A lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

 is a film where all its copies are lost, hidden, or destroyed. The earliest lost film is The Jeffries-Sharkey Contest (1899), and the latest is Pupput (1999). A primary reason why silent era films go missing is because of the nitrate film used. It was extremely flammable, and, as a result caused film vaults to catch fire. Some notable examples of this happening are the 1967 MGM Vault fire

1967 MGM Vault fire

The 1967 MGM Vault fire was a major fire that erupted on Saturday, May 13, 1967 at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's studio at Vault #7. An electrical fire burned the vault and destroyed hundreds of silent films, including A Blind Bargain, The Big City, The Divine Woman and, more famously, London After Midnight...

 and the 1937 Fox Pictures' Vault fire.

1890s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1899	The Jeffries-Sharkey Contest	William Brady William A. Brady William Aloysius Brady, Sr. was an American theatre actor, producer, and sports promoter.-Biography:Brady was born to a newspaperman in 1863. His father kidnapped him from San Francisco and brought him to New York City, where his father worked as a writer while William was forced to sell... Tom O'Rourke	Jim Jeffries James J. Jeffries James Jackson Jeffries was a world heavyweight boxing champion.His greatest assets were his enormous strength and stamina. Using a technique taught to him by his trainer, former welterweight and middleweight champion Tommy Ryan, Jeffries fought out of a crouch with his left arm extended forward... Tom Sharkey Tom Sharkey Tom 'Sailor Tom' Sharkey was a boxer who fought two fights with heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries. Sharkey's recorded ring career spanned from 1893 to 1904. He is credited with having won 40 fights , 7 losses, and 5 draws...	American Mutoscope and Biograph American Mutoscope and Biograph Company The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over three thousand short...  film of heavyweight championship bout, 135 minutes in length, first film shot in artificial light.

1900s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1908	The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays was an early attempt to bring L. Frank Baum's Oz books to the motion picture screen. It was a mixture of live actors, hand-tinted magic lantern slides, and film. Baum himself would appear as if he were giving a lecture, while he interacted with the characters...	Francis Boggs Francis Boggs Francis W. Boggs was a stage actor and pioneer silent film director. He was one of the first to direct a film in Hollywood.-Biography:... , Otis Turner Otis Turner Otis Turner was an American director, screenwriter and producer. Between 1908 and 1917, he directed 133 motion pictures and wrote 40 scenarios.He was born in Fairfield, Indiana, and died in Los Angeles, California....	L. Frank Baum L. Frank Baum Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...	First adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of...  and several of its sequels. Shown only in roadshow Roadshow theatrical release A roadshow theatrical release was a term in the American motion picture industry for a practice in which a film opened in a limited number of theaters in large cities like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, and San Francisco for a specific period of time before the...  engagements as part of a live theater presentation, the print decomposed, and was discarded.
1908	Bobby's Kodak	Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. Wallace McCutcheon, Sr. was a pioneer cinematographer and director in the early American motion picture industry, working with the American Mutoscope & Biograph, Edison and American Star Film companies. McCutcheon's wealth of credits are often mixed up with the small handful of films directed by...	Robert Harron Robert Harron Robert "Bobby" Harron was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he acted in scores of films, he is possibly best remembered for his roles in the D.W. Griffith directed films Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation... , Edward Dillon	First starring role for then-child actor Robert "Bobby" Harron.
1908	The Music Master The Music Master The Music Master was a theatrical play written by Charles Klein, and produced and directed by David Belasco. The three-act comedy-drama opened at the Belasco Theatre in New York on September 26, 1904. It ran for 288 performances before it was moved to the Bijou Theatre and ran for another 306...	Wallace McCutcheon, Jr.	D.W. Griffith	Most of D.W. Griffith's early appearances as an actor in Biograph films have been preserved, minus this title.

