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1936 in film

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The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1936 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

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RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
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| The Great Ziegfeld

| rowspan="2"|MGM

| $3,089,000{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.

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| San Francisco

| $2,868,000{{cite book |last=Turk |first=Edward Baron |author-link=Edward Baron Turk |year=1998 |title=Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald |publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-21202-9|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ojOxCgHZLpUC&pg=PA364 364-365]}}

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| The Plainsman

|Paramount

| $2,278,533{{cite book|last=Birchard|first=Robert S.|date=2004|title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813123240}}

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| After the Thin Man

| MGM

| $1,992,000

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| Modern Times

| United Artists

| $1,800,000{{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA356 356–357]}}

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| Anthony Adverse

| Warner Bros.

| $1,783,000Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 16 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551

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| Strike Me Pink

| United Artists

| $1,700,000

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| Rose Marie

| MGM

| $1,695,000

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| Swing Time

| RKO

| $1,624,000Richard Jewel (1994) 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 14 No. 1, p.55

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| Libeled Lady

| MGM

| $1,601,000

Events

Academy Awards

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Top Ten Money Making Stars

Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll.{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpictureher126unse#page/n139/mode/1up|publisher=Quigley Publishing Company|work=Motion Picture Herald|title=The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1936|date=January 9, 1937|page=13|access-date=April 24, 2018}}

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Rank

!Actor/Actress

1.

|Shirley Temple

2.

|Clark Gable

3.

|Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

4.

|Robert Taylor

5.

|Joe E. Brown

6.

|Dick Powell

7.

|Joan Crawford

8.

|Claudette Colbert

9.

|Jeanette MacDonald

10.

|Gary Cooper

=Top Western stars=

A poll of the top Western stars was also published for the first time.{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpictureher126unse#page/n145/mode/2up|publisher=Quigley Publishing Company|work=Motion Picture Herald|title=Exhibitors Name Biggest Western Draws|date=January 9, 1937|page=18|access-date=April 24, 2018}}

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!Actor/Actress

1.

|Buck Jones

2.

|George O'Brien

3.

|Gene Autry

4.

|William Boyd

5.

|Ken Maynard

6.

|Dick Foran

7.

|John Wayne

8.

|Tim McCoy

9.

|Hoot Gibson

10.

|Buster Crabbe

1936 film releases

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Serials

Comedy film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Debuts

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Notes

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External links

  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=1936-01-01,1936-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1936 films] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1936-01-01,1936-12-31&adult=include List of 1936 deaths] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1936-01-01,1936-12-31&adult=include List of 1936 births] at IMDb

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