1930 in film - WikiHQ

The following is an overview of 1930 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Events

February 21: Anna Christie, Greta Garbo's first sound film is released, it grosses $1.5 million.
February 23: Silent screen legend Mabel Normand dies at the age of 37 in Monrovia, California after a lengthy battle with tuberculosis.
March 10: Release of Goodbye Argentina (Adiós Argentina), the first Argentine film with a (musical) soundtrack. Ada Cornaro has her first starring role and Libertad Lamarque makes her film debut.
April 6: William Fox sells his interest in Fox Film for $18 million and Harley L. Clarke becomes president.
May 27: Howard Hughes' epic film Hell's Angels premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and features Jean Harlow in her first major role as well as some impressive aerial sequences. Although not a financial success upon its release due to its bloated budget, the film is acclaimed by critics and launches Harlow as one of the 1930s' biggest stars.
August 9: Cartoon character Betty Boop appears for the first time on screen, in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
September 3: The Hollywood Reporter is first published.
September 19: The Love Parade receives a record six Academy Award nominations.
November 1: The Big Trail featuring a young John Wayne in his first starring role is released in both 35mm and a very early form of 70mm film. It is the first large scale big-budget film of the sound era, costing over $2 million. The film is praised for its aesthetic quality and realism that will not become commonplace until many decades later. However, due to the new film format and the film's release during the Great Depression, the film will go on to become a financial failure at the box office.

Academy Awards

Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front – Universal Pictures
Best Director: Lewis Milestone – All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Actor: George Arliss – Disraeli
Best Actress: Norma Shearer – The Divorcee

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1930 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"

|+ Highest-grossing films of 1930

! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals

! style="text-align:center;"| 1

| Whoopee!