1910s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1911	The Immortal Alamo The Immortal Alamo The Immortal Alamo was an American silent film produced by Star Film Company, directed by Gaston Melies, and released on May 25, 1911. The Immortal Alamo is the earliest film version of the events surrounding the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. No known copies of the film exist today, and it is...	William F. Haddock William F. Haddock William F. Haddock was one of the earliest film directors of the silent film era.Haddock was born William Frederick Haddock in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and directed his first film in 1909, titled The Boots He Couldn't Lose...	Francis Ford Francis Ford (actor) Francis Ford was a prolific film actor, writer, and director. He was the older brother of film director John Ford. He also appeared in many of John Ford's movies, including Young Mr. Lincoln and The Quiet Man.He starred in the 1912 two-reeler The Deserter by Thomas H. Ince and acted in over 400...	Earliest film of the Alamo Battle, shot at the Alamo itself.
1912	The Honor of the Family The Honor of the Family The Honor of the Family is a silent drama film featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. in his first onscreen role. Michael F. Blake, in his book The Films of Lon Chaney claims Chaney did not appear in this film. The film is now considered to be a lost film with no prints known to exist today....		Lon Chaney, Sr. 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...	Chaney's on-screen debut.
1912	Saved from the Titanic Saved From the Titanic Saved From the Titanic is a 1912 silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an actual survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.The movie was shot in less than two weeks and in black and white, with color scenes...	Étienne Arnaud	Dorothy Gibson Dorothy Gibson Dorothy Gibson was a pioneering American silent film actress, artist's model and singer active in the early 20th century. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.-Early life and career:...	First film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Gibson was an actual Titanic survivor.
1913	The Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg (1913 film) The Battle of Gettysburg is a 1913 silent drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and Thomas H. Ince. The film is now considered to be lost, although some battlefield footage was used by Mack Sennett in his comedy Cohen Saves the Flag, which was shot on location alongside this production. However...	Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince Thomas H. Ince Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...	Willard Mack Willard Mack Willard Mack was a Canadian-born actor, director, and playwright.Born Charles McLaughlin, in Morrisburg, Ontario, at an early age his family moved to Brooklyn, New York. After two years, they relocated to Cedar Rapids, Iowa where McLaughlin finished high school... , Charles K. French Charles K. French Charles K. French was an American motion picture actor who appeared in more than 240 movies between 1909 and 1945.-Selected filmography:...	The film was reported to have been screened in France in 1973.
1913	The Vampire			Britain's first feature-length horror film.
1913	The Werewolf The Werewolf (1913 film) The Werewolf is a silent film short that is the first werewolf film, and was directed by Henry MacRae. It was produced by Bison Film Company, released by Universal Studios, and is now considered a lost film, all prints supposedly having been destroyed in a 1924 fire...	Henry MacRae Henry MacRae Henry Alexander MacRae was a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter during the silent era, working on many film serials for Universal Studios...	Clarence Burton Clarence Burton Clarence Burton was an American silent film actor.... , Marie Walcamp Marie Walcamp Marie Walcamp was an American actress of the silent film era.-Biography:Born in Dennison, Ohio, Walcamp headed to the East Coast in search of acting jobs on the stage after she finished her formal education. After landing various roles in New York, she eventually landed a role in 1913's The...	The first werewolf Werewolf A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...  film, but destroyed in a fire in 1924.
1914	Absinthe	Herbert Brenon & George Edwardes-Hall	King Baggot King Baggot William King Baggot was an American actor, director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent era... , Leah Baird Leah Baird Leah Baird was an American actress of the silent screen, and a screenwriter.-Life:She began her film career in 1910 in Jean and the Waif opposite Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. She played several leads in William F. Brady's troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks...
1914	The Battle of the Sexes The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film) The Battle of the Sexes is a 1914 drama film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Majestic Motion Picture Company. The full 50-minute feature is now considered a lost film, as no complete prints of the film are known to exist. However, a two-minute fragment, once belonging to Reliance-Majestic head...	D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...	Lillian Gish Lillian Gish Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....
1914	The World, the Flesh and the Devil The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914 film) The World, the Flesh and the Devil was a British silent drama film, and was the world's first dramatic feature film to be photographed in color...	F. Martin Thornton	Frank Esmond	First dramatic feature film made in color (Kinemacolor Kinemacolor Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith of Brighton, England in 1906. He was influenced by the work of William Norman Lascelles Davidson. It was launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of... ).
1914	The Escape The Escape (1914 film) The Escape is a 1914 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Donald Crisp. It is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* Donald Crisp as 'Bull' McGee* Edna Foster as Crippled girl* Earle Foxe* Robert Harron as Larry Joyce...	D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...	Donald Crisp Donald Crisp Donald Crisp was an English film actor. He was also an early motion picture producer, director and screenwriter...
1914	Her Friend the Bandit Her Friend the Bandit Her Friend the Bandit is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist....	Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...	Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I... , Mabel Normand Mabel Normand Mabel Normand was an American silent film comedienne and actress. She was a popular star of Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and is noted as one of the film industry's first female screenwriters, producers and directors...	The only lost film starring Chaplin.
1914	Hearts Adrift Hearts Adrift Hearts Adrift was a 1914 silent short romance film directed by Edwin S. Porter. Based upon the 1911 story As the Sparks Fly Upward by Cyrus Townsend Brady, the film is now considered lost.-Production:...	Edwin S. Porter Edwin S. Porter Edwin Stanton Porter was an American early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company...	Mary Pickford Mary Pickford Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...	A film similar in theme to Henry De Vere Stacpoole Henry De Vere Stacpoole Henry De Vere Stacpoole was an Irish author, born in Kingstown . His best known work is the 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which has been adapted into feature films on three occasions... 's The Blue Lagoon The Blue Lagoon (novel) The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1908. The novel is the first of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, the second being The Garden of God and the third being The Gates of Morning .... .
1914	The Life of General Villa The Life of General Villa The Life of General Villa was a 1914 silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself, shot on location during a civil war. The movie incorporated both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the Mexican Revolution, around which the plot of the...	Christy Cabanne Christy Cabanne Christy Cabanne , born William Christy Cabanne, was an American film director, screenwriter and silent film actor. Christy Cabanne was, along with Sam Newfield and William Beaudine, one of the most prolific directors in the history of American film.-Biography:Cabanne graduated from the U.S...	Pancho Villa Pancho Villa José Doroteo Arango Arámbula – better known by his pseudonym Francisco Villa or its hypocorism Pancho Villa – was one of the most prominent Mexican Revolutionary generals....	A film about Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, starring Villa as himself.
1914	The Indian Wars		William F. Cody	William F. Cody stars as himself in this early movie version of the Indian Wars Indian Wars American Indian Wars is the name used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between American settlers or the federal government and the native peoples of North America before and after the American Revolutionary War. The wars resulted from the arrival of European colonizers who... ; also stars Nelson Appleton Miles and Black Elk Black Elk Heȟáka Sápa was a famous Wičháša Wakȟáŋ of the Oglala Lakota . He was Heyoka and a second cousin of Crazy Horse.-Life:... ; reportedly only part of last reel survives; released 1917.
1914	Damaged Goods Damaged Goods (1914 film) Damaged Goods was an American silent short film directed by Tom Ricketts and Richard Bennett, starring Richard Bennett. It was based on Eugène Brieux's play Les Avariés about a young couple who contract syphilis...	Thomas Ricketts Tom Ricketts Thomas "Tom" Ricketts was an English American silent film actor, director and screenwriter who was involved in almost 350 motion pictures....	Richard Bennett Richard Bennett (actor) Richard Bennett was an American actor who became a stage and silent screen matinee idol over the early decades of the twentieth century.-Early Life:...
1914	The Siege and Fall of the Alamo		Ray Myers Ray Myers Ray Myers was an American film actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 43 films between 1912 and 1924. He also directed five films between 1910 and 1915, including The Siege and Fall of the Alamo , now considered a lost film...	Four production stills and a review are held at the Library of Congress Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and... .
1914	A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet (1914 film) A Study in Scarlet is a 1914 silent drama film directed by George Pearson and starring James Bragington. It is based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name. It was the first film to feature Sherlock Holmes onscreen and is now considered to be lost.A film of the same name was released...	George Pearson	James Bragington	The first feature-length adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...  story.
1914	The Jungle The Jungle (1914 film) The Jungle is a 1914 American drama silent film made by The All Star Feauture Corporation starring George Nash. The film is an adaptation of the Upton Sinclair book of the same name. Upton Sinclair reportedly bought the negative of the film prior to 1916, hoping to market the film nationally after...			The only film version to date of Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. , was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle . It exposed conditions in the U.S... 's book of the same name The Jungle The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel with the intention of portraying the life of the immigrant in the United States, but readers were more concerned with the large portion of the book pertaining to the corruption of the American meatpacking... .
1914	The Crucible	Edwin S. Porter Edwin S. Porter Edwin Stanton Porter was an American early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company... , Hugh Ford Hugh Ford Hugh Ford was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 31 films between 1913 and 1921. He also wrote for 19 films between 1913 and 1920.He was born in Washington, D.C..-Selected filmography:...	Marguerite Clark Marguerite Clark Marguerite Clark was an American stage and silent film actress.-Early life and theater:Born to a farming family in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, Clark was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cincinnati...	Clark's second feature, based on the play by Mark Lee Luther. Re-released in 1919, but still lost.
1914	Such a Little Queen Such a Little Queen Such a Little Queen is a 1914 silent film starring Mary Pickford. It is based on a 1909 play by Channing Pollock which starred Elsie Ferguson. This film would later be remade in 1921 with Constance Binney in the lead. Cinematographer Ernest Haller was in charge of photography on both films. The...	Edwin S. Porter Edwin S. Porter Edwin Stanton Porter was an American early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company... , Hugh Ford Hugh Ford Hugh Ford was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 31 films between 1913 and 1921. He also wrote for 19 films between 1913 and 1920.He was born in Washington, D.C..-Selected filmography:...	Mary Pickford Mary Pickford Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...	Based on a play by Channing Pollock Channing Pollock Channing Pollock may refer to:* Channing Pollock * Channing Pollock... .
1915	The Eternal City The Eternal City (1915 film) The Eternal City is a silent film directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter, produced by Adolph Zukor and based upon a Hall Caine novel. The film was released through the Paramount Pictures division of Famous Players-Lasky. The movie is based on the 1902 Broadway play that starred Viola Allen...	Edwin S. Porter Edwin S. Porter Edwin Stanton Porter was an American early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company... , Hugh Ford Hugh Ford Hugh Ford was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 31 films between 1913 and 1921. He also wrote for 19 films between 1913 and 1920.He was born in Washington, D.C..-Selected filmography:...	Pauline Frederick Pauline Frederick Pauline Frederick was a leading Broadway actress who later became known for her motion picture work.-Early years:...	One of the first American productions filmed in Rome.
1915	Anna Karenina Anna Karenina (1915 film) Anna Karenina is a 1915 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Betty Nansen. The film is considered to be lost. It was the first American adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy.-Cast:* Betty Nansen - Anna Karenina...	J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...	Betty Nansen Betty Nansen Betty Nansen was a Danish actress and theatre director of the theater that carries her name, the Betty Nansen Theatre.... , Edward José Edward José Edward José was a Belgian film director and actor of the silent era.He directed 42 films between 1915 and 1925...	The first American adaptation of the novel.
1915	The Romance of Elaine The Romance of Elaine The Romance of Elaine is a 1915 silent adventure film serial directed by George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Pearl White - Elaine Dodge* Creighton Hale - Walter Jameson...	George B. Seitz George B. Seitz George Brackett Seitz was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director. He was known for his screenplays for action serials, including:*The Perils of Pauline *The Exploits of Elaine...	Pearl White Pearl White Pearl Fay White was an American film actress, the so-called "Stunt Queen" of silent films, most notably in The Perils of Pauline.-Early life:...	Serial starring Pearl White.
1915	Life Without Soul Life Without Soul Life Without Soul is a horror film, directed by Joseph W. Smiley and written by Jesse J. Goldburg. This film is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic novel Frankenstein. The film is about a doctor who creates a soulless man...	Joseph W. Smiley	Percy Standing Percy Standing Percy Standing was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 42 films between 1913 and 1934. He was the son of Herbert Standing...	The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein Frankenstein Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first... .
1915	The Last Night of the Barbary Coast The Last Night of the Barbary Coast The Last Night of the Barbary Coast was an early example of the exploitation film, showing what was purported to be the last night of the Barbary Coast red-light section of San Francisco. In reality, the Barbary Coast wasn't shut down until 1917....	Hal Mohr Hal Mohr Hal Mohr, A.S.C. was a famed movie cinematographer.-Career:In 1915, in an early example of an exploitation film peddled directly to theater owners, Mohr and Sol Lesser produced and directed a film The Last Night of the Barbary Coast... , Sol Lesser		Early example of an exploitation film Exploitation film Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,... , purportedly showing the last night of the Barbary Coast Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California Barbary Coast was a red-light district in old San Francisco, California. Geographically it constituted nine blocks bounded by Montgomery Street, Washington Street, Stockton Street, and Broadway...  red-light district of San Francisco.
1915	The Two Orphans The Two Orphans (1915 film) The Two Orphans is a 1915 silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be a lost film....	Herbert Brenon	Theda Bara Theda Bara Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...	Later remade by D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...  as Orphans of the Storm Orphans Of The Storm Orphans of the Storm is a drama film by D. W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution.This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith's last major commercial success, after boxoffice hits such as Birth... , starring Dorothy Gish Dorothy Gish Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.-Early life:...  and Lillian Gish Lillian Gish Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.... .
1915	The Pretty Sister of Jose The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915 film) The Pretty Sister of Jose is a silent film from 1915 produced by Daniel Frohman and distributed by Adolph Zukor's Famous Players film company. It was directed by Allan Dwan and starred Marguerite Clark and Jack Pickford, the brother of Clark's industry rival...	Allan Dwan Allan Dwan Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:...	Marguerite Clark Marguerite Clark Marguerite Clark was an American stage and silent film actress.-Early life and theater:Born to a farming family in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, Clark was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cincinnati... , Jack Pickford Jack Pickford Jack Pickford was a Canadian-born American actor. He was best known for his tabloid lifestyle, marriage to the top starlets of his day, and being of the famous Pickford acting family.-Early life:... , Rupert Julian Rupert Julian Rupert Julian was the first New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer.Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Son of John Daly Hayes and Eliza Harriet Hayes...	Clark's second film directed by Allan Dwan.
1915	A Girl of Yesterday A Girl of Yesterday A Girl of Yesterday is a 1915 film produced by Adolph Zukor's Famous Players company and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Allan Dwan and starred Mary Pickford. Pickford at last played a mature woman more or less her own age. The picture costarred Frances Marion, soon to be a...	Allan Dwan Allan Dwan Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:...	Mary Pickford Mary Pickford Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences... , Frances Marion Frances Marion Frances Marion was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.-Career:... , Glenn L. Martin	Real-life aviation Aviation Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...  pioneer Glenn L. Martin flies Mary in his biplane and refuses to kiss pretty Frances Marion because his real-life mother Minta objected to the kissing.
1915	The Valley of Lost Hope	Romaine Fielding Romaine Fielding Romaine Fielding , was an American actor, screenwriter and film director.Born William Grant Blandin in Riceville, Iowa, he worked and acted in live theatre for a number of years until 1911 when he turned to acting, writing and directing silent films for Philadelphia-based Lubin Studios...	Romaine Fielding, Mildred Gregory. Peter Lang Peter Lang Peter Lang is an international academic publisher with its head office in Bern, Switzerland.-Origins:It was founded 1970 in Frankfurt am Main by Swiss editor Peter Lang as Peter Lang GmbH. A 1977 development saw it transformed into Peter Lang AG, going to Bern...	Western involving a crashing locomotive.
1915	The Battle Cry of Peace	J. Stuart Blackton J. Stuart Blackton James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation...	Charles Richman Charles Richman Charles Richman is the acting commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. He also served as acting commissioner in the cabinet of former Gov. Richard Codey.... , L. Rogers Lytton L. Rogers Lytton L. Rogers Lytton was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 87 films between 1912 and 1924. Prior to entering films he had a substantial stage career behind him.... , Mary Maurice Mary Maurice Mary Maurice was an American actress, who appeared 139 films between 1909 and 1918....	Anti-war epic and the most expensive production undertaken by Vitagraph. One reel reported in Europe; fragments of battle scenes, culled from stock shot libraries, reside at G.E.H.
1916	McTeague	Barry O'Neal	Holbrook Blinn Holbrook Blinn Holbrook Blinn was an American actor, born in San Francisco. He appeared on the legitimate stage as a child, and played throughout the United States and in London. He appeared in silent films, and was the director of popular one-act plays at New York's Princess Theatre.In 1900, he appeared in... Fania Marinoff Fania Marinoff Fania Marinoff was a Russian-born American actress. She played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917....	The first filming of the novel McTeague McTeague McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the result of jealousy and avarice... , this film was apparently known as Life's a Whirlpool (not to be confused with the 1917 film of the same name).
1916	The Serpent The Serpent (1916 film) The Serpent is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Theda Bara. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox Studios and many early film studios were based there at the beginning of the 20th century. The film is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* Theda Bara -...	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...	Theda Bara Theda Bara Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...	One of Theda Bara's many lost films
1916	A Daughter of the Gods A Daughter of the Gods A Daughter of the Gods is a silent film that featured Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman.The film was controversial because of the sequences of what was regarded as superfluous nudity by the main character, Nydia, played by Kellerman...	Herbert Brenon	Annette Kellerman Annette Kellerman Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville and film star, and writer...	A few feet were held in the Cinema Museum of London, but are now lost.
1916	Das Phantom der Oper	Ernst Matray	Nils Olaf Chrisander Nils Olaf Chrisander Nils Olaf Chrisander was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth-century.Born Waldemar Olaf Chrisander in Stockholm, Sweden, Chrisander's first screen appearances as an actor were in German and Swedish silent films in the mid-1910s... , Aud Egede-Nissen Aud Egede-Nissen Aud Richter was a Norwegian actress, appearing in many early 20th century German films.- Biography :...
1916	Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet (1916 film) Romeo and Juliet is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century...	J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...	Theda Bara Theda Bara Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...
1916	The Fall of a Nation The Fall of a Nation The Fall of a Nation was a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Thomas Dixon, Jr. It is a sequel to the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith, which Dixon, Jr. co-wrote, in attempt in cash in on the success of the controversial first film. The Fall of a Nation is...	Thomas Dixon Thomas Dixon, Jr. Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author, perhaps best known for writing The Clansman — which was to become the inspiration for D. W...	Lorraine Huling Lorraine Huling Lorraine Huling was an American actress. She appeared in the 1916 film The Fall of a Nation.-External links:**...	A few frames survive. Sequel to The Birth of a Nation The Birth of a Nation The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith also co-wrote the screenplay , and co-produced the film . It was released on February 8, 1915...  (1915).
1917	Camille Camille (1917 film) Camille is a silent film based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, adapted by Adrian Johnson, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, and starring Theda Bara as Marguerite Gauthier. The film was made by Fox Film Corporation when it and many other early film studios in...	J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...	Theda Bara Theda Bara Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...	A reel was rumored to be found in a Russian archive, but was actually mislabelled. The film is still lost.
1917	Brcko u Zagrebu (Brcko in Zagreb)	Arsen Maas	Stjepan Bojničić	First Croatian roleplay movie. Only some shots remain.
1917	A Country Hero A Country Hero A Country Hero is a 1917 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Village Blacksmith* Buster Keaton - Vaudeville Artist* Al St...	Roscoe Arbuckle	Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton Buster Keaton Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
1917	El Apóstol El Apóstol El Apóstol was a 1917 Argentine animated film utilizing cutout animation, and the world's first animated feature film...	Quirino Cristiani Quirino Cristiani Quirino Cristiani was an Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire...		Argentine production Cinema of Argentina The cinema of Argentina has a tradition dating back to the late nineteenth century, and continues to play a role in the culture of Argentina....  believed to be the world's first animated feature film.
1917	Der Golem und die Tänzerin The Golem and the Dancing Girl The Golem and the Dancing Girl , was a 1917 comedy and a film sequel of the 1915 film The Golem.The Golem and the Dancing Girl is now considered a lost film.-See also:*The Golem ...	Paul Wegener Paul Wegener Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...		First sequel to a horror film.
1917	The Honor System	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...		One of Walsh's first features, and one of his most successful.
1917	The Gulf Between The Gulf Between (1917 film) The Gulf Between was the first motion picture made in Technicolor, the fourth feature-length color movie, and the first feature-length color movie produced in the United States. Today, the film is considered a lost film, with only a few frames of film extant. The Gulf Between was directed by Wray...	Wray Bartlett Physioc	Grace Darmond Grace Darmond Grace Darmond was an American actress from the early 20th century.-Early life:Grace Darmond was born Grace Glionna in Toronto on November 20, 1893. Her parents were James Glionna, a U.S.-born musician who had lived in Canada since 1877, and Alice Glionna, an Ontario native.-Career:Darmond was... , Niles Welch Niles Welch Niles Welch, also known as Niles Welsh, was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s....	The first Technicolor Technicolor Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...  film, a few frames of which survive.
1917	Life's Whirlpool Life's Whirlpool Life's Whirlpool a 1917 silent film written and directed by Lionel Barrymore with his sister Ethel Barrymore as the star. This is the brother and sister's only collaboration on a silent film as director and star...	Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...	Ethel Barrymore Ethel Barrymore Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...	Not based on Frank Norris Frank Norris Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague , The Octopus: A Story of California , and The Pit .-Life:Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1870... ' novel McTeague McTeague McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the result of jealousy and avarice... , but a typical melodrama of the time. Lionel Barrymore's last directed silent film until talkies in 1929, and the only directing of his sister in a film.
1917	Magda	Emile Chautard Emile Chautard Emile Chautard was a French film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed 107 films between 1910 and 1924...	Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era.-Early life:... , Valda Valkyrien Valda Valkyrien Valda Valkyrien was a Danish prima ballerina and a silent film actress.-Early life and career:Born Adele Eleonore Freed in Reykjavík, Iceland, under the stage name Valda Valkyrien she was prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet...
1917	The Spirit of '76 The Spirit of '76 (1917 film) The Spirit of '76 was a silent film directed by Frank Montgomery that depicted the early history of the United States. It is considered a lost film as no prints are known to survive.-Production:...	Frank Montgomery Frank Montgomery Frank Montgomery was an early American silent film director and actor....	John Big Tree, William Beery (brother of Wallace Beery Wallace Beery Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...  and Noah Beery)	Seized because it showed British Army "atrocities" during the American Revolution and was deemed to be detrimental to American support for England during World War I.
1917	Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki is the first professional Japanese animation film ever made. It was made by Ōten Shimokawa in 1917.-Backgrounds:In April 1914, French animation Fantasmagorie by Émile Cohl was screened under the title . This seems to be the first drawn-animation film screened in Japan...
1918	Bound in Morocco Bound in Morocco Bound in Morocco is a silent film comedy/drama starring Douglas Fairbanks. Fairbanks produced the picture with Allan Dwan directing. Production was by Artcraft Pictures, an associated company of Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures...		Douglas Fairbanks Douglas Fairbanks Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
1918	The Great Love	D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...	Lillian Gish Lillian Gish Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....	This melodrama incorporated actual footage of England and France under World War I conditions, including an air raid and a battle.
1918	The Greatest Thing in Life The Greatest Thing in Life The Greatest Thing in Life is a 1918 drama film about World War I, directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, and David Butler. The film is considered to be a lost film, as no prints are known to exist...	D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...	Lillian Gish Lillian Gish Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....
1918	The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin	Rupert Julian Rupert Julian Rupert Julian was the first New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer.Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Son of John Daly Hayes and Eliza Harriet Hayes...	Rupert Julian Rupert Julian Rupert Julian was the first New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer.Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Son of John Daly Hayes and Eliza Harriet Hayes...	Early World War I propaganda film Propaganda film The term propaganda can be defined as the ability to produce and spread fertile messages that, once sown, will germinate in large human cultures.” However, in the 20th century, a “new” propaganda emerged, which revolved around political organizations and their need to communicate messages that... .
1918	The Prussian Cur The Prussian Cur The Prussian Cur was an American anti-German silent propaganda film produced during World War I. Now considered a lost film, it is notable for perpetuating the story of the Crucified Soldier....	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...	Miriam Cooper Miriam Cooper Miriam Cooper was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D.W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh...	Early World War I propaganda film Propaganda film The term propaganda can be defined as the ability to produce and spread fertile messages that, once sown, will germinate in large human cultures.” However, in the 20th century, a “new” propaganda emerged, which revolved around political organizations and their need to communicate messages that... .
1918	Salomé Salomé (1918 film) Salomé is a silent film produced by William Fox and starring actress Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.Henri Langlois, a French film preservationist, said he had the opportunity to buy this film but dismissed it as Fox, Theda Bara, and American spectacle...	J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...	Theda Bara Theda Bara Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...
1918	The Savage Woman	Edmund Mortimer Edmund Mortimer (actor) Edmund Mortimer was an American actor and film director. He appeared in 251 films between 1913 and 1945. He also directed 23 films between 1918 and 1928....	Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young Clara Kimball Young was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era.-Early life:... , Milton Sills Milton Sills Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century....
1918	The Romance of Tarzan The Romance of Tarzan The Romance of Tarzan is a silent, black and white action adventure film directed by Wilfred Lucas starring Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Thomas Jefferson and Cleo Madison. The movie was the second Tarzan movie ever made, and is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' original novel Tarzan of the Apes...	Scott Sidney Scott Sidney Scott Sidney , was an American film director. He directed 117 films between 1913 and 1927.He died in London, England, United Kingdom.-External links:...	Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln was an American film actor.Born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt, the barrel-chested actor is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918's Tarzan of the Apes as an adult --...	The second Tarzan film produced.
1918	That Devil, Bateese That Devil, Bateese That Devil, Bateese is a silent drama film directed by William Wolbert, starring Lon Chaney, Sr., and was Chaney's final film in his first stint at Universal Studios. The film is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:...	William Wolbert	Lon Chaney, Sr. 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...	Chaney's final film in his first stint at Universal Universal Studios Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios.... .
1918	The Woman and the Law	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...		Based on the Blanca de Saulles trial starring Miriam Cooper Miriam Cooper Miriam Cooper was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D.W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh... .
1919	Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables (1919 film) Anne of Green Gables is a silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion...	William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...	Mary Miles Minter Mary Miles Minter Mary Miles Minter was an American film actress of the silent film era.-Early life and rise to stardom:Born Juliet Reilly in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter was the daughter of Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby...
1919	The Boy in Blue The Boy in Blue (1919 film) The Boy in Blue is a 1919 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's debut film. The film is now considered to be a lost film....	F. W. Murnau	Blandine Ebinger Blandine Ebinger Blandine Ebinger was a German actress and chansonniere, the daughter of the pianist Gustav Loeser and the actress Margarete Wezel...	Murnau's debut film.
1919	The Homesteader The Homesteader The Homesteader is a black-and-white silent film by African American author and filmmaker Oscar Micheaux.-Production:The film was produced, co-directed and written for the screen by Micheaux, based on his book of the same name. It is believed to be the first feature-length film made with a black...	Oscar Micheaux Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...	Evelyn Preer Evelyn Preer Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis , was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity...	Believed to be the first feature-length "race film" made with a black cast and crew, for a black audience.
1919	The Knickerbocker Buckaroo The Knickerbocker Buckaroo The Knickerbocker Buckaroo is a 1919 silent Western directed by Albert Parker and starring Douglas Fairbanks, who also wrote and produced the film. Fairbanks plays a hedonistic New York City aristocrat who tries to change his selfish ways by heading to Sonora, Texas to carry out a campaign of...	Albert Parker Albert Parker (director) Albert Parker was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He directed 36 films between 1917 and 1938. In the early 1930s Parker left Hollywood for England where he continued to direct films and also opened an actors' agency office...	Douglas Fairbanks Douglas Fairbanks Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
1919	Evangeline Evangeline (1919 film) Evangeline is a 1919 silent film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh. The star of the film was Walsh's wife at the time Miriam Cooper in the oft filmed story based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Filmed prior in 1908, 1911 and 1914...	Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh...		One of Walsh's most successful silents up to that time, one of Miriam Cooper Miriam Cooper Miriam Cooper was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D.W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh... 's most successful.
1919	Marked Men	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	Harry Carey
1919	A Fight for Love A Fight for Love A Fight for Love is a 1919 Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Harry Carey - Cheyenne Harry* Joe Harris - Black Michael* Neva Gerber - Kate McDougal* Mark Fenton - Angus McDougal...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	Harry Carey, John Big Tree
1919	The Test of Honor The Test of Honor The Test of Honor is a 1919 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount. It was directed by John S. Robertson and stars John Barrymore. Considered the actor's first drama movie role after years of doing film comedies. It was made at Famous Players East Coast...	John S. Robertson John S. Robertson John Stuart Robertson was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. He broke into filmmaking in 1915 with Vitagraph, then with Famous Players-Lasky, making 57 features in his career...	John Barrymore John Barrymore John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...	Barrymore's first dramatic role in a film.
1919	Der Herr der Liebe	Fritz Lang Fritz Lang Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...	Carl de Vogt Carl de Vogt Carl de Vogt was a German film actor who starred in four of Fritz Lang's early films. He attended the acting school in Cologne, Germany. Together with acting he was also active as a singer and recorded several discs. His greatest hit was "Der Fremdenlegionär"...	This is the only film in which director Fritz Lang had an acting role.
1919	The Misleading Widow The Misleading Widow The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy directed by John S. Robertson and starring Billie Burke. It is based on a played Billeted by F. Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Harwood. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount-Artcraft. As with most of Burke's silent films...	John S. Robertson John S. Robertson John Stuart Robertson was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. He broke into filmmaking in 1915 with Vitagraph, then with Famous Players-Lasky, making 57 features in his career...	Billie Burke Billie Burke Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live...
1919	The Avalanche The Avalanche (1919 film) The Avalanche is a 1919 American silent film directed by George Fitzmaurice who also served as the film's art director. William Scully was the assistant director to Fitzmaurice. The film stars Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland. It is the first film that teamed director Fitzmaurice and star Ferguson....	George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage...	Elsie Ferguson Elsie Ferguson Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...
1919	A Society Exile A Society Exile (1919 film) A Society Exile is a 1919 silent film drama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Elsie Ferguson, Julia Dean and William Carleton. The assistant director to Fitzmaurice was William Scully. The film marks the second screen appearance of the actor Henry Stephenson. It is now a lost film...	George Fitzmaurice	Elsie Ferguson
1919	Counterfeit Counterfeit (1919 film) Counterfeit is a 1919 silent film detective/ drama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Elsie Ferguson. The assistant director was C. Van Arsdale. The picture was the fourth film Fitzmaurice and Ferguson worked on and is now a lost film.-Cast:...	George Fitzmaurice	Elsie Ferguson
1919	The First Men in the Moon The First Men in the Moon (1919 film) The First Men in the Moon is a black-and-white silent film from 1919, directed by Bruce Gordon and J.L.V. Leigh. The film is based on H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon. This, the 1919 version, is the original film; there have since been many other adaptations of the...	J.L.V. Leigh	Hector Abbas, Lionel D'Aragon	First film adapted directly from a work by H.G. Wells

