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The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1938 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
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1 | Boys Town | MGM | $2,828,000[1] |
2 | Alexander's Ragtime Band | 20th Century Fox | $2,630,000[2] |
3 | Test Pilot | MGM | $2,431,000[1] |
4 | You Can't Take It with You | Columbia | $2,182,000[2] |
5 | Sweethearts | MGM | $2,017,000[3] |
6 | In Old Chicago | 20th Century Fox | $1,964,000[2] |
7 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | Warner Bros. | $1,928,000[4] |
8 | Love Finds Andy Hardy | MGM | $1,637,000[1] |
9 | Marie Antoinette | $1,633,000[1] | |
10 | Too Hot to Handle | $1,627,000[1] |
Events
- January – MGM announces that Judy Garland will be cast in the role of Dorothy Gale in the upcoming The Wizard of Oz film. Ray Bolger is cast as the Tin Woodman and Buddy Ebsen as the Scarecrow. At Bolger's insistence, the roles are switched between the two actors. On July 25, MGM announces Bert Lahr has been cast as the Cowardly Lion.
- January 21 – Pioneering French film director Georges Méliès, best remembered for groundbreaking films like A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage, dies in Paris, aged 76.
- February 24 – The entertainment trade newspaper Variety confirms that the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had bought the rights to adapt L. Frank Baum’s beloved children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the screen
- April 5 – Noel Langley completes the first script for The Wizard of Oz.
- April 20 – Leonard Slye appears in his first starring role as Roy Rogers in Under Western Stars. He becomes one of the most popular Western stars being ranked number one from 1943 to 1952 and would become known as "King of the Cowboys".
- May 7 – Lyricist Yip Harburg and composer Harold Arlen begin work on the musical score for The Wizard of Oz.
- May 14 – Release of Warner Bros.' epic swashbuckler film The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Critically acclaimed for its vivid use of Technicolor, as well as its memorable action scenes, the film goes on to win three Academy Awards.
- October 13 – Filming starts on The Wizard of Oz on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio lot in Culver City, California, initially with Richard Thorpe as director.
- October 21 – Buddy Ebsen suffers from a near fatal allergic reaction to the aluminum dust used in his Tin Woodman make-up on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Ebsen is replaced by Jack Haley.
- December 22 – MGM's first feature film in three-strip Technicolor, Sweethearts, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, is released.
- December 23 – Margaret Hamilton is severely burned during a mishap on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Hamilton, cast in the role of the Wicked Witch of the West, leaves the film for six weeks.
- Orson Welles makes Too Much Johnson, starring Joseph Cotten. It is never completed and first released only in 2013.
- Producer George Minter establishes Renown Pictures, a British film distributor.[5]
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: You Can't Take It with You – Columbia
- Best Director: Frank Capra – You Can't Take It with You
- Best Actor: Spencer Tracy – Boys Town
- Best Actress: Bette Davis – Jezebel
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan – Kentucky
- Best Supporting Actress: Fay Bainter – Jezebel
1938 film releases
January–March
- January 1938
- January 6
- March 1938
- March 26
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