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Overview of the events of 1923 in film
Overview of the events of 1923 in film
The following is an overview of 1923 in film , including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top seven films released in 1923 by U.S. gross are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1923
Rank
Title
Studio
Domestic rentals
1
The Ten Commandments Paramount Pictures
$4,100,000[1]
2
The Covered Wagon $4,000,000[1]
3
Safety Last! Pathé Exchange
$1,500,000[2]
4
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Universal Pictures
$1,019,798[3]
5
Scaramouche Metro Pictures
$1,000,000[4]
6
Main Street Warner Bros.
$510,000[5]
7
The Gold Diggers $470,000[5]
8
Tiger Rose $466,000[5]
Events Notable films released in 1923 American films unless stated otherwise
A B The Balloonatic Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton The Bells , directed by Edwin Greenwood , based on the 1867 play The Polish Jew Erckmann-Chatrian [6] GB )The Bishop of the Ozarks Finis Fox [6] Black Oxen Frank Lloyd , starring Corinne Griffith The Blizzard Mauritz Stiller – (Sweden )Blood and Soul (Chi to Rei) , directed by Kenji Mizoguchi [6] Japan )Bonnie Prince Charlie Charles Calvert , starring Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper – (GB )The Brass Bottle Maurice Tourneur C D E F G H I L The Lady Owner Walter West – (GB )The Last Moment Henry Hull , Doris Kenyon and Louis Wolheim Little Old New York Sidney Olcott , starring Marion Davies The Lost Soul , directed by Hugo Werner-Kahle [9] Austria )The Love Nest Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots Denison Clift , starring Fay Compton – (GB )M Main Street Harry Beaumont The Man in the Iron Mask (Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske)Max Glass – (Germany )The Merchant of Venice (Der Kaufmann von Venedig)Peter Paul Felner , starring Werner Krauss and Henny Porten – (Germany )Merry-Go-Round Erich von Stroheim , starring Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry Miss Suwanna of Siam (Nang Sao Suwan)Henry MacRae The Monkey's Paw Manning Haynes , based on the 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs – (GB )Mysteries of a Barbershop (Mysterien eines Friseursalons)Erich Engel – (Germany )The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu , 15-part serial directed by A. E. Coleby [10] GB )O P R Raskolnikow Robert Wiene – (Germany )The Red Inn (L'auberge rouge) , directed by Jean Epstein , based on the 1831 short story by Honoré de Balzac (remade in 1951)[12] France )Red Lights Clarence G. Badger , starring Marie Prevost , based on the play The Rear Car by Edward Everett Rose [13] Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason)Man Ray – (France )Rosita Ernst Lubitsch , starring Mary Pickford La Roue (The Wheel)Abel Gance – (France )Rupert of Hentzau Victor Heerman S Safety Last! Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor , starring Harold Lloyd Salomé Charles Bryant , starring Alla Nazimova Scaramouche Rex Ingram , Starring Ramón Novarro , Alice Terry and Lewis Stone Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (Shadows - a Nocturnal Hallucination)Arthur Robison – (Germany )The Shock Lambert Hillyer , starring Lon Chaney The Shriek of Araby F. Richard Jones , starring Ben Turpin The Sign of Four Maurice Elvey , starring Eille Norwood , based on the 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle – (GB )Slave of Desire George D. Baker , starring Bessie Love , based on the 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin Honoré de Balzac Souls for Sale Rupert Hughes , starring Eleanor Boardman , Mae Busch and Richard Dix A Spectre Haunts Europe Vladimir Gardin , based on the 1842 short story The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe [14] U.S.S.R. )Squibs M.P. George Pearson , starring Betty Balfour – (GB )The Street (Die Straße)Karl Grune – (Germany )Suzanna F. Richard Jones , starring Mabel Normand T The Ten Commandments Cecil B. DeMille , starring Theodore Roberts This Freedom Denison Clift , starring Fay Compton and Clive Brook – (GB )Three Ages Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery Three Wise Fools King Vidor Through Fire and Water Thomas Bentley , starring Clive Brook and Flora Le Breton – (GB )Tiger Rose Sidney Franklin (director) , starring Lenore Ulric The Treasure (Der Schatz)G. W. Pabst – (Germany )Trilby James Young , based on the 1894 novel by George du Maurier [15] Tut-Tut and his Terrible Tomb , directed by Bertram Phillips – (GB )U W While Paris Sleeps Maurice Tourneur , starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert , based on a novelThe Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford[16] The White Shadow Graham Cutts , starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB )The White Sister Henry King , starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman Why Worry? Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor , starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston Wild Bill Hickok William S. Hart Within the Law Frank Lloyd , starring Norma Talmadge A Woman of Paris Charles Chaplin , starring Edna Purviance Woman to Woman Graham Cutts , starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB )Short film series Animated short film series Births January 1 – Valentina Cortese , Italian actress (died 2019 )