1920s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1920	The Prince of Avenue A The Prince of Avenue A The Prince of Avenue A is a drama film directed by John Ford. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* James J. Corbett - Barry O'Connor* Richard Cummings - Patrick O'Connor* Cora Drew - Mary O'Connor* Frederick Vroom - William Tompkins...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	James J. Corbett James J. Corbett James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was an Irish-American heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco... Richard Cummings Richard Henry Cummings Richard Henry Cummings , was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 82 films between 1913 and 1930...
1920	Abend - Nacht - Morgen	F.W. Murnau	Conrad Veidt Conrad Veidt Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Man Who Laughs , The Thief of Bagdad and Casablanca... , Gertrude Welcker, Bruno Ziener, Otto Gebühr, Carl von Balla
1920	Sehnsucht Sehnsucht (1920 film) Desire was a 1921 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Conrad Veidt. It tells the story of a male dancer who falls in love with a grand duchess, only to be arrested, and his subsequent attempt to find the duchess...	F. W. Murnau	Conrad Veidt Conrad Veidt Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Man Who Laughs , The Thief of Bagdad and Casablanca...
1920	The Revenge of Tarzan The Revenge of Tarzan The Revenge of Tarzan is a silent adventure film, and the third Tarzan film produced. The film was produced by the Great Western Film Producing Company, a subsidiary of Numa Pictures Corporation. It was sold to Goldwyn Distributing Company before release...	Harry Revier Harry Revier Harry Jack Revier was an independent American director, producer and first generation exploitation film maker best known for his sound films; The Lost City , Lash of the Penitentes and Child Bride .-Biography:Born in Philadelphia in 1890, some sources state that Revier gained early experience as... George M. Merrick George M. Merrick George Martin Merrick was a writer of the Frank Buck serial Jungle Menace...	Gene Pollar Gene Pollar Gene Pollar was the screen name of New York City firefighter Joseph Pohler, who in his very brief movie career played Tarzan.-Background:...	The third Tarzan Tarzan Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...  film produced
1920	The Devil's Pass Key	Erich von Stroheim Erich von Stroheim Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...	Leo White Leo White Leo White was a stage performer and appeared as a character actor in many Charlie Chaplin films. He started his film career in 1911 and in 1913 moved to the Essanay Studios. In 1915, he began appearing in Chaplin's comedies and continued through Chaplin's Mutual Film comedies... , Mae Busch Mae Busch Mae Busch was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife.-Early life and career:Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was...	negative depiction of Americans led some suggest Stroheim be deported.
1920	Treasure Island Treasure Island (1920 film) Treasure Island is a 1920 silent film adaptation of the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, directed by Maurice Tourneur, and released by Paramount Pictures...	Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...	Shirley Mason Shirley Mason Shirley Mason may refer to:* Shirley Ardell Mason , American psychiatric patient* Shirley Mason , American silent film actress... , Charles Ogle Charles Ogle Charles Ogle may refer to:*Charles Ogle , US Congressman*Charles Ogle , British Admiral*Charles Stanton Ogle , American silent film actor*Charles Chaloner Ogle , British journalist... , Lon Chaney, Sr. 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...	An exceptionally lavish production of the Stevenson novel, reportedly with some color sequences
1920	Lady Rose's Daughter Lady Rose's Daughter Lady Rose's Daughter is a 1920 silent film drama starring Elsie Ferguson and David Powell with directing being from Hugh Ford. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a stage play performed in 1903 on Broadway. Both the film and the...	Hugh Ford Hugh Ford Hugh Ford was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 31 films between 1913 and 1921. He also wrote for 19 films between 1913 and 1920.He was born in Washington, D.C..-Selected filmography:...	Elsie Ferguson Elsie Ferguson Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...
1921	Disraeli Disraeli (1921 film) Disraeli is a 1921 silent historical drama directed by Henry Kolker and starring George Arliss. This movie was Arliss's second outing in film and first screen portrayal of Disraeli as he had made famous in the play in 1911. A British film of the play had been made in 1916 with the permission of...	Henry Kolker Henry Kolker Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director...	George Arliss George Arliss George Arliss was an English actor, author and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award.-Life and career:...	The entire film was screened at the MOMA in 1947. In the sixty years since only reel 3 survives at George Eastman House.
1921	The Gunsaulus Mystery The Gunsaulus Mystery The Gunsaulus Mystery is a 1921 silent race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film was inspired by events and figures in the 1913-1915 trial of Leo Frank for the murder of Mary Phagan.-Plot:...	Oscar Micheaux Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...	Evelyn Preer Evelyn Preer Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis , was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity...	Inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan.
1921	Humor Risk Humor Risk Humor Risk was the first Marx Brothers film. The short film was never released and is now considered a lost film. The print may have been accidentally thrown away when left in the screening box overnight...	Richard Smith Richard Smith (silent film director) Richard Smith , also known as Dick Smith, was a screenwriter, actor, and film director. A comedian active in the vaudeville era, Smith met his wife Alice Howell in 1910 and the two performed together as "Howell and Howell"...	Marx Brothers Marx Brothers The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950...	The first Marx Brothers film. It is not clear whether this film was ever shown theatrically.
1921	The Lotus Eater The Lotus Eater (1921 film) The Lotus Eater is a silent 1921 drama film produced and directed by Marshall Neilan and released through Associated First National.-Story:...	Marshall Neilan Marshall Neilan Marshall Ambrose Neilan was an American motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.-Early life:...	John Barrymore John Barrymore John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III... , Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...	tropical scenes filmed partly on Catalina Island Santa Catalina Island, California Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is... , and in Florida
1921	The Freeze Out	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	Harry Carey
1921	The Avenging Arrow The Avenging Arrow The Avenging Arrow is a 1921 western film serial directed by William Bowman and W. S. Van Dyke. It is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Ruth Roland - Anita Delgado* Edward Hearn - Ralph Troy* Virginia Ainsworth - Luiza Traganza* S.E...	William S. Bowman W. S. Van Dyke W. S. Van Dyke Woodbridge Strong "Woody" Van Dyke, Jr. was an American motion picture director.-Early life and career:...	John Big Tree
1921	The Queen of Sheba The Queen of Sheba (film) The Queen of Sheba is a silent film produced by Fox studios about the story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, King of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba. Written and directed by J. Gordon Edwards, it starred Betty Blythe as Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon...	J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda...	Betty Blythe Betty Blythe Betty Blythe was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba .-Career:...	Only a few production stills remain. Elaborate chariot race staged by Tom Mix Tom Mix Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features...
1921	Sentimental Tommy Sentimental Tommy (1921 film) Sentimental Tommy is a silent film directed by John S. Robertson which has Mary Astor in one of her earliest roles, although her scenes were deleted before release. The film, which made a star of Gareth Hughes, is now considered a lost film.-Cast:...	John S. Robertson John S. Robertson John Stuart Robertson was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. He broke into filmmaking in 1915 with Vitagraph, then with Famous Players-Lasky, making 57 features in his career...	Gareth Hughes Gareth Hughes Gareth Hughes was a Welsh stage and silent screen actor. Usually cast as a callow, sensitive hero in Hollywood silent films, Hughes got his start on stage during childhood and continued to play youthful leads on Broadway....	one of the biggest Paramount hits of 1921
1921	Forever	George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage...	Elsie Ferguson Elsie Ferguson Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney... , Wallace Reid Wallace Reid Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St...	film version of George du Maurier George du Maurier George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier...  play Peter Ibbetson Peter Ibbetson Peter Ibbetson is an American black-and-white drama film released in 1935 and directed by Henry Hathaway.The picture is based on a novel by George du Maurier, first published in 1891. In 1917, du Maurier's story was adapted into a very successful Broadway play starring John Barrymore, Lionel...
1921	Experience Experience (1921 film) Experience is a silent drama morality/allegory film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The picture was directed by George Fitzmaurice and starred Richard Barthelmess, and was based on George V. Hobart's successful 1914 Broadway play of the same name...	George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage...	Richard Barthelmess Richard Barthelmess Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess was an Oscar-nominated silent film star.-Early life:Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut... , Lilyan Tashman Lilyan Tashman Lilyan Tashman was a Brooklyn-born Jewish American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the bitchy 'other woman'... , Marjorie Daw	allegory in which all the characters are named for a human emotion
1922	Clarence Clarence (1922 film) Clarence is a silent comedy drama, based on a play by Booth Tarkington, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William C. deMille and starred Wallace Reid in his penultimate screen appearance. The play starred Alfred Lunt, in Reid's part,...	William C. DeMille William C. DeMille Willam C. deMille was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent movie era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film. Once he was established in film he specialized in adapting Broadway plays into silent films...	Wallace Reid Wallace Reid Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St... Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born...
1922	Number 13 Number 13 (film) In 1922 Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 .The film was to star Clare Greet and Ernest Thesiger as husband and wife...	Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...	Clare Greet Clare Greet Clare Greet was an English film actress. She appeared in 26 films between 1921 and 1939, including six films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.She was born in England and died in London.... Ernest Thesiger Ernest Thesiger Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger CBE was an English stage and film actor. He is best known for his performance as Dr...	What would have been Hitchcock's first film was uncompleted except for a few scenes, due to budget problems.
1922	The Beautiful and Damned The Beautiful and Damned (film) The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 silent film directed by William A. Seiter and released by Warner Brothers in their early years. This film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel published in the same year, starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost. It is 70 minutes long.There are no known...	William A. Seiter William A. Seiter William A. Seiter was an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy...	Kenneth Harlan Kenneth Harlan Kenneth Harlan was an American leading man of the silent film era, playing mostly romantic leads or adventurer types.-Career:... Marie Prevost Marie Prevost Marie Prevost was a Canadian-born actress of the early days of cinema. During her twenty year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.-Early life:...	F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost... 's second novel, adapted and produced by Warner Bros. Six lobby cards extant.
1922	A Blind Bargain A Blind Bargain A Blind Bargain is a silent horror film starring Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, released through Goldwyn Pictures. The movie was directed by Wallace Worsley and is based on Barry Pain's 1897 novel, The Octave of Claudius...	Wallace Worsley Wallace Worsley Wallace A. Worsley Sr. was an American stage actor who became a director in the silent film era. Worsley directed 29 films during the years 1918-1928 and acted in 7 films. He directed several films starring Lon Chaney Sr...	Lon Chaney, Sr. 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...	Negative destroyed by MGM in 1931. Last surviving print lost in 1967 MGM vault fire
1922	One Glorious Day	James Cruze James Cruze James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.-Life:Cruze was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years...	Will Rogers Will Rogers William "Will" Penn Adair Rogers was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, film actor, and one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s....	Possibility of a nitrate print surviving
1922	Uncle Jasper's Will Uncle Jasper's Will Uncle Jasper's Will is a 1922 race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film is a drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner...	Oscar Micheaux Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...		A sequel to the 1920 feature Within Our Gates Within Our Gates Within Our Gates is a silent race film that dramatically expresses the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro".-Production background:...
1922	The Virgin of the Seminole The Virgin of the Seminole The Virgin of the Seminole was a 1922 race film directed, written and produced by Oscar Micheaux. The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe...	Oscar Micheaux Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...
1923	Miss Suwanna of Siam Miss Suwanna of Siam Miss Suwanna of Siam, or Nang Sao Suwan, was a 1923 romance film written and directed by Henry MacRae, set in Thailand and starring Thai actors. It was one of first feature films to be made in Thailand, and was the first Hollywood co-production in Thailand...	Henry MacRae Henry MacRae Henry Alexander MacRae was a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter during the silent era, working on many film serials for Universal Studios...	Sa-ngaim Naveesatien, Ram Projtasart	One of the earliest feature films made in Thailand, only stills and promotional materials exist.
1923	Human Wreckage Human Wreckage Human Wreckage was an independent silent film production by Dorothy Davenport, widow of actor Wallace Reid, who died on 18 January 1923 from complications of morphine addiction.-Production background:...	John Griffith Wray John Griffith Wray John Griffith Wray , was an American film director. He directed 19 films between 1913 and 1929. His films include Anna Christie and Human Wreckage , Dorothy Davenport's story about her husband Wallace Reid's drug addiction and death.He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and died in Los...	Dorothy Davenport Dorothy Davenport Dorothy Davenport was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith.-Early career:... , Bessie Love Bessie Love Bessie Love was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies. With a small frame and delicate features, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. Her role in The Broadway Melody earned her a nomination for...	Early portrayal of drug addiction, based on actor Wallace Reid Wallace Reid Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St... , Davenport's husband
1923	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....	Kenneth Webb Kenneth Webb Kenneth S. Webb was an American film director, screenwriter, and composer noted for directing a number of films in the early age of the American film industry...	Mildred Harris Mildred Harris Mildred Harris was an American film actress. Harris began her career in the film industry as a popular child actress at age eleven. At the age of fifteen, she was cast as a harem girl in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance . She appeared as a leading lady through the 1920s but her career slowed with... 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... Clara Bow Clara Bow Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...
1923	Drakula halála Dracula's Death Dracula's Death — or Drakula halála, sometimes translated as The Death of Drakula — is a 1921 Hungarian horror movie, currently believed to be a lost film, that was written and directed by Károly Lajthay...	Károly Lajthay Károly Lajthay Károly Lajthay was a Hungarian film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1918 and 1944. He also appeared in 13 films between 1916 and 1920....		The first filmed version of the Dracula Dracula Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...  story. This Hungarian film preceded Nosferatu by over a year.
1923	Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (1923 film) Vanity Fair is a silent feature film directed by Hugo Ballin and released by Samuel Goldwyn.-Production background:The film included one sequence filmed in color by Prizmacolor. This silent film was a version of the novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray...	Hugo Ballin Hugo Ballin Hugo Ballin was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York. When the Wisconsin State Capital was built in the early 20th Century, Ballin created 26 murals for its interior...	Mabel Ballin Mabel Ballin Mabel Ballin was an American motion-picture actress of the silent film era.-Early life and career:Born Mabel Croft in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she originally studied painting. Her landscapes were noticed at an exhibition and led to an offer to appear in films. Ballin appeared in 28 films...	Film produced by Samuel Goldwyn Samuel Goldwyn Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...  with Prizma Prizma The Prizma Color system was a technique of color motion picture photography, invented in 1913 by William Van Doren Kelley and Charles Raleigh. Initially, it was a two-color additive color system, similar to its predecessor, Kinemacolor... color sequence
1923	Flaming Youth Flaming Youth (film) Flaming Youth was a 1923 silent film featuring Colleen Moore that centered on the sotry of a young woman named Patricia Frentiss. The portrayal cemented Colleen's position in the film world as the prototypical flapper .-Story:When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over...	John Francis Dillon John Francis Dillon (director) John Francis Dillon was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 130 films between 1914 and 1934...	Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:... Milton Sills Milton Sills Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century....	One reel survives
1923	The Ghost City The Ghost City The Ghost City is a 1923 Western film serial directed by Jay Marchant. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Pete Morrison - Laughing Larry Newton* Margaret Morris - Alice Sinclair* Al Wilson - Raymond Moreton* Frank Rice - Sagebrush Hilton...	Jay Marchant Jay Marchant Jay Marchant , was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 22 films between 1921 and 1925, including five film serials for the Universal Film Manufacturing Company....	Pete Morrison Pete Morrison George D. Morrison, nicknamed Pete, was an American silent western film actor born August 8, 1890 in Westminster, Colorado. During his childhood he lived at Morrison, Colorado and Idaho Springs, and got his early tastes of horsemanship riding with his father Thomas during the summer...
1923	Hollywood Hollywood (1923 film) Hollywood was a silent comedy film directed by James Cruze, co-written by Frank Condon and Thomas J. Geraghty, and released by Paramount Pictures.The film has become famous as having featured cameos of more than thirty famous Hollywood stars...	James Cruze James Cruze James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.-Life:Cruze was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years...		Contained cameos of many silent film stars playing themselves
1923	Where the Pavement Ends Where the Pavement Ends (1923 film) Where the Pavement Ends is a silent tropical romance drama directed by Rex Ingram on location in Cuba and starring his wife Alice Terry and Ramón Novarro. The film was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures. It is now considered a lost film....	Rex Ingram Rex Ingram (director) Rex Ingram was an Irish film director, producer, writer and actor. Legendary director Erich von Stroheim once called him "the world's greatest director."-Early life:...	Ramón Novarro Ramón Novarro Ramón Novarro was a Mexican leading man actor in Hollywood in the early 20th century. He was the next male "Sex Symbol" after the death of Rudolph Valentino... 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:...	Filmed in Florida & Cuba.
1923	Hoodman Blind Hoodman Blind Hoodman Blind is a 1923 drama film directed by John Ford. The film is considered to be lost. It is a remake of a 1913 film of the same name directed by James Gordon.-Cast:* David Butler - Jack Yeulette* Gladys Hulette - Nancy Yeulette / Jessie Walton...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	David Butler, Gladys Hulette Gladys Hulette Gladys Hulette was a silent film actress from Arcade, New York. Her career began in the early years of silent movies and continued until the mid-1930s. She first performed on stage at the age of three and on screen when she was seven years old. Hulette was also a talented artist...
1923	The World's Applause	William C. deMille William C. DeMille Willam C. deMille was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent movie era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film. Once he was established in film he specialized in adapting Broadway plays into silent films...	Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain...
1923	The Eternal City The Eternal City (1923 film) The Eternal City is a silent film directed by George Fitzmaurice, from a script by Ouida Bergère based on a Hall Caine novel, starring Barbara La Marr, Lionel Barrymore and Bert Lytell. The film was produced by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and distributed by First National Pictures. It was a remake...	George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage...	Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul... , Barbara LaMarr, Bert Lytell Bert Lytell Bert Lytell , Born Bertram Lytell, he was a popular screen star of the silent film era who starred in romantic, melodrama and adventure films....	Partly shot in Rome.
1923	The Isle of Lost Ships The Isle of Lost Ships (1923 film) The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 silent film adventure/melodrama directed and produced by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National Pictures. The film is based on Crittenden Marriott's novel c.1909. The story was re-filmed in 1929 by director Irvin Willat...	Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...	Anna Q. Nilsson Anna Q. Nilsson Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Swedish born American actress who achieved success in American silent movies.-Background:... , Milton Sills Milton Sills Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century....	A story of ships caught, lost or missing in the Sargasso Sea Sargasso Sea The Sargasso Sea is a region in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by ocean currents. It is bounded on the west by the Gulf Stream; on the north, by the North Atlantic Current; on the east, by the Canary Current; and on the south, by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current. This... ; the area later became even more famous following the Bermuda Triangle Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels allegedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances....  disappearances.
1923	On the Banks of the Wabash On the Banks of the Wabash (1923 film) On the Banks of the Wabash is a silent film rural melodrama directed by J. Stuart Blackton and produced and distributed by his movie company Vitagraph. The film is very loosely based on Paul Dresser's song/poem On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away. The film was an expensive production with...	J. Stuart Blackton J. Stuart Blackton James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation...	Mary Carr Mary Carr Mary Carr was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr . She appeared in 144 films between 1915 and 1956... , Madge Evans Madge Evans Madge Evans was an American stage and film actress. She began her career as a child performer and model.-Child model and stage actress:... , Burr McIntosh Burr McIntosh William Burr McIntosh had an eclectic career. He was known, at different points in his life, to be a lecturer, photographer, movie studio owner, silent film actor, author, publisher of Burr McIntosh Monthly, reporter and a pioneer in the early movie and radio business.-Life and career:He was born...	Shot on location in the midwest and southern United States.
1923	The Courtship of Miles Standish The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923 film) The Courtship of Miles Standish was an ambitious and costly historical silent film produced by and starring Charles Ray.The film was based on the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem The Courtship of Miles Standish. This movie famously bankrupted Ray costing him his life savings garnered from...	Frederick Sullivan	Charles Ray	Production bankrupted actor Charles Ray and nearly ended his movie career. A full size replica of the Mayflower Mayflower The Mayflower was the ship that transported the English Separatists, better known as the Pilgrims, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, , in 1620...  was built for this film.
1924	Feet of Clay Feet of Clay (film) Feet of Clay is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Vera Reynolds and Rod La Rocque, and with set design by Norman Bel Geddes. The film is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* Vera Reynolds - Amy Loring...	Cecil B. DeMille Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...	Rod La Rocque Rod La Rocque -Biography:He was born Roderick La Rocque in Chicago, Illinois. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was...	Set design by Norman Bel Geddes Norman Bel Geddes Norman Melancton Bel Geddes was an American theatrical and industrial designer who focused on aerodynamics....
1924	Wanderer of the Wasteland Wanderer of the Wasteland (film) Wanderer of the Wasteland is a silent Western film, and was the third feature film to be photographed entirely in Technicolor.-Production background:...	Irvin Willat Irvin Willat Irvin Willat was an American film director of the silent film era. He directed 39 films between 1917 and 1937. Early in his career Willat worked as a cinematographer on several films...	Billie Dove Billie Dove Billie Dove was an American actress.-Early life and career:She was born as Bertha Bohny in New York City to Charles and Bertha Bohny who were Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15 by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld...	A Technicolor feature. Willat had only existing print which disintegrated by 1971
1924	A Sainted Devil A Sainted Devil A Sainted Devil is a 1924 silent drama film starring Rudolph Valentino. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Rudolph Valentino as Don Alonzo Castro* Nita Naldi as Carlotta* Helena D'Algy as Julietta...	Joseph Henabery Joseph Henabery Joseph Henabery Omaha, Nebraska, was a US film actor, screenplay writer, and director.-Career:Henabery's acting career began in The Joke on Yellentown . Henabery appeared in the D. W. Griffith silent film Birth of a Nation as Abraham Lincoln...	Rudolph Valentino Rudolph Valentino Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik... , Nita Naldi	Less than one reel has survived
1924	So Big So Big (1924 film) So Big is a 1924 silent film based on Edna Ferber's novel of the same name. It was produced by independent producer Earl Hudson the film was distributed through Associated First National...	Charles Brabin Charles Brabin Charles J. Brabin was an American film director and screenwriter. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in talkies....	Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...
1924	Sinners in Heaven Sinners In Heaven (1924 film) Sinners in Heaven is a 1924 silent film island romance drama directed by Alan Crosland and released through Paramount Pictures. It stars Richard Dix and Bebe Daniels in the principal roles. It is now considered a lost film.-Cast:...	Alan Crosland Alan Crosland Alan Crosland was an American stage actor and film director.-Early life and career:Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended Dartmouth College. After graduation he took a job as a writer with the New York Globe magazine...	Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain... , 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:...
1924	Merton of the Movies Merton of the Movies Merton of the Movies is a 1919 book written by Harry Leon Wilson. In 1922, it was adapted into a Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. A 1924 silent movie version was directed by James Cruze and starred Glenn Hunter who had created the role on Broadway...	James Cruze James Cruze James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.-Life:Cruze was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years...	Glenn Hunter Glenn Hunter (actor) Glenn Hunter was a stage and silent film actor who gained popularity in the 1920s on the Broadway stage....	Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1924
1924	Babbitt Babbitt -Fiction:*Babbitt , a 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis.**Babbitt , a 1924 film based on the novel**Babbitt , a 1934 film based on the novel...	Harry Beaumont Harry Beaumont Harry Beaumont was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers and MGM....	Willard Louis Willard Louis Willard Louis was an American film actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 81 films between 1911 and 1926 and he directed 82 films between 1912 and 1916.... , Mary Alden Mary Alden Mary Maguire Alden was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood.-Career:Born in New York City, Alden began her career on the Broadway stage... , Carmel Myers Carmel Myers Carmel Myers was an American actress who worked chiefly in silent movies.Myers was born in San Francisco, the daughter of an Australian rabbi and Austrian Jewish mother. Her father became well-connected with California's emerging film industry, and introduced her to film pioneer D. W. Griffith,...	First film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis novel.
1924	Gold Heels Gold Heels (1924 film) Gold Heels is a 1924 silent film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The film is loosely based on legendary racing horse Gold Heels.-Cast:*Robert Agnew - Boots*Peggy Shaw - Pert Barlow...	W.S. Van Dyke	Robert Agnew Robert Agnew Robert Agnew , also known as Bobby Agnew, born in Dayton, Kentucky, was an American movie actor who worked mostly in the silent film era, making 65 films in both the silent and sound eras....	Partly inspired by the racehorse of the same name Gold Heels Gold Heels was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who, in a two-year period, set one new stakers record and four track records, including a world record.-Background:... .
1925	Corazón Aymara Corazón Aymara Corazón Aymara is a 1925 lost Bolivian silent feature film, directed by Pedro Sambarino.It is generally described as Bolivia's first ever fiction feature film...	Pedro Sambarino		First Bolivian fiction feature film.
1925	The Fighting Heart The Fighting Heart (1925 film) The Fighting Heart is a 1925 drama film directed by John Ford. The film is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* George O'Brien - Denny Bolton* Billie Dove - Doris Anderson* J. Farrell MacDonald - Jerry* Victor McLaglen - Soapy Williams...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	George O'Brien, Billie Dove Billie Dove Billie Dove was an American actress.-Early life and career:She was born as Bertha Bohny in New York City to Charles and Bertha Bohny who were Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15 by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld...
1925	The Dark Angel The Dark Angel (1925 film) The Dark Angel is a drama, based on the play The Dark Angel, a Play of Yesterday and To-day by H. B. Trevelyan, released by First National in 1925, and starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, and Wyndham Standing...	George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage...	Vilma Banky Vilma Bánky Vilma Bánky was a Hungarian-born American silent film actress, although the early part of her acting career began in Budapest, spreading to France, Austria, and Germany... , Ronald Colman Ronald Colman Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he...	Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1925.
1925	The Prophecy of the Lake The Prophecy of the Lake The Prophecy of the Lake is an unreleased and lost Bolivian silent feature film, directed by José Maria Velasco Maidana and completed in 1925....	José Maria Velasco Maidana José Maria Velasco Maidana José Maria Velasco Maidana was a Bolivian film director, composer, conductor, actor, painter and dancer.He is known for "his ballets and symphonic works, a number of which embrace national/native themes", but also for his films. He entered the cinema industry "at the very start of Bolivian fiction...		Second completed Bolivian fiction feature film; banned and never released.
1925	That Royle Girl That Royle Girl That Royle Girl is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and released by Paramount Pictures. A lost film.-Production:The film was based on the novel of the same name by Edwin Balmer...	D. W. Griffith D. W. Griffith David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...	W. C. Fields W. C. Fields William Claude Dukenfield , better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer...	Griffith used 24 airplane propellers to create a tornado sequence.
1925	Madame Sans-Gêne Madame Sans-Gene (1925 film) Madame Sans-Gene is a silent romantic comedy/costume drama directed by Léonce Perret and starring Gloria Swanson.-Production background:The film was produced in France, as Swanson was on extended vacation there...	Léonce Perret Léonce Perret Léonce Perret was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director...	Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...	filmed by Swanson entirely in France
1925	The Coast of Folly The Coast of Folly (1925 film) The Coast of Folly is a 1925 silent drama directed by Allan Dwan and starred Gloria Swanson. Richard Arlen had a small part in the film but his scenes were cut before release. Still photos of Arlen in the film exist. The film is considered lost.-Cast:...	Allan Dwan Allan Dwan Allan Dwan was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:...	Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...
