1915 in film

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The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Events
2 Top grossing films (U.S.)
3 Films released in 1915
4 Short film series
5 Births
6 Film debuts
7 Deaths
8 References

Events

February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.
June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several completed but unreleased silent films which are later remade. Films lost include Mary Pickford's Esmerelda and The Foundling and John Barrymore's The Red Widow.
November 18 : Release of Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude.
The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Awakening
2.	La Banda della cifre
3.	The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet	$1,000,000
4.	Burlesque on Carmen
5.	Carmen, starring Theda Bara
6.	The Cheat	$137,364 ^[1]
7.	David Harum
8.	Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener
9.	The Eternal City
10.	Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
11.	La Folie du Docteur Tube
12.	A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
13.	His New Job
14.	Honeymoon for Three
15.	Inspiration
16.	The Italian
17.	Martyrs of the Alamo by D.W Griffith
18.	The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro
19.	Regeneration
20.	The Tramp
21.	Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Édouard Mathé

Films released in 1915

U.S. unless stated

Assunta Spina (Italy)
The Champion
Double Trouble
Enoch Arden
Four Feathers
The Immigrant
The Lamb
Le traquenard (France), cast; Irène Bordoni
Martyrs of the Alamo
The Raven
The Soul of Broadway
The Two Orphans
Work

Short film series

Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923

Births

January 9 - Anita Louise, actress (d. 1970)
January 9 - Fernando Lamas, actor (d. 1982)
January 11 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (d. 1973)
January 26 - William Hopper, actor; son of Hedda Hopper (d. 1970)
January 29 - Victor Mature, actor (d. 1999)
January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress (d. 1934)
February 7 - Eddie Bracken, actor (d. 2002)
February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (d. 1987)
February 21 - Ann Sheridan, actress (d. 1967)
February 23 - Jon Hall, actor (d. 1979)
February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (d. 1977)
March 2 - Lona Andre, actress (d. 1992)
March 17 - Henry Bumstead, art director (d. 2006)
April 10 - Harry Morgan, United States actor (d. 2011)
April 21 - Anthony Quinn, actor (d. 2001)
May 5 - Alice Faye, actress (d. 1998)
May 6 - Orson Welles, actor, director (d. 1985)
June 12 - Priscilla Lane, singer, actress (d. 1995)
July 7 - Yul Brynner, actor (d. 1985)
August 29 - Ingrid Bergman, actress (d. 1982)
September 5 - Jack Buetel, actor (d. 1989)
September 10 - Edmond O'Brien, actor (d. 1985)
October 13 - Cornel Wilde, actor (d. 1989)
December 7 - Eli Wallach, actor
December 12 - Frank Sinatra, singer, actor (d. 1998)
December 13 - Curd Jürgens, actor (d. 1982)

Film debuts

Deaths

January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder, diminutive stage and screen actor, age 55.
April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian
June 16 - Elmer Booth, silent screen actor brother of film editor Margaret Booth.
October 31 - Blanche Walsh, stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912

References

^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004), Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 19, ISBN 0-8131-2324-0

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1880s	1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889

1890s	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899

1900s	1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909

1910s	1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

1920s	1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

1930s	1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959

1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 and beyond