1932 in film

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Events

Shirley Temple's film career begins
Disney released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.

Academy Awards

Best Picture: Grand Hotel - MGM

Note: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films.

Movies released

Movies released in 1932 include:

20,000 Years in Sing Sing, starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis
American Madness, starring Walter Huston, directed by Frank Capra
As You Desire Me, starring Greta Garbo
Back Street, starring Irene Dunne and John Boles
The Beast of the City, starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford
The Big Broadcast, starring Bing Crosby
Big City Blues, starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell
The Big Stampede, starring John Wayne
A Bill of Divorcement, starring John Barrymore
Bird of Paradise, starring Dolores del Rio and Joel McCrea
Das Blaue Licht, starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl
Blonde Venus, starring Marlene Dietrich
Broken Lullaby, starring Lionel Barrymore
The Cabin in the Cotton, featuring Bette Davis
Call Her Savage, starring Clara Bow
The Dentist, a W.C. Fields short subject produced by Mack Sennett
Emma, starring Marie Dressler
A Farewell to Arms, starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes
Freaks, directed by Tod Browning
Grand Hotel, starring Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt
Horse Feathers, starring the Marx Brothers
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, starring Paul Muni
Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald
The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks
Movie Crazy, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff
Murders in the Rue Morgue, starring Bela Lugosi
The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff
One Hour with You, starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
One Way Passage, starring William Powell and Kay Francis
Pack Up Your Troubles, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Red Dust, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow
Scarface, starring Paul Muni
Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland
Smilin' Through, starring Norma Shearer
Tarzan the Ape Man, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
Three on a Match, starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis
Tiger Shark, starring Edward G. Robinson
Trouble in Paradise, starring Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins
Two Seconds, starring Edward G. Robinson
Vampyr, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi

Short film series

Animated short film series

Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
Screen Songs (1929-1938)
Talkartoons (1929-1932)
Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
Flip the Frog (1930-1933)
Terrytoons (1930-1964)
Merrie Melodies (1931-1969)
Scrappy (1931-1941)
Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren) (1931-1933)
Betty Boop (1932-1939)
Pooch the Pup (1932-1933)

Births

January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor
January 4 - Carlos Saura, director
February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
February 13 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
February 18 – Miloš Forman, director
April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)
April 10 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress (d. 1990)
Mehmood, Indian actor, director, producer

Deaths

August 1 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor
September 1 - Peg Entwistle, actress
November 2 - Evelyn Preer, actress, singer

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