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Overview of the events of 1919 in film
Overview of the events of 1919 in film
The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top six 1919 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1919
Rank
Title
Studio
Domestic rentals
1
Male and Female
Paramount
$1,256,267
[1]
2
Daddy-Long-Legs
First National
$1,250,000
[2]
3
The Miracle Man
Paramount
$1,000,000
[2]
4
Broken Blossoms
United Artists
$600,000
[3]
5
Don't Change Your Husband
Paramount
$292,394
[1]
6
For Better, for Worse
$256,072
[1]
Events
February 5 –
Charlie Chaplin ,
Mary Pickford ,
Douglas Fairbanks and
D. W. Griffith launch
United Artists .
March –
Oscar Micheaux premieres
The Homesteader , the first feature-length
race film , starring pioneering African American actress
Evelyn Preer , becoming the first
African American to produce and direct a motion picture.
May 13 –
D. W. Griffith 's first film to be released by
United Artists ,
Broken Blossoms , has its premiere in New York City.
August 29 –
The Miracle Man displayed
Lon Chaney 's talent for make-up and made him famous as a
character actor .
September 1 –
United Artists release their first film,
His Majesty, the American starring
Douglas Fairbanks .
September 18 –
Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin opens rebuilt as a permanent cinema with the première of
Ernst Lubitsch 's
Madame Dubarry .
[4]
[5]
September 25 – Dalagang Bukid (The Country Maiden), the first Filipino feature-length film made in the Philippines, released.
[6]
October 24 – The
Capitol Theatre in New York City becomes one of the largest cinemas in the world with 4,000 seats.
November 16 –
Constance Talmadge becomes a star with the release of
A Virtuous Vamp .
[7]
November 23 –
Cecil B. DeMille 's
Male and Female is released and grosses $1,256,226.59, establishing
Gloria Swanson as a worldwide star.
Harold Lloyd begins holding
test screenings of his films and modifying them based on audience feedback, a technique which continues in use.
Tri-Ergon
sound-on-film technology is developed by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt (engineer), and Joseph Massole; however, the era of sound films is over 6 years away.
Notable films released in 1919 around the world
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Daddy-Long-Legs , starring
Mary Pickford
Damaged Goods , directed by
Alexander Butler – (
GB )
Dance of Death / Totentanz (German) written by
Fritz Lang , directed by
Otto Rippert , starring
Werner Krauss
[10]
The Dark Star , directed by
Allan Dwan ; starring
Marion Davies and
Norman Kerry
The Delicious Little Devil , starring
Mae Murray and
Rudolph Valentino
The Devil's Locksmith (Austrian) directed by Franz Ferdinand, starring Ferdinand and Herr Ruibar
Different from the Others , directed by
Richard Oswald , starring
Conrad Veidt – (
Germany )
The Doll , directed by
Ernst Lubitsch – (
Germany )
Don't Change Your Husband , directed by
Cecil B. DeMille , starring
Gloria Swanson
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The Haunted Bedroom (aka The Ghost of Whispering Oaks ) directed by
Fred Niblo for
Thomas H. Ince , starring
Enid Bennett (Niblo's wife) and
Dorcas Matthews
Haunting Shadows , directed by
Henry King , starring
H. B. Warner and
Edward Peil Sr. , based on the 1906 novel The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
[11]
Hawthorne of the U.S.A. directed by
James Cruze , starring
Wallace Reid
Heart o' the Hills directed by
Sidney Franklin , starring
Mary Pickford
Here Comes the Bride directed by
John S. Robertson , starring
John Barrymore ,
Faire Binney
His Majesty, the American , starring
Douglas Fairbanks
The Homesteader , directed by
Oscar Micheaux , starring
Evelyn Preer
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Madame DuBarry , directed by
Ernst Lubitsch , starring
Pola Negri and
Emil Jannings – (
Germany )
Madness / Wahnsinn (German) produced and directed by
Conrad Veidt , who also starred in the film; adapted from a novel by Kurt Muenzner
Male and Female , directed by
Cecil B. DeMille , starring
Gloria Swanson and
Thomas Meighan
