Overview of the events of 1930 in film
Overview of the events of 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.
Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ] The top ten 1930 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1930 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 Whoopee! United Artists $2,655,000[1] 2 Check and Double Check RKO $1,751,000[2] 3 Hell's Angels United Artists $1,600,000[3] 4 All Quiet on the Western Front Universal $1,500,000[4] 5 The Big House MGM $1,279,000[5] 6 Common Clay Fox Film $1,246,000[6] 7 Min and Bill MGM $1,223,000[5] 8 Song o' My Heart Fox Film $1,200,000[4] 9 Son of the Gods First National $1,069,000[7] 10 The Dawn Patrol $1,061,000[7]
Academy Awards [ edit ] Notable films released in 1930 [ edit ] United States unless stated
Abi and Rabi , starring and directed by Ovanes Ohanian – (Iran ) Abraham Lincoln , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Walter Huston and Una Merkel L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age) , directed by Luis Buñuel – (France ) All Quiet on the Western Front , directed by Lewis Milestone , starring Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim Alraune , directed by Richard Oswald – (Germany ) Animal Crackers , directed by Victor Heerman , starring the Marx Brothers Anna Christie , directed by Clarence Brown , starring Greta Garbo The Arizona Kid , directed by Alfred Santell , starring Warner Baxter and Carole Lombard The Bad Man , directed by Clarence G. Badger , starring Walter Huston The Bat Whispers , directed by Roland West , starring Chester Morris and Una Merkel The Benson Murder Case , directed by Frank Tuttle , starring William Powell Big Boy , directed by Alan Crosland , starring Al Jolson The Big House , directed by George Hill , starring Chester Morris , Wallace Beery , Lewis Stone and Robert Montgomery The Big Pond , directed by Hobart Henley , starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert The Big Trail , directed by Raoul Walsh , starring John Wayne Billy the Kid , directed by King Vidor , starring Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) , directed by Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings – (Germany ) The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète) , directed by Jean Cocteau – (France ) Borderline , directed by Kenneth Macpherson , starring Paul Robeson – (GB ) Bride of the Regiment (lost), directed by John Francis Dillon , starring Walter Pidgeon Bright Lights , directed by Michael Curtiz Call of the Flesh , directed by Charles Brabin , starring Ramón Novarro The Cat Creeps (lost), directed by Rupert Julian , starring Helen Twelvetrees Chasing Rainbows , directed by Charles Reisner , starring Charles King , Bessie Love , Jack Benny and Marie Dressler Check and Double Check , directed by Melville W. Brown , starring Amos 'n' Andy Children of Pleasure , directed by Harry Beaumont City Girl , directed by F. W. Murnau , starring Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell Common Clay (lost), directed by Victor Fleming , starring Constance Bennett and Lew Ayres The Cuckoos , directed by Paul Sloane , starring Wheeler & Woolsey Danger Lights , directed by George B. Seitz , starring Louis Wolheim , Robert Armstrong and Jean Arthur The Dawn Patrol , directed by Howard Hawks , starring Richard Barthelmess , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Neil Hamilton The Devil to Pay! , directed by George Fitzmaurice , starring Ronald Colman , Loretta Young and Myrna Loy The Divorcee , directed by Robert Z. Leonard , starring Norma Shearer , Chester Morris , Conrad Nagel and Robert Montgomery Dixiana , directed by Luther Reed , starring Bebe Daniels and Wheeler & Woolsey Doughboys , directed by Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton and Cliff Edwards Fast and Loose , directed by Fred C. Newmeyer , starring Miriam Hopkins , Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan Feet First , directed by Clyde Bruckman , starring Harold Lloyd The Florodora Girl , directed by Harry Beaumont , starring Marion Davies The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci) , directed by Gustav Ucicky , starring Otto Gebühr – (Germany ) Follow Thru , directed by Laurence Schwab and Lloyd Corrigan , starring Charles 'Buddy' Rogers Free and Easy , directed by Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton , Anita Page and Robert Montgomery Hell's Angels , directed by Howard Hughes , starring Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon Her Man , directed by Tay Garnett , starring Helen Twelvetrees High Society Blues , directed by David Butler , starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell Hold Everything (lost), directed by Roy Del Ruth , starring Joe E. Brown Holiday , directed by Edward H. Griffith , starring Ann Harding and Mary Astor 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 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 (lost), 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 – (GB ) The Mystery of the Yellow Room [fr ] (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune) , directed by Marcel L'Herbier – (France ) 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 (Menschen am Sonntag) , directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer – (Germany ) Prix de Beauté (Beauty Prize) , directed by Augusto Genina , starring Louise Brooks – (France ) Puttin' On the Ritz , directed by Edward Sloman , starring Harry Richman and Joan Bennett 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 (lost), 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 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 (La canzone dell'amore) , directed by Gennaro Righelli – (Italy ) 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 (Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena) , directed by Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R. ) 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 Tarakanova , directed by Raymond Bernard – (France ) The Temporary Widow , directed by Gustav Ucicky , starring Lilian Harvey and Laurence Olivier – (GB /Germany ) Three Faces East , directed by Roy Del Ruth , starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim The Three from the Filling Station (Die Drei von der Tankstelle) , directed by Wilhelm Thiele , starring Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch – (Germany ) 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 (Zwei Herzen im 3/4 Takt) , directed by Géza von Bolváry – (Germany ) Serials [ edit ] Short film series [ edit ] Animated short film series [ edit ] January 3 January 10 – Roy E. Disney , American film executive and Walt Disney's nephew (died 2009)[11] January 11 January 12 – Edgar Landsbury , British-born Irish-American producer January 13 – Frances Sternhagen , American actress (died 2023 ) January 19 – Tippi Hedren , American actress[13] January 20 – Henry Woolf , British actor (died 2021 ) January 24 – Terence Bayler , New Zealand actor (died 2016 ) January 29 – Benjamin Tatar , American actor (died 2012 ) January 30 – Gene Hackman , American actor[14] February 6 – Allan King , Canadian director (died 2009 ) February 10 – Robert Wagner , American actor February 16 – Ricou Browning , American film director, actor, cinematographer and stuntman (died 2023 ) February 20 – Patricia Smith , American actress (died 2011 ) February 22 – Giuliano Montaldo , Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (died 2023 ) February 24 – Barbara Lawrence , American actress, model (died 2013 ) February 27 – Joanne Woodward , American actress March 6 – Allison Hayes , American actress (died 1977) March 12 – Scoey Mitchell , American actor, writer and director (died 2022) March 13 – Harrison Young , American character actor (died 2005) March 16 – Lotte Ledl , Austrian actress March 21 – Pauline Stroud , British actress (died 2022) March 24 – Steve McQueen , American actor (died 1980) March 29 – Naser Malek Motiei , Iranian actor, director (died 2018)[15] March 30 April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney , American actress (died 2015) April 5 Mary Costa , American singer and actress Marietta Marich , American actress, singer, writer, stage director and television host (died 2017) April 7 – Andrew Sachs , German-born British actor and writer (died 2016) April 13 – Roger Browne , American actor April 14 – Bradford Dillman , American actor (died 2018) April 18 – Clive Revill , New Zealand actor April 19 – Dick Sargent , American actor (died 1994 ) April 21 – Silvana Mangano , Italian actress (died 1989) April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer , American actor April 24 – Richard Donner , American director and producer (died 2021 ) April 25 – Paul Mazursky , American director and actor (died 2014) April 28 – Carolyn Jones , American actress (died 1983) April 29 - Jean Rochefort , French actor (died 2017) May 4 May 5 – Will Hutchins , American actor May 9 – Joan Sims , English actress (died 2001) May 11 – Bud Ekins , American actor and stuntman (died 2007) May 31 – Clint Eastwood , American actor, director and producer June 1 June 4 June 9 - Terry Norris , Australian actor (died 2023) June 15 – Odile Versois , French actress (died 1980) June 19 June 25 - George Murdock , (died 2012) June 29 – Ariadna Welter , Mexican actress (died 1998) July 5 - Tommy Cook , American producer, screenwriter and actor July 8 - Jerry