Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1936

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
February 1936
February 5 Modern Times (Wide) Kino International $163,245
 
February 21 Klondike Annie (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
February 22 The Story of Louis Pasteur (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
February 28 Desire (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
February 29 The Walking Dead (Limited) Warner Bros.  
March 1936
March 6 Little Lord Fauntleroy (Wide)  
 
March 13 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
March 23 The Great Ziegfeld (Wide) $3,000,000
April 1936
April 13 Lash of the Penitentes (Limited) Roland C. Price Productions  
 
April 16 Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Wide) $2,080,000
 
April 24 Absolute Quiet (Limited) MGM  
May 1936
May 11 Dracula’s Daughter (Limited)  
 
May 17 Show Boat (Limited) Universal  
 
May 30 It’s Love Again (Limited)  
June 1936
June 5 Fury (Limited) MGM  
 
June 15 Secret Agent (Limited) Gaumont British Picture Corporation of America  
 
June 26 San Francisco (Wide) $2,868,000
July 1936
July 6 The Phantom Rider (Limited) Universal  
 
July 20 The Devil-Doll (Limited)  
 
July 22 Satan Met a Lady (Limited) Warner Bros.  
August 1936
August 28 The Gorgeous Hussy (Limited)  
Mary of Scotland (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
Swing Time (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
September 1936
September 6 My Man Godfrey (Limited) Universal  
 
September 23 Dodsworth (Limited) United Artists  
October 1936
October 9 Libeled Lady (Limited) MGM  
 
October 16 All American Chump (Limited) MGM  
 
October 17 How to Become a Detective (Wide) $6,000,000
 
October 20 Charge of the Light Brigade, The (Wide) Warner Bros.  
 
October 23 Mister Cinderella (Limited)  
November 1936
November 4 Toni (Limited) French Motion Picture Company  
 
November 6 Pillars of Society (Limited)  
 
November 13 Make Way for a Lady (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
November 16 The Plainsman (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
November 18 Go West Young Man (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
November 19 The Garden of Allah (Limited)  
December 1936
December 25 After the Thin Man (Limited) MGM