Timelines for year 1935
Jean Muir
Was the original choice for Errol Flynn's leading lady in the classic swashbuckler Captain Blood (1935) but the role ultimately went to young 18-year-old Olivia de Havilland, who impressed critics and audiences in the film A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), which also co-starred Ms. Muir.
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell claimed that she had never intended to publish "Gone With the Wind". In 1935, a friend of hers told Harold Latham, a visiting editor from the MacMillan publishing company, about the book. After some persuasion, Ms. Mitchell took the manuscript to his hotel. Mr. Latham stated that the stack of papers was almost as tall as Margaret was. Most of the pages had become mildewed and the book's chapters were out of order. After Margaret gave her manuscript to Mr. Latham she changed her mind about its possible publication and requested that he send the manuscript back to her. Mr. Lathams declined to do so. After reading the manuscript he realized that he had a very good book and published "Gone with the Wind" in 1936. It literally became an overnight success selling over a million copies in six months time and one million seven hundred thousand copies within a year of publication. It was in those days and is said to be still the second most printed book in the world, second only to the bible.
John Lounsbery
Employed at Walt Disney Productions from July 2, 1935 until his death on February 13, 1976.
Lesley Selander
Selander is generally considered to be the most prolific director of feature Westerns of all time, with at least 107 to his credit between 1935 and 1967. Lambert Hillyer finishes a close second with 106 horse operas helmed between 1917 and 1949.
John Ford
Has won more directing Oscars than any other director: four, for The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952). He also won an Oscar for Best Documentary, Short Subject for The Battle of Midway (1942) and an Oscar for Best Documentary for December 7th (1943).
Movita
In the 1935 version of "Mutiny on the Bounty", Movita played Tehanni, the Tahitian girl who married Midshipman Byam. In real life, she married Marlon Brando, who played Fletcher Christian in the 1962 version of "Mutiny on the Bounty."
She is the last surviving cast member of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
Harold Clurman
His papers are on deposit at the Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Clurman papers contain notebooks and journals, director's annotated scripts, manuscript drafts and annotated typescripts of Clurman's books, and photograph scrapbooks documenting his career as a director, writer and critic. The materials span from 1935 through 1978 and give an interesting look at Clurman's work and thought process as a director. His notebooks contain his ideas on plot and character development, as well as casting notes and ideas for plays which he directed, while the scripts contain his director's annotations and compliment the notebooks for research and the study of Clurman's techniques as a director. Drafts and typescripts of his writings elucidate the evolution of his three books: "Ibsen," "On Directing" and "All People Are Famous." Finally, the photograph scrapbooks give a pictorial representative of specific plays, including "Awake and Sing," "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
Ken Roberts
He founded the American Guild of Radio Announcers in 1935 which became the American Federation of Radio Artists and finally evolved to the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists also known as AFTRA.
Gene Nelson
Made his professional stage debut as a member of the Fanchon and Marco Juvenile Revue at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeeles in 1935. He also studied tap with Nick Castle.
Ken Maynard
Maynard's saddle, used in his films from about 1935-on sold for $23,000 at the High Noon auction in Mesa, AZ in January, 2003.
Carroll Borland
Allegedly she was fascinated by Lugosi when saw him as Dracula at the Fulton Theater in Oakland, she wrote a novel called "Countess Dracula" and sent it to Lugosi. He called her to play Lucy, Dracula's favorite victim, on stage. Later he gave her the role of Luna Mora in the film Mark of the Vampire (1935).
William Severn
His family immigrated to the U.S. from South Africa in 1935 before he was born. His siblings Raymond Severn, Ernest Severn, Clifford Severn, Christopher Severn, Winston Severn, Yvonne Severn, and Venetia Severn all appeared in films as child/adolescent actors.
Frankie Thomas
Was up for the role of David Copperfield in The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935) for MGM but Louis B. Mayer thought he was not frail enough for the part.
Gloria Stuart
Her daughter, Sylvia Vaughn (Sheekman) Thompson Park, born June 19, 1935, is a gourmet food writer and has authored several cookbooks.
In Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Stuart played a young woman whose mother pushes her to marry an unlikable rich man, but the young woman falls in love with a poor man. In Titanic (1997), Stuart's character did all that, 84 years earlier.
Eleanor Powell
Her parents separated when she was 11 months and divorced when she was two. Her mother told Eleanor as a child that her father had died to protect them from outside scandal, but Eleanor's father reintroduced himself to Eleanor in 1935 during the Boston run of "At Home Abroad."