The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

* 1933 – Bapu, Indian cartoonist, designer and film director

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

Again echoing Winchell, Sullivan took on yet another medium in 1933 by writing and starring in the film Mr. Broadway, which has him guiding the audience around New York nightspots to meet entertainers and celebrities.

Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).

In 1933, RKO released Merian C. Cooper's classic " giant monster " film King Kong.

Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".

After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles among many other types of roles, including in The Bowery ( 1933 ) and Viva Villa ( 1934 ), both huge productions starring Wallace Beery.

For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong ( 1933 ).

Faye Wray in the 1933 feature film King Kong ( 1933 film ) | King Kong

* 1887 – Pat Sullivan, Australian cartoonist, pioneer animator and film producer ( Felix the Cat ) ( d. 1933 )

Capra's final theatrical film was with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, named Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), a remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

In 1933 Hawks signed a three-picture deal at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and his first film was there Today We Live in 1933, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper.

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

* 1933 – Elliott Kastner, American film producer ( d. 2010 )

* 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French film director

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's next film was The Kiss Before the Mirror ( 1933 ), a critical success but a box office failure.

Others include Duck Soup ( 1933 ) and National Lampoon's Animal House.

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

to a joke Chico would later tell in Duck Soup ( 1933 film ) | Duck Soup

Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

* Duck Soup ( 1933 )

In 1955, Harpo made an appearance on the sitcom I Love Lucy, in which they re-enacted the famous mirror scene from the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup ( 1933 ).

* Duck Soup ( 1933 )

Furthermore, it was Chico's connection with Irving Thalberg of MGM that led to Thalberg's signing the Brothers when they were in a career slump after Duck Soup ( 1933 ), the last of their films for Paramount Pictures.

The term Freedonia was later popularized by the 1933 Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup, as a fictional country.

In 1933, during the Great Depression, Hannah dropped off his portfolio at Walt Disney Studios, and soon afterward was hired as an in-between and clean-up artist, working on Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Silly Symphony cartoons.

A Peking Duck being roasted by a hung oven circa 1933.

* Duck Soup ( 1933 ) — producer ( uncredited )

The roles are Mrs. Potter in The Cocoanuts ( 1929 ), Mrs. Rittenhouse in Animal Crackers ( 1930 ), Mrs. Gloria Teasdale in Duck Soup ( 1933 ), Mrs. Claypool in A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ), Emily Upjohn in A Day at the Races ( 1937 ), Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury in At the Circus ( 1939 ), and Martha Phelps in The Big Store ( 1941 ).

* Duck Soup ( 1933 )

* Duck Soup ( 1933 )

Kalmar and Ruby's songs were also featured in the Marx Brothers ' films Horse Feathers ( 1932 ) and Duck Soup ( 1933 ).

*" Hail, Hail Fredonia ," " Duck Soup ," 1933

(" Keep On Doin ' What You're Doin '" was originally intended for The Marx Brothers ' 1933 film, Duck Soup ).

M-204 was first designated on July 12, 1933 between Leland and Suttons Bay along what is today Duck Lake Road.

* Duck Soup ( 1933 )

* Duck Soup ( 1933 ) as Freedonia's Secretary of War