1916 in film

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The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1916 4 Short film series 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Debuts

Events

• October 17 - release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star.
• November 19 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures, later to became one of the most successful independent filmmakers.
• 11 mm, an amateur film gauge, appears on the market.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Intolerance, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge
2.	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
3.	The Innocent Lie
4.	Hulda From Holland

Films released in 1916

U.S. unless stated

• A Daughter of the Gods, starring Annette Kellerman
• The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring, directed by Francis Ford and Jacques Jaccard, starring Grace Cunard
• Alsace (France)
• The Americano
• The Battle of the Somme (U.K.)
• Behind the Screen, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• La Bohème, by Albert Capellani (France) (see disambiguation)
• Cenere (Italy)
• Civilization, directed by Reginald Barker and Walter Edwards, starring Howard C. Hickman and Enid Markey
• The Curse of Quon Gwon
• The Count, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• Energetic Eva, starring Eva Tanguay
• Hell's Hinges, directed by Charles Swickard and William S. Hart, starring William S. Hart
• Hoodoo Ann, starring Mae Marsh and Robert Harron
• Hulda From Holland, starring Mary Pickford
• The Innocent Lie, starring Mary Pickford
• Intolerance, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge
• Judex, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora, René Cresté (France)
• A Life for a Life
• Lights of New York, directed by Van Dyke Brooke, starring Leah Baird and Walter McGrail
• The Marriage of William Ash directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Henry Ainley, Alma Taylor and Stewart Rome (U.K.)
• Oliver Twist, starring Marie Doro
• One A.M., directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Seventeen
• Sally Bishop directed by George Pearson (U.K.)
• Sally in Our Alley directed by Larry Trimble and starring Hilda Trevelyan, Mary Dibley and Reginald Owen (U.K.)
• Sherlock Holmes, Starring William Gillette
• Snow White, starring Marguerite Clark
• Ultus and the Grey Lady by George Pearson (U.K.)
• Under Two Flags
• A Welsh Singer directed by Henry Edwards and starring Edwards, Florence Turner and Campbell Gullan (U.K.)
• Where Are My Children?, directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, starring Tyrone Power, Sr. and Juan de la Cruz

Short film series

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

Births

• January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994)
• January 3 - Maxene Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (d. 1995)
• January 4 - Lionel Newman, composer (d. 1989)
• February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, director (d. 1996)
• February 26 - Jackie Gleason, actor (d. 1987)
• February 29 - Dinah Shore, singer, actress, television presenter (d. 1994)
• March 17 - Mercedes McCambridge, actress (d. 2004)
• March 26 - Sterling Hayden, actor (d. 1986)
• April 5 - Gregory Peck, actor (d 2003)
• April 26 - Vic Perrin, voice actor (d. 1989)
• May 1 -Glenn Ford, actor (d. 2006)
• May 16 - Adriana Caselotti, singer, voice actress (d. 1997)
• June 12 - Irwin Allen, director, producer (d. 1991)
• June 14 - Dorothy McGuire, actress (d. 2001)
• June 23 - Irene Worth, actress (d. 2002)
• July 27 - Keenan Wynn, actor (d. 1986)
• July 1 - Olivia de Havilland, actress
• August 25 - Van Johnson, actor (d. 2008)
• August 27 - Martha Raye, actress (d. 1994)
• September 13 - Dick Haymes, actor (d. 1980)
• September 14 - Douglas Kennedy, actor (d. 1973)
• September 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress (d. 1990)
• September 18 - Rossano Brazzi, actor (d. 1994)
• November 20 - Evelyn Keyes, actress (d. 2008)
• December 9 - Kirk Douglas, actor
• December 18 - Betty Grable, actress (d. 1973)
• December 28 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)

Deaths

• January 17 - Arthur V. Johnson, screen actor (b. 1876)
• June 22 - Page Peters, screen actor (b. 1889)
• September 9 - Sydney Ayres, stage & screen actor (b. 1879)
• September 17 - Arthur Hoops, stage & screen actor (b. 1870)
• September 27 - Camille D'Arcy, actress (b. c.1879)
• October 6 - Henry Woodruff, stage & screen actor (b. 1869)
• November 30 - Dorrit Weixler, German actress (b. 1892)
•  ? ? ? ? ? - Jean the Vitagraph Dog (b. 190?)

Debuts

• Richard Barthelmess
• Constance Bennett
• Billie Burke
• Adolphe Menjou
• Mae Murray
• Alla Nazimova
• Edward G. Robinson
• Conrad Veidt

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