Film year 1933

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Film year 1933
The world's first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey .

Events

March 2 : The feature film King Kong and the white woman of RKO Pictures by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack , with Fay Wray in the lead role, has its premiere in New York City. Edgar Wallace , among others, worked on the script of the first King Kong film .

March 31 : The controversial American fantasy comedy Gabriel Over the White House ( Between Today and Tomorrow ) has its world premiere .

April 21st : Fritz Lang's film banned by the National Socialist Film Inspectorate in Berlin in the German Reich The Testament of Dr. Mabuse with Rudolf Klein-Rogge in the title role celebrates its premiere in Budapest. The screenplay of Thea von Harbou is based on a novel by Norbert Jacques , which was written in 1932 at Lang's request, but initially not published.

June 6 : The world's first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey .

The British Film Institute is founded.

Academy Awards

There was no Oscars in 1933, as the Oscars for 1933 were first awarded in the spring of the following year.

Further film prizes and awards

National Board of Review : Topaze by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Photoplay Award : Four Sisters by George Cukor

Birthdays

January to March

Costa-Gavras (* February 12th)

Kim Novak (born February 13)

January

0January 6: Michael Lane , American actor († 2015)
January 11th: Mariko Okada , Japanese actress
January 12th: Liliana Cavani , Italian director and screenwriter
January 16: Gianfranco Bettetini , Italian screenwriter and director († 2017)
January 16: Susan Sontag , American screenwriter and director († 2004)
January 17th: Dalida , French singer and actress († 1987)
January 18th: John Boorman , British director
January 21: David Cameron , British actor († 2012)
January 21: Julieta Serrano , Spanish actress
January 27: Brigitte Antonius , Austrian actress
January 28: Jack Hill , American director

February

0February 7: Hugh Brodie , American musician and actor († 2017)
February 11: Xia Meng , Chinese actress († 2016)
February 12: Costa-Gavras , Greek director
February 13: Mario Caiano , Italian director, screenwriter and producer († 2015)
February 13: Kim Novak , American actress
February 21: Bob Rafelson , American director
February 22: Nicholas Pileggi , American screenwriter
February 25: Gilberto Galimberti , Italian actor and stuntman († 2017)
February 28: Sidney J. Furie , Canadian director

March

0March 3: Alfredo Landa , Spanish actor († 2013)
0March 3: Tomás Milián , Cuban actor († 2017)
March 12: Barbara Feldon , American actress
March 12th: Anneliese Kaplan , German actress
March 12: Valentina Thielová , Czech actress
March 14th: Michael Caine , British actor
March 15: Philippe de Broca , French director († 2004)
March 19: Renée Taylor , American actress
March 26: Tinto Brass , Italian director
March 30th: Luis Bacalov , Argentine composer
March 30th: Jean-Claude Brialy , French actor († 2007)

April to June

Gian Maria Volontè (born April 9th)

Helmuth Lohner (born April 24th)

April

0April 2: Mark Damon , American actor and producer
0April 4: Ștefan Tapalagă , Romanian actor († 1994)
0April 7: Wayne Rogers , American actor († 2015)
0April 7: Johannes Schaaf , German director and actor († 2019)
0April 9: Jean-Paul Belmondo , French actor
0April 9: Gian Maria Volontè , Italian actor († 1994)
April 10: Chelo Alonso , Cuban dancer and actress († 2019)
April 16: Perry Botkin Jr. , American composer and songwriter
April 17: Ron Miller , American film producer († 2019)
April 19: Jayne Mansfield , American actress († 1967)
April 24: Helmuth Lohner , Austrian actor († 2015)
April 25: Giovanni Fago , Italian director and screenwriter
April 26: Carol Burnett , American actress
April 28: Walter Schmidinger , Austrian actor († 2013)
April 29: Rod McKuen , American composer († 2015)
April 30th: Adriana Asti , Italian actress

May

0May 7th: Axel Corti , Austrian director († 1993)
May 14: László Kovács , Hungarian cameraman († 2007)
May 15: Marianne Hold , German actress († 1994)
May 17: Jean Vautrin , French director and screenwriter († 2015)
May 21: Richard Libertini , American actor († 2016)
May 23: Joan Collins , British actress
May 28: John Karlen , American actor († 2020)
May 28: Zelda Rubinstein , American actress († 2010)

June

0June 1: Peter Groeger , German actor and voice actor († 2018)
0June 5: Jimmy T. Murakami , American director, producer and screenwriter († 2014)
0June 7th: Noémia Delgado , Portuguese film director, film editor and screenwriter († 2016)
June 10: Ansano Giannarelli , Italian documentary filmmaker († 2011)
June 11: Gene Wilder , American actor († 2016)
June 17th: James Shigeta , American actor († 2014)
June 20: Danny Aiello , American actor († 2019)
June 20: Brett Halsey , American actor
June 22nd: Giuseppe Moccia , Italian screenwriter and director († 2006)
June 27: José Fonseca e Costa , Portuguese director († 2015)
June 30th: Lea Massari , Italian actress
June 30: Mauricio Rosencof , Uruguayan writer and screenwriter

