Cinema in the 1930s

Co-directs People on Sunday, a key late-Weimar film.

Death of Mabel Normand

Directs The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings.

Birth of Clinton "Clint" Eastwood.

Birth of Edward Woodward

Death of Lon Chaney

Directs the film version of The Threepenny Opera.

Directs M, his first sound film.

Birth of Anne Bancroft, Anna Maria Louisa Italiano

Birth of Angie Dickinson

Birth of Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky)

Directs Kameradschaft, a drama about Franco-German mine rescue.

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "A Free Soul" as Stephen Ashe

Birth of John Wayne, Marion Michael Morrison

Directs, "City Lights", 1st film with sound

Pardon Us is Laurel and Hardys first feature length comedy film, produced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel, directed by James Parrott, and originally distributed by MGM in 1931

Pardon Us is Laurel and Hardys first feature length comedy film, produced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel, directed by James Parrott, and originally distributed by MGM in 1931

Birth of Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor

Directs Kuhle Wampe, a politically engaged Weimar film.

Death of Peg Entwistle

Stars in, "A Farewell to Arms"

The Music Box which wins an Academy Award for Best Short Subject

The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932 directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Writes & directs "Scarface", censored until Hughes sued to allow its release

Film debut in The Midshipmaid

Stars in, The Music Box

The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932 directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Birth of Kim Novak

Birh of Michael Caine, born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite

The Nazi regime bans The Testament of Dr Mabuse after its release is blocked.

Birth of Gene Wilder

Death of Roscoe Arbuckle

Directs SOS Eisberg, a German adventure film shot in Greenland.

Birth of John Barry Prendergast

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Private Life of Henry VIII" as King Henry VIII

Birth of Roman Polanski

Leaves Germany after conflict with the Nazi film authorities.

Stars in, "Red Dust"

Stars in, Sons of the Desert

Birth of Bernard Bresslaw

Birth of Joan Ann Hackett

Death of Marie Dressler

Birth of Margaret Natalie Smith Cross

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "It Happened One Night" as Peter Warne

Releases Triumph of the Will, a major Nazi propaganda film.

Death of Will Rogers

Birth of Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg)

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Informer" as Gypo Nolan

Stars in, Bonnie Scotland

Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was institutionalized at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk

Enters films with the newspaper thriller, Late Extra

Appears in the film version of Lorna Doone

Placed in the Los Angeles Orphans Home

Directs The 39 Steps, refining the wrong-man thriller formula that becomes central to his later work.

Makes his film debut in 1935 in The Case of Gabriel Perry

Death of John Gilbert

Birth of Albert Finney

Birth of Dennis Lee Hopper

Directs Fury, his first American feature film.

Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Story of Louis Pasteur" as Louis Pasteur

Directs A Day at the Races

Directs, Dodsworth

Directs, "Modern Times"

Stars in, The Bohemian Girl. Stars in, Our Relations

Birth of Vanessa Redgrave

Death of Jean Harlow

Birth of Barbara Windsor, born Barbara Ann Deeks

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "Captains Courageous" as Manuel

Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937 directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937 directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Stars in, Way Out West

Birth of Robert Oliver Reed

Releases Olympia, her two-part documentary on the 1936 Olympic Games.

Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Kentucky

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "Boys Town" as Father Flanagan

Appears in the film, "I See Ice"

Plays the part of Louis XVI, for which he received an Academy Award Nomination as Best Supporting Actor in "Marie Antoinette"

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role

Swiss Miss, is a 1938 comedy film directed by John G. Blystone, produced by Hal Roach and starring Laurel and Hardy

Swiss Miss, is a 1938 comedy film directed by John G. Blystone, produced by Hal Roach and starring Laurel and Hardy. Stars in, Block-Heads

The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

Directs The Lady Vanishes, one of the best-known British thrillers from his pre-Hollywood career.

The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

The Lady Vanishes stars Margaret Lockwood

Birth of Volker Schlondorff.

Birth of Harvey Keitel

Birth of Michael Cimino

Birth of Paul Hogan

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" as Mr. Chips

Stars in, "Beau Geste"

Appears as Colley in the 1939 film version of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat

Bergmans first acting role in America came when Hollywood producer David O. Selznick brought her to America to star in Intermezzo: A Love Story, an English language remake of her 1936 Swedish film, Intermezzo

Stars in, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". Stars in, "Its a Wonderful World". Stars in, "Destry Rides Again"

Becomes a United States citizen after leaving Germany.

Directs Raffles. Directs Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Directs, Wuthering Heights