This Week In Film History: March 22-28

MovieFanFare has another This Week In Film History post with a few notable items from the Swing Era, including Johnny Weissmuller's first appearance as Tarzan, and the first film version of a comic book super hero.   

March 25, 1932: Olympic swimming champ Johnny Weissmuller is Tarzan the Ape Man and Maureen O’Sullivan Jane in the first in MGM’s jungle adventure series.
March 28, 1935: Director Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda documentary Triumph of the Will, chronicling a 1934 Nazi rally at Nuremberg, premieres in Berlin.
March 28, 1941: The first movie adaptation of a comic book superhero appears with the first episode of Republic’s serial The Adventures of Captain Marvel.
March 25, 1943: Japanese director Akira Kurosawa‘s first film, Sanshiro Sugata, is released.
March 22, 1944: Hollywood enters the age of TV advertising, as Paramount promotes The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek in a 30-minute program hosted by director Preston Sturges.
March 24, 1949: Laurence Olivier’s production of Hamlet is the first non-Hollywood film to win a Best Picture Academy Award. Also, John Huston (Best Director) and dad Walter (Best Supporting Actor) are the first father/son winners, for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.