July to September

Erna Waßmer (born August 5)

July

0July 6: Stefan Lisewski , German actor († 2016)
0July 6: Jean-Pierre Mocky , French director († 2019)
July 11: Ernst Jacobi , German actor
July 16: Brad Harris , American actor († 2017)
July 18: Syd Mead , American designer († 2019)
July 22nd: CV Sridhar , Indian director († 2008)
July 29: Robert Fuller , American actor
July 30th: Edd Byrnes , American actor († 2020)

August

0August 1: Dom DeLuise , American actor († 2009)
0August 5th: Erna Waßmer , German actress († 2016)
August 15: Lori Nelson , American actress († 2020)
August 16: Julie Newmar , American actress
August 18: Roman Polański , Polish director
August 19: Debra Paget , American actress
August 22: Sylva Koscina , Italian actress († 1994)
August 23: Ian Fraser , British composer († 2014)
August 23: Peter Wyngarde , British actor
August 25: Tom Skerritt , American actor
August 26: Robert Chartoff , American producer († 2015)
August 26: Rainer Erler , German director
August 28: Philip French , British film critic († 2015)
August 29: Ramses Shaffy , Dutch chansonnier and actor († 2009)
August 31: Kirsten Walther , Danish actress († 1987)

September

0September 5th: Ginette Pigeon , French actress
0September 8th: Asha Bhosle , Indian playback singer
September 14: Harve Presnell , American actor († 2009)
September 15: Henry Darrow , American actor
September 17: Pat Crowley , American actress
September 18: Robert Blake , American actor
September 18: Fred Willard , American actor († 2020)
September 27: CK Nagesh , Indian actor († 2009)

October to December

Diane Cilento (born October 5)

October

0October 5: Diane Cilento , Australian actress († 2011)
October 10: Daniel Massey , British actor († 1998)
October 24: John Winston , British actor († 2019)
October 30th: Johanna von Koczian , German actress
October 31: Dieter Pröttel , German director

November

0November 4: Garry Goodrow , American actor († 2014)
0November 4: Volker Kühn , German director, screenwriter and producer († 2015)
0November 7th: Joachim Engel-Denis , German actor and director († 2013)
0November 8: Ayako Wakao , Japanese actress
0November 9: Lucian Pintilie , Romanian director († 2018)
November 11th: Edgar Bessen , German actor († 2012)
November 11th: Elem Klimow , Russian director († 2003)
November 23: Paul Maslansky , American producer
November 25: Kathryn Grant , American actress
November 26: Ron Holloway , American film journalist and film historian († 2009)

December

0December 4: Horst Buchholz , German actor († 2003)
0December 4: Adolf Laimböck , German actor († 2018)
0December 5: Adolph Caesar , American actor († 1986)
0December 8th: Corny Collins , German actress
December 10: Eduardo Pavlovsky , Argentinian actor († 2015)
December 15: William Link , American producer and screenwriter
December 22nd: Luciano Martino , Italian producer, screenwriter and director († 2013)

Day unknown

Bill Butler , British editor († 2017)
Giuseppe Gatt , Italian art critic and director

deceased

January to June

Jack Pickford († January 3)

0January 3: Jack Pickford , American actor (* 1896)

February 22nd: Ilse Korseck , German actress (* 1911)
February 26: Spottiswoode Aitken , British actor (* 1868)

March 10: Ladislaus Vajda , Austro-Hungarian screenwriter (* 1877)
March 16: Ferdinand von Alten , German actor (* 1885)
March 19: Albert Paulig , German actor (* 1873)
March 27: Adele Watson , American actress (* 1890)

0April 2: Paul Biensfeldt , German actor (* 1869)

May 13: Ernest Torrence , American actor (* 1878)
May 14: Erich Schönfelder , German actor and director (* 1885)

June 29: Fatty Arbuckle , American actor (* 1887)

July to December

August 18: James Williamson , British film pioneer (* 1855)

0September 7th: Max Adalbert , German actor (* 1874)
September 10: Heinrich Witte : German actor (* 1888)
September 24: Ferdinand Bonn , German actor (* 1861)

0October 5: Renée Adorée , French actress (* 1898)
October 25: Lilian Hall-Davis , British actress (* 1898)

0November 9: Max Landa , Austrian actor (* 1873)
November 24th: Hans Otto , German actor and director (* 1900)
November 26th: Jean Angelo , French actor (* 1875)

0December 9: Julius Falkenstein , German actor (* 1879)

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