Film year 1934

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Film year 1934
The production company 20th Century Fox is founded.

Events

February 16 : By the Film Act of February 16, 1934, the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , headed by Joseph Goebbels , was assigned a Reich film dramaturge. The task of the Reichsfilmdramaturge consisted in the preliminary examination of planned film productions.

February 22nd : It happened in one night premiered . This is the first film to win Oscars in the five major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress). Subsequently, so far only one flew over the cuckoo's nest and The Silence of the Lambs succeeded.

April 18 : First television broadcast in Germany.

June 9th : World premiere of Die kluge kleine Henne . This Walt Disney production features the first appearance of the cartoon artist Donald Duck .

June 26 : The National Socialists found the Reich Office for Educational Films .

November 13 : The actress Ginger Rogers marries the actor Lew Ayres , who became famous for the lead role in Nothing New in the West .

November 25 : Director William Wyler marries actress Margaret Sullavan .

December 28th : 20th Century Fox is created from the merger of the film production companies Fox Film Company and 20th Century Pictures .

Film awards

Academy Awards

On March 16, the Oscars for the best productions of 1933 will be awarded at a banquet at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles . Will Rogers is the moderator .

Best Picture: cavalcade of Frank Lloyd
Best Actor: Charles Laughton in The Personal Life of Henry VIII
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory
Best director: Frank Lloyd for Kavalkade
Best Cinematography by Charles Lang for In Another Land by Frank Borzage

Complete list of award winners

Venice Film Festival

The film festival has been held annually since 1934. This year from August 1st to August 20th.

Best Foreign Film: Man of Aran - Documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
Best Italian Film: Teresa Confalonieri by Guido Brignone
Best Actor: Wallace Beery in Viva Villa!
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn in Little Women
Best script: Walter Reisch and Willi Forst in masquerade

Further film prizes and awards

National Board of Review : It Happened on One Night by Frank Capra (Best Film), The Men of Aran by Robert J. Flaherty (Best Foreign Language Film)
Photoplay Award : The Barretts of Wimpole Street by Sidney Franklin

Birthdays

January to March

Hiroyuki Nagato (born January 10)

January

0January 3: Marpessa Dawn , American actress († 2008)
0January 4: Hellmuth Karasek , German film critic († 2015)
0January 6th: Sylvia Syms , British actress
January 10: Hiroyuki Nagato , Japanese actor († 2011)
January 14: Richard Briers , British actor († 2013)
January 22nd: Bill Bixby , American actor and director († 1993)
January 24: Leonard Goldberg , American producer († 2019)
January 27: Jaime Jesus Balcázar , Spanish director
January 31: James Franciscus , American actor and producer († 1991)

February

0February 2: Otar Iosseliani , Georgian director
0February 4: Gil Rogers , American actor
February 11: Tina Louise , American actress
February 13: George Segal , American actor
February 14: Florence Henderson , American actress († 2016)
February 17: Alan Bates , British actor († 2003)
February 18: Anna Maria Ferrero , Italian actress († 2018)
February 19: Pierre Barouh , French singer, actor and director
February 21: Rue McClanahan , American actress († 2010)
February 25: Michael Fairman , American actor and screenwriter
February 26: Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina , Algerian director and screenwriter

March

0March 3: Dolores Dorn , American actress
0March 3: Gia Scala , American actress († 1972)
0March 9: Joyce Van Patten , American actress
March 12: David Spenser , British actor († 2013)
March 15: Jost Vacano , German cameraman
March 18: Kai Fischer , German actress
March 20: Peter Berling , German actor († 2017)
March 23: Mark Rydell , American director
March 26: Alan Arkin , American actor
March 27: Peter Schamoni , German director and producer († 2011)
March 28: Ilaria Occhini , Italian actress († 2019)
March 31: Richard Chamberlain , American actor
March 31: Shirley Jones , American actress

April to June

Shirley MacLaine (born April 24)

April

0April 2: Brian Glover , British actor and screenwriter († 1997)
0April 2nd: Umberto Orsini , Italian actor
0April 2: Richard Portman , American sound engineer († 2017)
0April 3: Wolf Euba , German actor († 2013)
0April 7th: Ian Richardson , British actor
April 18: James Drury , American actor († 2020)
April 18: Jessy Rameik , German actress and voice actress († 2018)
April 20: Robert DoQui , American actor († 2008)
April 24: Shirley MacLaine , American actress
April 28: Ferruccio Casacci , Italian actor and filmmaker († 2011)

May

0May 1: Laura Betti , Italian actress († 2004)
0May 4: Tatiana Samoilowa , Russian actress († 2014)
May 15: Rudolf Buczolich , Austrian actor († 2015)
May 15: Bhanumati Devi , Indian actress († 2013)
May 16: Ilse Seemann , German actress, radio play speaker, radio presenter and author
May 18: Dwayne Hickman , American actor
May 20: Tonino Valerii , Italian director († 2016)
May 21: Susan Shentall , British actress († 1996)
May 27: Uwe Friedrichsen , German actor († 2016)
May 31: Jim Hutton , American actor († 1979)

