Events in Film & TV
- Jan 5 "Cavalcade" based on the play by Noël Coward, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1934)
- Mar 2 "king kong" film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC
- May 27 Walt Disney's short film "3 Little Pigs" released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934)
- Aug 23 First televised boxing match — 6-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Lauri Raiteri; aired by BBC-TV
- Nov 17 Marx brothers film "Duck Soup" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers is released in the US
- Nov 24 Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady", released
- Dec 4 Jack Kirkland's play "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC, became the longest-running play of its time
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Film & TV Awards in 1933
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Robert GouletWeddings in Film & TV
- Jun 1 Charlie Chaplin (44) weds Paulette Goddard (22)
- Jun 24 Actor John Wayne (26) weds Josephine Saenz (25) in Los Angeles
- Jul 12 Fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time Fred Astaire (34) weds socialite Phyllis Livingston Potter (25)
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Actors and Actresses Who Died in 1933
- Jan 3 Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come), dies at 37
- Feb 24 Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish actor (The Birth of a Nation, The Avenging Conscience), dies at 65
- Mar 17 Ferdinand Von Alten, German-Russian actor (Champagne), dies at 48
- Apr 28 Robin Irvine, British actor (Easy Virtue, When Boys Leave Home), dies of pleurisy at 31
- May 15 Ernest Torrence, Scottish actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies from complications following surgery for gall stones at 54
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