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1932 in film

The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. In this year, the Puppetoons series of short animated films, Mitternacht, is produced by Hungarian animator George Pal.

Events

The Film Daily Yearbook for the United States listed the following as the ten leading headline events of the year.

  • Sidney Kent leaves Paramount Pictures and joins Fox Film.
  • Merlin H Aylesworth succeeds Hiram S Brown as president of RKO.
  • Jesse L. Lasky leaves Paramount and becomes an independent producer for Fox.
  • Sam Katz leaves Paramount.
  • James R Grainger leaves Fox and is succeeded by John D Clark, formerly of Paramount.
  • Publix and Fox decentralization of cinemas.
  • New industry program, including standard exhibition contract along lines of 5-5-5, proposed by Motion Picture Theater Owners of America and Allied.
  • Joe Brandt retires from Columbia Pictures, joins World-Wide, and later resigns again.
  • Two Radio City theaters open, under direction of "Roxy", with coincident acquisition of the Rockefeller interests of 100,000 shares of RKO stock and 100,000 shares of RCA stock.
  • Experimentation with exclusive runs.

Other notable events include:

Academy Awards

The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Conrad Nagel. Films screened in Los Angeles between August 1, 1931, and July 31, 1932, were eligible to receive awards.

Major awards:

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

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1932 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Top Ten Money Making Stars

Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars for 1931–1932 in Quigley Publishing Company's first annual poll.

Notable films

United States unless stated

#

A

B

C

D

E–F

G–H

I

J–K

L

M

N–O

P

R

S

T

U–V

W–Y

1932 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Serials

Ordered by release date:

Short film series

Ordered by release date:

  • Buster Keaton (1917–1923, 1934–1937, 1939–1941)
  • Laurel and Hardy (1927–1935); the team later made one instructional short subject, released nontheatrically in 1943
  • Our Gang (1922–1944) The series was officially called both Our Gang and Hal Roach's Rascals until 1932, when Our Gang became the sole title of the series.
  • Shirley Temple (1932–1934)

Animated short film series

Ordered by release date of the film series. This list only includes shorts released in 1932:

Births

Deaths

  • February 15 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American stage star, also appeared in silent films (born 1865)
  • June 30 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (born 1890)
  • July 17 – Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor (born 1862)
  • August 1 – James R. Quirk, American editor and publisher of Photoplay magazine (born 1884)
  • August 10 – Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (born 1918)
  • September 1 – Guy Oliver, American actor (born 1878)
  • September 16 – Peg Entwistle, British-born American actress (born 1908)
  • November 27 – Evelyn Preer, American actress, singer (born 1896)

Film debuts

References

Bibliography

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