1936 in film

Top Western stars

A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.^[9]

0–9

• 13 Hours by Air, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett and ZaSu Pitts
• 15 Maiden Lane, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero

A

• Accused, directed by Thornton Freeland, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dolores del Río – (GB)
• Achhoot Kanya (Untouchable Maiden), directed by Franz Osten, starring Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani – (India)
• After the Thin Man, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
• Allá en el Rancho Grande (Out on the Great Ranch), directed by Fernando de Fuentes, starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández – (Mexico)
• The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Cary Grant and Mary Brian – (GB)
• Anthony Adverse, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, and Gale Sondergaard
• Anything Goes, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and Ida Lupino
• Augustus the Strong (August der Starke), directed by Paul Wegener, starring Michael Bohnen – (Germany/Poland)

B

• Black Eyes (Cheshmhay-e Siah), directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta – (Iran)
• Blood on Wolf Mountain (Láng shān dié xuě jì), directed by Fei Mu, starring Li Lili – (China)
• The Bohemian Girl, directed by James W. Horne and Charley Rogers, starring Laurel and Hardy
• The Bold Caballero, directed by Wells Root, starring Robert Livingston
• Born to Dance, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Eleanor Powell, James Stewart and Una Merkel
• Broken Blossoms, directed by John Brahm, starring Dolly Haas and Emlyn Williams – (GB)
• Bullets or Ballots, directed by William Keighley, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell and Humphrey Bogart
• By the Bluest of Seas (U samogo sinego morya), directed by Boris Barnet – (USSR)

C

• Cain and Mabel, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable
• Camel Through the Eye of a Needle (Velbloud uchem jehly), directed by and starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia)
• Camille, directed by George Cukor, starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore
• Captain January, directed by David Butler, starring Shirley Temple
• The Case Against Mrs. Ames, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Madeleine Carroll and George Brent
• Ceiling Zero, directed by Howard Hawks, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien
• César, directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Raimu – (France)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
• Charlie Chan at the Opera, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Warner Oland and Boris Karloff
• The Children of Captain Grant (Deti kapitana Granta), directed by Vladimir Vajnshtok – (USSR)
• Circus (Tsirk), directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, starring Lyubov Orlova – (USSR)
• Collegiate, directed by Ralph Murphy, starring Jack Oakie, Frances Langford and Betty Grable
• Come and Get It, directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, and Walter Brennan
• Craig's Wife, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange), directed by Jean Renoir, starring René Lefèvre – (France)
• Crime Over London, directed by Alfred Zeisler, starring Margot Grahame and Paul Cavanagh – (GB)

D

• Daniel Boone, directed by David Howard, starring George O'Brien
• The Desert Island (Lang tao sha), directed by Wu Yonggang – (China)
• Desire, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
• Devdas, directed by Pramathesh Barua, starring K. L. Saigal – (India)
• The Devil Doll, directed by Tod Browning, starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan
• Dimples, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple and Frank Morgan
• Dodsworth, directed by William Wyler, starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor and David Niven
• Dracula's Daughter, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Otto Kruger and Gloria Holden
• Dusty Ermine, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Anthony Bushell and Jane Baxter – (GB)

E

• East Meets West, directed by Herbert Mason, starring George Arliss – (GB)
• Empty Saddles, directed by Lesley Selander, starring Buck Jones and Louise Brooks
• Everything Is Thunder, directed by Milton Rosmer, starring Constance Bennett – (GB)

F

• Follow the Fleet, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott
• Forget Me Not, directed by Zoltan Korda, starring Beniamino Gigli and Joan Gardner – (GB)
• The Four Musketeers (I quattro moschettieri), directed by Carlo Campogalliani – (Italy)
• Fury, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, and Bruce Cabot

G

• The Garden of Allah, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer
• The General Died at Dawn, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll
• General Spanky, directed by Fred Newmeyer and Gordon Douglas, starring Spanky McFarland
• Girl Friends (Podrugi), directed by Lev Arnshtam, starring Zoya Fyodorova – (USSR)
• Go West, Young Man, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Mae West, Warren William and Randolph Scott
• Gold Diggers of 1937, directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dick Powell, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell
• The Gorgeous Hussy, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas and James Stewart
• The Great Ziegfeld, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer and Frank Morgan
• Green Pastures, directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley, starring Rex Ingram and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

