Lewis Milestone makes a powerful film of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, published in the previous year

Edward G. Robinson gives a chilling portrayal of a gangster loosely based on Al Capone in the film Little Caesar

'Garbo talks' and breaks box office records in her first sound film, Anna Christie, directed by Clarence Brown

US choreographer Busby Berkeley moves to Hollywood to provide the first of his famous dance spectaculars, in Whoopee

US actress Bette Davis moves to Hollywood and appears in her first film, The Bad Sister

US film star James Cagney has a great success in the first of his many gangster roles, in The Public Enemy

Charlie Chaplin makes City Lights, in which the tramp befriends and helps a blind flower girl

Boris Karloff gives a touching portrayal of the monster created by Dr Frankenstein, in the first of several screen performances in the role

Mae West stars alongside George Raft in her first film, Night after Night

Ernst Lubitsch has a great success with Trouble in Paradise, a Hollywood comedy about villainy and romance in Paris

Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan star as Tarzan and Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man, the first of countless Tarzan talkies

Lloyd Bacon directs 42nd Street, a classic backstage movie about putting a musical comedy on Broadway

Alexander Korda directs Charles Laughton in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII

US actress Katherine Hepburn wins the first of four Oscars in only her second film, Morning Glory

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance together for the first time on film, in Flying Down to Rio

King Kong, an enduringly successful horror film, is based on a story by Edgar Wallace

The Marx Brothers make their last film as a foursome, Duck Soup, with Zeppo still in the team

Mae West gives Cary Grant his big break, choosing him as her co-star in She Done Him Wrong

Fritz Lang's film The Testament of Dr Mabuse is banned in Germany because of implicit criticism of Nazi thugs

J. Arthur Rank founds the Religious Film Society to make films in Britain that will bring people to Christianity

German photographer Leni Riefenstahl glorifies Hitler and the Nuremberg rally in her film Triumph of the Will

6-year-old Shirley Temple wins instant fame after starring in Stand up and Cheer

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have one of their greatest successes dancing in their fourth film together, Top Hat

Frank Lloyd directs Charles Laughton and Clark Gable in a dramatic account of the famous mutiny on the Bounty

In A Night at the Opera the Marx Brothers make the first of their films as the famous threesome, Groucho, Harpo and Chico