1933 in Film

1933 In Film

U.S.A. unless stated

• 42nd Street, Directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers
• Adventures of Don Quixote, directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Feodor Chaliapin - (France/Britain)
• Alice in Wonderland, starring Charlotte Henry and virtually every Paramount star at the time
• Baby Face, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent
• A Bedtime Story, starring Maurice Chevalier
• Bitter Sweet, starring Anna Neagle - (Britain)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Blood Money, starring George Bancroft
• Bombshell, starring Jean Harlow
• The Bowery, starring Wallace Beery and George Raft
• Bureau of Missing Persons, starring Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien
• By Candlelight, directed by James Whale
• Cash, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Robert Donat - (Britain)
• Cavalcade, starring Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor and Herbert Mundin
• Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore and Bebe Daniels
• Dancing Lady, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• Daybreak (Tiānmíng) - (China)
• Deluge, starring Sidney Blackmer
• The Deserter - (U.S.S.R.)
• Design for Living, starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins
• The Devil's Brother, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Dinner at Eight, directed by George Cukor and featuring an all-star cast
• Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
• Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna), starring Kinuyo Tanaka, directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• Duck Soup, directed by Leo McCarey, starring the Marx Brothers
• The Eagle and the Hawk, starring Fredric March, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard
• Ecstasy, starring Hedy Lamarr - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson
• Employees' Entrance, starring Warren William and Loretta Young
• Fast Workers, starring John Gilbert and Mae Clarke
• The Flower of Hawaii (Die Blume von Hawaii), directed by Richard Oswald - (Germany)
• Flying Down to Rio, starring Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond. Also starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their first of 10 films together
• Footlight Parade, starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler
• Gabriel Over the White House, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Walter Huston. Produced by William Randolph Hearst
• The Ghoul, starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger - (Britain)
• Going Hollywood, starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby
• Gold Diggers of 1933, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Warren William
• The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn and John Gielgud - (Britain)
• Goodbye Again, starring Joan Blondell and Warren William
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, starring Al Jolson
• Hard to Handle, starring James Cagney
• Heroes for Sale, starring Loretta Young and Richard Barthelmess
• Hold Your Man, starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
• The House on 56th Street, starring Kay Francis
• I'm No Angel, starring Mae West and Cary Grant. West also wrote the story and screenplay.
• In the Wake of the Bounty, starring Errol Flynn as Fletcher Christian - (Australia)
• International House, starring W. C. Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen
• The Invisible Man, starring Claude Rains in the title role with Gloria Stuart
• It's Great to Be Alive, directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Raul Roulien and Gloria Stuart
• Każdemu wolno kochać (Anybody Can Love), by Mieczysław Krawicz - (Poland)
• King Kong, starring Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
• Ladies They Talk About, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Lady for a Day, directed by Frank Capra, starring Warren William and May Robson
• Lady Killer, starring James Cagney
• Liebelei, directed by Max Ophüls - (Germany)
• Little Toys (Xiáo wǎnyì), directed by Sun Yu - (China)
• Little Women, directed by George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett
• Lot in Sodom, starring Friedrich Haak
• Loyalties, starring Basil Rathbone - (Britain)
• Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young
• The Mayor of Hell, starring James Cagney
• Midnight Club, starring George Raft and Clive Brook
• Midnight Mary, directed by William A. Wellman, starring Loretta Young
• The Midnight Patrol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• The Monkey's Paw, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Morning Glory, starring Katharine Hepburn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• Mystery of the Wax Museum, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
• Okraina (The Outskirts) - (U.S.S.R.)
• One Sunday Afternoon, starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray
• Only Yesterday, starring Margaret Sullavan
• Our Betters, starring Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, and Anita Louise
• Parachute Jumper, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, and Frank McHugh
• Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• Peg o' My Heart, starring Marion Davies
• Penthouse, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
• Perfect Understanding, starring Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier - (Britain)
• Picture Snatcher, starring James Cagney
• Pilgrimage, directed by John Ford
• The Power and the Glory, starring Spencer Tracy
• The Private Life of Henry VIII, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton - (Britain)
• The Prizefighter and the Lady, starring Max Baer, Myrna Loy, Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey
• Professional Sweetheart, starring Ginger Rogers
• Queen Christina, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
• Roman Scandals, starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart
• Secret of the Blue Room, starring Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and Lionel Atwill
• Secrets, starring Mary Pickford in her last film
• She Done Him Wrong, starring Mae West and Cary Grant in his first notable film role
• She Had to Say Yes, starring Loretta Young and Lyle Talbot, directed by Busby Berkeley and George Amy
• The Son of Kong, starring Robert Armstrong and Helen Mack
• Sons of the Desert, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• State Fair, starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers and Lew Ayres
• The Story of Temple Drake, starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue
• The Stranger's Return, starring Miriam Hopkins and Lionel Barrymore
• A Study in Scarlet, starring Reginald Owen
• Supernatural, starring Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne and Randolph Scott
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Otto Wernicke - (Germany)
• This Day and Age, Cecil B. Demille's now cult-favorite, starring Richard Cromwell and featuring then-teenager: Baby Peggy Montgomery.
• This Week of Grace' directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Gracie Fields - (Britain)
• Three Little Pigs, an animated short
• Tillie and Gus, starring Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields
• Tonight Is Ours, starring Fredric March and Claudette Colbert
• Topaze, starring John Barrymore and Myrna Loy
• Torch Singer, starring Claudette Colbert
• Tugboat Annie, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
• Turn Back the Clock, starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke
• The Vampire Bat, starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray
• Viktor und Viktoria - (Germany)
• When Ladies Meet, starring Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy
• We're in the Money, animation by Stephan Eichenberg
• Wild Boys of the Road, starring Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips
• The Working Man, starring George Arliss and Bette Davis
• You Made Me Love You starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd - (Britain)
• Zero for Conduct (Zéro de conduite), directed by Jean Vigo - (France)