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Events

• Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew
  Marcus Loew
  
  Marcus Loew was an United States business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ....
   gained control of Metro Pictures
  Metro Pictures
  
  Metro Pictures Corporation was an United States motion picture production company founded in late 1915 by Richard A. Rowland . Louis B. Mayer worked for Metro Pictures Corporation early on....
  , Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wizard of Oz
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's literature novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M....
  . MGM and L. Frank Baum
  L. Frank Baum
  
  Lyman Frank Baum was an United States author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W....
   failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.
• CBC Distributions corp. is renamed Columbia Pictures
  Columbia Pictures
  
  Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
  

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Films released in 1924

• Aelita
  Aelita
  
  Aelita , also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet Union filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made on Gorky Film Studio and released in 1924 in film....
  , directed by Yakov Protazanov
  Yakov Protazanov
  
  Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov was Russian Empire and USSR film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia....
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• America (film), directed by D.W. Griffith.
• Ballet Mécanique
  Ballet mécanique
  
  Ballet M?canique was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand L?ger. Although the film was intended to use Antheil's score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s....
  , directed by Dudley Murphy
  Dudley Murphy
  
  Dudley Murphy Murphy was born on July 10, 1897 in Winchester, Massachusetts. He began making films in the early 1920s after working as a journalist....
   and Fernand Léger
  Fernand Léger
  
  Joseph Fernand Henri L?ger was a France painting, sculpture, and film director....
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• Forbidden Paradise
  Forbidden Paradise
  
  Forbidden Paradise is a 1924 in film United States silent drama film directed by German film director Ernst Lubitsch. The film is based on a play by Lajos Bir? about Catherine the Great starring Pola Negri in that role....
  , starring Pola Negri
  Pola Negri
  
  Pola Negri was a Poland film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between 1910s and 1930s.Personal life...
  ; directed by Ernst Lubitsch
  Ernst Lubitsch
  
  Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
  .
• Girl Shy
  Girl Shy
  
  Girl Shy is a 1924 in film comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. The movie was written by Thomas Gray and Sam Taylor . It was directed by Fred C....
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
  .
• Greed
  Greed (film)
  
  Greed is a dramatic silent film. One of the most famous lost films in cinema history it is also considered Films considered the greatest ever....
  , starring Zasu Pitts
  ZaSu Pitts
  
  ZaSu Pitts was an United States film actress who starred in many silent film drama film, although later, her career digressed to comedy film sound films....
   and Gibson Gowland
  Gibson Gowland
  
  Gibson Gowland was an England film actor. Born on 4 January 1877 in Spennymoor, County Durham.Gibson came to the United States from England, by way of Canada, in 1913 where he met Beatrice Bird, also from England, whom he married....
  ; directed by Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim
  
  Erich von Stroheim was an Austria star of the silent film age, lauded for his directorial work in which he was a proto-auteur. As an actor, he is noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts which led him to be described as "not a character actor, but what a character!"....
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• He Who Gets Slapped
  He Who Gets Slapped
  
  He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 in film film starring Lon Chaney, Sr., Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert . It was directed by Victor Sj?str?m. The film is based on the Russian play Tot, kto poluchayet poshchechini by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was published in 1914 and in English, as He Who Gets Slapped, in 1922....
  , starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an United States actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema....
  .
• Hot Water (1924 film)
  Hot Water (1924 film)
  
  Hot Water is a 1924 in film silent film starring Harold Lloyd.Directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor , it features three episodes in the life of Hubby as he struggles with domestic life with Wifey and his in-laws....
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
  
• The Humming Bird, starring Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson
  
  Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
  
• The Iron Horse
  The Iron Horse (film)
  
  The Iron Horse is a silent film directed by John Ford in 1924 in film. It was produced by 20th Century Fox. ...
  , starring George O'Brien.
• Isn't Life Wonderful
  Isn't Life Wonderful
  
