The work was adapted into a 64-minute mute film by Orestis Laskos in 1931, one of the first Greek cinema classics.

In 1931 Astra Film with Orestis Laskos presented Daphnis and Chloe ( Δάφνις και Χλόη ), contained the first nude scene in the history of European cinema ; it was also the first Greek movie which was played abroad.

* 1931 Daphnis and Chloe, Orestis Laskos

Europeans were more relaxed about nudity in film than the U. S. The 1931 Greek film Daphnis and Chloe by Orestis Laskos featured the first nude scene in a European fiction film, showing Chloe bathing in a fountain.

Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage ( 1931 ) about the Belgian coal mining region.

He directed the Association from 1930 to 1931, and was a member of its Consultative Counsel for Linguistic Research from 1927 to 1938.

Giving Expressionist-affiliated filmmakers particularly free stylistic rein were Universal horror pictures such as Dracula ( 1931 ), The Mummy ( 1932 )— the former photographed and the latter directed by the Berlin-trained Karl Freund — and The Black Cat ( 1934 ), directed by Austrian émigré Edgar G. Ulmer.

A decade before the classic era, a story of Hammett's was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets ( 1931 ), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked regularly with Sternberg.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed such classics as Frankenstein ( 1931 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), The Invisible Man ( 1933 ) and Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).

Whale directed the iconic horror film Frankenstein ( 1931 film ) | Frankenstein ( 1931 )

* The Phantom ( 1931 film ), an American film directed by Alan James

Best known as the director of Dracula ( 1931 ), the cult classic Freaks ( 1932 ), and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres.

Although the de facto leader of the party at the time, Zhou Enlai, originally supported Mao's purges as necessary to eliminate KMT spies, after he arrived in Jiangxi in December 1931 Zhou criticized Mao's campaigns for being directed more against anti-Maoists than legitimate threats to the Party, for the campaign's general senselessness, and for the widespread use of torture to extract confessions.

It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming ( uncredited ) and Gustav Machaty ( uncredited ).

The Champ is a 1931 American film written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor.

The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ) is an American film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert, and released by Paramount Pictures.

At a mass rally in Beijing, Jiang directed a " struggle session " against a woman, Fan Jin, who had married Jiang's second husband after Jiang separated from him in 1931.

M is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre.

City Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin.

The film exhibits notable similarities to a 1931 French film directed by René Clair entitled À nous la liberté ( Liberty for Us ) — the assembly line sequence is a clear instance.

The Public Enemy ( released as Enemies of the Public in the United Kingdom ) is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman.

Tabu ( also called Tabu, a Story of the South Seas ) is a 1931 film directed by F. W.

He worked throughout Germany and directed his first film in 1931, the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran ( literally In This Case, Rather Cod-Liver Oil ).

was a Japanese film director who directed Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, in 1931.

In 1931 he directed his first sound films, On purge bébé ( Baby's Laxative ) and La Chienne ( The Bitch ).

He also starred in The Bat Whispers ( 1930 ) and Corsair ( 1931 ), both directed by West.

* Daphnis et Chloe ( 1931 ) at YouTube

* Chloe Wofford ( 1931 –), ( birth name of Toni Morrison ) American author, editor, and professor

Τζέκιλ και Μίστερ Χάιντ ( ταινία 1931 )

In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* Adrian Rogers ( 1931 – 2005 ), American pastor, conservative, author

* Maurice Agis ( 1931 – 2009 ), a British sculptor and artist

Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ), the Act of Settlement cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament and, by convention, only with the consent of all the other realms, as it touches on the succession to the shared throne.

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

However, shortly after this positive result, Kurt Gödel published On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems ( 1931 ), showing that in any sufficiently strong axiomatic system there are true statements which cannot be proved in the system.

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

* Amos Bar ( 1931 – 2011 ), Israeli author, teacher, and editor

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

* Walter Benz ( b. 1931 ), German mathematician known for his work on geometric planes

# R. Koppenel ( 1929 – 1931 ), resident

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

* Ramsey, Frank Plumpton ( 1931 ) " Truth and Probability " ( PDF ), Chapter VII in The Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays, Reprinted 2001, Routledge.

Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.

City Lights ( 1931 ), regarded as some of Chaplin's finest work

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).