The Master Mystery , (
serial ), starring
Harry Houdini
The Miracle Man , starring
Thomas Meighan ,
Lon Chaney and
Betty Compson
The Mistress of the World , directed by
Joe May (Weimar Republic)
The Monkey's Paw (British) lost film based on the
story by
W. W. Jacobs first published by 1902, and the related one-act stage play written by
Louis N. Parker in 1907
My Lady's Garter , directed by
Maurice Tourneur
My Wife, the Movie Star , directed by
Ernst Lubitsch (Germany)
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Nabeshima Neko Sodo (Japanese) a ghost-cat film produced by Nikkatsu Films, starring
Matsunosuke Onoe , based on the Kabuki play by Joko Segawa III
[12]
Okazaki Kaibyo-den (Japanese) starring Matsunosuke Onoe, another ghost-cat movie based on an early 1820s Japanese novel (which was adapted as a Kabuki play in 1827)
[12]
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The Test of Honor , directed by
John S. Robertson , starring
John Barrymore , and
Constance Binney
The Thirteenth Chair , directed by
Leonce Perret , starring Yvonne Delva and
Creighton Hale , based on a play by
Bayard Veiller ; this film was later
remade by
Tod Browning in 1929 with sound
[13]
To Let (British) short ghost film directed by
James Reardon , starring Reardon and Peggy Patterson
[14]
The Trembling Hour , directed by
George Siegmann for Universal Films, starring
Kenneth Harlan and
Helen Jerome Eddy ; parts of this film were shot in
San Quentin State Prison in California
[14]
True Heart Susie , starring
Lillian Gish and
Bobby Harron
The Twin Pawns (aka The Curse of Greed ) written and directed by Leonce Perret, starring
Mae Murray (playing twins) and
Warner Oland , based on the
Wilkie Collins novel
The Woman in White
[14]
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Comedy film series
Only the films of the series released in 1919 are collected.
Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
Films starring
Roscoe Arbuckle , featuring
Buster Keaton released in 1919:
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, and starred in 9 films for his own production company between 1918 and 1923. These films were distributed by
First National . Below the movies filmed in 1919:
Score composed for 1973 re-release
Uncompleted and unreleased films
The Professor as Professor Bosco, Slated as a two-reeler, but never issued
Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
Glasses character ("The Boy"):
Animated short film series
Out of the Inkwell .
Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
Koko the Clown was the first animated movie cartoon series. Below list of short films released in 1919:
The Tantalizing Fly
The Clown's Pups
Out of the Inkwell
Slides
Experiment No. 2
Experiment No. 3
Out of the Inkwell
Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
Felix the cat in his first cartoon Feline Follies .
Below list of
Felix the Cat short films released in 1919:
November 9 : Feline Follies
November 16 : The Musical Mews
December 14 : The Adventures of Felix
Births
January 1 –
Carole Landis , American actress (died
1948 )
January 5 –
Douglas Henderson , American actor (died
1978 )
January 7 –
Huang Feng , Hong Kong film director
January 10 –
Amzie Strickland , American character actress (died
2006 )
January 11 –
Mort Mills , American actor (died
1993 )
January 13 –
Robert Stack , actor (died
2003 )
January 14 –
Joe Seneca , American actor and singer (died
1996 )
January 21 –
Jinx Falkenburg , model, actress (died 2003)
January 23 –
Ernie Kovacs , comedian, actor (died
1962 )
January 24 –
Coleman Francis , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died
1973 )
February 4 –
Janet Waldo , actress (died
2016 )
February 5
February 11 –
Eva Gabor , actress (died
1995 )
February 12 –
Forrest Tucker , actor (died
1986 )
February 17 –
Kathleen Freeman , actress (died
2001 )
February 18 –
Jack Palance , actor (died
2006 )
March 2 –
Jennifer Jones , actress (died
2009 )
March 15 -
Lawrence Tierney , actor (died
2002 )
March 25 –
Jeanne Cagney , actress (died
1984 )
March 26 –
Strother Martin , actor (died
1980 )
March 29 –
Eileen Heckart , actress (died