1925	His Supreme Moment His Supreme Moment His Supreme Moment is a silent feature film with sequences filmed in Technicolor, starring Blanche Sweet and Ronald Colman, directed by George Fitzmaurice, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn...	George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice George Fitzmaurice was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage...	Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman Ronald Colman Ronald Charles Colman was an English actor.-Early years:He was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, the second son and fourth child of Charles Colman and his wife Marjory Read Fraser. His siblings included Eric, Edith, and Marjorie. He was educated at boarding school in Littlehampton, where he... , Anna May Wong Anna May Wong Anna May Wong was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star...	some sequences had 2 strip Technicolor
1925	We Moderns We Moderns We Moderns was an American silent comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Colleen Moore, the same team from Flaming Youth . The film was produced by Moore's husband John McCormick , was released through First National Pictures, and was based on the play and novel by Israel Zangwill...	John Francis Dillon John Francis Dillon (director) John Francis Dillon was an American film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 130 films between 1914 and 1934...	Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...	a sequel to Moore's Flaming Youth of 1923
1926	Gwiaździsta eskadra Gwiazdzista eskadra Gwiaździsta eskadra is a 1930 Polish war film directed by Leonard Buczkowski. Shot with the co-operation of the Polish army, it was the most expensive Polish film made before World War II.-Plot:...	Leonard Buczkowski	Barbara Orwid, Jana Krysta, Jerzy Kobusz, Janusz Halny, Stefan Szwarc, Andrzej Karewicz, Barbara Ludwiżanka, Zygmunt Biesiadecki	A story of American soldiers fighting in Polish 7th Air Escadrille fighting with Bolshevists during Polish-Soviet War in 1918–1920. All copies were stolen or destroyed by Soviet Army after 1945.
1926	Arirang Arirang (1926 film) Arirang is a 1926 Korean film. One of the earliest feature films to be made in the country, it is named after the traditional song Arirang, which audiences were said to sing at the conclusion of the film. The silent, black and white film was written and directed by Na Un'gyu , and stars Na Un'gyu,...	Na Woon-gyu Na Woon-gyu Na Woon-gyu was a Korean actor, screenwriter and director. He is widely considered the most important filmmaker in early Korean cinema, and possibly Korea's first true movie star...	Na Woon-gyu Na Woon-gyu Na Woon-gyu was a Korean actor, screenwriter and director. He is widely considered the most important filmmaker in early Korean cinema, and possibly Korea's first true movie star...	Korean film; a copy of the film was rumored to be in the possession of Japanese collector, who died in February 2005.
1926	A Woman of the Sea A Woman of the Sea A Woman of the Sea, also known by its working title Sea Gulls, was an unreleased 1926 silent film produced by the Chaplin Film Company....	Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...	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 thirty films with Chaplin.-Early life:...	Produced by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I... , destroyed by Chaplin himself in 1933 as a tax write-off Write-off The term write-off describes a reduction in recognized value. In accounting terminology, it refers to recognition of the reduced or zero value of an asset. In income tax statements, it refers to a reduction of taxable income as recognition of certain expenses required to produce the income...  {Production stills survive}
1926	The Cat's Pajamas	William Wellman	Betty Bronson Betty Bronson Betty Bronson was an American television and film actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was a famous actress in silent and sound films.-Film career:...
1926	The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby (1926 film) The Great Gatsby is a silent film adaptation of the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was directed by Herbert Brenon, produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky at Famous Players-Lasky, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is a famous example of a lost film....	Herbert Brenon	Warner Baxter Warner Baxter Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies... , Lois Wilson, William Powell William Powell William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...	The first filmed version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost...  novel.
1926	The Mountain Eagle The Mountain Eagle The Mountain Eagle is a British silent film, and Alfred Hitchcock's second as director following The Pleasure Garden.-Plot:The film is set in Kentucky. J. P. Pettigrew's wife died giving birth to his son Edward who was born a cripple. Pettigrew hates John Fulton who also loved Pettigrew's wife...	Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...	Nita Naldi	The only lost Hitchcock feature film.
1926	A Social Celebrity A Social Celebrity A Social Celebrity is a silent comedy drama starring Louise Brooks as a small town manicurist who goes to New York with her boyfriend , a barber who poses as a French count...	Malcolm St. Clair Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker) Malcolm St. Clair was a Hollywood film director, writer, producer and actor, he was sometimes credited as Mal St Clair. A disciple of Mack Sennett, St. Clair was an actor in many films primarily comedies. At 6'7" he can be seen in such Sennett films as Yankee Doodle in Berlin, towering over the...	Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born... , Louise Brooks Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...	In 1957 one print deteriorated, and later another was lost in a fire
1926	Just Another Blonde	Alfred Santell Alfred Santell Alfred Santell was an American film director born September 14, 1895 in San Francisco, California. He directed over 60 films, including The Patent Leather Kid , Body and Soul , and Beyond the Blue Horizon...	Louise Brooks Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...	A fragmentary 20 minutes of this film has been found and is held at UCLA Film and Television Archive UCLA Film and Television Archive The UCLA Film and Television Archive is an internationally renowned visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles. It holds more than 220,000 film and television titles and 27 million feet of...
1926	Aloma of the South Seas Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film) Aloma of the South Seas is a 1926 silent film starring Gilda Gray as an erotic dancer. It was filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda. It was based on a 1925 play of the same title by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens. Grossing US$3 million in the US alone, it was the most successful film of 1926 and the...	Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...	Gilda Gray Gilda Gray Gilda Gray was a Polish born American 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.... , William Powell William Powell William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...	filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda
1926	London London (1926 film) London is a British silent film, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Dorothy Gish. The film was adapted by Wilcox from a short story by popular author Thomas Burke...	Herbert Wilcox Herbert Wilcox Herbert Sydney Wilcox was a British film producer and director.-Early life:Wilcox's mother was from County Cork, Ireland, but he was born in Norwood and attended school in Brighton...	Dorothy Gish Dorothy Gish Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.-Early life:...	BFI Database British Film Institute The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
1927	Camille	Fred Niblo Fred Niblo Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.-Biography:He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg...	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...
1927	London After Midnight London After Midnight (film) London After Midnight aka The Hypnotist is a silent mystery film with horror overtones produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, and Polly Moran and was directed by Tod Browning. It is also a lost film, quite...	Tod Browning Tod Browning Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras...	Lon Chaney, Sr. 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... , Marceline Day Marceline Day Marceline Day was an American motion picture actress whose career began as a child in the 1910s and ended in the 1930s....	Reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script. Last known print destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire 1967 MGM Vault fire The 1967 MGM Vault fire was a major fire that erupted on Saturday, May 13, 1967 at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's studio at Vault #7. An electrical fire burned the vault and destroyed hundreds of silent films, including A Blind Bargain, The Big City, The Divine Woman and, more famously, London After Midnight... .
1927	The City Gone Wild	James Cruze James Cruze James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.-Life:Cruze was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years...	Louise Brooks Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...	Early gangster film directed by Cruze, with titles by Herman J. Mankiewicz Herman J. Mankiewicz Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane . Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott, said that Herman Mankiewicz was...
1927	Babe Comes Home Babe Comes Home Babe Comes Home is a 1927 silent film produced and distributed through First National and directed by Ted Wilde. It is a baseball styled sports movie centering around Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson. The film was released with Vocafilm sound, presumably a music and effects soundtrack but no dialogue....	Ted Wilde Ted Wilde Ted Wilde was a comedy writer and director during the era of silent movies, though he also produced two movies with sound in 1930. He was born in New York, New York. His initial career was as a member of Harold Lloyd's writing staff. His final film as a director was Clancy in Wall Street in 1930...	Babe Ruth Babe Ruth George Herman Ruth, Jr. , best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935... , Anna Q. Nilsson Anna Q. Nilsson Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Swedish born American actress who achieved success in American silent movies.-Background:...
1927	The Couple in Name		Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu , born Ruan Fenggen , was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her death at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.- Career :...
1927	Evening Clothes	Luther Reed	Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Menjou Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born... , Louise Brooks Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...
1927	For the Love of Mike For the Love of Mike For the Love of Mike was a 1927 American silent romantic drama film. Directed by Frank Capra, the film starred Claudette Colbert and Ben Lyon. The film is now considered to be a lost film....	Frank Capra Frank Capra Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...	Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert was a French-born American-based actress of stage and film.Born in Paris, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures...	Claudette Colbert's film debut
1927	Hats Off Hats Off Hats Off is a Laurel and Hardy silent comedy film. It was made in 1927 by the Hal Roach Studios. It starred Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and is considered a lost film.- Plot :...		Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
1927	The House Behind the Cedars The House Behind the Cedars The House Behind the Cedars is a 1927 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by the noted director Oscar Micheaux. It was adapted from the 1900 novel of the same name by the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt, who explored issues of race, class and identity in the...	Oscar Micheaux Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...		Based on the novel by Charles W. Chesnutt Charles W. Chesnutt Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South, where the legacy of slavery and interracial relations had resulted in many free...
1927	The Potters		W. C. Fields W. C. Fields William Claude Dukenfield , better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer...
1927	Rolled Stockings		Louise Brooks Louise Brooks Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...	The film features the Paramount Junior stars, and was filmed in Berkeley, California Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
1927	Sword of Penitence Sword of Penitence is a 1927 Japanese silent film by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the first film directed by Ozu and was also the first of his many collaborations with screenwriter Kogo Noda.- Production :...	Yasujiro Ozu Yasujiro Ozu was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed during the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are among the most persistent themes in his body of work...	Ozu's first film
1927	Taxi! Taxi!		Edward Everett Horton Edward Everett Horton Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. He is especially known for his work in the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.-Early life:Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Isabella...
1927	The Way of All Flesh The Way of All Flesh (film) The Way of All Flesh is a drama film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Lajos Biró, Jules Furthman and Julian Johnson from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. The film is unrelated to Samuel Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh, and is now considered a lost film.-Cast:*Emil Jannings - August...	Victor Fleming Victor Fleming Victor Lonzo Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz , and Gone with the Wind , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.-Life and career:Fleming was born in La Canada, California, the son of Elizabeth Evaleen ...	Emil Jannings Emil Jannings Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...	The only Academy Award-winning performance to be lost
1927	Rough House Rosie Rough House Rosie Rough House Rosie is a 1927 silent film comedy produced and released by Paramount Pictures and directed by Frank R. Strayer. The film is a starring vehicle for Paramount's reigning queen Clara Bow. Reed Howes, a model turned actor, is Bow's leading man...	Frank R. Strayer Frank R. Strayer Frank R. Strayer was an actor, film writer, director and producer. He was active from the mid-1920s until the early 1950s.-Biography:...	Clara Bow Clara Bow Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex... , Reed Howes Reed Howes Reed Howes was a model who later became an actor in silent and sound films.He was born as Hermon Reed Howes in Washington, D.C. in 1900. He served in the US Navy in the closing stages of World War I. After the war Howes attended the University of Utah where he graduated...
1928	The Big City The Big City (1928 film) The Big City is a 1928 crime film directed by Tod Browning. It is now a lost film. The last known print of the film had been sent to Australia in the late 1950s...	Tod Browning Tod Browning Tod Browning was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras...	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... , Betty Compson Betty Compson Betty Compson was an American actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive film career. Her father died when she was young, and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother...	story about criminals cheating criminals
1928	The Patriot The Patriot (1928 film) The Patriot is a 1928 semi-biographical film that was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was written by Hanns Kräly ; it is an adaptation of several different plays: Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky, Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann, and The Patriot by Ashley Dukes...	Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch was a German-born 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."In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his...	Emil Jannings Emil Jannings Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...	Won Best Writing Achievement at the 2nd Academy Awards 2nd Academy Awards The 2nd Academy Awards were presented on April 3, 1930 at an awards banquet in the Cocoanut Grove of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and broadcast live on the radio... . Nominated for Best Picture. The only Best Picture nominee to be lost
1928	4 Devils 4 Devils 4 Devils was a 1928 American silent drama film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau.-Preservation status:...	F.W. Murnau	Janet Gaynor Janet Gaynor Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...	Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1928
1928	Tenderloin Tenderloin (film) Tenderloin is a crime film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Dolores Costello. It was produced and released by Warner Brothers. Tenderloin is considered a lost film, with no prints currently known to exist.-Cast:...	Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...	Dolores Costello Dolores Costello Dolores Costello was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen"... 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.-Biography:...	Second feature film to have synchronized dialogue sequences
1928	Alias Jimmy Valentine Alias Jimmy Valentine Alias Jimmy Valentine is a 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane. It is sourced from the O. Henry story,A Retrieved Reformation which was turned into the 1910 play Alias Jimmy Valentine by Paul Armstrong. The...	Jack Conway Jack Conway Jack Conway may refer to:* Jack Conway , American baseball player* Jack Conway , American film producer and director* Jack Conway , Australian Rules Footballer...	William Haines William Haines Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality... Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...	Released in silent and part-talkie versions
1928	Red Hair Red Hair (1928 film) Red Hair is a 1928 silent film starring Clara Bow and Lane Chandler, directed by Clarence G. Badger, based on a novel by Elinor Glyn, and released by Paramount Pictures....		Clara Bow Clara Bow Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...	A part-color silent movie
1928	Women They Talk About Women They Talk About Women They Talk About is an early full-talking picture directed by Lloyd Bacon and released by Warner Brothers.-External links:**...	Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Bacon Lloyd Francis Bacon was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director.-Life:Bacon was born in San Jose California, the son of actor Frank Bacon, later the co-author and star of the long running Broadway show 'Lightnin' , and Jennie Bacon. He was not related to actor Irving Bacon whom he...	Irene Rich Irene Rich Irene Rich was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies.-Career:Born Irene Luther in Buffalo, New York, Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere , The Strange Boarder , Jes' Call Me Jim , Boys Will Be Boys and The Ropin'...	An early all-talking picture
1928	Thérèse Raquin Thérèse Raquin (1928 film) Thérèse Raquin is a 1928 drama film directed by Jacques Feyder. It is the third silent film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Émile Zola. The film stars Gina Manès as Thérèse Raquin, Wolfgang Zilzer as Monsieur Raquin, and Jeanne Marie Laurent as Madame Raquin. The décors of the Paris...	Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder Jacques Feyder was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema...
1928	Ladies of the Mob Ladies of the Mob Ladies of the Mob was a silent film directed by William Wellman, produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor for Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.-Production:The film is based on a story by Ernest Booth...	William Wellman	Clara Bow Clara Bow Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...
1928	The Last Moment The Last Moment The Last Moment is a silent experimental film conceived and directed by Paul Fejos. The film starred Otto Matieson and Georgia Hale....	Paul Fejos Paul Fejos Paul Fejos was a film director in America.Fejos was born in Budapest, Hungary as Pál Fejös. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became a naturalized citizen in 1930...	Georgia Hale Georgia Hale Georgia Hale was an actress of the silent movie era.-Career:Georgia Theodora Hale was Miss Chicago 1922 and competed in the Miss America Pageant... , Otto Matieson Otto Matieson Otto Matieson was a Danish actor of the silent era. He appeared in 45 films between 1920 and 1931.He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in Safford, Arizona.-Selected filmography:...	Experimental silent film told without subtitles.
1928	On Trial On Trial On Trial is an early talking drama film produced and distributed by Warner Brothers and directed by Archie Mayo. The picture stars Pauline Frederick, Lois Wilson, Bert Lytell, Holmes Herbert and Jason Robards. Obviously a film where many a silent player was crossing over to sound for the first...	Archie Mayo Archie Mayo Archie Mayo was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917....	Pauline Frederick Pauline Frederick Pauline Frederick was a leading Broadway actress who later became known for her motion picture work.-Early years:... Lois Wilson Lois Wilson Lois Wilson may refer to:*Lois Wilson , wife of Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson, founder of Al-Anon*Lois Miriam Wilson, first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1980 to 1982...
1928	The Legion of the Condemned The Legion of the Condemned The Legion of the Condemned was a silent film directed by William A. Wellman, produced by Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor with E. Lloyd Sheldon as associate producer. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures....	William Wellman	Fay Wray Fay Wray Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong... , Gary Cooper Gary Cooper Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
1928	The Dragnet	Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...	William Powell William Powell William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles... , Evelyn Brent Evelyn Brent Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...
1928	Dry Martini		Mary Astor Mary Astor Mary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost...
1928	Manhattan Cocktail Manhattan Cocktail (film) Manhattan Cocktail was a part-talkie film, directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, and Lilyan Tashman...	Dorothy Arzner Dorothy Arzner Dorothy Arzner was an American film director. Her directorial career in feature films spanned from the late 1920s into the early 1940s, a time period in which there were very few—if any—other women working in the field.- Biography :Born in San Francisco, California, Arzner grew up in Los...	Nancy Carroll Nancy Carroll Nancy Carroll was an American actress.-Career:She was christened Ann Veronica Lahiff in New York City. Of Irish parentage, she and her sister once performed a dancing act in a local contest of amateur talent. This led her to a stage career and then to the screen. She began her acting career in...	A one-minute montage sequence from this film, Skyline Dance by Slavko Vorkapich, was released in October 2005 in the DVD collection Unseen Cinema
1928	The Air Circus	Howard Hawks Howard Hawks Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era...
1928	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes		Alice White, Ruth Taylor Ruth Taylor (actress) Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son is the writer Buck Henry.-Early years:Born Ruth Alice Taylor to Norman and Ivah Taylor in Grand Rapids, Michigan...	The first version of the Anita Loos Anita Loos Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.-Early life:Born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California , where her father, R. Beers Loos, had opened a tabloid newspaper for which her mother, Minerva "Minnie" Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher...  story
1928	Street of Sin Street of Sin -Production background:The film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mauritz Stiller and Ludwig Berger, and starred Olga Baclanova, Emil Jannings, and Fay Wray.-Cast:*Olga Baclanova as Annie...	Mauritz Stiller Mauritz Stiller Mauritz Stiller was a Finnish-Swedish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...	Emil Jannings Emil Jannings Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar... , Fay Wray Fay Wray Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong...
1928	The White Cloud Pagoda		Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu , born Ruan Fenggen , was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her death at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.- Career :...
1928	Tarzan the Mighty Tarzan the Mighty Tarzan the Mighty is a 1928 action film serial directed by Jack Nelson and Ray Taylor. It was nominally based on the collection Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Frank Merrill as Tarzan...	Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor Ray Taylor (director) Ray Taylor was a prolific American film director. He directed 159 films between 1926 and 1949. His debut was the 1926 film serial Fighting with Buffalo Bill.-Selected filmography:...	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.Merrill had doubled for the screen's first Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln, in the 1921 movie serial The...	The seventh Tarzan movie produced
1928	The Divine Woman The Divine Woman The Divine Woman is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film. Only a single nine-minute reel is currently known to exist of this otherwise lost film...	Victor Sjöström Victor Sjöström Victor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...	Greta Garbo Greta Garbo Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...	A nine-minute fragment survives
1928	The Actress The Actress (1928 film) The Actress is a 1928 silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin and starred Norma Shearer....	Sidney Franklin Sidney Franklin (director) Sidney Franklin was an American film director and producer. His brother Chester Franklin also became a director during the silent film era best known for helming the early Technicolor film Toll of the Sea....	Norma Shearer Norma Shearer Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...	based on the play Trelawney of the Wells
1929	Sonny Boy	Archie Mayo Archie Mayo Archie Mayo was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917....	Edward Everett Horton Edward Everett Horton Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. He is especially known for his work in the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.-Early life:Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Isabella...
1929	The Case of Lena Smith The Case of Lena Smith The Case of Lena Smith is an American film directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Esther Ralston and James Hall, and released by Paramount Pictures...	Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...		A four-minute segment was shown at the Giornate del cinema muto festival of Pordenone Pordenone Pordenone is a comune of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.The name comes from the Latin "Portus Naonis" meaning the port on the river Noncello - History :...  in 2003
1929	This Thing Called Love This Thing Called Love This Thing Called Love is a US romantic comedy film starring Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Ruth Taylor, Roscoe Karns, Zazu Pitts, and Jean Harlow. Harlow appears in a cameo role, as she was not yet famous....		Constance Bennett Constance Bennett -Early life:She was born in New York City, the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison, whose father was the stage actor Lewis Morrison , a wealthy performer of English and Spanish ancestry...	Part-Technicolor film released by Pathé Pathé Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...
1929	Married in Hollywood Married in Hollywood Married in Hollywood is an American musical film. The only known footage to survive is a 12-minute fragment from the final reel in Multicolor at UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is also known as Maritati ad Hollywood in Italy and Pantremmenoi sto Hollywood in Greece...		Walter Catlett Walter Catlett Walter Catlett was an American actor. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out in vaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking into films.-Early career:...	Part-Multicolor Multicolor Multicolor is a subtractive natural color process for motion pictures. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma Color process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor....  film. Final color reel at UCLA.
1929	Smiling Irish Eyes Smiling Irish Eyes Smiling Irish Eyes , known as Hymyilevät silmät in Finland, is a sound American musical film with Technicolor sequences.The film is now considered a lost film, however the Vitaphone discs still exist.-Plot:...	William A. Seiter William A. Seiter William A. Seiter was an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy...	Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...	Part-Technicolor. Vitaphone discs survive.
1929	Footlights and Fools Footlights and Fools Footlights and Fools is a sound film billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film, released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences.-Production background:...	William A. Seiter William A. Seiter William A. Seiter was an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy...	Colleen Moore Colleen Moore Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...	Part-Technicolor. Vitaphone discs survive.
1929	Red Hot Rhythm	Leo McCarey Leo McCarey Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...	Alan Hale Sr.	Part-Technicolor film. Only the title song in color exists.
1929	Strong Boy Strong Boy Strong Boy is a comedy film directed by John Ford. It was a silent film with a synchronized music track. The film is now considered to be a lost film. A trailer for the film was discovered in the New Zealand Film Archive in 2010.-Cast:...	John Ford John Ford John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...	Victor McLaglen Victor McLaglen Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen.-Early life:... , Leatrice Joy Leatrice Joy Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the early silent film era.-Early life and career:...
1929	Fancy Baggage Fancy Baggage Fancy Baggage is an early drama film released by Warner Brothers in both a silent version and a part-talkie version. The movie starred Audrey Ferris and Myrna Loy.-Preservation status:...	John G. Adolfi John G. Adolfi John G. Adolfi was an American silent film director, actor, and screenwriter who was involved in more than 100 productions throughout his career.-Biography:...	Audrey Ferris Audrey Ferris Audrey Ferris was an American film actress of the early silent film era of the late 1920s and into the 1930s.Born Audrey Kellar in Detroit, Michigan, Ferris first moved to Hollywood around 1926, and began working to pursue a career as an actress. In 1927 she received her first supporting role in... , Myrna Loy Myrna Loy Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...	A part-talkie Part-talkie A part-talkie is a partly, and most often primarily, silent film which includes one or more synchronous sound sequences with audible dialog or singing. During the silent portions lines of dialog are presented as "titles" -- printed text briefly filling the screen -- and the soundtrack is used only...  from Warner Brothers, no film elements survive.
1929	The Cavalier The Cavalier (film) The Cavalier is a Western directed by Irvin Willat for Tiffany Studios. It stars Richard Talmadge and Barbara Bedford and is a dramatic picture.-Plot:...		Richard Talmadge Richard Talmadge Richard Talmadge was a Swiss-born American actor, stuntman and film director....	Part-talkie released with music and sound effects by Tiffany Pictures Tiffany Pictures Tiffany Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio in operation from 1921 until 1932.-History:...
1929	The Fatal Warning The Fatal Warning The Fatal Warning is a 1929 mystery film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be a lost film, with no prints known to exist.-Cast:* Helene Costello - Dorothy Rogers* Ralph Graves - Russell Thorne* George Periolat - William Rogers...	Richard Thorpe Richard Thorpe Richard Thorpe was an American film director.Born Rollo Smolt Thorpe in Hutchinson, Kansas, he began his entertainment career performing in vaudeville and onstage. In 1921 he began in motion pictures as an actor and directed his first silent film in 1923. He went on to direct more than one hundred...	Ralph Graves Ralph Graves Ralph Graves was an American screenwriter, film director, and actor who appeared in 93 films between 1918 and 1949.... , Helene Costello Helene Costello Helene Costello was an American motion picture actress, most notably of the silent film era.Lou Costello took his professional name from the actress.- Biography :...	12-part mystery serial released by Mascot Pictures Mascot Pictures Corporation Mascot Pictures Corporation was a minor film company of the 1920s and 1930s best known for producing film serials and B-westerns. Mascot's serial The King of the Kongo was the first serial to include sound, beating Universal Studios by several months.Mascot was formed in 1927 by film producer Nat...
1929	Is Everybody Happy?	Archie Mayo Archie Mayo Archie Mayo was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917....	Ted Lewis Ted Lewis (musician) Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr...	Complete soundtrack survives, plus one reel of the picture
1929	Queen of the Night Clubs Queen of the Night Clubs Queen of the Night Clubs is a sound musical-drama film produced and directed by Bryan Foy and distributed by Warner Brothers. It is now considered a lost film.-Cast:*Texas Guinan - Texas Malone*John Davidson - Don Holland...	Bryan Foy	Texas Guinan Texas Guinan Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan was an American saloon keeper, actress, and entrepreneur.-Early life:...	One short clip included in Winner Take All Winner Take All (1932 film) Winner Take All is a 1932 film starring James Cagney, who had electrified the industry the previous year with his performances in The Public Enemy and Smart Money, as a boxer...  (1932) with James Cagney James Cagney James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
1929	The Awful Truth The Awful Truth (1929 film) The Awful Truth was a 1929 American romantic comedy film, distributed by Pathé Exchange, directed by Marshall Neilan, and starring Ina Claire and Henry Daniell. The screenplay was written by Horace Jackson and Arthur Richman, based on a play by Richman...	Marshall Neilan Marshall Neilan Marshall Ambrose Neilan was an American motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer.-Early life:...	Ina Claire Ina Claire Ina Claire was an American stage and film actress.-Career:Born Ina Fagan in 1893 in Washington, D.C., Claire began her career appearing in vaudeville...	remade in 1937 with Cary Grant Cary Grant Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...  and Irene Dunne Irene Dunne Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama...

