1914 in film

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The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.

Events

• The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
• February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
• February 7 - Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in Mabel's Strange Predicament, released two days later).
• February 10 - Release of the film Hearts Adrift; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
• April 18 - Cabiria
• May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
• Filoteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross	Net Profit
1.	The Million Dollar Mystery	$1,500,000
2.	The Squaw Man		$244,700

Films released in 1914

• A Little Madonna
• A Study in Scarlet dir; George Pearson
• A Bathing Beauty
• Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı, directed by Fuat Uzkınay, considered to be the first Turkish movie - (Ottoman Empire)
• Brewster's Millions
• By the Sun's Rays
• Cabiria
• Child of the Big City
• Cinderella
• Gertie the Dinosaur, animated
• His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, cast; Mildred Harris
• Il sacco di Roma
• In the Land of the Head Hunters
• Judith of Bethulia
• Kid Auto Races at Venice
• Mabel at the Wheel
• Mabel's Blunder
• Mabel's Strange Predicament
• Making a Living
• Mr. Barnes of New York
• My Official Wife, starring Clara Kimball Young
• The Old Curiosity Shop directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Alma Taylor
• O Mimi San, cast; Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
• Rose of the Rancho, cast; Bessie Barriscale
• Salomy Jane
• The Last Egyptian
• The Avenging Conscience
• The Aztec Treasure
• The Exploits of Elaine
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• The Perils of Pauline, (serial) cast; Pearl White
• The Squaw Man, cast; Dustin Farnum
• The Million Dollar Mystery, (serial), cast; Florence La Badie
• The Hazards of Helen, (serial) cast; Helen Holmes
• The Magic Cloak of Oz, cast; Mildred Harris
• The Stain, cast; Theda Bara
• The Man from Home
• The Master Mind
• The Only Son
• The Man on the Box
• The Call of the North, cast; Robert Edeson
• The Ghost Breaker
• The Virginian, cast; Dustin Farnum
• The Wishing Ring
• The Wrath of Gods, cast; Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
• Tillie's Punctured Romance, dir; Mack Sennett, cast; Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
• What's His Name, cast; Max Figman

Short film series

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

Births

• January 5 - George Reeves, actor (died 1959)
• January 6 - Danny Thomas, singer, actor, comedian (died 1991)
• January 14 - Harold Russell, actor (died 2002)
• January 30 - John Ireland, actor (died 1992)
• February 24 - Zachary Scott, actor (died 1965)
• February 26 - Robert Alda, actor (died 1986)
• March 2 - Martin Ritt, director (died 1990)
• April 2 - Alec Guinness, actor (died 2000)
• April 4 - Rosemary Lane, singer, actress (died 1974)
• April 16 - John Hodiak, actor (died 1955)
• May 5 - Tyrone Power, actor (died 1958)
• May 24 - Lilli Palmer, actress (died 1986)
• June 7 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director (died 1987)
• June 18 - E. G. Marshall, actor (died 1998)
• July 31 - Louis de Funès, actor (died 1983)
• August 2 - Beatrice Straight, actress (died 2001)
• August 14 - Andrea Leeds, actress (died 1984)
• August 31 - Richard Basehart - actor (died 1984)
• September 10 - Robert Wise, director (died 2005)
• September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (died 1999)
• September 20 - Kenneth More English actor (d. 1982)
• October 26 - Jackie Coogan, actor (died 1984)
• October 30 - Ruth Hussey, actress (died 2005)
• December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (died 1996)
• December 13 - Larry Parks, actor (died 1975)
• December 26 - Richard Widmark, actor (died 2008)
• December 30 - Jo Van Fleet, actress (died 1996)

Deaths

• January 9 - Gladys Rankin, Mrs. Sidney Drew, American stage & screen actress
• January 11 - William A. Russell, American actor Essanay
• March 25 - Frederic Mistral, French writer
• June 19 - Brandon Thomas, British writer Charley's Aunt
• July 1 - Grace McHugh, American actress died while filming the movie Across The Border
• July 1 - Owen Carter, American cinematographer
• August 21 - Charles J. Hite, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
• October 24 - Gustav Wied, Danish Playwright and novelist
• November 14 - Stellan Rye, Danish film director

Film debuts

• Theda Bara
• Ethel Barrymore
• John Barrymore
• Milton Berle (at 6 years old)
• Charlie Chaplin
• Marguerite Clark
• Hazel Dawn
• Sam De Grasse
• Gaby Deslys
• Oliver Hardy
• William S. Hart
• Sessue Hayakawa
• Emil Jannings
• Thomas Meighan
• Beatriz Michelena
• Musidora
• Pola Negri
• Tyrone Power, Sr.
• Milton Sills
• Gloria Swanson
• Constance Talmadge
• Rudolph Valentino