1918 in film
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The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband.
- 28 mm safety standard film, designed by Alexander Victor, becomes one of the earliest film formats to use "safety film" bases in order to safeguard the amateur market against nitrate fires.
[edit] Top grossing films
[edit] Films released in 1918
- Alraune
- Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
- Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, starring Mary Pickford.
- L'ame du bronze
- America's Answer
- Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific
- The Bell Boy - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
- The City of Dim Faces - starring Sessue Hayakawa and Marin Sais.
- The Cook - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
- A Dog's Life, a Charlie Chaplin short.
- The Embarrassment of Riches
- Father Sergius
- The Heart of Humanity (starring Erich von Stroheim)
- Hearts of the World, directed by D.W. Griffith.
- The House of Mirth
- Masks and Faces
- Mickey, starring Mabel Normand
- Moonshine - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
- Nocturnal Tunes
- Out of the Inkwell
- Out West - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
- The Outlaw and His Wife
- Shoulder Arms, a Charlie Chaplin film.
- The Sinking of the Lusitania - a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay.
- Salomé, starring Theda Bara.
- Stella Maris, starring Mary Pickford.
- Tarzan of the Apes, starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey
- The Tenth Symphony
- Tih Minh
- Triple Trouble, a Charlie Chaplin short.
- Vendemiaire
[edit] Short film series
[edit] Births
- January 29 - John Forsythe, actor
- February 4 - Ida Lupino, actress, director (d. 1995)
- February 16 - Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters
- March 1 - Roger Delgado, actor (d. 1973)
- March 9 - Mickey Spillane, writer, actor
- April 17 - Anne Shirley, actress (d. 1993)
- April 17 - William Holden, actor (d. 1981)
- May 14 - June Duprez, actress (d. 1984)
- May 26 - John Dall, actor (d. 1971)
- June 30 - Susan Hayward, actress (d. 1975)
- July 6 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (d. 1977)
- July 14 - Ingmar Bergman, actor, writer, director (d. 2007)
- July 18 - Jane Frazee, singer, actress (d. 1985)
- July 26 - Marjorie Lord, actress
- August 9 - Robert Aldrich, director (d. 1983)
- August 17 - Evelyn Ankers, actress (d. 1985)
- September 5 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (d. 1932)
- September 21 - Rand Brooks, actor (d. 2003)
- October 9 - Lila Kedrova, actress (d. 2000)
- October 13 - Robert Walker, actor (d. 1951)
- October 17 - Rita Hayworth, actress (d. 1987)
- October 27 - Teresa Wright, actress (d. 2005)
- November 4 - Art Carney, actor (d. 2003)
- November 4 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (d. 1994)
- November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
- December 20 - Audrey Totter, actress
[edit] Deaths
- February 1 - Joseph Kaufman, silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
- April 30 - "Mother" Mary Maurice, veteran stage & film actress born 1844
- October 19 - Harold Lockwood, American actor
- October 28 - Louise Vale, American actress
- November 6 - William Shea, veteran film actor & director, b. 1862
