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.

Famously, the first version of Superman ( a bald-headed villain ) appeared in the third issue of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's 1933 fanzine Science Fiction.

In 1933, Pickford underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated / live action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount released its own version of the book.

The Nazis destroyed the original negative print of the German version in 1933, and it was reconstructed after the War ended.

A well-known version of the story is an award-winning 1933 Silly Symphony cartoon, which was produced by Walt Disney.

The 1933 version was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

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In 1933, these versions were both replaced by another modified version, that was used until 1935.

Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of Lewis Carroll.

") and Grant also played " The Mock Turtle " in the 1933 film version of Alice in Wonderland.

* Duke Ellington recorded an instrumental version of the song in 1933 and another version with singer Ivie Anderson in 1940.

Doo-Wop ) Comedian Harmonists recorded their version of this song, " Ohne Dich ", in German in Sep. 4, 1933 ( Berlin ).

They further made a version in French language, " Quand il pleut ", recorded Sep. 7, 1933 ().

After his success as time traveller Peter Standish in Berkeley Square ( 1929 ), he launched his Hollywood career by repeating the Standish role in the 1933 film version of the play.

He starred in the film version of Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.

His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman ( although he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film Little Women, displaying a pleasant voice ).

* L ' ascension (" The Ascension "), orchestra ( 1932 – 33 ; organ version including replacement movement, 1933 – 34 )

This came about in September 1933 with the formation of Fine Gael from the three parties, though in reality Fine Gael was a larger version of Cumann na nGaedheal.

Between 1930 and 1932 Senator Glass introduced several versions of a bill ( known in each version as the Glass bill ) to separate commercial and investment banking and to establish other reforms ( except deposit insurance ) similar to the final provisions of the 1933 Banking Act.

On January 25, 1933, during the lame duck session of Congress following the 1932 elections, the Senate passed a version of the Glass bill.

On March 11, 1933, Senator Glass reintroduced ( as S. 245 ) his Glass bill revised to require banks to eliminate securities affiliates within 2 years rather than the 5 years permitted by the compromised version of the Glass bill the Senate had passed in January.

Gielgud had triumphs in many other plays, notably his greatest popular success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ) ( a romantic version of the story of Richard II ), The Importance of Being Earnest which he first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1930 and which remained in his repertory until 1947, and a legendary production of Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ) which Gielgud directed and alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with a young Laurence Olivier in his first professional Shakespearean leading role.