1930s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1930	Bride of the Regiment		Vivienne Segal Vivienne Segal Vivienne Sonia Segal was an American actress and singer.Segal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey and introduced the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"...	A Technicolor film, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...  discs
1930	The Cat Creeps The Cat Creeps The Cat Creeps is a crime/mystery film, and a sound remake of The Cat and the Canary . It is one of the many lost films of the early talkie film era....	Rupert Julian Rupert Julian Rupert Julian was the first New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer.Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Son of John Daly Hayes and Eliza Harriet Hayes...	Helen Twelvetrees Helen Twelvetrees Helen Twelvetrees was an American stage and screen performer, considered a top female star in the early days of sound films.- Early life and career :...	Sound remake of The Cat and the Canary The Cat and the Canary (1927 film) The Cat and the Canary is an American silent horror film adaptation of John Willard's 1922 black comedy play of the same name. Directed by German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni, the film stars Laura La Plante as Annabelle West, Forrest Stanley as Charles "Charlie" Wilder, and Creighton Hale as...  (1927). Short segment of The Cat Creeps included in short film Boo! Boo! (1932 film) Boo! is a 1932 comedy short film by Universal Pictures, directed and written by Albert DeMond. Boo! contains clips of famous horror films, such as The Cat Creeps , Frankenstein and Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens and mocks them thoroughly...  (1932) is the only footage known to exist.
1930	A Daughter of the Congo A Daughter of the Congo A Daughter of the Congo is a 1930 race film directed, written and produced by Oscar Micheaux. The film is loosely based on the novel The American Cavalryman , by African American novelist and playwright Henry Francis Downing....	Oscar Micheaux Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...	Lorenzo Tucker Lorenzo Tucker Lorenzo Tucker , known as the "Black Valentino," was an African-American stage and screen actor who played the romantic lead in the early black films of Oscar Micheaux.-Acting career:...	The last silent film Silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...  by Oscar Micheaux
1930	An Elastic Affair An Elastic Affair An Elastic Affair was a 10-minute short comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which features the two winners — Cyril Butcher as "the Boy" and Aileen Despard as "the Girl" — of a film acting scholarship sponsored by British film magazine Film Weekly.The film was shown on 19 January 1930 at a...	Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...		Short film made by Hitchcock for awards ceremony at the London Palladium London Palladium The London Palladium is a 2,286 seat West End theatre located off Oxford Street in the City of Westminster. From the roster of stars who have played there and many televised performances, it is arguably the most famous theatre in London and the United Kingdom, especially for musical variety...  in January 1930
1930	Georgia Rose	Harry Gant	Evelyn Preer Evelyn Preer Evelyn Preer, born Evelyn Jarvis , was a pioneering African-American stage and screen actress and blues singer of the 1910s through the early 1930s. Evelyn was known within the black community as "The First Lady of the Screen."She was the first black actress to earn celebrity and popularity... , Clarence Brooks	Believed to be the first "race" feature made in direct sound
1930	Hit the Deck Hit the Deck (1930 film) Hit the Deck is a 1930 musical film directed by Luther Reed, starred Jack Oakie, and featured Technicolor sequences. It was based on the musical Hit the Deck. It was one of the most expensive productions of RKO Radio Pictures up to that time, and one of the most expensive productions of 1930. This...		Jack Oakie Jack Oakie Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.-Early life:... , Polly Walker Polly Walker Polly Walker is an English actress.- Early life :Walker was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Her first school was Silverdale Preparatory West Acton, London. At 16, Walker graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but had to abandon dancing after a leg...	Part Technicolor, only the soundtrack to one reel survives
1930	Hold Everything Hold Everything (1930 film) Hold Everything is a 1930 early all-talking film. It was the first musical comedy film to be released that was photographed entirely in early two-color Technicolor. It was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical of the same name that had served as a vehicle for Bert Lahr and...		Winnie Lightner Winnie Lightner Winnie Lightner was an American motion picture actress. Perhaps her most famous role was as a gold-digger named Mabel, in Gold Diggers of Broadway... , Joe E. Brown Joe E. Brown (comedian) Joseph Evans Brown was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his amiable screen persona, comic timing, and enormous smile. In 1902 at the age of nine, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvelous Ashtons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville...	A Technicolor film, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs
1930	Kismet Kismet (1930 film) Kismet was a 1930 costume drama photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.-Production:Warner Bros....		Loretta Young Loretta Young Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953... , Otis Skinner Otis Skinner Otis Skinner was an American actor.He was the son of a Universalist minister; his brother, Charles Montgomery Skinner, was a noted journalist and critic in New York. Skinner was educated in Hartford, Connecticut, with an eye towards a career in commerce. A visit to the theater left him stage-struck...	Complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs
1930	Leathernecking		Irene Dunne Irene Dunne Irene Dunne was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron , Theodora Goes Wild , The Awful Truth , Love Affair and I Remember Mama...	Dunne's film debut.
1930	Lummox		Ben Lyon Ben Lyon Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.-Life:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth , and steadily developed into... , Winifred Westover Winifred Westover Winifred Westover was a Hollywood actress of the 1910s and 1920s.Winifred Westover was born in San Francisco, California. On screen, Westover was the typical blushing ingenue and was almost always cast opposite robust leading men.Her career in film started with a small part in D. W. Griffith's...
1930	The Man from Blankley's The Man from Blankley's The Man from Blankley's was a 1930 history epic and comedy film by Alfred E. Green starring John Barrymore and Loretta Young. The film was based upon the 1903 play by F. Anstey, and was considered to be a major comedy masterpiece of the early sound era. The film was Barrymore's first feature...		John Barrymore John Barrymore John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III... , Loretta Young Loretta Young Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...	Complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs
1930	Reminisces of Peking	Sun Yu Sun Yu (director) Sun Yu was a major leftist film director active in the 1930s in Shanghai. One of the core directors of the Lianhua Film Company, Sun Yu made a name for himself with a series of socially conscious dramas in the early to mid 1930s...	Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu , born Ruan Fenggen , was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her death at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.- Career :...
1930	Song of the Flame		Bernice Claire Bernice Claire Bernice Claire was an American singer and actress. She appeared in 13 films between 1930 and 1938.-Career:... , Alexander Gray Alexander Gray Air Vice Marshal Alexander Gray CB, MC, RAF was a senior Royal Air Force leader during World War II.-RAF career:... , Noah Beery	Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist
1930	Song of the West		John Boles John Boles (actor) -Early life:Boles was born in Greenville, Texas, into a middle-class family. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas in 1917 and married Marielite Dobbs in that same year. His parents wanted him to be a doctor and Boles studied and finally got his B.A. degree, but the stage called... , Vivienne Segal Vivienne Segal Vivienne Sonia Segal was an American actress and singer.Segal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's Pal Joey and introduced the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"... , Joe E. Brown Joe E. Brown (comedian) Joseph Evans Brown was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his amiable screen persona, comic timing, and enormous smile. In 1902 at the age of nine, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvelous Ashtons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville...	All-color film made in Technicolor, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs
1930	What a Widow!		Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...
1930	The Case of Sergeant Grischa	Herbert Brenon	Chester Morris Chester Morris Chester Morris was an American actor, who starred in the Boston Blackie detective series of the 1940s.-Career:...	Academy Award nominee for Best Sound
1930	Wild Flowers Wild Flowers (film) Wild Flowers is a Czech drama film. It was released in 2000. It was directed by F. A. Brabec based on 7 best-known, most epic and least explicitly Christian of Kytice, a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben; while relatively successful commercially, it was deplored by critics for its crude...	Sun Yu Sun Yu (director) Sun Yu was a major leftist film director active in the 1930s in Shanghai. One of the core directors of the Lianhua Film Company, Sun Yu made a name for himself with a series of socially conscious dramas in the early to mid 1930s...	Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu , born Ruan Fenggen , was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her death at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.- Career :...
1931	Age for Love		Billie Dove Billie Dove Billie Dove was an American actress.-Early life and career:She was born as Bertha Bohny in New York City to Charles and Bertha Bohny who were Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15 by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld...
1931	Charlie Chan Carries On Charlie Chan Carries On Charlie Chan Carries On is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers.-Plot summary:Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in Behind That Curtain, is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in...		Warner Oland Warner Oland Warner Oland was a Swedish American actor most remembered for his screen role as the detective Charlie Chan.-Biography:He was born Johan Verner Ölund in the village of Nyby, Bjurholm Municipality,... , Hamilton MacFadden	An alternate Spanish-language version, featuring a different cast, exists.
1931	Fanny Foley Herself Fanny Foley Herself Fanny Foley Herself is an American comedy-drama film that was shot entirely in Technicolor. The film was the second feature to be filmed using a new Technicolor process which removed grain and resulted in a much improved color...		Edna May Oliver Edna May Oliver Edna May Oliver was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.-Early life:...	All-color film made in Technicolor
1931	Woman Hungry Woman Hungry (film) Woman Hungry is a 1931 musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the play The Great Divide which was written by William Vaughn Moody...	Clarence G. Badger Clarence G. Badger Clarence G. Badger was an American film director of feature films in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. His most noteworthy films include It, starring Clara Bow, more than a dozen features and shorts starring Will Rogers, and two features starring Raymond Griffith, Paths to Paradise and Hands...	Lila Lee Lila Lee Lila Lee was a prominent screen actress of the early silent film era.-Early life:Lila Lee was born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel in Union Hill, New Jersey into a middle-class family of German immigrants who relocated to New York City when Lila was quite young...	All-color film made in Technicolor
1931	Father's Son Father's Son Father's Son is an all-talking melodrama film which was produced by Warner Brothers in 1930 and released early in 1931. The movie is based on the novel Old Fathers and Young Sons by Booth Tarkington....		Leon Janney Leon Janney Leon Janney was an American actor and radio personality between 1920 to 1980.-Career:Born Leon Ramon in Ogden, Utah, Janney made his first theatrical appearance at age two before an audience at the Pantages Theatre in his hometown... , Lewis Stone Lewis Stone Lewis Shepard Stone was an American actor.Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, son of Bertrand Stone and Philena Heald Ball. 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...
1931	Honor of the Family Honor of the Family Honor of the Family is a dramatic film released by First National Pictures, , starring Bebe Daniels and Warren William. It was based on the play by Emil Fabre, from a story by Honoré de Balzac....		Warren William Warren William Warren William was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, popular during the early 1930s, who was later nicknamed the "king of Pre-Code". He was born Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minnesota to parents Freeman E. and Frances Krech. He had a certain physical resemblance to John Barrymore. He attended the... , Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain...
1931	Peludópolis Quirino Cristiani Quirino Cristiani was an Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire...			Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc Sound-on-disc The term Sound-on-disc refers to a class of sound film processes using a phonograph or other disc to record or playback sound in sync with a motion picture...  system
1931	Alam Ara Alam Ara Alam Ara is a 1931 film directed by Ardeshir Irani. It was the first Indian sound film.Irani recognized the importance that sound would have on the cinema, and raced to complete Alam Ara before several contemporary sound films. Alam Ara debuted at the Majestic Cinema in Mumbai on March 14, 1931...			First Indian sound film
1932	The Missing Rembrandt The Missing Rembrandt The Missing Rembrandt is a British mystery film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Arthur Wontner, Jane Welsh, Miles Mander, and Francis L. Sullivan. Sherlock Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist...		Arthur Wontner Arthur Wontner Arthur Wontner was a British actor best known for playing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes in five films from 1931 to 1937...	Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series
1932	Charlie Chan's Chance Charlie Chan's Chance Charlie Chan's Chance is a 1932 murder mystery film, the third to star Warner Oland as detective Charlie Chan. It is based on the novel Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers, who also contributed to the film. The film is considered to be lost....	John G. Blystone John G. Blystone John G. Blystone was an American film director. He directed 100 films between 1915 and 1938.He was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. His grave is located at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.-Relatives:John Blystone's brother was actor Stanley...	Warner Oland	Sixth film of the Charlie Chan Charlie Chan Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1919. Loosely based on Honolulu detective Chang Apana, Biggers conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes, such as villains like Fu Manchu...  series and third with Warner Oland
1932	Paprika		Franciska Gaal Franciska Gaal Franciska Gaal was a Hungarian cabaret artist who had a brief career in films.Born Fanny Zilveritch in Budapest, she was groomed by Joe Pasternak as a singer to become a very popular stage and cabaret performer in Central Europe in the 1920s and 1930s...
1932	Walking Down Broadway (1932 film)	Erich von Stroheim Erich von Stroheim Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...	James Dunn James Dunn James Dunn, Jim Dunn or Jimmy Dunn may refer to:James Dunn:*James Dunn , an actor who performed in Bad Girl and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn*James Dunn , Australian Senator... , Boots Mallory Boots Mallory Patricia "Boots" Mallory was an American film actress, dancer and model.-Career:Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mallory grew up in Mobile, Alabama, attended Murphy High School, and was working in the Lyric Theater as an usherette when the Ziegfeld Follies came to Mobile. Ziegfeld offered her a... , Zasu Pitts ZaSu Pitts ZaSu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning to comedy sound films.-Early life:ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas to Rulandus and Nellie Pitts; she was the third of four children...	Withheld from release and re-edited as Hello Sister!; original version remains lost
1933	Hello Pop! Hello Pop! Hello Pop! was the third of five short subjects starring Ted Healy and His Stooges released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A musical-comedy film, the short also featured the Albertina Rasch Dancers and Bonnie Bonnell. The film is now considered a lost film. The last known copy was at MGM's vault no.7...		The Three Stooges	A Technicolor film, and the Stooges' third film appearance.
1933	Stop, Sadie, Stop		Ted Healy Ted Healy Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original creator of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own.- Early life :...	Never released, only one print made
1933	The Monkey's Paw The Monkey's Paw "The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by author W. W. Jacobs. It was published in England in 1902.The story is based on the famous "setup" in which three wishes are granted. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an...	Ernest B. Schoedsack Ernest B. Schoedsack Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was an American motion picture cinematographer, director, and producer.Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong....		Adaptation of the W. W. Jacobs W. W. Jacobs William Wymark Jacobs , was an English author of short stories and novels.-Writings:Jacobs is now remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Toll House"...  horror story
1933	Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka is a 1933 anime short film by Kenzō Masaoka and the first Japanese anime of any type to feature voiceovers. The film was released in black and white. There are no known prints of this film available, and is considered a lost film....	Kenzō Masaoka Kenzō Masaoka was an early anime creator. He is probably most famous for creating the earliest anime to use cell animation and recorded sound. He also did work under the pseudonym...		First sound anime Anime is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
1933	Night in the City Night in the City (1933 film) Night in the City was a 1933 Chinese silent film.-Production background:Night in the City was the directorial debut of Fei Mu and starred actress Ruan Lingyu and actor Jin Yan...	Fei Mu Fei Mu Fei Mu was a major Chinese film director from the pre-Communist era.-Biography:Born in Shanghai, China, Fei Mu is considered by many to be one of the major film directors prior to the communist revolution in 1949...	Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu Ruan Lingyu , born Ruan Fenggen , was a Chinese silent film actress. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her death at the age of 24 led her to become an icon of Chinese cinema.- Career :... Jin Yan Jin Yan Jin Yan was a Korean-born actor who gained fame in China during that country's golden age of cinema, based in Shanghai. His acting talents and good looks gained him much popularity in the 1930's. He was dubbed "The Emperor of Cinema" and "The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai".- Filmography :-...	The debut of Fei Mu, one of China's greatest filmmakers
1933	Wasei Kingu Kongu Wasei Kingu Kongu was a 1933 Japanese black-and-white silent film directed by Torajiro Saito. The film is a now lost silent short based on King Kong and produced by Shochiku Studios . It has been suggested, without any strong evidence, that the film was lost as a result of US atomic bombing in 1945.- Cast :...	Torajiro Saito Torajiro Saito was a Japanese film director known for his comedy films. Born in Akita Prefecture, he entered Shōchiku's Kamata studio in 1922 and debuted as a director in 1926. He later worked at the Shintōhō and Tōhō studios...	Isamu Yamaguchi	Japanese version of King Kong King Kong (1933 film) King Kong is a Pre-Code 1933 fantasy monster adventure film co-directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, and written by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman after a story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. The film tells of a gigantic island-dwelling apeman creature called Kong who dies in...  and the first Kaiju Kaiju is a Japanese word that means "strange beast," but often translated in English as "monster". Specifically, it is used to refer to a genre of tokusatsu entertainment....  film, preceded Godzilla Godzilla (1954 film) is a 1954 Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata and Takashi Shimura. The film tells the story of Godzilla, a giant monster mutated by nuclear radiation, who ravages Japan, bringing back the...  by 21 years
1933	Convention City Convention City Convention City is a 1933 pre-Code comedy film produced by First National Pictures and released by Warner Brothers, which has become notorious as a lost film. - Plot :...		Joan Blondell Joan Blondell Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell.After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career... Dick Powell Dick Powell Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.Despite the same last name he was not related to William Powell, Eleanor Powell or Jane Powell.-Biography:...	A pre-Code Pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously...  film produced by First National First National First National was an association of independent theater owners in the United States that expanded from exhibiting movies to distributing them, and eventually to producing them as a movie studio, called First National Pictures, Inc. It later merged with Warner Bros.-Early history:The First National... –Warner Bros, the last lost feature by a major Hollywood studio and a risque and daring comedy for its time
1934	Charlie Chan's Courage The Chinese Parrot The Chinese Parrot is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot.The story concerns a valuable string of...			Second version of the Charlie Chan Charlie Chan Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1919. Loosely based on Honolulu detective Chang Apana, Biggers conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes, such as villains like Fu Manchu...  adventure. The 1927 version still exists.
1934	Murder at Monte Carlo Murder at Monte Carlo Murder at Monte Carlo is a 1934 crime film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Errol Flynn, Eve Gray, Paul Graetz and Molly Lamont. The film was Flynn's debut film in the UK...		Errol Flynn Errol Flynn Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, being a legend and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Early life:...	Flynn's debut film in the UK
1934	The Scarab Murder Case The Scarab Murder Case The Scarab Murder Case is a classic whodunnit written by S. S. Van Dine. In this book, detective Philo Vance's murder investigation takes place in a private home that doubles as a museum of Egyptology, and the solution depends in part on Vance's extensive knowledge of Egyptian history and customs,...		Wilfrid Hyde-White Wilfrid Hyde-White Wilfrid Hyde-White was an English character actor.-Early life and career:Wilfrid Hyde White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought...	A Philo Vance Philo Vance Philo Vance featured in 12 crime novels written by S. S. Van Dine , published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent...  film
1934	White Heat (1934 film)	Lois Weber Lois Weber Lois Weber was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian...	Virginia Cherrill Virginia Cherrill Virginia Cherrill was an American actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights... , Mona Maris Mona Maris Mona Maris was an Argentine film actress who was born in Buenos Aires.-Ancestry and education:Her given name was Mona Maria Emita Cap de Vielle. Her mother was a Spanish Basque and her father a French Basque... , Hardie Albright Hardie Albright Hardie Albright was an American actor and the son of travelling vaudevillians.Born as Hardie Hunter Albrecht, he made his stage debut in one of his parents' acts at the age of 7....	The last film, and only talkie, directed by Lois Weber.
1935	The Magic Shoes The Magic Shoes The Magic Shoes is a 1935 Australian short film based on the fairy tale Cinderella. It features the first screen performance by Peter Finch and Helen Hughes, daughter of former Prime Minister William Hughes and was the first dramatised movie to be shot at the National Studios, built to make The...		Peter Finch Peter Finch Peter Finch was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a...	Completed but never released
1935	Dark World Dark World (1935 film) Dark World is a British film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Tamara Desni, Leon Quartermaine, and Googie Withers. The film, released by Fox Film Corporation, is now considered a lost film.-Cast:* Tamara Desni as Birgitta...	Bernard Vorhaus Bernard Vorhaus Bernard Vorhaus was an American film director born in New York City.The Harvard University graduate, in addition to directing thirty-two films, was also the mentor to future film director David Lean, some of whose work as a film editor early in his career was on Vorhaus pictures...	Tamara Desni Tamara Desni Tamara Desni was a German-born British actress.-Biography:Born as Tamara Brodsky, the daughter of actress Xenia Desni, Tamara Desni was born in Berlin.... , Leon Quartermaine, Googie Withers Googie Withers Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers CBE, AO was an English theatre, film and television actress. She was a longtime resident of Australia with her husband, the actor John McCallum, with whom she often appeared.-Biography:...	Released only in the UK
1937	Bezhin Meadow Bezhin Meadow Bezhin Meadow is a 1937 Soviet film famous for having been suppressed and believed destroyed before its completion. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, it tells the story of a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest and the...	Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein , né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage"...		Unreleased Soviet film. The unfinished and unreleased film reels were destroyed during a World War II bombing raid in 1941
1938	Too Much Johnson Too Much Johnson Too Much Johnson is a 1938 comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles. The film was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened...	Orson Welles Orson Welles George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...	Joseph Cotten Joseph Cotten Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair...	Never completed or publicly screened
1938	King Kong Appears in Edo King Kong Appears in Edo is a kaiju film released in Japan in 1938, but is now considered to be a lost film.-Production:This film was produced by studio Zenshō Cinema without the permission of RKO Radio Pictures, which owned the rights to the King Kong character...	Sōya Kumagai	Eizaburo Matsumoto	A Japanese kaiju Kaiju is a Japanese word that means "strange beast," but often translated in English as "monster". Specifically, it is used to refer to a genre of tokusatsu entertainment....  (giant monster) film preceded Godzilla Godzilla (1954 film) is a 1954 Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata and Takashi Shimura. The film tells the story of Godzilla, a giant monster mutated by nuclear radiation, who ravages Japan, bringing back the...  by sixteen years. It was likely lost during World War II.
1938	On the Niemnem	Wanda Jakubowska and Karol Szolowski		New Nazi regime liked the artistic value of the movie, but could not allow for the screening of a picture so firmly rooted in Polish history. Germans decided to re-edit and dub the movie, changing it to pro-German propaganda. Stefan Dekierowski informed Polish underground and the remaining copies (out of 5 total, 2 of them destroyed) were hidden in winter 1939; the movie is believed to be lost
1939	Secreto de confesión			It was lost during the bombing of Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...  during World War II.

