1930 in film
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Events
Top grossing films
- The Indians Are Coming
- Madam Satan
- Der Blaue Engel
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal Studios
- Best Actress: Norma Shearer - The Divorcee
Movies released
Movies released in 1930 include:
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone
- Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers
- Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo
- The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
- The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
- The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich
- Der blaue Engel, starring Marlene Dietrich
- Danger Lights, starring Louis Wolheim
- The Divorcee - Starring: Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Director: Robert Z. Leonard.
- Hell's Angels (movie), directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
- The Indians Are Coming (a serial)
- Journey's End, by George Pearson
- Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
- Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Puttin' on the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman
Short film series
- Buster Keaton (1917-1941)
- Our Gang (1922-1944)
- Laurel and Hardy (1926-1940)
Animated short film series
- Felix the Cat (1919-1930)
- Aesop's Film Fables (1921-1933)
- Krazy Kat (1925-1940)
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1938)
- Mickey Mouse (1928-1953)
- Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
- Screen Songs (1929-1938)
- Talkartoons (1929-1932)
- Looney Tunes (1930-1969)
- Flip the Frog (1930-1933)
- Terrytoons (1930-1964)
- Toby the Pup (1930-1931)
Births
- January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
- January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
- January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
- January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
- February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress
- May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
- August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
- October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
- December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
Deaths
- February 20 - Mabel Normand, actress
- July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
- August 26 - Lon Chaney, actor
