1923 in film

• April 15 - Lee De Forest
  Lee De Forest
  Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use...
  
   demonstrates the Phonofilm
  Phonofilm
  In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...
  
   sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville
  Vaudeville
  Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
  
   performers.

• Ashes of Vengence, starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through , but she also...
  
  
• The Covered Wagon
  The Covered Wagon
  The Covered Wagon is a American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a novel by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J...
  
  
• The Daring Years
  The Daring Years
  The Daring Years is an independently released American silent film melodrama, directed by Kenneth Webb and produced by Daniel Carson Goodman. The film starred Mildred Harris, Clara Bow, Charles Emmett Mack, and Tyrone Power, Sr....
  
  , starring Mildred Harris
  Mildred Harris
  Mildred Harris was an American actress of the silent film era.-Early life:Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Mildred Harris made her first screen appearances at the age of eleven in the Francis Ford and Thomas H...
  
  , Charles Emmett Mack
  Charles Emmett Mack
  Charles Emmett Mack , was an American film actor during the silent film era. He appeared in 17 films between 1916 and 1927. Born Charles Emmett McNerney in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mack was a protégé of pioneering film director D. W...
  
   and Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. Her acting artistry and high spirits made her the premier flapper and the film It made her world famous...
  
  
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)
  The 1923 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda, and directed by Wallace Worsley, is the most famous adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, aside from the 1996 Disney Adaptation...
  
  , starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. He is best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his...
  
  
• Daddy starring Jackie Coogan
  Jackie Coogan
  John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on The Addams Family...
  
  
• The Lights of London
• Our Hospitality
  Our Hospitality
  Our Hospitality is a silent comedy directed, produced, written by and starring Buster Keaton. Released in 1923 by Metro Pictures Corporation, the movie uses slapstick and situational comedy to tell the story of Willie McKay, a city slicker who gets caught in the middle of the infamous Canfield &...
  
  , directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton VI was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all...
  
  
• The Pilgrim
  The Pilgrim
  The Pilgrim is a 1923 American silent film made by Charlie Chaplin for the First National Film Company, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance....
  
  , directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Purple Highway, starring Madge Kennedy
  Madge Kennedy
  Madge Kennedy was a movie and stage actress of the silent film era....
  
  , Monte Blue
  Monte Blue
  Monte Blue was a movie actor who most of his career played the romantic leading man in the silent film era....
  
  , Vincent Coleman
  Vincent Coleman
  This is for the actor. For the heroic train dispatcher, see Vince Coleman .Vincent Coleman was an American stage and film actor of the silent film era of the late 1910s and early 1920s....
  
   and Pedro de Cordoba
  Pedro de Cordoba
  Pedro de Cordoba , was an American actor.Pedro de Cordoba, who appeared in his first film, a 1915 version of Carmen, was actually a classically trained theatre actor who confessed he did not enjoy appearing in silent films nearly as much as he liked working on stage...
  
  
• Safety Last!
  Safety Last!
  Safety Last! is a 1923 comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent film era: Lloyd clutching the bending hands of a clock on the side of a building as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  .

Events

• April 15 - Lee De Forest
  Lee De Forest
  Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use...
  
   demonstrates the Phonofilm
  Phonofilm
  In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...
  
   sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville
  Vaudeville
  Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
  
   performers.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1923

• Ashes of Vengence, starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through , but she also...
  
  
• The Covered Wagon
  The Covered Wagon
  The Covered Wagon is a American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a novel by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J...
  
  
• The Daring Years
  The Daring Years
  The Daring Years is an independently released American silent film melodrama, directed by Kenneth Webb and produced by Daniel Carson Goodman. The film starred Mildred Harris, Clara Bow, Charles Emmett Mack, and Tyrone Power, Sr....
  
  , starring Mildred Harris
  Mildred Harris
  Mildred Harris was an American actress of the silent film era.-Early life:Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Mildred Harris made her first screen appearances at the age of eleven in the Francis Ford and Thomas H...
  
  , Charles Emmett Mack
  Charles Emmett Mack
  Charles Emmett Mack , was an American film actor during the silent film era. He appeared in 17 films between 1916 and 1927. Born Charles Emmett McNerney in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mack was a protégé of pioneering film director D. W...
  
   and Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. Her acting artistry and high spirits made her the premier flapper and the film It made her world famous...
  