June

0June 1: Peter Masterson , American actor and director († 2018)
0June 6: Gilbert Cates , American director and producer, President of the Directors Guild of America († 2011)
June 12: John A. Alonzo , American cinematographer
June 16: Bill Cobbs , American actor
June 20: Rossana Podestà , Italian actress († 2013)
June 23: Patricia Herd , American actress
June 23: Larry Tucker , American actor, screenwriter and producer († 2001)
June 26: Dave Grusin , American composer
June 26: Josef Sommer , American actor

July to September

Sydney Pollack (born July 1)

Pierre Richard (born August 16)

Sophia Loren (born September 20)

Brigitte Bardot (born September 28)

July

0July 1: Claude Berri , French director and actor († 2009)
0July 1: Jamie Farr , American actor
0July 1: Sydney Pollack , American director and actor († 2008)
0July 4th: Colin Welland , British actor and screenwriter († 2015)
0July 8: Marty Feldman , British actor († 1982)
0July 8th: Walter Tilgner , German sound engineer and bioacoustic specialist
July 14th: Ángel del Pozo , Spanish actor
July 22nd: Louise Fletcher , American actress
July 25: Claude Zidi , French director
July 29: Robert Fuller , American actor

August

0August 1: Pit Krüger , German actor († 2003)
0August 5: Cammie King , American actress († 2010)
August 14: Trevor Bannister , British actor († 2011)
August 14: Vernon Dobtcheff , French actor
August 16: Pierre Richard , French actor
August 23: Barbara Eden , American actress
August 24: Kenny Baker , British actor († 2016)

September

0September 4th: Juraj Herz , Slovak director († 2018)
0September 6: Paul Naschy , Spanish actor, screenwriter and director († 2009)
0September 7th: Babu Ram Ishara , Indian director and screenwriter († 2012)
0September 7th: Wolfgang Unterzaucher , Austrian actor
0September 8: Peter Maxwell Davies , British composer († 2016)
September 10: Ernesto Gastaldi , Italian screenwriter and director
September 13: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz , Polish actor († 2009)
September 16: George Chakiris , American actor
September 20: Sophia Loren , Italian actress
September 25: Jean Sorel , French actor
September 27: Wilford Brimley , American actor († 2020)
September 27: Claude Jarman junior , American actor
September 27: Edward Meeks , French-American actor
September 28: Brigitte Bardot , French actress
September 30: Anna Kashfi , British-American actress († 2015)

October to December

Judi Dench (born December 9th)

October

October 13: Roland Gräf , German director, screenwriter and cameraman († 2017)
October 18: Inger Stevens , Swedish actress († 1970)
October 19: Eva-Maria Hagen , German actress
October 20: Julia Gutiérrez Caba , Spanish actress

November

0November 2nd: Im Kwon-taek , Korean director
0November 5: Kira Muratova , Russian director († 2018)
0November 7th: Jackie Joseph , American actress
0November 9: Ronald Harwood , British screenwriter
November 10: Richard Bradford , American actor († 2016)
November 13: Garry Marshall , American director and actor († 2016)
November 14th: Yōichi Higashi , Japanese director
November 23: Robert Towne , American screenwriter
November 24: Laurence Luckinbill , American actor
November 24th: Wolfgang Rademann , German producer († 2016)
November 25th: Herrmann Zschoche , German director

December

0December 4: Victor French , American actor († 1989)
0December 8th: Alissa Freindlich , Russian actress
0December 9: Judi Dench , British actress
0December 9: Morten Grunwald , Danish actor († 2018)
December 13: Richard D. Zanuck , American producer († 2012)
December 14th: Shyam Benegal , Indian director
December 26: Linda Lin Dai , American-Chinese actress
December 28th: Maggie Smith , British actress
December 30th: Russ Tamblyn , American actor

deceased

Marie Dressler († July 28)

January to June

0March 1: Wilhelm Diegelmann , German actor (* 1861)
0April 4: Johanna Niese , Austrian actress (* 1875)
0April 7th: Lydia Potechina , Russian actress (* 1883)
April 14: Karl Dane , Danish-American actor (* 1886)
April 24: Émile Chautard , French actor and director (* 1864)
June 21: Thorne Smith , American writer and screenwriter (* 1892)
June 26th: Max Pallenberg , Austrian actor (* 1877)

July to December

0July 6: Harry A. Pollard , American director (* 1879)
July 26: Winsor McCay , American cartoon pioneer (* 1871)
July 28: Marie Dressler , American actress (* 1868)
August 10: George W. Hill , American director and cameraman (* 1895)
0October 5: Jean Vigo , French director (* 1905)
October 29: Lou Tellegen , Dutch actor and director (* 1881)

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