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days of the silent film
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
 were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
 was on.

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Rank Title Gross
1.Gold Diggers of Broadway 
2.The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody is a musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930....
(#1 for year 1929 alone)		 
3.Sunny Side Up
Sunny side up

Sunny side up can refer to:*Fried egg*Sunny Side Up, a 1929 film directed by David Butler starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, noted for its use of an almost wandering mobile camera in a way highly atypical of the early sound period....
 
4.Welcome Danger 
5.The Cock-Eyed World
The Cock-Eyed World

The Cock-Eyed World is a 1929 in film musical comedy made by Fox Film Corporation, directed and written Raoul Walsh, based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner and Laurence Stallings....
 
6.Rio Rita
Rio Rita (1929 film)

Rio Rita is a 1929 in film RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey....
 
7.Hollywood Revue of 1929 
8.In Old Arizona
In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona is a 1929 in film Western film, directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture....
 
9.Coquette
Coquette (film)

Coquette is a 1929 in film film which tells the story of a flirtatious young woman whose father warns off her honorable boyfriend, only to cause tragedy....
 
10.Syncopation 
11.Disraeli
Disraeli (film)

Disraeli is a film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E....
 
12.The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is an early Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischievous Lord....
 
13.The Single Standards 
14.Wild Orchids 
15.Paris
Paris (1929 film)

Paris is a black and white musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences: four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor. The film was adapted from the Cole Porter Broadway theatre musical of the same name....
 
16.The Kiss 
17.The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island (1929 film)

The Mysterious Island, directed by Lucien Hubbard, is the 1929 in film film adaptation of Jules Verne's French novel The Mysterious Island , published in 1874....
 
18.Pandora's Box
Pandora's Box (film)

Pandora's Box is a Cinema of Germany silent film melodrama based loosely on Frank Wedekind's plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box ....
 
19.On With the Show 
20.The Love Parade
The Love Parade

The Love Parade is a 1927 in film musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her new husband, Count Alfred ....
 
21.The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers (1929 film)

The Four Feathers is a 1929 in film war film directed by Merian C. Cooper and starring Fay Wray. It has the distinction of being one of the last major Hollywood pictures of the silent era....
 
22.Sally 
23.Redskin
Redskin (film)

Redskin is a 1929 in film feature film with a synchronized score and sound effects that was photographed partially in Technicolor. Color film was used for the scenes taking place on the Indians' land, while black and white was used only in the scenes set in the white man's world....
 
24.The Pagan 
25.Marriage Playground 
26.Say It With Songs
Say It with Songs

Say It With Songs in an All-Talking musical drama film which was released by Warner Bros.. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Singing Fool ....
 
27.They Had to See Paris  
28.Navy Blues 
29.Their Own Desire
Their Own Desire

Their Own Desire is a 1929 in film romantic drama film which tells the story of a young woman who is upset by the knowledge that her father is divorcing her mother in order to marry another woman....
 
30.Divine Lady 
31.The Trespasser
The Trespasser

The Trespasser is a film which tells the story of a "kept woman" who maintains a lavish life style with the help of her lover. It stars Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B....
 		 
32.Madame X
Madame X (1929 film)

Madame X is a 1929 in film drama film directed by Lionel Barrymore, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Ruth Chatterton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a fallen woman....
 
33.The Last of Mrs.






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The days of the silent film
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
 were numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound
Sound film

A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
 was on.
  • January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona
    In Old Arizona

    In Old Arizona is a 1929 in film Western film, directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture....
     was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
  • May 16 - The first Academy Awards
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
    , or Oscars, are distributed
  • July 13, The first all color talkie (in Technicolor
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
    ), On With the Show is released by Warner. Bros. who the led in a new color revolution, just as they had ushered in that of the talkies.
  • Hallelujah!
    Hallelujah! (1929 film)

    Hallelujah! is an 1929 MGM musical directed by King Vidor, starring Daniel L. Haynes and the then unknown Nina Mae McKinney.Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and narrating the troubled quest of a Sharecropping, Zeke Johnson , and his relationship with the seductive Chick , Hallelujah! was one of the first all-black films by a major s...
    , first Hollywood film to contain an entire black cast.
  • Atlantic (1929 film)
    Atlantic (1929 film)

    Atlantic is a 1929 in film United Kingdom black and white film, directed and produced by Ewald Andr? Dupont and starring Franklin Dyall and Madeleine Carroll....
     is the first sound on film movie made in Germany. It is also the first Titanic movie with sound.
  • The Broadway Melody
    The Broadway Melody

    The Broadway Melody is a musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930....
     is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that would run until 1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    .


