1933 in film
The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.
Motion picture industry goes under code.
National Recovery Administration
Film industry takes eight week salary cut.
Sirovich bill for sweeping probe of film industry is defeated.
withdraws as Paramount Publix finance chairman and Adolph Zukor appoints George J. Schaefer as general manager.
John D. Hertz
Sidney Kent effects financial reorganization of Corp., averting receivership, and company shows first profit since 1930.
Fox Film
Ruling of the creates "open market" for sound equipment.
United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Nathan Nathanson regains control of Canadian circuit.
Famous Players
quits Warner Bros-First National and with Joseph M. Schenck forms Twentieth Century Pictures, turning out eight productions in the first four months, beginning with The Bowery.
Darryl F. Zanuck
resigns as president of RKO Theaters.
Harold B. Franklin
The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year in North America.[6]
Other notable events include:
The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.
Most nominations: Cavalcade (Fox Film); A Farewell to Arms (Paramount Pictures) and Lady for a Day (Columbia Pictures) – 4
Major awards:
Most Awards: Cavalcade – 3 (Outstanding Production; Best Director; Best Art Direction)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
King Kong
, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel and Dick Powell
42nd Street
Clancy of the Mounted
Fighting with Kit Carson
Gordon of Ghost City
The Mystery Squadron
The Phantom of the Air
The Return of Chandu
(1913–1938)
Harold Lloyd
(1914–1940)
Charlie Chaplin
(1915–1939)
Lupino Lane
(1917–1944)
Buster Keaton
Laurel and Hardy
(1924–1936)
Harry Langdon
(1929–1937)
Wheeler and Woolsey
(1929–1946)
Marx Brothers
(1933–1934)
Ted Healy and His Stooges
Silly Symphonies
Betty Boop
January 6 – , American actor and bodybuilder (d. 2022)
Mark Forest
January 8 – , French director (d. 2006)
Jean-Marie Straub
Ken Barrie
January 12 – , Italian director
Liliana Cavani
January 18 – , English director
John Boorman
January 23 – , American actress, dancer and singer (d. 2024)
Chita Rivera
January 28 – , American director and screenwriter
Jack Hill
February 2 – , English actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2006)
Tony Jay
February 3 – , Slovenian film and stage actor and memoir writer (d. 2012)
Polde Bibič
February 9 – , American actress (d. 2016)
Ronnie Claire Edwards
February 12 – , Greek-French director, screenwriter and producer
Costa-Gavras
Caroline Blakiston
February 14 – , Indian actress (d. 1969)
Madhubala
February 16 – , American actor (d. 2023)
Ron Faber
Yoko Ono
March 2 – , Israeli-American actress and mime artist
Ziva Rodann
John Dair
March 7 - , Scottish actor
Donald Douglas
March 11 – , Italian actress (d. 2024)
Sandra Milo
March 12 – , American actress
Barbara Feldon
March 13 - , American actress (d. 2022)
Gloria McMillan
March 14 – , English actor
Michael Caine
Renée Taylor
March 22 – , Canadian actor (d. 2019)
Richard Easton
March 23 – , Portuguese actress (d. 2018)
Laura Soveral
March 24 - , American actor (d. 2021)
William Smith
April 2 - , American character actor (d. 2014)
Joseph Rigano
April 5 – , American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
Frank Gorshin
April 9 – , French actor (d. 2021)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
April 14 – , British actress and singer
Shani Wallis
April 15 – , American actress (d. 1995)
Elizabeth Montgomery
April 16 – , American actor (d. 2006)
Ric Mancini
April 19 – , American actress (d. 1967)
Jayne Mansfield
April 20 – , Canadian actor (d. 2023)
George R. Robertson
April 22 – , American actor and producer (d. 2024)
Mark Damon
April 26 – , American actress, television host and comedian
Carol Burnett
April 29 – , American musician and actor
Willie Nelson
May 10 – , French actress
Francoise Fabian
May 14 - , Welsh actress
Siân Phillips
May 20 – , American actress and singer
Constance Towers
May 21 – , American actor (d. 2016)
Richard Libertini
May 23 – , English actress
Joan Collins