  Isn't Life Wonderful? is a film, directed by D. W. Griffith for his company D. W. Griffith Productions, and distributed by United Artists. It was based on the novel by Geoffrey Moss and it went under the alternative title Dawn....
  , directed by D.W. Griffith.
• Janice Meredith
  Janice Meredith (film)
  
  Janice Meredith is a silent film released in 1924 in film that is based on the book of the same name written by Paul Leicester Ford. The movie follows the actions of Janice Meredith, who helps George Washington and Paul Revere during the American Revolutionary War....
  , starring Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  
  Marion Davies was an United States film actress.Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst....
  , Holbrook Blinn
  Holbrook Blinn
  
  Holbrook Blinn was an United States actor, born in San Francisco, California. He appeared on the legitimate stage as a child, and played throughout the United States and in London....
  , and Tyrone Power, Sr.
  Tyrone Power, Sr.
  
  Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power was an England born United States stage and screen actor, who acted under the name Tyrone Power....
  
• The Last Laugh
  The Last Laugh
  
  The Last Laugh is a Germany 1924 in film silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer which was based on a Broadway theatre play by Charles W....
  
• The Marriage Circle
  The Marriage Circle
  
  The Marriage Circle is a 1924 in film film by Ernst Lubitsch. It is based on the play Only a Dream by Lothar Schmidt. It was also remake in 1932 in film by Lubitsch and George Cukor as One Hour With You set in Paris, France....
  , directed by Ernst Lubitsch
  Ernst Lubitsch
  
  Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
  .
• Michael
  Michael (1924 film)
  
  Michael was a silent film released in 1924 in film, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, director of other notable silents such as The Passion of Joan of Arc , Master of the House , and Leaves From Satan's Book ....
  , directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
  Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Denmark born film director of Sweden descent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema....
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• Monsieur Beaucaire, starring Rudolph Valentino
  Rudolph Valentino
  
  Rudolph Valentino was an Italy actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film....
  , directed by Sidney Olcott
  Sidney Olcott
  
  Sidney Olcott was a Canada-born film producer, film director, actor and screenwriter.Born John Sidney Alcott in Toronto, Ontario, he became one of the first great directors of the motion picture business....
  .
• The Navigator
  The Navigator (1924 film)
  
  The Navigator is a 1924 in film comedy directed by and starring Buster Keaton. The film was written by Clyde Bruckman and co-directed by Donald Crisp....
  , starring Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  
• Peter Pan
  Peter Pan (1924 film)
  
  Peter Pan is a silent movie released in 1924 in film by Paramount Pictures, the first film adaptation of the play by J.M. Barrie. It was directed by Herbert Brenon and starred Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, Mary Brian as Wendy, and Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell....
  , starring Betty Bronson
  Betty Bronson
  
  Betty Bronson born Elizabeth Ada Bronson to Frank and Nellie Smith Bronson. She was a famous actress in silent and sound films....
  .
• The Sea Hawk (1924 film)
  The Sea Hawk (1924 film)
  
  The Sea Hawk is a 1924 in film silent film about an English noble sold into slavery who escapes and turns himself into a pirate king....
  , starring Milton Sills
  Milton Sills
  
  Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.Milton Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy and highly regarded family....
  .
• Secrets, starring Norma Talmadge
  Norma Talmadge
  
  Norma Talmadge was an United States actress and film producer of the silent film 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....
  
• Sherlock, Jr.
  Sherlock, Jr.
  
  Sherlock, Jr. is an United States comedy silent film starring and directed by Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph A....
  
• The Thief of Bagdad
  The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film)
  
  The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 in film Douglas Fairbanks Swashbuckler films adventure film which tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph....
  , directed by Raoul Walsh
  Raoul Walsh
  
  Raoul Walsh was an United States film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh....
   and starring Douglas Fairbanks
  Douglas Fairbanks
  
  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
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• Three Weeks, starring Conrad Nagel
  Conrad Nagel
  
  Conrad Nagel was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well known television actor and radio performer....
   and Aileen Pringle
  Aileen Pringle
  
  Aileen Pringle was an American stage and film actress during the silent film era....
  .