Top grossing films

Rank Title Gross
1.Gold Diggers of Broadway 
2.The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody is a musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930....
(#1 for year 1929 alone)		 
3.Sunny Side Up
Sunny side up

Sunny side up can refer to:*Fried egg*Sunny Side Up, a 1929 film directed by David Butler starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, noted for its use of an almost wandering mobile camera in a way highly atypical of the early sound period....
 
4.Welcome Danger 
5.The Cock-Eyed World
The Cock-Eyed World

The Cock-Eyed World is a 1929 in film musical comedy made by Fox Film Corporation, directed and written Raoul Walsh, based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner and Laurence Stallings....
 
6.Rio Rita
Rio Rita (1929 film)

Rio Rita is a 1929 in film RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey....
 
7.Hollywood Revue of 1929 
8.In Old Arizona
In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona is a 1929 in film Western film, directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture....
 
9.Coquette
Coquette (film)

Coquette is a 1929 in film film which tells the story of a flirtatious young woman whose father warns off her honorable boyfriend, only to cause tragedy....
 
10.Syncopation 
11.Disraeli
Disraeli (film)

Disraeli is a film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E....
 
12.The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is an early Shakespearean comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischievous Lord....
 
13.The Single Standards 
14.Wild Orchids 
15.Paris
Paris (1929 film)

Paris is a black and white musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences: four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor. The film was adapted from the Cole Porter Broadway theatre musical of the same name....
 
16.The Kiss 
17.The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island (1929 film)

The Mysterious Island, directed by Lucien Hubbard, is the 1929 in film film adaptation of Jules Verne's French novel The Mysterious Island , published in 1874....
 
18.Pandora's Box
Pandora's Box (film)

Pandora's Box is a Cinema of Germany silent film melodrama based loosely on Frank Wedekind's plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box ....
 
19.On With the Show 
20.The Love Parade
The Love Parade

The Love Parade is a 1927 in film musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her new husband, Count Alfred ....
 
21.The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers (1929 film)

The Four Feathers is a 1929 in film war film directed by Merian C. Cooper and starring Fay Wray. It has the distinction of being one of the last major Hollywood pictures of the silent era....
 
22.Sally 
23.Redskin
Redskin (film)

Redskin is a 1929 in film feature film with a synchronized score and sound effects that was photographed partially in Technicolor. Color film was used for the scenes taking place on the Indians' land, while black and white was used only in the scenes set in the white man's world....
 
24.The Pagan 
25.Marriage Playground 
26.Say It With Songs
Say It with Songs

Say It With Songs in an All-Talking musical drama film which was released by Warner Bros.. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Singing Fool ....
 
27.They Had to See Paris  
28.Navy Blues 
29.Their Own Desire
Their Own Desire

Their Own Desire is a 1929 in film romantic drama film which tells the story of a young woman who is upset by the knowledge that her father is divorcing her mother in order to marry another woman....
 
30.Divine Lady 
31.The Trespasser
The Trespasser

The Trespasser is a film which tells the story of a "kept woman" who maintains a lavish life style with the help of her lover. It stars Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B....
 		 
32.Madame X
Madame X (1929 film)

Madame X is a 1929 in film drama film directed by Lionel Barrymore, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Ruth Chatterton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a fallen woman....
 
33.The Last of Mrs. Cheyney 
34.Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)

Bulldog Drummond is a 1929 in film detective film which tells the story of Bulldog Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl....
 


Academy Awards

  • Best Picture
    Academy Award for Best Picture

    The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
    : The Broadway Melody - MGM
  • Best Actor
    Academy Award for Best Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona
  • Best Actor
    Academy Award for Best Actor

    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : George Arliss - Disraeli
  • Best Actress
    Academy Award for Best Actress

    Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
    : Mary Pickford - Coquette
Note: Prior to 1933, awards were not based on calendar years, which is how there are 2 'Best Actor' awards for 1929 films.

