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[edit] Events
[edit] Top grossing films
- Journey's End
- Outward Bound
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Lightnin'
- So This is London
- The Rogue Song
- The Devil to Pay
- With Byrd at the South Pole
- Tom Sawyer
- The Lady of Scandal
- Holiday
- Abraham Lincoln
- Anna Christie
- The Man From Blankley's
- Old English
- Madam Satan
- Common Clay
- Song O' My Heart
- The King of Jazz
- Just Imagine
- Animal Crackers
- Kismet
- Monte Carlo
- Royal Family of Broadway
- The Big Trail
- Laughter
- Romance
- New Moon
- The Laughing Lady
- Men Without Women
- Liliom
- Tol'able David
- Scotland Yard
- A Lady's Morals
- Sous les Toits de Paris
- The Texan
- Seven Days' Leave
- Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel)
[edit] Academy Awards
[edit] Films released in 1930
- Alraune
- L'Âge d'Or, directed by Luis Buñuel
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone
- Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers
- Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo -(film mentioned in article)
- Big Boy, a musical comedy with Al Jolson.
- The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
- The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
- Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), starring Marlene Dietrich
- The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poete), directed by Jean Cocteau
- The Bride of the Regiment (1930)
- Bright Lights (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor.
- Call of the Flesh, a musical romance with Technicolor sequences.
- Chasing Rainbows, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Children of Pleasure, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Cuckoos, The, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Danger Lights, starring Louis Wolheim
- The Divorcee, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery, director: Robert Z. Leonard
- Dixiana, a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Elstree Calling, a British revue with color sequences.
- Feet First, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd.
- Floradora Girl, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Follow Thru (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.
- General Crack, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring John Barrymore.
- Good News, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Golden Dawn (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor.
- Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
- Hold Everything (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.
- The Indians Are Coming (a serial)
- Ingagi
- Journey's End, by George Pearson (see Journey's End)
- King of Jazz (1930), a revue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra entirely in Technicolor.
- Leathernecking, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Lord Byron of Broadway, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences.
- Lottery Bride, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- The Life of the Party (1930), musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.
- Mamba (1930), first talking drama entirely in Technicolor.
- Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Mammy, a musical comedy starring Al Jolson with Technicolor sequences.
- Melody Man, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Min and Bill
- Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
- Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- New Movietone Follies of 1930, a musical revue with Technicolor sequences.
- No, No Nanette, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Paramount on Parade, an all-star revue with Technicolor sequences.
- Peacock Alley, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences.
- Puttin' on the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman, with Technicolor sequences.
- The Rogue Song (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor.
- Showgirl in Hollywood, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences.
- Son of the Gods, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess.
- Song of the Flame (1930), a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor.
- Song of the West (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor.
- Sunny, a musical comedy with Marilyn Miller.
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.
- Under a Texas Moon (1930), a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor.
- Whoopee! (1930), a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor
- The Vagabond King (1930), a musical drama entirely in Technicolor.
[edit] Short film series
[edit] Animated short film series
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
- January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
- January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
- January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
- January 30 - Gene Hackman, actor
- February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress
- March 24 - Steve McQueen, actor
- May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
- June 16 - Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer
- August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
- October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
- December 3 - Jean-Luc Godard, director
- December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
[edit] Deaths
