Events Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Top Grossing Films of 1935 Top Hat The Miracle Rider Tumbling Tumbleweeds Westward Ho Academy Awards Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM Best Actor: Victor McLaglen - The Informer Best Actress: Bette Davis - Dangerous Movies Released Movies Released in 1935 include: The 39 Steps, directed by Alfred Hitchcock film and starring Robert Donat After Office Hours, starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett Ah, Wilderness, starring Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore Alibi Ike, starring Joe E. Brown and Olivia de Havilland Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray Anna Karenina Annie Oakley, starring Barbara Stanwyck The Arizonian, starring Richard Dix Baby Face Harrington, starring Charles Butterworth Barbary Coast, starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea Becky Sharp, starring Miriam Hopkins Black Fury, starring Paul Muni The Black Room, starring Boris Karloff Bonnie Scotland, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Bordertown, starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis Boys Will Be Boys, starring Will Hay Break of Hearts, starring Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer Bride of Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester Dangerous, starring Bette Davis and Franchot Tone 'G' Men, starring James Cagney The Informer, starring Victor McLaglen Les Misérables, starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring James Cagney and Mickey Rooney The Miracle Rider Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone, also featuring David Niven and James Cagney Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Tumbling Tumbleweeds, starring Gene Autry Westward Ho, starring John Wayne Births January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer February 16 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative April 5 - Peter Grant, actor, manager December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director Deaths December 16 - Thelma Todd, actress
