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.
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]
Events
Academy Awards
Notable films released in 1930
United States unless stated
A
Abi and Rabi Ovanes Ohanian – (Iran )Abraham Lincoln D. W. Griffith , starring Walter Huston and Una Merkel L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age)Luis Buñuel – (France )All Quiet on the Western Front Lewis Milestone , starring Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim Alraune Richard Oswald – (Germany )Animal Crackers Victor Heerman , starring the Marx Brothers Anna Christie Clarence Brown , starring Greta Garbo The Arizona Kid Alfred Santell , starring Warner Baxter and Carole Lombard
B
The Bad Man Clarence G. Badger , starring Walter Huston The Bat Whispers Roland West , starring Chester Morris and Una Merkel The Benson Murder Case Frank Tuttle , starring William Powell Big Boy Alan Crosland , starring Al Jolson The Big House George Hill , starring Chester Morris , Wallace Beery , Lewis Stone and Robert Montgomery The Big Pond Hobart Henley , starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert The Big Trail Raoul Walsh , starring John Wayne Billy the Kid King Vidor , starring Johnny Mack Brown and Wallace Beery Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)Josef von Sternberg , starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings – (Germany )The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poète)Jean Cocteau – (France )Borderline Kenneth Macpherson , starring Paul Robeson – (GB )Bride of the Regiment John Francis Dillon , starring Walter Pidgeon Bright Lights Michael Curtiz
C
Call of the Flesh Charles Brabin , starring Ramón Novarro The Cat Creeps Rupert Julian , starring Helen Twelvetrees Chasing Rainbows Charles Reisner , starring Charles King , Bessie Love , Jack Benny and Marie Dressler Check and Double Check Melville W. Brown , starring Amos 'n' Andy Children of Pleasure Harry Beaumont City Girl F. W. Murnau , starring Mary Duncan and Charles Farrell Common Clay Victor Fleming , starring Constance Bennett and Lew Ayres The Cuckoos Paul Sloane , starring Wheeler & Woolsey
D
Danger Lights George B. Seitz , starring Louis Wolheim , Robert Armstrong and Jean Arthur The Dawn Patrol Howard Hawks , starring Richard Barthelmess , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Neil Hamilton The Devil to Pay! George Fitzmaurice , starring Ronald Colman , Loretta Young and Myrna Loy The Divorcee Robert Z. Leonard , starring Norma Shearer , Chester Morris , Conrad Nagel and Robert Montgomery Dixiana Luther Reed , starring Bebe Daniels and Wheeler & Woolsey Doughboys Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton and Cliff Edwards
E
F
Fast and Loose Fred C. Newmeyer , starring Miriam Hopkins , Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan Feet First Clyde Bruckman , starring Harold Lloyd The Florodora Girl Harry Beaumont , starring Marion Davies The Flute Concert of Sanssouci (Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci)Gustav Ucicky , starring Otto Gebühr – (Germany )Follow Thru Laurence Schwab and Lloyd Corrigan , starring Charles 'Buddy' Rogers Free and Easy Edward Sedgwick , starring Buster Keaton , Anita Page and Robert Montgomery
G
H
Hell's Angels Howard Hughes , starring Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon Her Man Tay Garnett , starring Helen Twelvetrees High Society Blues David Butler , starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell Hold Everything Roy Del Ruth , starring Joe E. Brown Holiday Edward H. Griffith , starring Ann Harding and Mary Astor
I
J
K
L
Ladies Love Brutes Rowland V. Lee , starring George Bancroft , Mary Astor and Fredric March Ladies of Leisure Frank Capra , starring Barbara Stanwyck A Lady to Love Victor Sjöström , starring Vilma Bánky and Edward G. Robinson Leathernecking Edward F. Cline , starring Irene Dunne Let's Go Native Leo McCarey , starring Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald Liliom Frank Borzage , starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart Lightnin' Henry King , starring Will Rogers , Louise Dresser and Joel McCrea Loose Ankles Ted Wilde , starring Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Lord Byron of Broadway Harry Beaumont and William Nigh The Lottery Bride Paul L. Stein , starring Jeanette MacDonald , Joe E. Brown and ZaSu Pitts
M