May 28 - , American actress (d. 2010)
Zelda Rubinstein
June 1 - , American actor (d. 2002)
Antony Ponzini
June 8 - , American comedian, actress, producer, writer and television host (d. 2014)
Joan Rivers
June 9 - , Italian actor (d. 2020)
Mario Donatone
June 11 – , American actor (d. 2016)
Gene Wilder
Danny Aiello
June 21 – , American character actor
Bernie Kopell
July 6 - , Pakistani actor (d. 2022)
Sajjad Kishwar
July 12 - , American actor (d. 2022)
Max Julien
July 13 - , Brazilian actress (d. 2022)
Theresa Amayo
July 24 – , Greek-born American actor (d. 2022)
John Aniston
July 25 - , American actor (d. 2018)
Ken Swofford
Kathryn Hays
Lou Albano
August 1 – , American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
Dom DeLuise
August 2 – , English actor (d. 2006)
Tom Bell
August 10 - , American actress (d. 2020)
Lynn Cohen
August 16 – , American actress, dancer and singer
Julie Newmar
August 18 – , Polish director
Roman Polanski
August 19 – , American actress and entertainer
Debra Paget
August 21 – , English critic (d. 2017)
Barry Norman
August 25 – , American actor
Tom Skerritt
August 28 – , English critic (d. 2015)
Philip French
September 4 – , American actor (d. 1988)
Richard S. Castellano
September 14 - , Australian-born actress (d. 2020)
Zoe Caldwell
September 15 - , American character actor (d. 2021)
Henry Darrow
September 17 – , American actress
Pat Crowley
Robert Blake
September 19 – , British-American actor and musician (d. 2023)
David McCallum
September 27 - , American actress
Kathleen Nolan
September 28 – , American actor (d. 2021)
Robert Hogan
Franca Parisi
Ben Cooper
J. J. Johnston
October 25 - , English actor (d. 2009)
Peter Dennis
November 3 – , English actor (d. 1995)
Jeremy Brett
November 9 - , American actress (d. 1994)
Louise Troy
November 13 - , German actor (d. 2015)
Karl-Otto Alberty
November 17 – , American performing Cairn Terrier (d. 1945)
Terry
November 19 - , American television and radio host (d. 2021)
Larry King
November 21 - , American character actor (d. 2008)
J. Don Ferguson
November 25 – , American actress
Kathryn Crosby
November 26 - , American-Canadian actor and singer (d. 2007)
Robert Goulet
November 28 – , American actress (d. 2003)
Hope Lange
November 30 – , American actor
Warren Munson
December 3 - , English actress (d. 2020)
Rosalind Knight
December 4 – , American radio personality, game show host and producer
Wink Martindale
December 5 - , American actor (d. 1986)
Adolph Caesar
December 8 - , Mexican actress (d. 2023)
Ana Ofelia Murguía
December 10 - , Japanese-American actor (d. 2006)
Mako
December 13 – , American producer
Lou Adler
December 15 – , American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
Tim Conway
December 22 - , American actress (d. 2023)
Elizabeth Hubbard
December 31 - , American actor (d. 2005)
Edward Bunker
January 3 – , Canadian-born American actor and director (born 1896)
Jack Pickford
January 25 – , Ukrainian-born American producer (born 1870)
Lewis J. Selznick
February 15 – , Australian-born American director/producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat (born 1885/87)
Pat Sullivan
February 23 – , English-born American film executive (born 1873)
David Horsley
February 26 – , American actor (born 1868)
Spottiswoode Aitken
March 8 – , American actor (born 1886)
Alan Roscoe
March 23 – , French actress (born 1897)
Francine Mussey
May 15 – , Scottish actor (born 1878)
Ernest Torrence
June 18 – , American actor and director (born 1901)
Harry Sweet
June 29 – , American actor (born 1887)
Roscoe Arbuckle
June 30 – , Swedish actor (born 1872)
Georg Blomstedt
August 18 – , Scottish film developer and film director (born 1855)
James Williamson
August 28 – , American actress (born 1863)
Helen Dunbar
September 24 – , German actor (born 1861)
Ferdinand Bonn
October 5 – , French actress (born 1898)
Renée Adorée
October 30 – , Danish actor (born 1869)
Svend Kornbeck
December 19 – , American comedian (born 1888)
Jimmie Adams
– Dancing Lady
Shirley Deane
– Dancing Lady
Dorothy Dearing
– A Prince's Young Love
Trude Marlen
– Reunion in Vienna
Henry Travers
– La Llorona