  
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)
  The 1923 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda, and directed by Wallace Worsley, is the most famous adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, aside from the 1996 Disney Adaptation...
  
  , starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema. He is best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his...
  
  
• Daddy starring Jackie Coogan
  Jackie Coogan
  John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on The Addams Family...
  
  
• The Lights of London
• Our Hospitality
  Our Hospitality
  Our Hospitality is a silent comedy directed, produced, written by and starring Buster Keaton. Released in 1923 by Metro Pictures Corporation, the movie uses slapstick and situational comedy to tell the story of Willie McKay, a city slicker who gets caught in the middle of the infamous Canfield &...
  
  , directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton VI was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all...
  
  
• The Pilgrim
  The Pilgrim
  The Pilgrim is a 1923 American silent film made by Charlie Chaplin for the First National Film Company, starring Chaplin and Edna Purviance....
  
  , directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Purple Highway, starring Madge Kennedy
  Madge Kennedy
  Madge Kennedy was a movie and stage actress of the silent film era....
  
  , Monte Blue
  Monte Blue
  Monte Blue was a movie actor who most of his career played the romantic leading man in the silent film era....
  
  , Vincent Coleman
  Vincent Coleman
  This is for the actor. For the heroic train dispatcher, see Vince Coleman .Vincent Coleman was an American stage and film actor of the silent film era of the late 1910s and early 1920s....
  
   and Pedro de Cordoba
  Pedro de Cordoba
  Pedro de Cordoba , was an American actor.Pedro de Cordoba, who appeared in his first film, a 1915 version of Carmen, was actually a classically trained theatre actor who confessed he did not enjoy appearing in silent films nearly as much as he liked working on stage...
  
  
• Safety Last!
  Safety Last!
  Safety Last! is a 1923 comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent film era: Lloyd clutching the bending hands of a clock on the side of a building as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  . In one scene, Lloyd is seen climbing around and hanging off the side of a tall building, including a very famous scene where he hangs off a clock. Lloyd did all of his own stunts, and worked without a safety net.
• Salomé
  Salomé (1923 film)
  Salomé , a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name...
  
  , starring Alla Nazimova
  Alla Nazimova
  Alla Nazimova , born Miriam Edez Adelaida Leventon was a Russian/American theater and film actress, screenwriter, and producer. She is perhaps best known as simply Nazimova, but also went under the name Alia Nasimoff.-Early life:Nazimova was one of three children of Yakov Leventon and Sonya Horowitz...
  
  ; directed by Charles Bryant
• Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination
  Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination
  Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination is a 1923 German silent film directed by Arthur Robison. It is considered part of German Expressionism.-Plot:...
  
  (aka Warning Shadows), directed by Arthur Robison
  Arthur Robison
  Arthur Robison was a German film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 20 films between 1916 and 1935.-Selected filmography:* A Night of Horror...
  
  
• Scaramouche (1923 film)
  Scaramouche (1923 film)
  Scaramouche is a 1923 film based on the novel Scaramouche. Metro Film Production.It was directed by Rex Ingram and stars Ramón Novarro along with Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham....
  
  Starring Ramon Novarro
  Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro was a Mexican actor who achieved fame as a "Latin lover" in silent films.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Alice Terry
  Alice Terry
  Alice Terry was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933.-Career:...
  
  , Lewis Stone
  Lewis Stone
  Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stone's hair grew gray by the time he was twenty. He fought in the Spanish-American War, then returned to a career as a writer. He soon began acting, but his career was interrupted by World War I...
  
  , Lloyd Ingraham
  Lloyd Ingraham
  Lloyd Ingraham was an American film actor and director. He appeared in over 280 films between 1912 and 1950, as well as directing over 100 films between 1913 and 1930...
  
  
• Song of Love (1923 film), starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through , but she also...
  
  
• Souls for Sale
  Souls for Sale
  Souls for Sale is a 1923 silent film written, directed, and produced by Rupert Hughes from his novel of the same name. The film featured Eleanor Boardman in her first leading role, having won a contract with Goldwyn Studios through their "New Faces of 1921" contest just two years prior. The film is...
  
