keredo)Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan )If I Had a Million Gary Cooper , George Raft , Charles Laughton , Jack Oakie and W. C. Fields The Impatient Maiden James Whale , starring Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke Island of Lost Souls Erle C. Kenton , starring Charles Laughton , Bela Lugosi , Richard Arlen and Leila Hyams , based on the 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells Ivan Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R. )
J–K
L
The Last Mile Samuel Bischoff , starring Preston Foster The Last of the Mohicans Ford Beebe and B. Reeves Eason , starring Harry Carey Law and Order Edward L. Cahn , starring Walter Huston and Harry Carey Lord Camber's Ladies Benn Levy , starring Gerald du Maurier and Gertrude Lawrence – (GB )The Local Bad Man Otto Brower , starring Hoot Gibson Love Me Tonight Rouben Mamoulian , starring Maurice Chevalier , Jeanette MacDonald and Myrna Loy The Lucky Number Anthony Asquith , starring Gordon Harker – (GB )
M
The Man Who Played God John G. Adolfi , starring George Arliss and Bette Davis Me and My Gal Raoul Walsh , starring Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett Merrily We Go to Hell Dorothy Arzner , starring Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March The Midshipmaid Albert de Courville , starring Jessie Matthews – (GB )Million Dollar Legs Edward F. Cline , starring Jack Oakie and W. C. Fields The Missing Rembrandt Leslie S. Hiscott , starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming – (GB )The Most Dangerous Game Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel , starring Joel McCrea , Fay Wray , Leslie Banks and Robert Armstrong The Mouthpiece James Flood and Elliott Nugent , starring Warren William Movie Crazy Clyde Bruckman , starring Harold Lloyd Mr. Robinson Crusoe A. Edward Sutherland , starring Douglas Fairbanks The Mummy Karl Freund , starring Boris Karloff Murders in the Rue Morgue Robert Florey , starring Bela Lugosi and Sidney Fox
N–O
Night After Night Archie Mayo , starring George Raft and Mae West Night at the Crossroads (La Nuit du carrefour)Jean Renoir – (France )No Man of Her Own Wesley Ruggles , starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Odds 777 George Schnéevoigt – (Denmark )The Old Dark House James Whale , starring Boris Karloff , Melvyn Douglas , Gloria Stuart , Charles Laughton and Raymond Massey One Hour with You Ernst Lubitsch , starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald One Way Passage Tay Garnett , starring William Powell and Kay Francis
P
Pack Up Your Troubles George Marshall and Ray McCarey , starring Laurel and Hardy The Passionate Plumber Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante Payment Deferred Lothar Mendes , starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Sullivan The Phantom President Norman Taurog , starring George M. Cohan , Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante Polly of the Circus Alfred Santell , starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable Prosperity Sam Wood , starring Marie Dressler , Polly Moran and Anita Page
R
Rain Lewis Milestone , starring Joan Crawford and Walter Huston Rasputin and the Empress Richard Boleslawski , starring John Barrymore , Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore Rasputin, Demon with Women (Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen)Adolf Trotz , starring Conrad Veidt – (Germany )Raid in St. Pauli (Razzia in St. Pauli)Werner Hochbaum – (Germany )Red Dust Victor Fleming , starring Clark Gable , Jean Harlow , Mary Astor and Gene Raymond Red-Haired Alibi Christy Cabanne Red-Headed Woman Jack Conway , starring Jean Harlow , Chester Morris , Lewis Stone , Leila Hyams and Una Merkel Rome Express Walter Forde , starring Esther Ralston and Conrad Veidt – (GB )
S
Santa Antonio Moreno , starring Lupita Tovar – (Mexico )Scarface Howard Hawks , starring Paul Muni , Ann Dvorak , George Raft and Boris Karloff Scarlet Dawn William Dieterle , starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Nancy Carroll Shanghai Express Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich , Clive Brook , Anna May Wong and Warner Oland Sherlock Holmes William K. Howard , starring Clive Brook and Ernest Torrence The Sign of Four Graham Cutts , starring Arthur Wontner and Ian Hunter – (GB )The Sign of the Cross Cecil B. DeMille , starring Fredric March , Claudette Colbert and Charles Laughton Silver Dollar Alfred E. Green , starring Edward G. Robinson and Bebe Daniels A Simple Case Prostoy sloochay Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller – (USSR )Smilin' Through Sidney Franklin , starring Norma Shearer , Fredric March and Leslie Howard Speak Easily Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton , Jimmy Durante and Thelma Todd Spring Shower (Tavaszi zápor)Pál Fejős – (France /Hungary )Strange Interlude Robert Z. Leonard , starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable
T
Tarzan the Ape Man W. S. Van Dyke , starring Johnny Weissmuller , Maureen O'Sullivan and Neil Hamilton Taxi! Roy Del Ruth , starring James Cagney and Loretta Young They Just Had to Get Married Edward Ludwig , starring Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts Thirteen Women George Archainbaud , starring Irene Dunne , Ricardo Cortez and Myrna Loy Three Modern Women (Sāngè Módēng Nǚxìng)Bu Wancang , starring Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan – (China )Three on a Match Mervyn LeRoy , starring Joan Blondell , Warren William , Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis Tiger Shark Howard Hawks , starring Edward G. Robinson and Richard Arlen Trouble in Paradise Ernst Lubitsch , starring Miriam Hopkins , Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall Two Seconds Mervyn LeRoy , starring Edward G. Robinson
U–V
W–Y
Washington Merry-Go-Round James Cruze , starring Lee Tracy What Price Hollywood? George Cukor , starring Constance Bennett , Lowell Sherman and Neil Hamilton What Scoundrels Men Are! (Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!)Mario Camerini , starring Vittorio De Sica – (Italy )White Zombie Victor Halperin , starring Bela Lugosi Wooden Crosses (Les Croix de Bois)Raymond Bernard – (France )Young America Frank Borzage , starring Spencer Tracy and Ralph Bellamy
Animated short film series
Ordered by release date of the film series. This list only includes shorts released in 1932:
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