Films released in 1929

  • An Andalusian Dog
    Un chien andalou

    Un chien andalou is a short silent film surrealism film produced in France by two Spain auteurs: the Aragonian director Luis Bu?uel and the Catalonian artist Salvador Dal?....
     (Un chien andalou), a short film by Luis Buñuel
    Luis Buñuel

    Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
     and Salvador Dalí
    Salvador Dalí

    Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal? i Dom?nech, 1st Marquis of P?bol was a Spain Catalonia surrealist painter born in Figueres.Dal? was a skilled Technical drawing, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealism work....
  • Applause
    Applause (film)

    Applause is a 1929 in film black and white "backstage" Musical film film, shot during the early years of sound films. Based on a novel by Beth Brown, the film was staged and directed by Rouben Mamoulian....
    , starring Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan

    Helen Morgan was an U.S. singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s....
  • Asphalt
    Asphalt (1929 film)

    Asphalt is a 1929 in film Germany silent film. The film was one of the last silent films released in Germany as the world was entering the era of sound film....
  • Atlantic
    Atlantic (1929 film)

    Atlantic is a 1929 in film United Kingdom black and white film, directed and produced by Ewald Andr? Dupont and starring Franklin Dyall and Madeleine Carroll....
    , the first sound on film made in Germany and the first sound Titanic movie
  • The Awful Truth
    The Awful Truth (1929 film)

    The Awful Truth is a 1929 in film romantic comedy film, made by Path? Exchange, directed by Marshall Neilan, and starring by Ina Claire and Henry Daniell....
  • Big Business
    Big Business (1929 film)

    Big Business is a 1929 in film silent film Laurel and Hardy comedy short subject directed by James W. Horne and supervised by Leo McCarey from a McCarey and H....
    , a 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....
     short
  • Big Time
    Big Time (film)

    Big Time is a 1929 in film film starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke as a show business couple who break up over his infidelity. This was Clarke's film debut....
  • Blackmail
    Blackmail (1929 film)

    Blackmail is a Thriller /drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard, and featuring Donald Calthrop, Sara Allgood and Charles Paton....
    , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
  • Broadway
    Broadway (1929 film)

    Broadway is a film directed by P?l Fej?s from a play by George Abbott, Phillip Dunning and Jed Harris. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis , Merna Kennedy and Thomas E....
    , a musical comedy with Technicolor
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
     sequences
  • The Broadway Melody
    The Broadway Melody

    The Broadway Melody is a musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930....
    , musical comedy starring Charles King
    Charles King (vaudevillian)

    Charles King was a vaudeville and Broadway theatre actor who also starred in several movies. He starred as the leading actor in the hit MGM movie, The Broadway Melody. King died in 1944 from pneumonia....
    , Anita Page
    Anita Page

    Anita Pomares, better known as Anita Page , was an American film actor who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era, 1928....
     and Bessie Love
    Bessie Love

    Bessie Love was an United States motion picture actress who achieved fame largely in the silent and early talkie era. Petite and very pretty, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies....
  • Bulldog Drummond
    Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)

    Bulldog Drummond is a 1929 in film detective film which tells the story of Bulldog Drummond, a British officer bored with civilian life, who investigates an extortion case for a beautiful girl....
    , starring Ronald Colman
    Ronald Colman

    Ronald Colman was an England Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actor....
  • The Canary Murder Case
    The Canary Murder Case (film)

    The Canary Murder Case is a crime film/mystery film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle.The screenplay was written by S.S....
  • The Clue of the New Pin
  • The Cocoanuts
    The Cocoanuts

    The Cocoanuts was the first feature-length Marx Brothers film, produced by Paramount Pictures. The musical comedy stars the four Marx Brothers, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton and Margaret Dumont....
    , starring the Marx Brothers
    Marx Brothers

    The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
  • Coquette
    Coquette (film)

    Coquette is a 1929 in film film which tells the story of a flirtatious young woman whose father warns off her honorable boyfriend, only to cause tragedy....
    , starring Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford

    Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canada film actor, as well as a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
    , Johnny Mack Brown
    Johnny Mack Brown

    This article is for the college football player, for the head coach see Mack Brown.Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college football player and film actor....
    , Matt Moore
    Matthew Moore

    Matthew Moore was born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland. He and his brothers Thomas J. Moore, Owen Moore, & Joe emigrated to United States and all went on to Hollywood, California and to successful careers in motion pictures....
    . Directed by Sam Taylor
    Sam Taylor (director)

    Sam Taylor was a film director, screenwriter, and Film producer, most active in silent film era. Taylor is best known for his comedic directorial work with Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford....
  • Dance of Life, a musical comedy with Technicolor
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
     sequences
  • Dangerous Curves
    Dangerous Curves (1929 film)