1940s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1942	Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus is a race film directed and written by Spencer Williams. The film featured an all-black cast and was produced exclusively for exhibition in U.S. cinemas serving African American communities...	Spencer Williams Spencer Williams (actor) Spencer Williams was an African American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for playing Andy in the Amos 'n Andy television show and for the directing the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus. Williams was a pioneer African-American film producer and director.-Early career:Williams...
1944	Escape Episode	Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger is an American underground experimental filmmaker, occasional actor and author...		The director destroyed the film together with a few other early works he made.
1946	Little Iodine Little Iodine Little Iodine was a popular Sunday comic strip, created by Jimmy Hatlo, which was syndicated by King Features and had a long run from 1943 until 1985...	Reginald Le Borg Reginald Le Borg Reginald Le Borg was an Austrian film director. He directed 68 films between 1936 and 1974. He was born in Vienna, Austria as Reginald Grobel and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack....	Hobart Cavanaugh Hobart Cavanaugh Hobart Cavanaugh was an American character actor in films and on stage.Born in Virginia City, Nevada, Cavanaugh made his film debut in San Francisco Nights... , Irene Ryan Irene Ryan Irene Ryan was an American actress, one of the few entertainers who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television and Broadway....	Release delayed by a polio outbreak; Little Iodine cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo Jimmy Hatlo James Cecil Hatlo , better known as Jimmy Hatlo, was an American cartoonist who created in 1929 the long-running comic strip and gag panel They'll Do It Every Time, which he wrote and drew until his death in 1963...  was a writer.
1948	The Betrayal The Betrayal (film) The Betrayal is a race film written, produced, and directed by Oscar Micheaux.-Plot:Martin Eden is a successful African American farmer in South Dakota. He is in love with Deborah Stewart, but he believes that she is white and that she would not be interested in him. He is unaware that Deborah...	Oscar Micheaux Oscar Micheaux Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films...		The director's final production.

