Timelines for year 1933

Patsy Kelly

Patsy Kelly


In 1933, she and Jimmy Forlenza were passengers in an automobile driven by actor / female impersonator Jean Malin. Malin accidentally backed the car off the Venice Pier and drowned. Kelly and Forlenza (a close friend of Malin) survived.

Marion Shockley

Marion Shockley


Wampas Baby Star in 1933.

Noel Madison

Noel Madison


He was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. His membership number is 5. A solid gold card was presented to him and is in the possession of his son, Toby R. Madison. It is inscribed as follows: "In affectionate appreciation of the part he played in the founding of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933, this Honorary Life Membership is presented November 25, 1958 to Noel Madison by the Board of Directors".

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot


His first wife, a Cambridge governess, was named Vivienne, but she preferred to spell her name Vivien. They separated in 1933. In 1938 she was committed to a mental hospital, where she lived until her death in 1947. Eliot never visited her there.

E.G. Marshall

E.G. Marshall


Began acting in 1933.

Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett


Was pregnant with daughter Melinda Markey while filming Little Women (1933).

Played Amy March in Little Women (1933) with Katharine Hepburn. She played Elizabeth Taylor's mother in Father of the Bride (1950). Taylor played Amy March in the remake: Little Women (1949).

Lester Cole

Lester Cole


In 1933, Cole and nine other writers founded the Screen Writers Guild.

Judy Malcolm

Judy Malcolm


Judy was a stand-in for Fay Wray in King Kong (1933). In the scene where Wray and Bruce Cabot jumped off a cliff into the river below, Judy Malcolm did the actual jump. She was also seen in long-shots in Kong's hands.

Tom Neal

Tom Neal


1933: Tom Neal knocked out Max Levine in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out James Crawford in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Gary Keers in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Igg Rosenberg in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Leo Hart in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Tommy Mitchell in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Samuel Rodgway in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Melvin Kenyon in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Lawrence O'Neil in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out Lloyd Blake in 1 round in Cambridge, Massachusetts in an amateur boxing match.

1933: Tom Neal knocked out William Beltran in 1 round in an amateur boxing match at the Indoor Athletic Building at Harvard University. Neal was coached by Henry Lamar.