1918 in film

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The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband.
• 28 mm safety standard film, designed by Alexander Victor, becomes one of the earliest film formats to use "safety film" bases in order to safeguard the amateur market against nitrate fires.
• Warner Bros. Pictures is established.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Stella Maris
2.	Tarzan of the Apes
3.	Mickey
4.	Shoulder Arms
5.	Headin' South
6.	Bound in Morroco

Films released in 1918

U.S. unless stated

• Alraune - (Hungary)
• Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne - (Germany)
• Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford
• L'ame du bronze - (France)
• America's Answer
• Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific
• Arizona
• The Bell Boy, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short
• The Blue Bird
• The Bond
• Bound In Morroco, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The City of Dim Faces, starring Sessue Hayakawa and Marin Sais
• The Cook, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short
• A Dog's Life, a Charlie Chaplin short
• The Embarrassment of Riches
• The Eyes of Julia Deep
• Father Sergius, directed by Yakov Protazanov, starring Ivan Mozzukhin - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
• The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
• The Goddess of Lost Lake, starring Louise Glaum
• Headin' South, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Heart of Humanity (starring Erich von Stroheim)
• Hearts of the World, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish
• The House of Mirth, directed by Albert Capellani, starring Katherine Corri Harris
• Huck and Tom
• Johanna Enlists
• The Lamb
• The Light of the Western Stars
• Masks and Faces
• Men Who Have Made Love to Me
• Mickey, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Mabel Normand
• Moonshine, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short
• Nocturnal Tunes
• Out of the Inkwell, animated film, directed by Max Fleischer
• Out West, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short
• The Outlaw and His Wife (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru), directed by and starring Victor Sjöström - (Sweden)
• The Richest Girl
• The Romance of Tarzan
• Shoulder Arms, a Charlie Chaplin film
• The Sinking of the Lusitania, a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay
• Salomé, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Theda Bara
• Stella Maris, directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Mary Pickford
• Tarzan of the Apes, directed by Scott Sidney, starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey
• The Tenth Symphony (La Dixième Symphonie), directed by Abel Gance, starring Séverin-Mars and Jean Toulout - (France)
• Tih Minh, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring René Cresté - (France)
• Triple Trouble, a Charlie Chaplin short, starring Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance
• Vendemiaire - (France)
• Under the Yoke, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, starring Theda Bara
• Under the Greenwood Tree directed by Emile Chautard starring Elsie Ferguson

Comedy film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)

Births

• January 29 - John Forsythe, actor (died 2010)
• February 4 - Ida Lupino, actress, director (died 1995)
• February 16 - Patty Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters
• March 1 - Roger Delgado, actor (died 1973)
• March 9 - Mickey Spillane, writer, actor (died 2006)
• April 17 - Anne Shirley, actress (died 1993)
• April 17 - William Holden, actor (died 1981)
• May 14 - June Duprez, actress (died 1984)
• May 26 - John Dall, actor (died 1971)
• June 8 - Robert Preston, actor, singer (died 1987)
• June 30 - Susan Hayward, actress (died 1975)
• July 6 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (died 1977)
• July 14 - Ingmar Bergman, actor, writer, director (died 2007)
• July 18 - Jane Frazee, singer, actress (died 1985)
• July 26 - Marjorie Lord, actress
• August 9 - Robert Aldrich, director (died 1983)
• August 17 - Evelyn Ankers, actress (died 1985)
• September 5 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (died 1932)
• September 21 - Rand Brooks, actor (died 2003)
• October 9 - Lila Kedrova, actress (died 2000)
• October 13 - Robert Walker, actor (died 1951)
• October 17 - Rita Hayworth, actress (died 1987)
• October 27 - Teresa Wright, actress (died 2005)
• November 4 - Art Carney, actor (died 2003)
• November 4 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (died 1994)
• November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
• December 20 - Audrey Totter, actress

Deaths

• January 12 - Simeon Wiltsie, actor The Wishing Ring, (born 1853)
• February 1 - Joseph Kaufman, silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
• February 15 - Vernon Castle, dancer (born 1887)
• April 30 - "Mother" Mary Maurice, veteran stage & film actress (born 1844)
• June 29 - John van den Broek, Dutch cinematographer, worked on several Maurice Tourneur films (drowned) while filming the movie Woman(1918)
• July 4 - Walter Stradling, cinematographer several films with Mary Pickford (born 1875)
• August 12 - Anna Held, actress & singer (born 1873)
• September 21 - Hal August, actor; brother of Edwin August (born 1890)
• October 19 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (born 1887)
• October 28 - Louise Vale, American actress
• November 6 - William Shea, veteran film actor & director, born 1862
• December 6 - Charles Gunn, American actor (born 1883)
• December 29 - Jode Mullally, American actor (born 1886)

Debuts

• Noel Coward
• Will Rogers