Madam Satan Cecil B. DeMille , starring Kay Johnson Mamba Albert S. Rogell , starring Jean Hersholt and Eleanor Boardman Mammy Michael Curtiz , starring Al Jolson The Man from Blankley's Alfred E. Green , starring John Barrymore and Loretta Young A Man from Wyoming Rowland V. Lee , starring Gary Cooper Manslaughter George Abbott , starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March Min and Bill George Hill , starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery Montana Moon Malcolm St. Clair , starring Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown Monte Carlo Ernst Lubitsch , starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald Morocco Josef von Sternberg , starring Gary Cooper , Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou Murder! Alfred Hitchcock , starring Herbert Marshall – (GB )The Mystery of the Yellow Room [fr ] (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune)Marcel L'Herbier – (France )
N
O
P
Paid Sam Wood , starring Joan Crawford , Robert Armstrong and Marie Prevost Paramount on Parade Peacock Alley Mae Murray People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer – (Germany )Prix de Beauté (Beauty Prize)Augusto Genina , starring Louise Brooks – (France )Puttin' On the Ritz Edward Sloman , starring Harry Richman and Joan Bennett
Q
R
Raffles George Fitzmaurice , starring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis Reaching for the Moon Edmund Goulding , starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bebe Daniels Renegades Victor Fleming , starring Warner Baxter , Myrna Loy and Noah Beery Sr. The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu Rowland V. Lee , starring Warner Oland , Jean Arthur and Neil Hamilton The Rogue Song Lionel Barrymore , starring Lawrence Tibbett The Royal Family of Broadway George Cukor and Cyril Gardner , starring Fredric March and Mary Brian
S
Show Girl in Hollywood Mervyn LeRoy , starring Alice White Son of the Gods Frank Lloyd . starring Richard Barthelmess and Constance Bennett Song o' My Heart Frank Borzage , starring John McCormack The Song of Love (La canzone dell'amore)Gennaro Righelli – (Italy )Soup to Nuts Benjamin Stoloff , starring Ted Healy and His Stooges Spring Is Here John Francis Dillon St. Jorgen's Day (Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena)Yakov Protazanov – (U.S.S.R. )Street of Chance John Cromwell , starring William Powell , Jean Arthur and Kay Francis Sweet Kitty Bellairs Alfred E. Green , starring Claudia Dell and Walter Pidgeon
T
Tarakanova Raymond Bernard – (France )The Temporary Widow Gustav Ucicky , starring Lilian Harvey and Laurence Olivier – (GB /Germany )Three Faces East Roy Del Ruth , starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim The Three from the Filling Station (Die Drei von der Tankstelle)Wilhelm Thiele , starring Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch – (Germany )Tom Sawyer John Cromwell , starring Jackie Coogan True to the Navy Frank Tuttle , starring Clara Bow and Fredric March Two Hearts in Waltz Time (Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt)Géza von Bolváry – (Germany )
U
V
W
Y
Z
Serials
Short film series
Animated short film series
Births
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 actressMarietta 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 24 - Horst Sachtleben , German actor (died 2022)
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)
November 27 - Reinhard Glemnitz , German actor
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)
Deaths
Film debuts
References
^ Jones, Lon (March 4, 1944). "Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?" . The Argus 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
^ a b "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety ^ 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 . Retrieved May 8, 2018 .^ "The Fox Reorganization" . Variety . Retrieved May 8, 2018 .^ "UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019" . United Press International 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 the original on August 12, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2019 . ^ Chase's Calendar of Events 2005 ISBN 978-0-07-146002-6 ^ Tippi Hedren (1 November 2016). Tippi: A Memoir ISBN 978-0-06-246905-2 ^ Allan Hunter (1987). Gene Hackman 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 .
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