| United Artists

| $2,655,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 2

|Check and Double Check

| RKO

| $1,751,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 3

|All Quiet on the Western Front

| Universal

| $1,634,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 4

|Hell's Angels

| United Artists

| $1,600,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 5

|The Big House

| MGM

| $1,279,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 6

|Common Clay

| Fox Film

| $1,246,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 9

|Son of the Gods

| rowspan="2"|First National

| $1,069,000

! style="text-align:center;"| 10

|The Dawn Patrol

| $1,061,000

Barbara Stuart, American actress (died 2011)
January 6 – Professor Tanaka, American wrestler, boxer, actor and martial artist (died 2000)
January 10 – Roy E. Disney, American film executive and Walt Disney's nephew (died 2009)
January 11
Angela Paton, American actress (died 2016)
Rod Taylor, Australian actor (died 2015)
January 12 – Edgar Landsbury, British-born Irish-American producer (died 2024)
January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress (died 2023)
January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 – Henry Woolf, British actor (died 2021)
January 24 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (died 2016)
January 29 – Benjamin Tatar, American actor (died 2012)
January 30 – Gene Hackman, American actor (died 2025)
February 6 – Allan King, Canadian director (died 2009)
February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
February 16 – Ricou Browning, American film director, actor, cinematographer and stuntman (died 2023)
February 20 – Patricia Smith, American actress (died 2011)
February 22 – Giuliano Montaldo, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (died 2023)
February 24 – Barbara Lawrence, American actress, model (died 2013)
February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
March 3 - Alfredo Alcón, Argentine actor (died 2014)
March 6 – Allison Hayes, American actress (died 1977)
March 9 - Taina Elg, Finnish actress and dancer (died 2025)
March 12 – Scoey Mitchell, American actor, writer and director (died 2022)
March 13 – Harrison Young, American character actor (died 2005)
March 16 – Lotte Ledl, Austrian actress (died 2025)
March 17 - Patrick Hines, American actor (died 1985)
March 21 – Pauline Stroud, British actress (died 2022)
March 24 – Steve McQueen, American actor (died 1980)
March 29 – Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor, director (died 2018)
March 30
John Astin, American actor
Estella Blain, French actress (died 1982)
April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (died 2015)
April 5
Mary Costa, American singer and actress
Marietta Marich, American actress, singer, writer, stage director and television host (died 2017)
April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor and writer (died 2016)
April 10 - Lee Weaver, American actor (died 2025)
April 13 – Roger Browne, American actor (died 2024)
April 14 – Bradford Dillman, American actor (died 2018)
April 18 – Clive Revill, New Zealand actor (died 2025)
April 19 – Dick Sargent, American actor (died 1994)
April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (died 1989)
April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer, American actor
April 24 – Richard Donner, American director and producer (died 2021)
April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director and actor (died 2014)
April 28 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (died 1983)
April 29 – Jean Rochefort, French actor (died 2017)
May 4
Lois de Banzie, Scottish-born American actress (died 2021)
Doris Leader Charge, American actress (died 2001)
May 5 – Will Hutchins, American actor (died 2025)
May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (died 2001)
May 11 – Bud Ekins, American actor and stuntman (died 2007)
May 18 – Tseng Chang, Hong Kong actor and director (died 2021)
May 20 - James McEachin, American actor (died 2025)
May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director and producer
June 1
Pat Corley, American actor (died 2006)
Edward Woodward, English actor and singer (died 2009)
June 4
Edward Kelsey, English actor (died 2019)
Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (died 2018)
Bill Treacher, English actor (died 2022)
June 9 – Terry Norris, Australian actor (died 2023)
June 15 – Odile Versois, French actress (died 1980)
June 19
Gena Rowlands, American actress (died 2024)
Diana Sowle, American actress (died 2018)
June 25 – George Murdock, American character actor (died 2012)
June 29 – Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (died 1998)
July 5 – Tommy Cook, American producer, screenwriter and actor
July 6 - Phil Roth, American actor (died 2002)
July 8 – Jerry Vale, American actor and singer (died 2014)
July 10
Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (died 2004)
Susan Cummings, German actress (died 2016)
July 12 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, writer, director and singer (died 2023)
July 13 – Darrell Sandeen, American character actor (died 2009)
July 18 – Burt Kwouk, British-Chinese actor (died 2016)
July 19 – Rhoda Williams, American actress (died 2006)
July 20 – Sally Ann Howes, English actress and singer (died 2021)
July 21 – Lukas Heller, German-born screenwriter (died 1988)
July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (died 2013)
July 25 – Annie Ross, British-American singer and actress (died 2020)
July 28 – Alfie Curtis, British actor (died 2017)
July 30 – Tony Lip, American actor (died 2013)
August 1
Bill Allison, American actor (died 2016)
Julie Bovasso, American actress (died 1991)
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor and musician (died 2014)
August 5 – Joan Weldon, American actress, singer (died 2021)
August 11 – Paul Soles, Canadian actor (died 2021)
August 12 – Peter Weck, Austrian film director and actor
August 14 – Liz Fraser, English actress (died 2018)
August 17 – Harve Bennett, American producer and screenwriter (died 2015)
August 23 - Vera Miles, retired American actress
August 25 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (died 2020)
August 28 – Ben Gazzara, American and director (died 2012)
August 31 – Charles Kay, English actor (died 2025)
September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (died 2011)
September 17 – David Huddleston, American actor (died 2016)
September 21 – Dawn Addams, English actress (died 1985)
September 24 – Horst Sachtleben, German actor (died 2022)
September 26 – Philip Bosco, American actor (died 2018)
October 1 – Richard Harris, Irish actor (died 2002)
October 5
Skip Homeier, American actor (died 2017)
Yuriy Yakovlev, Bulgarian actor (died 2002)
October 6 – Lou Cutell, American actor (died 2021)
October 8 – James Olson, American actor (died 2022)
October 10
Joan O'Hara, Irish actress (died 2007)
Harold Pinter, British screenwriter, director and actor (died 2008)
October 13 – Paul Kent, American actor (died 2011)
October 23 – Gérard Blain, French actor and director (died 2000)
October 24 – Jack Angel, American voice actor and former radio personality (died 2021)
November 3 – Lois Smith, American character actress
November 5
Richard Davalos, American actor (died 2016)
Joaquín Martínez, Mexican-born American actor (died 2012)
November 15 – Whitman Mayo, American actor (died 2001)
November 20 – Bernard Horsfall, English actor (died 2013)
November 23 – Robert Easton, American actor (died 2011)
November 27 – Reinhard Glemnitz, German actor
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French director (died 2022)
December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Swiss actor (died 2014)
December 9
Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and director (died 2020)
Francesco Maselli, Italian director (died 2023)
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor (died 2022)
December 13 – Robert Prosky, American actor (died 2008)
December 17 – Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
December 20 – Noel Ferrier, Australian actor, television personality and producer (died 1997)
December 26 - Donald Moffat, British-American actor (died 2018)

Deaths

January 31 – Dorothy Seastrom, American actress (born 1903)
February 23 – Mabel Normand, American actress (born 1893)
July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)
August 26 – Lon Chaney, American actor (born 1883)
September 14 – Tommy Mintz, American actor, assistant director (born 1906)
September 15 – Milton Sills, American actor (born 1882)
November 8 – Clare Eames, American actress (born 1894)
December 15 – Diane Ellis, American actress (born 1909)

Film debuts

References

External links

List of 1930 films at IMDb
List of 1930 deaths at IMDb
List of 1930 births at IMDb