H

• Hearts Divided, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Marion Davies and Dick Powell
• Hearts in Bondage, directed by Lew Ayres, starring James Dunn, David Manners and Mae Clarke
• Home Guardsman Bruggler (Standschütze Bruggler), directed by Werner Klingler – (Germany)
• Hopalong Cassidy Returns, directed by Nate Watt, starring William Boyd

I

• Intermezzo, directed by Gustaf Molander, starring Gösta Ekman and Ingrid Bergman – (Sweden)
• The Invisible Ray, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
• It Had to Happen, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell
• It's Love Again, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Robert Young – (GB)

J

• The Jungle Princess, directed by Wilhelm Thiele, starring Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland

K

• Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (The Emperor of California), directed by and starring Luis Trenker – (Germany)
• Klondike Annie, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Mae West and Victor McLaglen

L

• Laburnum Grove, directed by Carol Reed, starring Edmund Gwenn and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
• The Last of the Mohicans, directed by George B. Seitz, starring Randolph Scott
• The Last Outlaw, directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Harry Carey and Hoot Gibson
• The Lawless Nineties, directed by Joseph Kane, starring John Wayne
• Legion of Terror, directed by Charles C. Coleman, starring Bruce Cabot
• Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa), directed by Fernando de Fuentes – (Mexico)
• Libeled Lady, directed by Jack Conway, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy
• Limelight, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle – (GB)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, directed by John Cromwell, starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello
• Lloyd's of London, directed by Henry King, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll and Tyrone Power
• Love Before Breakfast, directed by Walter Lang, starring Carole Lombard, Preston Foster and Cesar Romero
• Love in Exile, directed by Alfred L. Werker, starring Clive Brook and Helen Vinson – (GB)
• Love on the Run, directed by W. S. Van Dyke. starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone
• The Lower Depths (Les Bas-fonds), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin – (France)

M

• The Man Who Changed His Mind, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Boris Karloff – (GB)
• Mayerling, directed by Anatole Litvak starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux – (France)
• Men Are Not Gods, directed by Walter Reisch, starring Miriam Hopkins and Gertrude Lawrence – (GB)
• A Message to Garcia, directed by George Marshall, starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles
• The Milky Way, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Harold Lloyd and Adolphe Menjou
• Modern Times, a Charlie Chaplin film, with Paulette Goddard
• The Moon's Our Home, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda and Walter Brennan
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur
• My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard

N

• Next Time We Love, directed by Edward H. Griffith, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland
• Night Mail, documentary directed by Harry Watt and Basil Wright – (GB)

O

• The Only Son (Hitori musuko), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
• Osaka Elegy (Naniwa erejÄ«), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Isuzu Yamada – (Japan)
• Our Relations, directed by Harry Lachman, starring Laurel and Hardy

P

• Palm Springs, directed by Aubrey Scotto, starring Frances Langford, Guy Standing and David Niven
• Paradise Road (Ulička v ráji), directed by Martin Frič, starring Hugo Haas – (Czechoslovakia)
• Pennies from Heaven, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, starring Bing Crosby, Madge Evans and Louis Armstrong
• The Petrified Forest, directed by Archie Mayo, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart
• Pigskin Parade, starring Stuart Erwin
• The Plainsman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur and Charles Bickford
• Poor Little Rich Girl, directed by Irving Cummings, starring Shirley Temple, Alice Faye and Gloria Stuart
• Poppy, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring W. C. Fields
• The Prisoner of Shark Island, directed by John Ford, starring Warner Baxter and Gloria Stuart
• Private Number, directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Loretta Young, Robert Taylor and Basil Rathbone

R

• Ramona, directed by Henry King, starring Loretta Young and Don Ameche
• Rebellion, directed by Lynn Shores, starring Tom Keene and Rita Hayworth
• Red River Valley, directed by B. Reeves Eason, starring Gene Autry
• Redes, directed by Fred Zinnemann – (Mexico)
• Reefer Madness, directed by Louis J. Gasnier
• Rembrandt, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Charles Laughton – (GB)
• Road Gang, directed by Louis King, starring Donald Woods
• The Road to Glory, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore
• Romeo and Juliet, directed by George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone
• Rose Marie, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy

