1923 in film
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[edit] Events
- April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Covered Wagon | $3,800,000 (USA)[1] |
| 2. | The Ten Commandments | $4,169,798 [2] |
| 3. | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | |
| 4. | Safety Last | |
| 5. | Daddy | |
| 6. | Homeward Bound | |
| 7. | The Ne'er Do-Well | |
| 8. | The Pilgrim |
[edit] Films released in 1923
U.S.A. unless stated
- Adam's Rib
- Ashes of Vengeance, starring Norma Talmadge
- The Audacious Mr. Squire directed by Edwin Greenwood and starring Jack Buchanan, Valia (U.K.)
- Black Oxen
- Bonnie Prince Charlie directed by Charles Calvert, starring Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper (U.K.)
- Cameo Kirby, directed by John Ford; starring John Gilbert
- The Covered Wagon
- The Daring Years, starring Mildred Harris, Charles Emmett Mack and Clara Bow
- Drakula halala - (Hungary)
- The Extra Girl, starring Mabel Normand
- The Gold Diggers
- The Harbour Lights directed by Tom Terriss and starring Tom Moore and Isobel Elsom (U.K.)
- Homeward Bound
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney
- Daddy starring Jackie Coogan
- The Lady Owner - directed by Walter West and starring Violet Hopson and James Knight (U.K.)
- The Lights of London - (U.K.)
- The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton, Gerald Ames and John Stuart (U.K.)
- Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske (The Man in the Iron Mask), directed by Max Glass - (Germany)
- I Will Repay directed by Henry Kolker and starring Holmes Herbert, Flora le Breton (U.K.)
- Merry-Go-Round
- Miss Suwanna of Siam - The first international feature film set in Thailand it features an all Thai cast
- Our Hospitality, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
- Out to Win, directed by Denison Clift and starring Catherine Calvert, Clive Brook (U.K.)
- The Pilgrim, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin with Edna Purviance and Syd Chaplin
- The Purple Highway, starring Madge Kennedy, Monte Blue, Vincent Coleman and Pedro de Córdoba
- Rosita, starring Mary Pickford
- La Roue (The Wheel), directed by Abel Gance - (France)
- Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd - This film has the famous scene where Lloyd is seen hanging from a clock.
- Salomé, directed by Charles Bryant; starring Alla Nazimova
- Scaramouche Starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Ingraham
- Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination (aka Warning Shadows), directed by Arthur Robison - (Germany)
- The Shock, starring Lon Chaney
- Song of Love, starring Norma Talmadge
- Souls for Sale, starring Richard Dix and Eleanor Boardman
- Die Straße (The Street), directed by Karl Grune - (Germany)
- Squibs' Honeymoon directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour (U.K.)
- Squibs M.P. directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour (U.K.)
- The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Theodore Roberts
- This Freedom directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton and Clive Brook (U.K.)
- Three Ages, a Buster Keaton film
- Three Wise Fools, directed by King Vidor
- Through Fire and Water directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Clive Brook, Flora le Breton (U.K.)
- Under the Red Robe starring Robert B. Mantell directed by Alan Crosland
- The White Sister, starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman
- Why Worry?, starring Harold Lloyd
- Within the Law, directed by Frank Lloyd; starring Norma Talmadge
- A Woman of Paris, directed by Charles Chaplin; starring Edna Purviance
- The Woman Who Obeyed - (U.K.)
[edit] Short film series
- Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)
- Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
- Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
- Our Gang (1922-1944)
[edit] Animated short film series
- Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
- Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
- Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)
- Alice Comedies
- Alice's Wonderland
- The Red Head Comedies (1923).
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Pinkas Braun, actor, director
- January 11 - Jacqueline Maillan, actress (died 1992)
- January 19 - Jean Stapleton, actress
- January 29 - Paddy Chayefsky writer (died 1981)
- February 2 - Bonita Granville, actress (died 1988)
- February 12 - Franco Zeffirelli, director
- February 21 – Lola Flores, actress (died 1995)
- February 28 - Charles Durning, actor
- April 12 - Ann Miller, dancer, actress (died 2004)
- May 7 - Anne Baxter, actress (died 1985)
- July 22 - Mukesh, singer (died 1976)
- August 3 - Jean Hagen, actress (died 1977)
- August 10 - Rhonda Fleming, actress
- August 29 - Richard Attenborough, English actor and director
- September 7 - Peter Lawford, actor (died 1984)
- October 4 - Charlton Heston, actor (died 2008)
- October 5 - Glynis Johns, actress
- October 16 - Linda Darnell, actress (died 1965)
- November 9 - Dorothy Dandridge, singer, actress (died 1965)
- November 28 - Gloria Grahame, actress (died 1981)
- December 10 - Harold Gould, actor (died 2010)
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 – Wallace Reid American actor
- March 26 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
- May 21 - Charles Kent, veteran actor & director
- June 11 - Porter Strong, American silent film actor
- June 17 - Macey Harlan, screen actor
- July 12 - Harry Lonsdale, stage & screen actor (born 1865)
- July 30 - Sir Charles Hawtrey, veteran British actor
- August 29 - Bernard J. Durning, American actor and director,
- September 26 - Jerome Patrick, Broadway stage & silent film leading man
- November 20 - Allen Holubar, silent film actor and director
- November 30 - Martha Mansfield, American actress
- December 28 - Frank Hayes, American actor & comedian
[edit] Film Debuts
[edit] References
- ^ The Covered Wagon (1923 film), [1], website of The Internet Movie Database, Retrieved 6 June 2010
- ^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004), Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 45, ISBN 0-8131-2324-0
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