    Dangerous Curves is a American motion picture starring Clara Bow and Richard Arlen. It was released by Paramount Pictures and was the first Hollywood film for Kay Francis ....
  • The Desert Song
    The Desert Song

    The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Morocco fighters, against French colonial rule....
    , a musical operetta with Technicolor sequences
  • Devil-May-Care, a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
  • Disraeli
    Disraeli (film)

    Disraeli is a film that was adapted by Julien Josephson and De Leon Anthony from a play by Louis N. Parker. The film was directed by Alfred E....
    , starring George Arliss
    George Arliss

    George Arliss was an England Academy Award-winning actor, author, playwright and film maker who found success in United States. He was the first United Kingdom actor to win an Academy Award....
  • Dynamite
    Dynamite (film)

    Dynamite is a drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It stars Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford and Conrad Nagel. Johnson plays a socialite who marries a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed simply to satisfy a condition of her grandfather's will....
  • The Flying Fleet, starring Ramon Navarro, Ralph Graves
    Ralph Graves

    Ralph Graves , was an American film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1918 in film and 1949 in film.He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and died in Santa Barbara, California....
    , Anita Page
    Anita Page

    Anita Pomares, better known as Anita Page , was an American film actor who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era, 1928....
    , and Edward Nugent
  • Footlights and Fools, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
  • Fox Movietone Follies, a musical revue with Multicolor
    Multicolor

    Multicolor is a Subtractive color natural color process for Film. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor....
     sequences
  • Glorifying the American Girl
    Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 in film musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers....
    , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
  • Gold Diggers of Broadway, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
  • The Great Gabbo
    The Great Gabbo

    The Great Gabbo is an early sound film musical drama. As originally released by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures, the film featured sequences in Multicolor....
    , a musical comedy with Multicolor sequences
  • Hallelujah!
    Hallelujah! (1929 film)

    Hallelujah! is an 1929 MGM musical directed by King Vidor, starring Daniel L. Haynes and the then unknown Nina Mae McKinney.Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and narrating the troubled quest of a Sharecropping, Zeke Johnson , and his relationship with the seductive Chick , Hallelujah! was one of the first all-black films by a major s...
    , directed by King Vidor
    King Vidor

    King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
  • Hearts in Dixie
    Hearts in Dixie (film)

    Hearts in Dixie , is one of the first all-talkie, big-studio production to boast a predominately African-American cast. Hearts in Dixie unfolds as a series of sketches of life among American blacks....
    , starring Clarence Muse
    Clarence Muse

    Clarence Muse was a lawyer, screenwriter, film director, composer, and actor. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first African American to "star" in a film....
    , drama/musical
  • His First Command, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
  • The Hole in the Wall
    The Hole in the Wall

    The Hole in the Wall is a 1929 film directed by Robert Florey, and starring Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson. This film marks the first appearance of Edward G....
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929
    The Hollywood Revue of 1929

    The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an United States musical film/comedy motion picture released in 1929 in film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format....
    , a showcase of talent under contract to MGM
  • In Old Arizona
    In Old Arizona

    In Old Arizona is a 1929 in film Western film, directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture....
    , starring Warner Baxter
    Warner Baxter

    Warner Leroy Baxter was an United States Academy Award-winning actor who is best known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona.Baxter was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to San Francisco, California with his widowed mother in 1898, when he was nine....
  • It's A Great Life, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
  • The Iron Mask
    The Iron Mask

    The Iron Mask is a 1929 in film silent film adaptation of the last section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, p?re, which is itself based on the French legend of The Man in the Iron Mask....
    , 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 ....
  • The Kiss, starring Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo

    Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
     and 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....
  • The Lady Lies
    The Lady Lies

    The Lady Lies is a 1929 in film film directed by Hobert Henley, and starring Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert and Charles Ruggles....
    , starring Walter Huston
    Walter Huston

    Walter Huston was an Academy Award-winning Canada-born American actor....
     and Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert

    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
  • The Love Parade
    The Love Parade

    The Love Parade is a 1927 in film musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her new husband, Count Alfred ....
    , starring Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
     and Jeanette MacDonald
    Jeanette MacDonald

    Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
  • Lucky Star
  • Man with a Movie Camera
    Man with a Movie Camera

