Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers' Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top Grossing Films of 1936 Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Best Actor: Paul Muni - The Story of Louis Pasteur Best Actress: Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld Movies Released Movies released in 1936 include: After the Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy Anthony Adverse, starring Fredric March The Bohemian Girl, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Camille, starring Greta Garbo Captain January, starring Shirley Temple Ceiling Zero, starring James Cagney The Charge of the Light Brigade, starring Errol Flynn Dodsworth, starring Walter Huston Follow the Fleet, starring Fred Astair abd Ginger Rogers Fury, starring Sylvia Sidney and Spencer Tracy The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer Modern Times, written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; directed by Frank Capra My Man Godfrey, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard The Petrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis Red River Valley, starring Gene Autry Romeo and Juliet, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone Sabotage, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Sylvia Sidney and Oskar Homolka San Francisco, starring Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald Secret Agent, an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre and Madeleine Carroll Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers The Story of Louis Pasteur, starring Paul Muni A Tale of Two Cities Births January 3 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor February 23 - Majel Barrett, United States actress May 9 - Glenda Jackson, actress and politician Deaths