1950s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1950	The Miracle of St. Anne The Miracle of St. Anne The Miracle of St. Anne was a short film, now lost, made by Orson Welles. It served as a prelude to the play The Unthinking Lobster, which was written and directed by Welles as part of a collection of two plays, performed under the banner title of The Blessed and the Damned...	Orson Welles Orson Welles George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...	Suzanne Cloutier Suzanne Cloutier Suzanne Cloutier was a Canadian film actress.She was born in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1952 she appeared in the film Derby Day as a maid who wins a trip to the Epsom Derby in the company of a famous film star. She appeared as Desdemona in Orson Welles' 1952 film adaptation of Othello... , Maurice Bessy, Boris Vian Boris Vian Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...	Short film made as prologue to the Paris stage production of Welles' play The Unthinking Lobster
1955	Une Visite Une Visite Une Visite was the first short film made by 23-year-old François Truffaut. It was filmed in Jacques Doniol-Valcroze’s apartment and its crew included Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais and Truffaut's boyhood friend Robert Lachenay...	François Truffaut François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...	Francis Cognany	Truffaut's very first film. It was filmed in Jacques Doniol-Valcroze Jacques Doniol-Valcroze Jacques Doniol-Valcroze was a French actor, critic, screenwriter, and director... 's apartment and its crew included Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1.... , Alain Resnais Alain Resnais Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...  and Truffaut's boyhood friend Robert Lachenay Robert Lachenay Robert Lachenay was a French film critic and film crew member. He was François Truffaut's childhood friend and the inspiration for the character René Bigey in the first two films of the Antoine Doinel film series.... . It was only briefly screened for friends and is the only Truffaut film that has never been available for public viewing. Truffaut was unhappy with it and it is unknown if any copies still exist.

