Events

• It is the year of gold of the French cinema industry which produces 122 films. The rooms accommodate 300 million spectators including 80 million in Paris and 6 million French (that is to say a seventh of the population) goes at least once per week to the cinema.

• October 31st: four hundred rooms in Great Britain program simultaneously the Novel of a cheater of Sacha Guitry.

Principal films of the year

• Alexandre Nevski of Sergueï Eisenstein, music of Prokofiev (February 1st with Moscow)
• Amanda ( Carefree ) Musical comedy of Mark Sandrich with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Ralph Bellamy.
• Entered of the artists , film of Marc Allégret (October).
• Hotel of North of Flesh-colored Marcel with Arletty and Louis Jouvet (left the December 16th)
• Katia of Maurice Turner with Danielle Darrieux
• the childhood of Soviet Gorki film of Mark Donskoï according to the work of Maxime Gorki (June 18th in Moscow)
• the Impossible Mr Bébé ( Bringing up Baby ) of Howard Hawks with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn (March 3rd in New York)
• the unsubdued one ( Jezebel ) of William Wyler with White beet Davis and Henry Founded
• the human Animal of Jean Renoir with Jean Gabin and Simone Simon (December 21st).
• the woman of the baker of Marcel Pagnol according to Jean Giono with Raimu
• the Eighth Woman of Bore-Blue ( Blue Beard' S Eighth Wife ), comedy of Ernst Lubitsch with Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper and Edward Everett Horton.
• the King of the gueux film of Frank Lloyd with Basil Rathbone
• Adventures of Marco Polo ( The Adventures off Marco Polo ) of archie Mayo with Gary Cooper
• Adventures of Robin of Wood ( Robin Hood ), film of adventure of Michael Curtiz and William Keighley with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains (April 23rd).
• Gods of the stage , film of Leni Riefenstahl (left the April 20th).
• the Mountain dwellers are there ( Swiss Miss ), comedy of John G. Blystone with Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Della Lind
• Marie Antoinette of W.S. Van Dyke
• Panique with the hotel : American comedy of William A. Seiter with Groucho, Harpo and Chico Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller
• Pygmalion , comedy of Anthony Asquith with Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller and Wilfrid Lawson
• Quay of the fogs , drama of Flesh-colored Marcel with Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan and Michel Simon (May 18th).
• Let us go up the Fields-Élysées , film of Sacha Guitry
• Têtes of pickaxe ( Blockheads ), comedy of John G. Blystone with Stan Laurel and Billy Gilbert
• The Ship that died , documentary of Jacques Tourneur
• Three comrades : American drama of Frank Borzage with Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Thunders
• the three waltz , of Ludwig Berger, with Yvonne Printemps.
• a woman disappears ( The Lady Vanishes ) realized by Alfred Hitchcock with Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Margaret Lockwood (August 20th).
• You will not carry it with you of Frank Capra - Oscar of best film.

Rewards

Oscars

• Better film: You will not carry it with you of Frank Capra (the United States)
• Meilleure actress: White beet Davis, unsubdued the (Jezebel)
• Better actor: Spencer Tracy, Of the men was born (Town Servant boys)
• female Best supporting role: Fay Bainter, unsubdued the (Jezebel)
• male Best supporting role: Walter Brennan, Kentucky
• Better realizer: Frank Capra, You will not carry it with you (You Can' T Take it With You)

Other rewards

• Mostra of Venice, August 20th: the Gods of the stage of Leni Riefenstahl receives the Mussolini cut. Americans and British resign of the jury.
• Price Louis Delluc: Quay of the fogs of Flesh-colored Marcel

Principal births

• January 14th: Jack Jones, singer and actor.
• February 23rd: Diane Varsi, American actress.
• April 17th: Perrette Pradier, French actress.
• May 10th: Marina Vlady (Marina de Poliakoff Baïdaroff, known as), French actress.
• May 15th: Mireille Darc, French actress.
• July 18th: Paul Verhoeven, Dutch realizer.
• September 23rd: Romy Schneider (Rosemarie Albach-Retty, known as), Austrian actress († May 29th 1982).
• September 27th: Jean-Loup Dabadie, writer and dialogist French.
• October 7th: Marine Karmitz, producer of French cinema.
• October 26th: Bernadette Lafont, French actress.
• November 13rd: Jean Seberg, American actress († September 8th 1979).
• November 30th: Jean Eustace realizer and movie actor († November 4th 1981).

Principal deaths

• January 21st: Georges Méliès, French realizer (° December 8th, 1821).
• July 17th: Robert Wiene, German scenario writer, with Paris
• August 4th: Pearl White, American actor (° March 4th, 1889).
• August 6th: Warner Oland, actor.
• December 28th: Florence Lawrence, actor