  , starring Richard Dix
  Richard Dix
  Richard Dix was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film. His standard on-screen image was that of the rugged and stalwart hero.-Early life:...
  
   and Eleanor Boardman
  Eleanor Boardman
  Eleanor Boardman was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Die Straße
  Die Straße
  Die Straße , also known as The Street, is a German film, directed by Karl Grune.-Cast:*Eugen Klöpfer ... Lower middle-class man*Lucie Höflich ... Wife of man*Anton Edthofer ... Pimp*Aud Egede-Nissen ... Harlot...
  
  (The Street), directed by Karl Grune
• The Ten Commandments
  The Ten Commandments (1923 film)
  The Ten Commandments is a 1923 epic silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts as Moses, Charles de Rochefort as Pharaoh Ramesses, Estelle Taylor as Miriam the sister of Moses, and James Neill as Aaron, the brother of Moses. The cast also included notable silent film actors...
  
  , starring Theodore Roberts; directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil Blount DeMille was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.-Early life:...
  
  
• Why Worry?
  Why Worry?
  Why Worry? is a 1923 comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It was made shortly after and within the same year as Lloyd's most well-known film today, Safety Last!.- Plot :...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  
• Within The Law, starring Norma Talmadge
• A Woman of Paris
  A Woman of Paris
  A Woman of Paris is a feature-length silent film that debuted in 1923. The film, an atypical drama film for its creator, was written, directed, produced and later scored by Charlie Chaplin. It is also known as A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate.-Plot:Marie St...
  
  , starring Edna Purviance
  Edna Purviance
  Edna Purviance was an American actress during the silent movie era. She was the leading lady in many Charlie Chaplin movies. In a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with Chaplin.-Early life:...
  
  ; directed by Charles Chaplin

Short film series

• Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.Chaplin acted in, directed, scripted, produced and...
  
  (1914-1923)
• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton VI was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all...
  
  (1917-1941)
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team composed of thin, English-born Stan Laurel and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy . They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe.The two comedians...
  
  (1921-1943)
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, Our Gang was produced at the Roach studio starting in 1922 as a...
  
  (1922-1944
  1944 in film
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*July 20 - Since You Went Away is released.*September 6 - Double Indemnity is released.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:...
  
  )

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combined to make Felix one of the most recognizable cartoon characters next to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck,...
  
  (1919-1936)
• Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown was an animated character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement. To test out his new invention...
  
  (1919-1934)
• Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Terry came upon the inspiration for the series by young actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop's Fables. Although Terry later claimed he...
  
  (1921-1934)
• Alice Comedies
  Alice Comedies
  The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoonscreated by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice, originally played by Virginia Davis and later Dawn O'Day, Margie Gay, and Lois Hardwick and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated...
  
  (1923-1927)
• The Red Head Comedies (1923).

Births

• January 7 - Pinkas Braun
  Pinkas Braun
  Pinkas Braun was a Swiss film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1954 and 2002.He was born in Zürich, Switzerland and died in Munich, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Charlie Muffin...
  
  , actor, director
• January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, actress (d. 1992
  1992 in film
  The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films :source: - Awards :Academy Awards:*Article 99B...
  
  )
• January 19 - Jean Stapleton
  Jean Stapleton
  Jean Stapleton is an American character actress of stage, television and film...
  
  , actress
• January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky
  Paddy Chayefsky
  Sidney Aaron Chayefski , known as Paddy Chayefsky, was an American dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter...
  
   writer (d. 1981
  1981 in film
  -Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
  
  )
• February 2 - Bonita Granville
  Bonita Granville
  Bonita Granville was an American film actress and television producer.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Granville was the daughter of stage actors, and made her film debut at the age of nine in Westward Passage...
  
  , actress (d. 1988
  1988 in film
  -Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:* Alice * Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin* Amsterdamned...
  
  )
• February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli
  Franco Zeffirelli
  Franco Zeffirelli is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television, and a politician....
  
  , director
• February 21 – Lola Flores
  Lola Flores
  Lola Flores , born María de los Dolores Flores Ruiz, was a Spanish singer, dancer, and actress.- Professional career :...
  
  , actress (d. 1995)
• February 28 - Charles Durning
  Charles Durning
  Charles Durning is an American actor of stage and screen.-Early life:Durning was born in Highland Falls, New York and was the second youngest of five children, James G. , Clifford John , Frances and Gerald J. Durning . His mother, Louise M...
  
