1930 in film

The following is an overview of 1930 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 1930 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic rentals
1	Whoopee!	United Artists	$2,655,000
2	Check and Double Check	RKO	$1,751,000
3	All Quiet on the Western Front	Universal	$1,634,000
4	Hell's Angels	United Artists	$1,600,000
5	The Big House	MGM	$1,279,000
6	Common Clay	Fox Film	$1,246,000
7	Min and Bill	MGM	$1,223,000
8	Song o' My Heart	Fox Film	$1,200,000
9	Son of the Gods	First National	$1,069,000
10	The Dawn Patrol	First National	$1,061,000

Events

February 21: Anna Christie, Greta Garbo's first sound film is released, it grosses $1.5 million.
February 23: Silent screen legend Mabel Normand dies at the age of 37 in Monrovia, California after a lengthy battle with tuberculosis.
March 10: Release of Goodbye Argentina, the first Argentine film with a soundtrack. Ada Cornaro has her first starring role and Libertad Lamarque makes her film debut.
April 6: William Fox sells his interest in Fox Film for $18 million and Harley L. Clarke becomes president.
May 27: Howard Hughes' epic film Hell's Angels premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and features Jean Harlow in her first major role as well as some impressive aerial sequences. Although not a financial success upon its release due to its bloated budget, the film is acclaimed by critics and launches Harlow as one of the 1930s' biggest stars.
August 9: Cartoon character Betty Boop appears for the first time on screen, in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
September 3: The Hollywood Reporter is first published.
September 19: The Love Parade receives a record six Academy Award nominations.
November 1: The Big Trail featuring a young John Wayne in his first starring role is released in both 35mm and a very early form of 70mm film. It is the first large scale big-budget film of the sound era, costing over $2 million. The film is praised for its aesthetic quality and realism that will not become commonplace until many decades later. However, due to the new film format and the film's release during the Great Depression, the film will go on to become a financial failure at the box office.

Academy Awards

Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front – Universal Pictures
Best Director: Lewis Milestone – All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Actor: George Arliss – Disraeli
Best Actress: Norma Shearer – ''The Divorcee''

Notable films released in 1930

United States unless stated

I

Imperial and Royal Field Marshal , directed by Karel Lamač –
Ingagi, directed by William S. Campbell

J

Journey's End, directed by James Whale, starring Colin Clive –
Just Imagine, directed by David Butler

K

King of Jazz, directed by John Murray Anderson, starring Paul Whiteman, John Boles and Laura La Plante

L

Ladies Love Brutes, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March
Ladies of Leisure, directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck
A Lady to Love, directed by Victor Sjöström, starring Vilma Bánky and Edward G. Robinson
Leathernecking, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Irene Dunne
Let's Go Native, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald
Liliom, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart
Lightnin', directed by Henry King, starring Will Rogers, Louise Dresser and Joel McCrea
Loose Ankles, directed by Ted Wilde, starring Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Lord Byron of Broadway, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh
The Lottery Bride, directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Jeanette MacDonald, Joe E. Brown and ZaSu Pitts

M

Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Kay Johnson
Mamba, directed by Albert S. Rogell, starring Jean Hersholt and Eleanor Boardman
Mammy, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Al Jolson
The Man from Blankley's, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring John Barrymore and Loretta Young
A Man from Wyoming, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Gary Cooper
Manslaughter, directed by George Abbott, starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March
Min and Bill, directed by George Hill, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
Montana Moon, directed by Malcolm St. Clair, starring Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown
Monte Carlo, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald
Morocco, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou
Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Herbert Marshall –
, directed by Marcel L'Herbier –

N

Nerone, directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Ettore Petrolini –
Night Birds, directed by Richard Eichberg –
Not So Dumb, directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies

O

The Other , directed by Robert Wiene –
Outside the Law, directed by Tod Browning, starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Nolan

P

Paid, directed by Sam Wood, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong and Marie Prevost
Paramount on Parade, an all-star revue
Peacock Alley, directed by Marcel de Sano, starring Mae Murray
People on Sunday , directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer –
Prix de Beauté , directed by Augusto Genina, starring Louise Brooks –
Puttin' On the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman, starring Harry Richman and Joan Bennett

Q

Queen High, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, starring Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan, and Ginger Rogers

R

Raffles, directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis
Reaching for the Moon, directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bebe Daniels
Renegades, directed by Victor Fleming, starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy and Noah Beery Sr.
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu, directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Warner Oland, Jean Arthur and Neil Hamilton
The Rogue Song, directed by Lionel Barrymore, starring Lawrence Tibbett
The Royal Family of Broadway, directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner, starring Fredric March and Mary Brian