S

• Sabotage, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka – (GB)
• San Francisco, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy
• Satan Met a Lady, directed by William Dieterle, starring Bette Davis and Warren William
• Secret Agent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud and Robert Young – (GB)
• Show Boat, directed by James Whale, starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones and Paul Robeson
• Silly Billies, directed by Fred Guiol, starring Wheeler & Woolsey
• The Singing Kid, directed by William Keighley, starring Al Jolson
• Sisters of the Gion (Gion no kyōdai), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
• Small Town Girl, directed by William Wellman, starring Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Lewis Stone and James Stewart
• Son of Mongolia (Syn Mongolii), directed by Ilya Trauberg – (Mongolia)
• Sportszerelem (Love of Sport), directed by László Kardos – (Hungary)
• Spy of Napoleon, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas – (GB)
• The Story of Louis Pasteur, directed by William Dieterle, starring Paul Muni
• Stowaway, directed by William A. Seiter, starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young and Alice Faye
• Strike Me Pink, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman
• Sutter's Gold, directed by James Cruze, starring Edward Arnold
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter – (GB)
• Swing Time, directed by George Stevens, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

T

• Tarzan Escapes, directed by Richard Thorpe, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
• The Texas Rangers, directed by King Vidor, starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie and Jean Parker
• Theodora Goes Wild, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Irene Dunne and Melvyn Douglas
• These Three, directed by William Wyler, starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon and Joel McCrea
• Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
• Three Godfathers, directed by Richard Boleslawski, starring Chester Morris, Lewis Stone and Walter Brennan
• Till We Meet Again, directed by Robert Florey, starring Herbert Marshall and Gertrude Michael
• Too Many Parents, directed by Robert F. McGowan, starring Frances Farmer
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda
• Tudor Rose, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam and John Mills – (GB)

V-W

• Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, starring Gladys George
• The Walking Dead, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez and Edmund Gwenn
• Where There's a Will, directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay and Graham Moffatt – (GB)
• Whom the Gods Love, directed by Basil Dean, starring Stephen Haggard – (GB)
• Wife vs. Secretary, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and James Stewart
• Windbag the Sailor, directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt – (GB)
• A Woman Rebels, directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Katharine Hepburn and Herbert Marshall

Y

• Yiddle with his Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl), directed by Joseph Green, starring Molly Picon – (Poland)

January–March

• January 1936
  • 16 January
    • Ceiling Zero
    • Strike Me Pink
  • 17 January
    • Augustus the Strong (Germany/Poland)
  • 20 January
    • The Invisible Ray
  • 22 January
    • Collegiate
  • 24 January
    • Anything Goes
  • 28 January
    • Rose Marie
  • 30 January
    • Next Time We Love
• February 1936
  • 6 February
    • The Petrified Forest
  • 7 February
    • The Milky Way
  • 14 February
    • The Bohemian Girl
    • It Had to Happen
  • 15 February
    • The Lawless Nineties
  • 19 February
    • Girl Friends (U.S.S.R.)
  • 20 February
    • Follow the Fleet
    • Things to Come (GB)
  • 22 February
    • The Story of Louis Pasteur
  • 25 February
    • Modern Times
  • 28 February
    • The Prisoner of Shark Island
    • Wife vs. Secretary
  • 29 February
    • Mayerling (France)
    • The Walking Dead
• March 1936
  • 1 March
    • Sutter's Gold
  • 2 March
    • Man of the Frontier
  • 6 March
    • Little Lord Fauntleroy
    • Three Godfathers
  • 9 March
    • Love Before Breakfast
  • 13 March
    • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
  • 18 March
    • These Three
  • 20 March
    • Silly Billies
  • 22 March
    • The Great Ziegfeld
  • 28 March
    • Road Gang
  • 30 March
    • Too Many Parents

