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Top grossing films Academy Awards Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years. And there were two awards given in 1932 for 'Best Actor'. That's how there are 3 'Best Actor', 2 'Best Actress' awards for 1931 films. Notable films released in 1931 U.S.A. unless stated - nous la libert (Freedom for Us), directed by Ren Clair - (France)
- Alam Ara (The Light of the World), directed by Ardeshir Irani - the first Indian talkie
- Alibi directed by Leslie S. Hiscott (U.K.)
- Alice in Wonderland, the first sound version
- Anna Christie, directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Greta Garbo - (Germany)
- Arrowsmith, directed by John Ford, starring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes
- Bad Girl, directed by Frank Borzage
- The Bad Sister, starring Bette Davis
- Berlin-Alexanderplatz film of the novel by Alfred D blin - (Germany)
- Blonde Crazy, starring James Cagney and Joan Blondell
- Black Coffee directed by Leslie S. Hiscott (U.K.)
- The Champ, starring Wallace Beery
- La Chienne (The Bitch), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Michel Simon - (France)
- Cimarron, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
- City Lights, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
- City Streets, starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney
- A Connecticut Yankee, starring Will Rogers
- The Criminal Code, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Walter Huston
- Dishonored, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and Victor McLaglen
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins
- Dracula, directed by Tod Browning, starring Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye
- Elisabeth of Austria starring Lil Dagover and Paul Otto (Germany)
- Emil und die Detektive, starring Rolf Wenkhaus, K the Haack and Fritz Rasp - (Germany)
- Expensive Women
- Five Star Final
- Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive and Mae Clarke
- A Free Soul, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable
- From Saturday to Sunday (Ze soboty na ned li) - (Czechoslovakia)
- The Front Page
- Girls About Town, starring Kay Francis and Joel McCrea
- Goldie, starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy
- Hell Divers, starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable
- Huckleberry Finn
- Hyppolit, the Butler (Hyppolit, a lak j) - (Hungary)
- I Take This Woman, starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
- Indiscreet, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon
- Industrial Britain, documentary filmed by Robert J. Flaherty - (U.K.)
- Iron Man, starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow
- Just a Gigolo
- Kameradschaft (Comradeship), directed by G.W. Pabst - (Germany)
- Kiki
- The Last Flight, starring Richard Barthelmess
- Laugh and Get Rich, starring Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, and Dorothy Lee
- Little Caesar, starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- The Lyons Mail directed by Arthur Maude and starring John Martin Harvey (U.K.)
- M, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Peter Lorre and Otto Wernicke - (Germany)
- M dchen in Uniform, directed by Carl Froelich, starring Hertha Thiele - (Germany)
- The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
- Marius, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Raimu and Pierre Fresnay - (France)
- Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore
- Le Million, directed by Ren Clair - (France)
- The Millionaire, starring George Arliss
- The Miracle Woman, directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Monkey Business, starring Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx
- Night in Montmatre, directed by Leslie S. Hiscott (U.K.)
- Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ben Lyon
- Palmy Days, starring Eddie Cantor
- Pardon Us
- Platinum Blonde, starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow
- Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
- Private Lives
- The Public Enemy, directed by William A. Wellman, starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow and Joan Blondell
- Quick Millions, starring Spencer Tracy
- Sally in Our Alley, starring Gracie Fields - (U.K.)
- The Secret Six, starring Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
- Sidewalks of New York, starring Buster Keaton
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet, starring Helen Hayes
- Smart Money, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney
- Smart Woman, starring Mary Astor and Edward Everett Horton
- The Smiling Lieutenant, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins
- The Squaw Man directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Warner Baxter
- The Stolen Jools, starring Gary Cooper, Laurel and Hardy, and Norma Shearer
- Street Scene, directed by King Vidor, starring Sylvia Sidney
- Svengali, starring John Barrymore
- Tabu, directed by F.W. Murnau
- Tell England, directed by Anthony Asquith (U.K.)
- Ten Cents a Dance, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez
- This Modern Age, starring Joan Crawford
- The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 groschen-oper), starring Lotte Lenya - (Germany)
- Tokyo Chorus (Tokyo no korasu), directed by Yasujiro Ozu - (Japan)
- Tonight or Never, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Gloria Swanson and Melvyn Douglas
- Waterloo Bridge, directed by James Whale
Serials Short film series Animated short film series Births - January 5 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
- January 14 - Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
- January 17 - James Earl Jones, actor
- February 6 - Mamie Van Doren, actress and sex symbol
- February 8 - James Dean, actor (died 1955)
- March 22 - William Shatner, actor
- March 26 - Leonard Nimoy, actor and director
- May 28 - Carroll Baker, actress
- June 20 - Olympia Dukakis, actress
- July 1 - Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
- July 4 - Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (died 1977)
- Jult 11 - Tab Hunter, actor and singer
- August 31 - Noble Willingham, actor (died 2004)
- September 10 - Philip Baker Hall, actor
- September 12 - Ian Holm, English actor
- September 17 - Anne Bancroft, actress (died 2005)
- September 21 - Larry Hagman, actor and director
- September 29 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress and sex symbol
- September 30 - Angie Dickinson, actress
- November 6 - Mike Nichols German-born director
- December 11 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress
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