Events
Top grossing films
- The Indians Are Coming
- Madam Satan
- Der Blaue Engel
Movies released
Movies released in 1930 include:
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone
- Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers
- Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo
- The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
- The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
- The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich
- Der Blaue Engel, starring Marlene Dietrich
- The Divorcee - Starring: Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Director: Robert Z. Leonard.
- Hell's Angels (movie), directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
- The Indians Are Coming (a serial)
- Journey's End, by George Pearson
- Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
- Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Puttin' on the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman
Births
- January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
- January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
- January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
- January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
- February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress
- May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
- August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
- October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
- December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
Deaths