S

Show Girl in Hollywood, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Alice White
Son of the Gods, directed by Frank Lloyd. starring Richard Barthelmess and Constance Bennett
Song o' My Heart, directed by Frank Borzage, starring John McCormack
The Song of Love , directed by Gennaro Righelli –
Soup to Nuts, directed by Benjamin Stoloff, starring Ted Healy and His Stooges
Spring Is Here, directed by John Francis Dillon
St. Jorgen's Day , directed by Yakov Protazanov –
Street of Chance, directed by John Cromwell, starring William Powell, Jean Arthur and Kay Francis
Sweet Kitty Bellairs, directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Claudia Dell and Walter Pidgeon

T

Tarakanova, directed by Raymond Bernard –
The Temporary Widow, directed by Gustav Ucicky, starring Lilian Harvey and Laurence Olivier –
Three Faces East, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim
The Three from the Filling Station , directed by Wilhelm Thiele, starring Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch –
Tom Sawyer, directed by John Cromwell, starring Jackie Coogan
True to the Navy, directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Clara Bow and Fredric March
Two Hearts in Waltz Time , directed by Géza von Bolváry –

U

Under a Texas Moon, directed by Michael Curtiz
Under the Roofs of Paris , directed by René Clair –
The Unholy Three, directed by Jack Conway, starring Lon Chaney and Lila Lee

V

The Vagabond King, directed by Ludwig Berger, starring Dennis King and Jeanette MacDonald
Viejo smoking , directed by Eduardo Morera –

W

The W Plan, directed by Victor Saville, starring Brian Aherne and Madeleine Carroll –
Wara Wara, directed by José Maria Velasco Maidana –
Way for a Sailor, directed by Sam Wood, starring John Gilbert, Wallace Beery and Leila Hyams
Westfront 1918 , directed by G. W. Pabst –
Whoopee!, directed by Thornton Freeland, starring Eddie Cantor

Y

Young Man of Manhattan, directed by Monta Bell, starring Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers
Young Woodley, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Madeleine Carroll –

Z

Zaynab, directed by Mohammed Karim, starring Bahiga Hafez and Zaki Rostom –

Serials

Across the World with Mr & Mrs Martin Johnson
Hunting Tigers in India
The Indians Are Coming
The Jade Box
The Lightning Express
The Lone Defender, starring Rin Tin Tin
Terry of the Times
''The Voice from the Sky''

Short film series

Animated short film series

Felix the Cat
* April Maze
* Skulls and Sculls
* Hootchy Cootchy Parlais Vous
Aesop's Film Fables
Krazy Kat
Mickey Mouse
* Just Mickey
* The Barnyard Concert
* The Cactus Kid
* The Fire Fighters
* The Shindig
* The Chain Gang
* The Gorilla Mystery
* The Picnic
* Pioneer DaysOswald the Lucky Rabbit
Silly Symphonies
* Summer
* Autumn
* The Cannibal Capers
* Night
* Frolicking Fish
* Arctic Antics
* Midnight in a Toyshop
* Monkey Melodies
* Winter
* Playful Pan
Screen Songs
* Prisoner's Song
Talkartoons
* Dizzy Dishes
* Barnacle Bill
Looney Tunes
* Sinkin' in the Bathtub
* Congo Jazz
* Hold Anything
* The Booze Hangs High
* Box Car Blues
Flip the Frog
* The Village Barber
* Puddle Pranks
* Cuckoo Murder Case
* Little Orphan Willie
* Flying Fists
Terrytoons
Toby the Pup
* The Museum
* Toby the Miner
* Toby the Fiddler
* Toby the Showman
* The Bug House
"Beary Bear"
* "Experiment Gone Wrong"
* "Hickory's Hijinks"
* "Piano Problems"
* "Oh Deer!"
* "Bushy the Lion"
* "Trouble in Paris"