  , actor
• April 12 - Ann Miller
  Ann Miller
  Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier, better known as Ann Miller was an American singer, dancer and actress.-Early life:...
  
  , dancer, actress (d. 2004
  2004 in film
  The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
  
  )
• May 7 - Anne Baxter
  Anne Baxter
  Anne Baxter was an American actress known for her performances in films such as All About Eve, The Razor's Edge and The Ten Commandments.-Early life:...
  
  , actress (d. 1985
  1985 in film
  -Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.-Top grossing films :source:...
  
  )
• July 22 - Mukesh, singer (d. 1976)
• August 3 - Jean Hagen
  Jean Hagen
  -Early life:Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois, to Dutch immigrant Christian Verhagen and his Chicago-born wife, Marie . The family moved to Elkhart, Indiana when she was 12 and she subsequently graduated from Elkhart High School...
  
  , actress (d. 1977
  1977 in film
  The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....
  
  )
• August 10 - Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming , is an American motion picture and television actress.She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day...
  
  , actress
• August 29 - Richard Attenborough
  Richard Attenborough
  Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes...
  
  , English actor and director
• September 7 - Peter Lawford
  Peter Lawford
  Peter Sydney Vaughn Aylen , better known as Peter Lawford, was an English actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting...
  
  , actor (d. 1984
  1984 in film
  -Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
  
  )
• October 4 - Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television.Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in El Cid, and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy...
  
  , actor (d. 2008
  2008 in film
  The year 2008 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...
  
  )
• October 5 - Glynis Johns
  Glynis Johns
  Glynis Johns is a British stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer . With a career spanning seven decades, Johns is often cited as the "complete actress", who happens to be a trained pianist and singer...
  
  , actress
• October 16 - Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell was an American film actress.Darnell was a model as a child, and progressed to theater and film acting as an adolescent. She made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in films for 20th Century Fox...
  
  , actress (d. 1965
  1965 in film
  The year 1965 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue
  source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Boeing Boeing*Brainstorm...
  
  )
• November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and popular singer. Dandridge was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.-Early life and career:...
  
  , singer, actress (d. 1965
  1965 in film
  The year 1965 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue
  source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Boeing Boeing*Brainstorm...
  
  )
• November 28 - Gloria Grahame
  Gloria Grahame
  Gloria Grahame was an American actress.Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life , MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios...
  
  , actress (d. 1981
  1981 in film
  -Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
  
  )

Deaths

• January 18 – Wallace Reid
  Wallace Reid
  Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to by Motion Picture Magazine as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St...
  
   American actor
• March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt
  Sarah Bernhardt was a legendary French stage actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress in the history of the world". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...
  
  , French actress
• May 21 - Charles Kent
  Charles Kent (actor)
  Charles Kent , was a British-born American silent film actor and director. He appeared in 141 films between 1908 and 1923...
  
  , veteran actor & director
• June 11 - Porter Strong, American silent film actor
• June 17 - Macey Harlan, screen actor
• July 30 - Sir Charles Hawtrey
  Sir Charles Hawtrey
  Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey was a celebrated stage actor, comedian, director and producer/manager, knighted in 1922 by King George V....
  
  , veteran British actor
• November 20 - Allen Holubar, silent film actor and director
• November 30 - Martha Mansfield
  Martha Mansfield
  Martha Mansfield was an American actress in silent films and vaudeville stage plays.-Early life and career:...
  
  , American actress

Film Debuts

• Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur
  Johnny Arthur was an American stage and motion picture actor.-Early years:Born John Lennox Arthur Williams in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, Arthur was a veteran of twenty-five years on stage before he made his screen debut in 1923's The Unknown Purple...
  
  
• Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  Frank James “Gary” Cooper was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
  
  
• Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich was a German-born American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
  
  
• William Haines
  William Haines
  Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. A star of the silent era, Haines' career was cut short in the Thirties as a result of his refusal to deny his homosexuality....
  
  
• Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.-Early life:...
  
  
• Fay Wray
  Fay Wray
  Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress. Through her acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international stardom as an actress in horror film roles, leading to many considering her as the first "scream queen".After appearing in minor film roles, Wray gained media attention being...