Events in Music
- Feb 22 "The Little Colonel" premieres starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Robinson, featuring famous stair dance with Hollywood's first interracial dance couple
- Apr 8 Béla Bartók's 5th String quartet premieres in Washington, D.C.
- Apr 10 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
- Jul 13 Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer
- Sep 30 George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" premieres in Boston
- Oct 10 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway NY
- Oct 12 Cole Porter's musical "Jubilee" opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 167 performances
- Nov 15 "A Night at the Opera", directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released
- Nov 16 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo" premieres in NYC
- Nov 16 Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" closes at 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 420 performances
Musicians Married in 1935
- Aug 19 French singer Édith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris
- Oct 8 American bandleader Ozzie Nelson marries American band singer Harriet Hilliard (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)