April–June

• April 1936
  • 4 April
    • Till We Meet Again
  • 10 April
    • A Message to Garcia
    • The Moon's Our Home
    • Small Town Girl
  • 11 April
    • Desire
    • The Singing Kid
  • 16 April
    • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • 20 April
    • By the Bluest of Seas (U.S.S.R.)
  • 24 April
    • Captain January
  • 30 April
    • Thirteen Hours by Air
• May 1936
  • 6 May
    • It's Love Again (GB)
  • 8 May
    • The Case Against Mrs. Ames
  • 11 May
    • Dracula's Daughter
  • 17 May
    • Show Boat
  • 19 May
    • Love in Exile (GB)
  • 20 May
    • Broken Blossoms (GB)
  • 26 May
    • Hearts in Bondage
  • 28 May
    • Osaka Elegy (Japan)
  • 29 May
    • Fury
• June 1936
  • 5 June
    • Private Number
  • 6 June
    • Bullets or Ballots
  • 14 June
    • The Last Outlaw
  • 15 June
    • Secret Agent (GB)
  • 17 June
    • Poppy
  • 20 June
    • Hearts Divided
  • 26 June
    • San Francisco

July–September

• July 1936
  • 10 July
    • The Devil-Doll
  • 16 July
    • Green Pastures
  • 22 July
    • Satan Met a Lady
  • 24 July
    • Poor Little Rich Girl
  • 28 July
    • The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (GB)
  • 29 July
    • Anthony Adverse
• August 1936
  • 10 August
    • Where There's a Will (GB)
  • 20 August
    • Romeo and Juliet
  • 26 August
    • East Meets West (UK)
  • 27 August
    • Swing Time
  • 28 August
    • The Gorgeous Hussy
    • Militiaman Bruggler (Germany)
    • The Texas Rangers
• September 1936
  • 1 September
    • Tudor Rose
  • 2 September
    • The General Died at Dawn
  • 4 September
    • The Last of the Mohicans
    • The Road to Glory
  • 6 September
    • My Man Godfrey
  • 9 September
    • Spy of Napoleon (GB)
  • 10 September
    • Dusty Ermine (UK)
  • 11 September
    • The Man Who Changed His Mind (GB)
  • 15 September
    • The Children of Captain Grant
  • 23 September
    • Dodsworth
  • 25 September
    • Craig's Wife
    • Ramona
  • 26 September
    • Cain and Mabel
  • 30 September
    • Yiddle with his Fiddle (Poland/U.S.)

October–December

• October 1936
  • 1 October
    • Everything Is Thunder (UK)
  • 6 October
    • Allá en el Rancho Grande (Mexico)
  • 9 October
    • Libeled Lady
  • 15 October
    • The Garden of Allah
    • Sisters of the Gion (Japan)
  • 16 October
    • 15 Maiden Lane
    • Daniel Boone
    • Dimples
    • Hopalong Cassidy Returns
  • 20 October
    • The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • 22 October
    • Crime Over London (GB)
  • 27 October
    • César (France)
    • Rebellion
  • 30 October
    • Our Relations
• November 1936
  • 1 November
    • Legion of Terror
  • 6 November
    • Come and Get It
    • Rembrandt (GB)
    • Tarzan Escapes
    • A Woman Rebels
  • 12 November
    • Theodora Goes Wild
  • 13 November
    • Go West, Young Man
  • 16 November
    • Intermezzo (Sweden)
    • Laburnum Grove (GB)
    • The Plainsman
  • 20 November
    • Love on the Run
  • 25 November
    • Lloyd's of London
    • Pennies from Heaven
  • 26 November
    • Men Are Not Gods (GB)
  • 27 November
    • Born to Dance
• December 1936
  • 1 December
    • The Bold Caballero
  • 2 December
    • Sabotage (GB)
  • 11 December
    • General Spanky
    • Les bas-fonds (France)
  • 12 December
    • Camille
  • 20 December
    • Empty Saddles
  • 21 December
    • Forget Me Not (UK)
  • 24 December
    • The Jungle Princess
  • 25 December
    • After the Thin Man
    • Stowaway
  • 26 December
    • Gold Diggers of 1937
  • 31 December
    • Let's Go With Pancho Villa (Mexico)