Movies - 1929 in film

Events

• January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona
  was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
• May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed
• Hallelujah!
  , first Hollywood film to contain an entire black cast.
• The Broadway Melody
  is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that would run until 1940
  .

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: The Broadway Melody - MGM
• Best Actor
  : Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
• Best Actor
  : George Arliss - Disraeli
• Best Actress
  : Mary Pickford - Coquette

Movies released

• An Andalusian Dog (Un chien andalou), a short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
• Applause, starring Helen Morgan
  .
• Big Business, a Laurel and Hardy
  short.
• Blackmail, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
• The Broadway Melody
  , starring Charles King, Anita Page
  and Bessie Love
  .
• Bulldog Drummond
  , starring Ronald Colman
  .
• The Cocoanuts
  , starring the Marx Brothers
  .
• The Cameraman
• Coquette, starring Mary Pickford
  , Johnny Mack Brown
  , Matt Moore
  . Directed by Sam Taylor
• Disraeli, starring George Arliss
  .
• Hallelujah, directed by King Vidor.
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  , a showcase of talent under contract to MGM.
• In Old Arizona
  , starring Warner Baxter
  .
• The Iron Mask. starring Douglas Fairbanks
  .
• The Kiss, starring Greta Garbo
  and Conrad Nagel
  .
• The Love Parade
  , starring Maurice Chevalier
  and Jeanette MacDonald
  .
• The Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), a documentary.
• The Manxman
  , directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
• The Mysterious Island, starring Lionel Barrymore
  .
• Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks
  .
• Queen Kelly
  , starring Gloria Swanson
  (this film was never actually finished because producers balked at releasing a silent film in a what was quickly becoming a sound film market)
• Saint Louis Blues, starring Bessie Smith.
• The Skeleton Dance
  , a Walt Disney
  animated short.
• Spite Marriage, a Buster Keaton
  film.
• The Virginian, starring Gary Cooper
  .
• Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond), directed by Fritz Lang.

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