Vale , American actor and singer (died 2014) July 10 July 12 - Gordon Pinsent , Canadian actor, writer, director and singer (died 2023 ) July 13 - Darrell Sandeen , American character actor (died 2009) July 18 – Burt Kwouk , British-Chinese actor (died 2016) July 20 - Sally Ann Howes , English actress and singer (died 2021)[16] July 21 - Lukas Heller , German-born screenwriter (died 1988) July 24 - Jacqueline Brookes , American actress (died 2013) July 25 - Annie Ross , British-American singer and actress (died 2020) July 28 - Alfie Curtis , British actor (died 2017) July 30 - Tony Lip , American actor (died 2013) August 1 August 5 - Joan Weldon , American actress, singer (died 2021) August 11 - Paul Soles , Canadian actor (died 2021) August 12 – Peter Weck , Austrian film director and actor August 14 – Liz Fraser , English actress (died 2018) August 17 - Harve Bennett , American producer and screenwriter (died 2015) August 25 – Sir Sean Connery , Scottish actor (died 2020) August 28 - Ben Gazzara , American and director (died 2012) September 16 – Anne Francis , American actress (died 2011) September 17 - David Huddleston , American actor (died 2016) September 21 – Dawn Addams , English actress (died 1985) September 26 - Philip Bosco , American actor (died 2018) October 1 – Richard Harris , Irish actor (died 2002) October 5 October 6 - Lou Cutell , American actor (died 2021) October 8 - James Olson , American actor (died 2022) October 10 - Joan O'Hara , Irish actress (died 2007) October 13 - Paul Kent , American actor (died 2011) October 23 – Gérard Blain , French actor and director (died 2000) October 24 – Jack Angel , American voice actor and former radio personality (died 2021) November 3 - Lois Smith , American character actress November 5 November 15 - Whitman Mayo , American actor (died 2001) November 20 - Bernard Horsfall , English actor (died 2013) November 23 - Robert Easton , American actor (died 2011) December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard , French director (died 2022) December 9 – Francesco Maselli , Italian director (died 2023) December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor (died 2022) December 13 - Robert Prosky , American actor (died 2008) December 17 – Armin Mueller-Stahl , German actor December 20 - Noel Ferrier , Australian actor, television personality and producer (died 1997) Film debuts [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Jones, Lon (March 4, 1944). "Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?" . The Argus . Melbourne. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved August 6, 2012 – via National Library of Australia. ^ Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56 ^ Eyman, Scott (1997). The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 . ISBN 978-0-6848-1162-8 . Hell's Angels was a financial disaster, grossing $1.6 million domestically, with another million coming in from foreign markets. ^ a b Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357 . ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 . ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study . ^ "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety . October 15, 1990. p. M150. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 10 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551 ^ "Fox Controversy is Settled" . The Film Daily . April 7, 1930. p. 1. Retrieved May 8, 2018 . ^ "The Fox Reorganization" . Variety . April 9, 1930. p. 3. Retrieved May 8, 2018 . ^ "UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019" . United Press International . January 3, 2019. Archived from the original on January 3, 2019. Retrieved September 3, 2019 . actor Robert Loggia in 1930 ^ Chmielewski, Dawn C.; Bates, James (December 17, 2009). "Roy Edward Disney dies at 79; nephew of Walt helped revive animation" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2019 . ^ Chase's Calendar of Events 2005 . McGraw Hill Professional. 30 September 2004. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-07-146002-6 . ^ Tippi Hedren (1 November 2016). Tippi: A Memoir . William Morrow. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-06-246905-2 . ^ Allan Hunter (1987). Gene Hackman . W.H. Allen. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-491-03247-6 . ^ Bardia Afshin (31 May 2018). "Naser Malek Motiee: Actor from Iran's golden age of cinema whose career stopped when the Ayatollah arrived" . The Independent . Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2020 . ^ McFadden, Robert D. (22 December 2021). "Sally Ann Howes, Star of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' Dies at 91" . The New York Times . Retrieved 22 December 2021 . External links [ edit ]