Short film series

• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
   (1917-1941)
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  
  Laurel and Hardy were a popular comedy team of thin, British-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....
   (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....
   (1922-1944
  1944 in film
  
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  
  File:Felix for Judy.pngFelix the Cat is a animated cartoon fictional 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 in the world....
   (1919-1936)
• Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown
  
  Koko the Clown is an animation 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....
   (1919-1934)
• 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 and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape....
   (1923-1927)

Births

• January 16 - Katy Jurado
  Katy Jurado
  
  Katy Jurado , born Mar?a Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado Garc?a in Guadalajara, Jalisco, was a Mexico actress....
  , actress († 2002
  2002 in film
  
  The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
  )
• January 21 - Telly Savalas
  Telly Savalas
  
  Aristotelis ?Telly? Savalas was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Awards for his supporting role in Birdman of Alcatraz ....
  , actor († 1994
  1994 in film
  
  The year 1994 in film involved some significant events....
  )
• April 3 - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  , actress, singer
• April 3 - Marlon Brando
  Marlon Brando
  
  Marlon Brando, Jr. was an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all time, and was named the fourth AFI's 100 Years......
  , actor († 2004
  2004 in film
  
  The year '2004 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Shrek 2, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs....
  )
• April 20 - Nina Foch
  Nina Foch
  
  Nina Foch was an Academy Award-nominated Netherlands-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films....
  , actress
• July 4 - Eva Marie Saint
  Eva Marie Saint
  
  Eva Marie Saint is an Academy Awards-winning United States Actor. She has starred on Broadway, in films and on television beginning in the 1950s....
  , actress
• July 21 - Don Knotts
  Don Knotts
  
  Jesse Donald Knotts was an United States comedy actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show , and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom Three's Company in the 1980s....
  , actor († 2006
  2006 in film
  
  The year '2006 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Saw III, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale , Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4....
  )
• September 16 - Lauren Bacall
  Lauren Bacall
  
  Lauren Bacall is an American film and theater actress and Model . Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she has continued acting to the present day....
  , actress
• September 28 - Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Mastroianni
  
  Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italians actor.During his career, Mastroianni had won or been nominated multiple times for awards such as Volpi Cup, Best Actor Award , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello for Best Actor, Nastro d'Argento, Sant Jordi Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion...
  , actor († 1996
  1996 in film
  
  The year '1996 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo , Trainspotting , The English Patient , Independence Day , Twister , Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna 's Evita ....
  )
• September 30 - Truman Capote
  Truman Capote
  
  Truman Capote was an United States writer whose short stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "non-fiction novel"....
  , author († 1984
  1984 in film
  
  Events* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*TriStar Entertainment, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
  )
• November 22 - Geraldine Page
  Geraldine Page
  
  Geraldine Sue Page was an Academy Award-winning United States actress. Although starring in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater....
  , actress
• December 25 - Rod Serling
  Rod Serling
  
  Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an United States screenwriter, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his Science fiction on television Anthology series, The Twilight Zone ....
  , screenwriter († 1975
  1975 in film
  
  The year 1975 in film involved some significant events....
  )

Film Debuts

• Clark Gable
  Clark Gable
  
  Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
  
• Johannes Heesters
  Johannes Heesters
  
  Johannes Heesters is a the Netherlands-Austrian actor, singer and entertainer with an 87-year career, almost exclusively in the German language world....
  

Deaths

• April 21 - Eleanora Duse, veteran & revered Italian stage actress who made one film in 1916.

• September 23 - Ben Deeley, film actor married to Barbara La Marr
  Barbara La Marr
  
  Barbara La Marr was an American stage and motion picture actress, cabaret artist and writer....
  

• October 12 - Kate Lester
  Kate Lester
  
  Kate Lester was an English theatrical and silent film actress from Souldham Trope, England. Her family, the Suydams of New York, were staying in England at the time....
  , veteran stage & film actress, age 67.

• November 19 - Thomas Ince, actor & pioneer film producer