1932 in film
Events
\n*Shirley Temple's film career begins \n*Disney released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.
Academy Awards
\n*Best Picture: Grand Hotel - MGM\nNote: Prior to 1933 awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are no 'Best Actor' or 'Best Actress' awards for 1932 films. The 1931-32 awards went to 1931 films.
Movies Released
\nMovies released in 1932 include:\n*20,000 Years in Sing Sing, starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis\n*American Madness, starring Walter Huston, directed by Frank Capra\n*As You Desire Me, starring Greta Garbo\n*Back Street, starring Irene Dunne and John Boles\n*The Beast of the City, starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford\n*The Big Broadcast, starring Bing Crosby\n*Big City Blues, starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell\n*The Big Stampede, starring John Wayne\n*A Bill of Divorcement, starring John Barrymore\n*Bird of Paradise, starring Dolores del Rio and Joel McCrea\n*Das Blaue Licht, starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl\n*Blonde Venus, starring Marlene Dietrich \n*Broken Lullaby, starring Lionel Barrymore\n*The Cabin in the Cotton, featuring Bette Davis\n*Call Her Savage, starring Clara Bow \n*The Dentist, a W.C. Fields short subject produced by Mack Sennett\n*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March who won an Oscar for the role\n*Emma, starring Marie Dressler\n*A Farewell to Arms, starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes\n*Freaks, directed by Tod Browning\n* Grand Hotel, starring Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt\n*Horse Feathers, starring the Marx Brothers\n*I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, starring Paul Muni\n*The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks\n*Movie Crazy, starring Harold Lloyd\n*The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff\n*Murders in the Rue Morgue, starring Bela Lugosi\n*The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff\n* One Hour with You, starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles\n*One Way Passage, starring William Powell and Kay Francis\n*Pack Up Your Troubles, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy\n*Red Dust, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow\n*Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow\n*Scarface, starring Paul Muni\n* Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland\n*Tarzan the Ape Man, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan\n*Three on a Match, starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis\n*Tiger Shark, starring Edward G. Robinson\n*Trouble in Paradise, starring Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins\n*Two Seconds, starring Edward G. Robinson\n*Vampyr, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer\n*White Zombie'', starring Bela Lugosi
Births
\n*January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor \n*January 4 - Carlos Saura, director \n*February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984) \n*April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)\n*April 10 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress (d. 1990)\n*Mehmood, Indian actor, director, producer
