1919 in film

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The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1919 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Film Debuts 9 References

Events

• February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists
• Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.
• Harold Lloyd begins holding test screenings of his films and modifying them based on audience feedback, a technique which is still used today.
• Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology is developed by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole; however, the era of sound films is over 6 years away.
• Ken Hill and Kenny Hill launch Coplin Artists

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Miracle Man	$3,000,000
2.	Daddy-Long-Legs
3.	Madame DuBarry
4.	The Roaring Road
5.	When the Clouds Roll By
6.	Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
7.	Broken Blossoms
8.	Male and Female	$1,256,227 [1]

Films released in 1919

U.S. unless stated

• Anne of Green Gables, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Mary Miles Minter and Paul Kelly
• The Avalanche directed by George Fitzmaurice starring Elsie Ferguson
• Back Stage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Barrabas - (France)
• 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) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Daddy-Long-Legs, starring Mary Pickford.
• A Day's Pleasure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Delicious Little Devil, starring Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino.
• Different from the Others, starring Conrad Veidt; directed by Richard Oswald - (Germany)
• The Doll, directed by Ernst Lubitsch - (Germany)
• The False Faces, starring Henry B. Walthall & Lon Chaney dir. by Irvin Willat.
• The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• The Grim Game, starring Harry Houdini
• Hawthorne of the USA
• Heart o' the Hills, starring Mary Pickford
• His Majesty, the American
• The Homesteader, starring Evelyn Preer; directed by Oscar Micheaux.
• J'accuse - (France)
• The Knickerbocker Buckaroo
• Leaves from Satan's Book (Blade af Satans bog), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
• Lightning Bryce, a series of 15 "chapters", starring Jack Hoxie and Ann Little.
• The Lost Battalion
• Love's Prisoner, starring Olive Thomas.
• Madame DuBarry, starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• Male and Female, starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
• The Miracle Man, starring Thomas Meighan
• The Oyster Princess (Die Austerprinzessin) - (Germany)
• The Roaring Road, starring Wallace Reid; directed by James Cruze
• Sahara, starring Louise Glaum, written by C. Gardner Sullivan
• The Sentimental Bloke - (Australia)
• Sir Arne's Treasure (Herr Arnes pengar), directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Richard Lund - (Sweden)
• A Society Exile directed by George Fitzmaurice starring Elsie Ferguson
• Sons of Ingmar (Ingmarssönerna), directed by Victor Sjöström - (Sweden)
• South (documentary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition), filmed by Frank Hurley - (U.K.)
• Sunnyside, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Test of Honor starring John Barrymore in his first dramatic movie role, dir. by John S. Robertson
• True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish and Bobby Harron.
• Unheimliche Geschichten the original silent film version - (Germany)
• The Valley of the Giants, starring Wallace Reid, directed by James Cruze
• Victory starring Lon Chaney, Seena Owen, Wallace Beery, Jack Holt directed by Maurice Tourneur
• The Virgin of Stamboul, starring Priscilla Dean, directed by Tod Browning.
• When the Clouds Roll By, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Wicked Darling, with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean dir. by Tod Browning.
• The Witness for the Defense starring Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland.
• Yankee Doodle in Berlin starring Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling, Marie Prevost, produced by Mack Sennett and directed by F. Richard Jones
• You're Fired, starring Wallace Reid & Wanda Hawley, directed by James Cruze

Short film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)

Animated short film series

• Koko the Clown (1919-1934) (first animated movie cartoon series)
• Felix the Cat (1919-1936)

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 (d. 2009)
• March 29 - Eileen Heckart, actress (d. 2001)
• April 13 - Howard Keel, actor (d. 2004)
• April 18 - Vondell Darr, child actress
• May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
• May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress (d. 2011)
• 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 (d. 2010)
• 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 13 - Amelia Bence, actress
• November 15 - Nova Pilbeam, actress

Deaths

• January 14 - Shelly Hull, stage & film actor, husband of Josephine Hull, brother of Henry Hull.
• January 31 - Nat C. Goodwin, veteran stage star & silent film actor.
• February 3 - Mary Moore, actress, sister of Joe, Matt, Owen and Tom Moore (influenza)
• February 17 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian silent film actress
• April 9 - Sidney Drew, stage & film actor
• May 3 - Daniel Gilfether, veteran actor of stage & screen, began in films 1913 (b. 1849)
• May 21 - Lamar Johnstone, American silent film actor
• November 24 - William Stowell, American silent film star

Film Debuts

• Vilma Banky
• Shemp Howard
• Boris Karloff
• Fritz Lang
• Ivor Novello
• Norma Shearer
• Fay Wray

References

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