Births

January 3
*Mara Corday, American showgirl, model and actress
*Robert Loggia, American actor
*Barbara Stuart, American actress
January 6 – Professor Tanaka, American wrestler, boxer, actor and martial artist
January 10 – Roy E. Disney, American film executive and Walt Disney's nephew
January 11
*Angela Paton, American actress
*Rod Taylor, Australian actor
January 12 – Edgar Landsbury, British-born Irish-American producer
January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 – Henry Woolf, British actor
January 24 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor
January 29 – Benjamin Tatar, American actor
January 30 – Gene Hackman, American actor
February 6 – Allan King, Canadian director
February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
February 16 – Ricou Browning, American film director, actor, cinematographer and stuntman
February 20 – Patricia Smith, American actress
February 22 – Giuliano Montaldo, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor
February 24 – Barbara Lawrence, American actress, model
February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
March 3 - Alfredo Alcón, Argentine actor
March 6 – Allison Hayes, American actress
March 9 - Taina Elg, Finnish actress and dancer
March 12 – Scoey Mitchell, American actor, writer and director
March 13 – Harrison Young, American character actor
March 16 – Lotte Ledl, Austrian actress
March 17 - Patrick Hines, American actor
March 21 – Pauline Stroud, British actress
March 24 – Steve McQueen, American actor
March 29 – Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor, director
March 30
*John Astin, American actor
*Estella Blain, French actress
April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
April 5
*Mary Costa, American singer and actress
*Marietta Marich, American actress, singer, writer, stage director and television host
April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor and writer
April 10 - Lee Weaver, American actor
April 13 – Roger Browne, American actor
April 14 – Bradford Dillman, American actor
April 18 – Clive Revill, New Zealand actor
April 19 – Dick Sargent, American actor
April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress
April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer, American actor
April 24 – Richard Donner, American director and producer
April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director and actor
April 28 – Carolyn Jones, American actress
April 29 – Jean Rochefort, French actor
May 4
*Lois de Banzie, Scottish-born American actress
*Doris Leader Charge, American actress
May 5 – Will Hutchins, American actor
May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress
May 11 – Bud Ekins, American actor and stuntman
May 18 – Tseng Chang, Hong Kong actor and director
May 20 - James McEachin, American actor
May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director and producer
June 1
*Pat Corley, American actor
*Edward Woodward, English actor and singer
June 4
*Edward Kelsey, English actor
*Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress
*Bill Treacher, English actor
June 9 – Terry Norris, Australian actor
June 15 – Odile Versois, French actress
June 19
*Gena Rowlands, American actress
*Diana Sowle, American actress
June 25 – George Murdock, American character actor
June 29 – Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress
July 5 – Tommy Cook, American producer, screenwriter and actor
July 6 - Phil Roth, American actor
July 8 – Jerry Vale, American actor and singer
July 10
*Bruce Boa, Canadian actor
*Susan Cummings, German actress
July 12 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, writer, director and singer
July 13 – Darrell Sandeen, American character actor
July 18 – Burt Kwouk, British-Chinese actor
July 19 – Rhoda Williams, American actress
July 20 – Sally Ann Howes, English actress and singer
July 21 – Lukas Heller, German-born screenwriter
July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress
July 25 – Annie Ross, British-American singer and actress
July 28 – Alfie Curtis, British actor
July 30 – Tony Lip, American actor
August 1
*Bill Allison, American actor
*Julie Bovasso, American actress
*Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor and musician
August 5 – Joan Weldon, American actress, singer
August 11 – Paul Soles, Canadian actor
August 12 – Peter Weck, Austrian film director and actor
August 14 – Liz Fraser, English actress
August 17 – Harve Bennett, American producer and screenwriter
August 23 - Vera Miles, retired American actress
August 25 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
August 28 – Ben Gazzara, American and director
August 31 – Charles Kay, English actor
September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress
September 17 – David Huddleston, American actor
September 21 – Dawn Addams, English actress
September 24 – Horst Sachtleben, German actor
September 26 – Philip Bosco, American actor
October 1 – Richard Harris, Irish actor
October 5
*Skip Homeier, American actor
*Yuriy Yakovlev, Bulgarian actor
October 6 – Lou Cutell, American actor
October 8 – James Olson, American actor
October 10
*Joan O'Hara, Irish actress
*Harold Pinter, British screenwriter, director and actor
October 13 – Paul Kent, American actor
October 23 – Gérard Blain, French actor and director
October 24 – Jack Angel, American voice actor and former radio personality
November 3 – Lois Smith, American character actress
November 5
*Richard Davalos, American actor
*Joaquín Martínez, Mexican-born American actor
November 15 – Whitman Mayo, American actor
November 20 – Bernard Horsfall, English actor
November 23 – Robert Easton, American actor
November 27 – Reinhard Glemnitz, German actor
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French director
December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Swiss actor
December 9
*Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and director
*Francesco Maselli, Italian director
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
December 13 – Robert Prosky, American actor
December 17 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
December 20 – Noel Ferrier, Australian actor, television personality and producer
December 26 - Donald Moffat, British-American actor

Deaths

January 31 – Dorothy Seastrom, American actress
February 23 – Mabel Normand, American actress
July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes
August 26 – Lon Chaney, American actor
September 14 – Tommy Mintz, American actor, assistant director
September 15 – Milton Sills, American actor
November 8 – Clare Eames, American actress
December 15 – Diane Ellis, American actress