    Man with a Movie Camera, sometimes The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia ) is an experimental 1929 in film silent film documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov....
     (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), a documentary
  • The Manxman
    The Manxman

    The Manxman is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on a romantic novel by Hall Caine, the director began work on the film just two weeks after the birth of his daughter, Patricia Hitchcock....
    , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
  • Married In Hollywood, a musical romance with Multicolor
    Multicolor

    Multicolor is a Subtractive color natural color process for Film. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor....
     sequences
  • The Mysterious Island
    The Mysterious Island (1929 film)

    The Mysterious Island, directed by Lucien Hubbard, is the 1929 in film film adaptation of Jules Verne's French novel The Mysterious Island , published in 1874....
    , starring Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
  • On With the Show, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
  • Pandora's Box
    Pandora's Box (film)

    Pandora's Box is a Cinema of Germany silent film melodrama based loosely on Frank Wedekind's plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box ....
    , starring Louise Brooks
    Louise Brooks

    Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an Cinema of the United States dancer, model, showgirl, and silent film actress, famous for her fashionable bob cut haircut....
  • Paris
    Paris (1929 film)

    Paris is a black and white musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences: four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor. The film was adapted from the Cole Porter Broadway theatre musical of the same name....
    , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
  • Piccadilly
    Piccadilly (film)

    Piccadilly is a Silent film Cinema of the United Kingdom directed by Ewald Andr? Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray and Jameson Thomas....
    , a melodrama starring Anna May Wong and Gilda Gray
    Gilda Gray

    Gilda Gray was a Polish born United States actress and dancer who became famous in the US for popularizing a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions....
  • Pointed Heels, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
  • Queen Kelly
    Queen Kelly

    Queen Kelly is the title of an United States silent film produced in 1928-29 and released in 1929 in film, originally by United Artists. The film was film director by Erich von Stroheim, starred Gloria Swanson in the title role, and also starred Walter Byron and Seena Owen....
    , 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....
     (this film was never finished because producers balked at releasing a silent film
    Silent film

    A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
     in what was quickly becoming a sound film
    Sound film

    A sound film is a film with synchronization, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical....
     market)
  • Redskin
    Redskin (film)

    Redskin is a 1929 in film feature film with a synchronized score and sound effects that was photographed partially in Technicolor. Color film was used for the scenes taking place on the Indians' land, while black and white was used only in the scenes set in the white man's world....
    , a drama with Technicolor
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
     sequences
  • Red Hot Rhythm, a musical comedy with Multicolor
    Multicolor

    Multicolor is a Subtractive color natural color process for Film. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor....
     sequences
  • The Rescue
    The Rescue (1929 film)

    The Rescue is a 1929 in film romantic adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. The screenplay was written by Elizabeth Meehan, based on novel by Joseph Conrad....
  • Rio Rita
    Rio Rita (1929 film)

    Rio Rita is a 1929 in film RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey....
    , a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
  • The River
    The River (1929 film)

    The River is a 1929 in film film starring Charles Farrell and directed by Frank Borzage. The movie has been mostly lost, but the remaining reels were shown in 2006 by the American Museum of the Moving Image in New York City during a Frank Borzage retrospective, with still slides and explanatory title cards used to bridge the missing gaps...
  • Sally
    Sally (film)

    Sally is the third sound feature photographed in Technicolor released in 1929 in film .It was based on the Broadway theatre stage hit, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld ....
    , a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
  • Show Boat
    Show Boat (1929 film)

    Show Boat is a film based on the novel by Edna Ferber. It was released by Universal Pictures in two versions, one a silent film and one a part-talkie with a prologue....
    , a part-talkie
    Part-talkie

    A part-talkie film is a film which was made during the early sound era , which is partly a silent film and partly a talkie. The Jazz Singer , starring Al Jolson, was the first part-talkie film....
     based not on the famous musical, but on the Edna Ferber
    Edna Ferber

    Edna Ferber , was an American novelist, author and playwright....
     novel that inspired it
  • The Show of Shows, a musical revue with Technicolor sequences
  • St. Louis Blues
    St. Louis Blues (1929 film)

    St. Louis Blues is a two-reel short film starring Bessie Smith. The early sound film features Smith in an African-American speakeasy of the prohibition era singing the W....
    , starring Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith

    Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
  • The Skeleton Dance
    The Skeleton Dance

    The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 in film Silly Symphonies animated short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks....
    , a Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
     animated short
  • Spite Marriage
    Spite Marriage

