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[edit] Events
[edit] Top grossing films
[edit] Films released in 1919
- Anne of Green Gables
- Back Stage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
- Barrabas
- Blind Husbands, directed by Erich von Stroheim.
- Bolshevism on Trial, directed by Harley Knoles and backed by Lewis J. Selznick.
- Broken Blossoms starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess; directed by D.W. Griffith.
- Cinema Week (Kino-nedelya)
- Daddy-Long-Legs, starring Mary Pickford.
- A Day's Pleasure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
- Delicious Little Devil, starring Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino.
- Different from the Others, starring Conrad Veidt; directed by Richard Oswald.
- The Doll
- The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
- The Homesteader
- J'accuse!
- Leaves from Satan's Book
- Lightening Bryce, a series of 15 "chapters", starring Jack Hoxie and Ann Little.
- The Lost Battalion
- Madame DuBarry, starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings.
- Male and Female, starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
- The Oyster Princess (Die Austerprinzessin)
- The Sentimental Bloke, a feature-length Australian film.
- Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic (documentary)
- Sons of Ingmar (Ingmarssönerna)
- Sunnyside, a Charlie Chaplin short.
- True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish and Bobby Harron.
- Unheimliche Geschichten the original silent film version
- When the Clouds Roll By
[edit] Short film series
[edit] Animated short film series
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Carole Landis, actress (d. 1948)
- January 13 - Robert Stack, actor (d. 2003)
- January 21 - Jinx Falkenburg, model, actress (d. 2003)
- January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor (d. 1962)
- February 5 - Red Buttons, actor (d. 2006)
- February 5 - Tim Holt, actor (d. 1973)
- February 11 - Eva Gabor, actress (d. 1995)
- February 18 - Jack Palance, actor (d. 2006)
- March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
- March 29 - Eileen Heckart, actress (d. 2001)
- April 13 - Howard Keel, actor (d. 2004)
- April 29 - Celeste Holm, actress
- May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
- May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress
- June 12 - Uta Hagen, actress (d. 2004)
- June 14 - Sam Wanamaker, director, actor (d. 1993)
- June 19 - Pauline Kael, film critic (d. 2001)
- June 19 - Louis Jourdan, actor
- June 29 - Slim Pickens, actor (d. 1983)
- July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor (d. 1996)
- July 26 - Virginia Gilmore, actress (d. 1986)
- August 2 - Nehemiah Persoff, actor
- August 8 - Dino De Laurentiis, producer
- September 18 - Diana Lewis, actress (d. 1997)
- September 26 - Barbara Britton, actress (d. 1980)
- October 5 - Donald Pleasence, actor (d. 1995)
- November 13 - Mary Beth Hughes, actress (d. 1995)
- November 14 - Veronica Lake, actress (d. 1973)
- November 15 - Nova Pilbeam, actress
- November 20 - Evelyn Keyes, actress
[edit] Deaths