Deaths
- February 2 – Anna May Wong, 56, American actress
- February 17 – Nita Naldi, 63, American actress
- March 6 – George Formby, 56, British actor, entertainer
- March 12 – Belinda Lee, 25, British actress
- May 4 – Anita Stewart, 66, American actress
- May 13 – Gary Cooper, 60, American actor
- May 22 – Joan Davis, 53, American actress
- June 17 – Jeff Chandler, 42, American actor
- August 4 – Maurice Tourneur, 88, French film director
- August 27 – Gail Russell, 36, American actress
- August 30 – Charles Coburn, 84, American actor
- September 10 – Leo Carrillo, 81, American actor
- September 22 – Marion Davies, 64, American actress
- October 11 – Chico Marx, 74, American actor, member of the Marx Brothers
- October 18 – Tsuru Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American actress
- October 22 – Joseph Schenck, 82, Russian-born American pioneer motion picture executive
- November 15 – Elsie Ferguson, 78, American stage and film actress
- November 24 – Ruth Chatterton, 67, American actress
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