    Spite Marriage is an United States 1929 in film silent film comedy starring Buster Keaton and Dorothy Sebastian. Keaton and Edward Sedgwick co-directed....
    , a 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" ....
     film
  • Street Girl
    Street Girl

    Street Girl is a 1929 Musical film comedy film/Drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles....
    , RKO's first "official" film
  • Sunny Side Up
    Sunny side up

    Sunny side up can refer to:*Fried egg*Sunny Side Up, a 1929 film directed by David Butler starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, noted for its use of an almost wandering mobile camera in a way highly atypical of the early sound period....
    , a musical comedy with Technicolor
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
     sequences
  • This Thing Called Love, a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
  • Thunder
    Thunder (film)

    Thunder is a melodrama film released by MGM, and starring Lon Chaney, Sr..Directed by William Nigh, it is noteworthy for several reasons....
    , directed by William Nigh
    William Nigh

    William Nigh was an United States film Film director, screenwriter, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye"....
    , starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
    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....
     and Phyllis Haver
    Phyllis Haver

    Phyllis Haver was an United States actress of the silent film era....
  • The Virginian
    The Virginian (1929 film)

    The Virginian is a 1929 in film western movie starring Gary Cooper as the Virginian and Walter Huston as the villainous Trampas. The early sound film was directed by Victor Fleming....
    , starring Gary Cooper
    Gary Cooper

    Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. 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 Western movie he made....
  • Woman in the Moon
    Frau im Mond

    Woman in the Moon, or in original German language, Frau im Mond is a science fiction silent film released in 1929 in film, and is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films....
     (Frau im Mond), directed by Fritz Lang
    Fritz Lang

    Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-Germany-United States filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known ?migr?s from Germany's school of German Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute....


Serials

  • The Ace of Scotland Yard
    The Ace of Scotland Yard

    The Ace of Scotland Yard is a Universal Pictures Serial . It was the first partial sound serial released by Universal Pictures .Universal announced this as the first talking serial but that title is usually agreed to belong to Mascot Pictures' The King of the Kongo ....
  • The Black Book
    The Black Book (serial)

    The Black Book is a 1929 in film drama film film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Storey. ...
  • The Diamond Master
    The Diamond Master

    The Diamond Master is a 1929 in film film serial directed by Jack Nelson. The film is considered to be lost film. ...
  • The Fatal Warning
    The Fatal Warning

    The Fatal Warning is a 1929 in film mystery film film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be a lost film, with no prints known to exist....
  • The Fire Detective
    The Fire Detective

    The Fire Detective is a 1929 in film adventure film film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Storey. The film is considered to be lost film....
  • The King of the Kongo
    The King of the Kongo

    The King of the Kongo is a Mascot Pictures Serial . It was the first serial to have Sound film, although only partial sound rather than the later "All-Talking" productions with complete sound....
    , starring Jacqueline Logan
    Jacqueline Logan

    Jacqueline Logan was a star of the silent motion picture screen who was on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida in 1924 when film director Thomas Ince died....
  • The Pirate of Panama
    The Pirate of Panama

    The Pirate of Panama is a 1929 in film action film film serial directed by Ray Taylor . The film is considered to be lost film. ...
  • Police Reporter
  • Queen of the Northwoods
    Queen of the Northwoods

    Queen of the Northwoods is a film Serial produced in 1929 in film by Path?, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Storey, with a story by George Arthur Gray....
  • Tarzan the Tiger
    Tarzan the Tiger

    Tarzan the Tiger is a Universal Pictures Serial based on the novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It stars Frank Merrill as Tarzan, Natalie Kingston as Jane Porter , and Al Ferguson....
    , starring Frank Merrill
    Frank Merrill (actor)

    Frank Merrill was a Southern California and national title-winning gymnast , police officer, stuntman and actor, most famous for being the fifth actor to portray Tarzan on film....
     and Natalie Kingston
    Natalie Kingston

    Natalie Kingston was an United States Actor....