1960s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1962	Big and Little Wong Tin Bar Big and Little Wong Tin Bar Big and Little Wong Tin Bar is a 1962 Hong Kong film. The film is notable for being a young Jackie Chan's first film appearance...		Jackie Chan Jackie Chan Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, comedian, director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts... , Sammo Hung Sammo Hung Sammo Hung is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director, known for his work in many martial arts films and Hong Kong action cinema...	Chan's film debut, at age 8. An early-60s interview with Chan included some footage, and this in turn was included in the documentary Jackie Chan: My Story.

1970s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1970s	Heartbeat in the Brain	Joey Mellen Joey Mellen Joseph "Joey" Mellen is the British-born author of Bore Hole, a book about his attempts at self-trepanation, influenced by Bart Huges, and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding...	Amanda Feilding Amanda Feilding Amanda Charteris, Countess of Wemyss and March, , is a British artist, scientist and drug policy reformer. She is scientific director and founder of the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust...	Infamous trepanation Trepanation Trepanning, also known as trephination, trephining or making a burr hole, is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the dura mater in order to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases. It may also refer to any "burr" hole created...  film with Feilding drilling a hole in her own head.
1974	Him Him (film) Him was a pornographic feature film produced for gay audiences. The film focused on a young gay man who developed an erotic fixation with the life of Jesus Christ...	Ed D. Louie		Only adverts and reviews are known to survive.

1980s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1987	September	Woody Allen Woody Allen Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...		The film was shot twice. The original version (with a different cast and script) is probably in the director's possession.

1990s

Year	Film	Director	Cast	Notes	Ref
1999	Puppet	Felix R. Limardo		A 1999 film staring Fred Weller Fred Weller Frederick Weller is an American actor.- Personal life :Weller was born in New Orleans and is a cousin of actor Peter Weller. He is a graduate of Jesuit High School, a Catholic all-boys high school in New Orleans, and the University of North Carolina. He married Ali Marsh on September 6, 2003...  and Rebecca Gayheart Rebecca Gayheart -Early life:Gayheart was born in Hazard, Kentucky and raised in Pine Top, Kentucky, the daughter of Floneva , who worked as a Mary Kay independent beauty consultant, and Curtis Gayheart, a miner and coal truck driver. She is of Irish, Italian, and German descent... . Comedian Artie Lange Artie Lange Arthur Steven "Artie" Lange, Jr. is an American actor, comedian and radio personality best known for his tenures with the The Howard Stern Show and the comedy sketch series MADtv.... who also appeared in the film, states in his book that he has never seen the film because it has never surfaced.

External links

• List of lost silent films at www.silentera.com
• List of lost sound films (highlighted in red) at www.vitaphone.org
• Lost Films database