January 7 – Pinkas Braun , Swiss actor, director (died 2008 )
January 8 – Larry Storch , American actor (died 2022 )
January 17 - Carol Raye , British-born Australian actress, comedian and singer (died 2022 )
January 19 – Jean Stapleton , American actress (died 2013 )
January 22 - Diana Douglas , American actress (died 2015 )
January 23 – Silvano Campeggi , Italian poster designer (died 2018 )
January 26 – Anne Jeffreys , American actress (died 2017 )
January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky , American screenwriter (died 1981 )
February 2 – Bonita Granville , American actress (died 1988 )
February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli , Italian director (died 2019 )
February 21 – Lola Flores , Spanish actress (died 1995 )
February 28 – Charles Durning , American actor (died 2012 )
March 10 – Dolores Fuller , American actress (died 2011 )
March 12 - Vladek Sheybal , Polish character actor, singer and director (died 1992 )
March 19 – Pamela Britton , American actress (died 1974 )
March 24 - Murray Hamilton , American actor (died 1986 )
April 2 – Gloria Henry , American actress (died 2021 )
April 4
April 5 - Michael V. Gazzo , American actor (died 1995 )
April 6 - Chang Feng , Chinese actor (died 2022 )
April 12 – Ann Miller , American dancer, singer, actress (died 2004 )
April 13 - Don Adams , American actor, comedian and director (died 2005 )
April 17 – Lon McCallister , American actor (died 2005 )
April 28 – Adele Mara , American actress (died 2010 )
April 29 - Irvin Kershner , American director, actor and producer (died 2010 )
May 4 – Eric Sykes , British actor and comedian (died 2012 )
May 7 – Anne Baxter , actress (died 1985 )
May 14 – Mrinal Sen , Bengali director (died 2018 )
May 20 – Edith Fellows , American actress (died 2011 )
May 26
May 30 - Jimmy Lydon , American actor and producer (died 2022 )
June 8 – Peggy Maley , American actress (died 2007 )
June 12 – Herta Elviste , Estonian actress (died 2015 )
June 28 - Ray Boyle , American actor (died 2022 )
July 6 – Cathy O'Donnell , American actress (died 1970 )
July 8 - Val Bettin , American actor (died 2021 )
July 14 – Dale Robertson , American actor (died 2013 )
July 18 – Michael Medwin , English actor and producer (died 2020 )
July 22 – Mukesh , Indian singer (died 1976 )
July 25
August 3 – Jean Hagen , American actress (died 1977 )
August 9 - John Stephenson , American actor (died 2015)
August 10
August 14 – Alice Ghostley , American actress (died 2007 )
August 15 – Rose Marie , American actress, singer (died 2017 )
August 24 - June Dayton , American actress (died 1994 )
August 28 - Alexander Doré , British actor, director and screenwriter (died 2002 )
August 29 – Richard Attenborough , English actor and director (died 2014 )
August 31 - Ed Grady , American actor (died 2012 )
September 7 – Peter Lawford , British-American actor (died 1984 )
September 9 - Cliff Robertson , American actor (died 2011 )
September 11 - Betsy Drake , American actress, writer (died 2015 )
September 23 - Margaret Pellegrini , American actress (died 2013 )
September 27
September 28 - William Windom , American actor (died 2012 )
October 4 – Charlton Heston , American actor (died 2008 )
October 5 – Glynis Johns , British actress
October 10 - Patrick Jordan , British actor (died 2020 )
October 16 – Linda Darnell , American actress (died 1965 )
October 23 - Frank Sutton , American actor (died 1974 )
November 12 - Richard Venture , American actor (died 2017 )
November 13 – Linda Christian , Mexican-American actress (died 2011 )
November 21 - Helen Horton , American actress (died 2007 )
November 28
December 10 – Harold Gould , American actor (died 2010 )
December 11 – Betsy Blair , American actress (died 2009 )
December 12 - Bob Barker , American retired television game show host
December 29
Deaths January 18 – Wallace Reid , American actor (born 1892)
March 3 – Dante Testa , Italian actor and director (born 1861)
March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt , French actress (born 1844)
May 21 – Charles Kent , veteran actor and director (born 1852)
June 11 – Porter Strong, American silent film actor
June 17 – Macey Harlam , screen actor (born 1873)
July 12 – Harry Lonsdale, stage and screen actor (born 1865)
July 30 – Charles Hawtrey , veteran British actor (born 1858)
August 29 – Bernard Durning , American actor and director, (born 1893)
September 26 – Jerome Patrick , Broadway stage and silent film leading man (born 1883)
October 28 – Joe Roberts , American actor (born 1871)
November 20 – Allen Holubar , America actor and director (born 1888)
November 30 – Martha Mansfield , American actress (born 1899)
December 28 – Frank Hayes , American actor and comedian (born 1871) Film debuts References
^ a b Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All Time Film Rental Champs". Variety ISSN 0042-2738 . ^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press. pp. 356–357 . ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6 ^ Box Office Information for The Hunchback of Notre Dame ^ "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety ^ a b c Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 2 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
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