1932 in movies

Events

• Shirley Temple's film career begins
• Disney released Flowers and Trees their first catoon in three-strip Technicolor film.

Top Grossing Films of 1932

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Grand Hotel - MGM

Movies Released

• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis
• American Madness, starring Walter Huston, directed by Frank Capra
• As You Desire Me, starring Greta Garbo
• Back Street, starring Irene Dunne and John Boles
• The Beast of the City, starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow and Wallace Ford
• The Big Broadcast, starring Bing Crosby
• Big City Blues, starring Eric Linden and Joan Blondell
• The Big Stampede, starring John Wayne
• A Bill of Divorcement, starring John Barrymore
• Bird of Paradise, starring Dolores del Rio and Joel McCrea
• Das Blaue Licht, starring and directed by Leni Riefenstahl
• Blonde Venus, starring Marlene Dietrich
• Broken Lullaby, starring Lionel Barrymore
• The Cabin in the Cotton, featuring Bette Davis
• Call Her Savage, starring Clara Bow
• The Dentist, a W.C. Fields short subject produced by Mack Sennett
• Emma, starring Marie Dressler
• A Farewell to Arms, starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes
• Freaks, directed by Tod Browning
• Grand Hotel, starring Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt
• Horse Feathers, starring the Marx Brothers
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, starring Paul Muni
• The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea and Leslie Banks
• Movie Crazy, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff
• Murders in the Rue Morgue, starring Bela Lugosi
• The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff
• One Hour with You, starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
• One Way Passage, starring William Powell and Kay Francis
• Pack Up Your Troubles, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• Red Dust, starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow
• Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow
• Scarface, starring Paul Muni
• Shanghai Express, starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong and Warner Oland
• Tarzan the Ape Man, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan
• Three on a Match, starring Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis
• Tiger Shark, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Trouble in Paradise, starring Herbert Marshall, Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins
• Two Seconds, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Vampyr, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
• White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi

Births

• January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor
• January 4 - Carlos Saura, director
• February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
• April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)

Deaths