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)
  • 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
    1922 in film

    Events* November 26 - The Toll of the Sea, starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ....
    -1944
    1944 in film

    The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • 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
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
    )


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
    1919 in film

    The year 1919 in film involved some significant events....
    -1936
    1936 in film

    The year 1936 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Aesop's Film Fables
    Aesop's Film Fables

    Aesop's Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects, created by United States 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....
     (1921
    1921 in film

    Events* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.*September 5 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle holds a party in a San Francisco hotel to celebrate his new $3,000,000 three-year contract with Paramount Pictures....
    -1933)
  • Krazy Kat
    Krazy Kat

    Krazy Kat is a comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U.S. newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It was first published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American, and Hearst was a major booster for the strip throughout its run....
     (1925
    1925 in film

    Events...
    -1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Inkwell Imps
    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....
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    -1929)
  • Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
    Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

    Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Studios in the 1920s and 1930s....
     (1927
    1927 in film

    Events*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries Marion Benda....
    -1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Mickey Mouse
    Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney....
     (1928
    1928 in film

    EventsAlthough some movies released in 1928 had Sound film, most were still silent film.* July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, creating one of the most popular American film logos....
    -1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Silly Symphonies
    Silly Symphonies

    Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by The Walt Disney Company from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles....
     (1929-1939
    1939 in film

    The year 1939 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Screen Songs
    Screen Songs

    Screen Songs is the name of a series of animation produced by the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1938....
     (1929-1938
    1938 in film

    The year 1938 in film involved some significant events....
    )
  • Talkartoons
    Talkartoons

    Talkartoons is the name of a series of 42 animation produced by the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 1929 and 1932....
     (1929-1932
    1932 in film

    Events*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*The Walt Disney Company released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film....
    )


Births

  • January 3 - Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone

    Sergio Leone was an Italy film director, Film producer and screenwriter most famous for his spaghetti westerns....
    , director (+ 1989
    1989 in film

    Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
    )
  • January 31 - Jean Simmons
    Jean Simmons

    Jean Merilyn Simmons, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Awards-nominated English actress. Simmons was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003....
    , actress
  • February 10 - Jerry Goldsmith
    Jerry Goldsmith

    Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
    , composer (+ 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....
    )
  • May 4 - Audrey Hepburn
    Audrey Hepburn

    Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
    , actress
  • August 23 - Vera Miles
    Vera Miles

    Vera Miles is an United States actor known from such classic films as The Searchers , Psycho and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance....
    , actress
  • September 2 - Hal Ashby
    Hal Ashby

    Hal Ashby was an United States film director and Academy Awards-winning film editor....
    , director
  • November 12 - Grace Kelly
    Grace Kelly

    Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
    , actress
  • December 6 – Alain Tanner
    Alain Tanner

    Alain Tanner is a Swiss people film director.Alain Tanner studied economics at the university of Geneva. In 1951, he joined the film club that Claude Goretta had just established at the university....
    , Swiss film director
  • December 9 - John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes

    John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
    , actor, director


Film Debuts

  • Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
  • Betty Grable
    Betty Grable

    Betty Grable was an American dancer, singer, and actress.Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era....
  • Paulette Goddard
    Paulette Goddard

    Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child Model and in several Broadway theatre productions as Ziegfeld Follies, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s....
  • Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers

    Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....


Deaths

  • January 5 - Marc McDermott
    Marc McDermott

    Marcus McDermott was an Australian-born United States actor who starred on Broadway theatre and in over 180 Cinema of the United States from 1909 until his death....
  • February 18 - William Russell
    William Russell (silent film actor)

    William Russell was an United States silent film actor.He was born William Lerche in The Bronx, New York.William worked briefly with the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company before switching to the Thanhouser Company....
    , American actor
  • May 9 - Fred C. Truesdell, stage & film actor(b. 1870)
  • July 2 – Gladys Brockwell
    Gladys Brockwell

    Gladys Brockwell, was an United States actress....
    , American actress
  • July 3 - Dustin Farnum
    Dustin Farnum

    Dustin Lancy Farnum was an American singer, dancer and an actor in silent movies during the early days of motion pictures. After a great success in a number of stage roles, in 1914 he landed his first film role in the movie 'Soldiers of Fortune', and later in Cecil B....
    , American stage & silent screen star.
  • August 2 - Mae Costello
    Mae Costello

    Mae Costello was an United States stage and film actress of the early twentieth-century.Born Mae Altschuk in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of Lewis Altschuk and Catherine Callender....
    , American actress
  • October 3 - Jeanne Eagels
    Jeanne Eagels

    Jeanne Eagels was an actor on Broadway theatre and in several motion pictures. She was a former Ziegfeld Follies Girl who went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of "talkies" ....
    , American actress
  • October 31 - Norman Trevor, actor, Olympic athlete (b.1877)