The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1933
Philip Marlowe becomes a private investigator. (The Big Sleep)
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo go to New York so Diego can paint a mural comissioned by Nelson Rockefeller. (New York) (Frida)
Don Narducci extorts money from Vincenzo Cartino on his son Joey's birthday. (New York) (Jane Austen's Mafia!)
Fay Wray stars in King Kong. (New York) (King Kong)
King Kong is discovered on Skull Island and set loose in New York. (King Kong)
Oil found in Saudi Arabia. (The Kingdom)
Grace and her father head south from Dogville with their group of gangsters. (Manderlay)
Year Of The Scorpion; Imhotep is resurrected once again to fight The Scorpion King. (The Mummy Returns)
Depression; Noodles released from prison. (Once Upon a Time in America)
Adolf Hitler appointed German Chancellor, and granted dictatorial powers. (Germany) (The Pianist)
The court case of black man Tom Robinson's alleged rape of white farmer's daughter Mayella Ewell. (Maycomb, Alabama) (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Monday 2nd January: William "Kid" Gleason dies. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Eight Men Out)
Monday 30th January: Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany. (Hitler: The Last Ten Days)
Tuesday 7th March: Harold Nixon dies of tuberculosis. (Nixon)
Tuesday 23rd May: Joan Collins is born. (London, England) (Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure)
Thursday 15th June: George "Machine Gun" Kelly's kidnaps millionaire oilman Charles Urschel, and collects a $200,000 ransom before his capture by the FBI. (Machine-Gun Kelly)
Thursday 29th June: Fatty Arbuckle dies of a heart attack. (New York, New York) (The Black Dahlia)
Saturday 22nd July: American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field, having flown solo around the world in 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes. (New York) (Story of Will Rogers, The )
Wednesday 20th September: Hot on the heels of her breakout recording "Weary", Winnie Wharton follows the advice of her new manager, Lucky Lorimer, and inks a contract with Acme Record Co. (New York, NY) (Broadway Hostess)
Saturday 30th September: Frank Bennet is killed trying to kidnap his and Ruth's baby. (Whistle Stop, AL) (Fried Green Tomatoes)
Saturday 28th October: Jem and Scout are attacked by Mr Ewell, who is stabbed and killed, presumably by Boo Radley, though the Sheriff's ruling is that Mr Ewell fell on his own knife. (Maycomb, Alabama) (To Kill A Mockingbird)