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
All Quiet on the Western Front
Universal
$1,634,000[ 3]
4
Hell's Angels
United Artists
$1,600,000[ 4]
5
The Big House
MGM
$1,279,000[ 5]
6
Common Clay
Fox Film
$1,246,000[ 3]
7
Min and Bill
MGM
$1,223,000[ 5]
8
Song o' My Heart
Fox Film
$1,200,000[ 6]
9
Son of the Gods
First National
$1,069,000[ 7]
10
The Dawn Patrol
$1,061,000[ 7]
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 )
Animated short film series [ edit ]
January 3
January 6 - Professor Tanaka , American wrestler, boxer, actor and martial artist (died 2000)
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 (died 2024)
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 (died 2024)
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 18 - Tseng Chang , Hong Kong actor and director (died 2021)
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 , American character actor (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 19 - Rhoda Williams , American actress (died 2006)
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
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)
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^ Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56
^ a b "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety . October 15, 1990. p. M150.
^ 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 The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357 . ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 .
^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer 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 .