2001 )
April 2 –
Maxwell Reed , Northern Irish actor (died
1974 )
April 6 –
Caren Marsh Doll , American former actress
April 12 –
Ivor Barry , Welsh actor (died
2006 )
April 13 –
Howard Keel , actor (died
2004 )
April 18 –
Vondell Darr , child actress (died
2012 )
April 18 –
Virginia O'Brien , American actress (died
2001 )
May 8 –
Lex Barker , actor (died 1973)
May 23 –
Betty Garrett , actress (died
2011 )
June 11 –
Richard Todd , actor (died
2009 )
June 12 –
Uta Hagen , actress (died 2004)
June 14
June 19 –
Pauline Kael , film critic (died 2001)
June 24 –
Al Molinaro , actor (died 2015)
June 29 –
Slim Pickens , actor (died
1983 )
July 7 –
Jon Pertwee , actor (died
1996 )
July 12 –
Vera Ralston , figure skater, actress (died
2003 )
July 19 –
Patricia Medina , actress (died
2012 )
July 26 –
Virginia Gilmore , actress (died
1986 )
August 2 –
Nehemiah Persoff , actor (died
2022 )
August 7 –
Bertha Moss , Argentine-Mexican actress (died
2008 )
August 8 –
Dino De Laurentiis , producer (died
2010 )
September 2 –
Marge Champion , dancer, actress, choreographer (died
2020 )
September 7 –
Howard Morris , American actor, comedian and director (died
2005 )
September 9 –
Jacques Marin , French actor (died
2001 )
September 17 –
Helmut Ashley , Austrian cinematographer and director (died
2021 )
September 18 –
Diana Lewis , actress (died
1997 )
September 24 –
Rick Vallin , Russian-born actor (died
1977 )
October 5 –
Donald Pleasence , actor (died
1995 )
October 18 –
Orlando Drummond , Brazilian actor and comedian (died 2021)
October 20 –
Lia Origoni , Italian actress and singer (died
2022 )
October 28 –
Ezz El-Dine Zulficar , Egyptian director and producer (died
1963 )
November 2 –
Warren Stevens , American actor (died
2012 )
November 4
November 13
November 15 –
Nova Pilbeam , actress (died
2015 )
November 19
November 20 –
Phyllis Thaxter , American actress (died 2012)
December 5 –
Guido Gorgatti , Italian-born Argentine actor (died
2023 )
December 7 –
Lis Løwert , Danish actress (died
2009 )
December 11 –
Marie Windsor , American actress (died
2000 )
December 18 –
Lynn Bari , American actress (died
1989 )
December 21
Deaths
January 14 –
Shelley Hull , 34, American stage & film actor, husband of
Josephine Hull , brother of
Henry Hull
January 31 –
Nat Goodwin , 59, veteran stage star & silent film actor
February 3 – Mary Moore, 29, Irish actress, sister of Joe,
Matt ,
Owen and
Tom Moore ,
A Million a Minute
February 17 –
Vera Kholodnaya , 25, Russian silent film actress, A Corpse Living,
The Woman Who Invented Love ,
Her Sister's Rival ,
Song of Triumphant Love
April 9 –
Sidney Drew , 55, American stage & film actor
A Florida Enchantment
May 3 – Daniel Gilfether, 70, American actor of stage & screen
May 21 –
Lamar Johnstone , 34, American silent film actor
August 27 –
Clifford Bruce , 34, American silent film actor
November 24 –
William Stowell , 34, American silent film star
Film debuts
See also
References
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Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 (1938) p 942 accessed January 28, 2017
^ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars .
University of Wisconsin Press .
ISBN
978-0-299-23004-3 . p30-31
^ Kreimeier, Klaus (1996).
The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 . University of California Press. p.
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^ Silberman, Marc (1995).
German Cinema: Texts in Context . Detroit: Wayne State University. p. 3.
ISBN
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"Dalagang Bukid (1919)" . imdb.com .
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"Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles" .
Library of Congress . Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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b Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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b Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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d Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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