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Overview of the events of 1909 in film
The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Matsunosuke Onoe , who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema , appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu .
James Joyce opens the Volta, the first cinema in Dublin.
Films released in 1909
J. Stuart Blackton
A Midsummer Night's Dream .
D. W. Griffith
The Curtain Pole .
Resurrection .
Georges Méliès
The Count's Wooing
Le Locataire diabolique (The Diabolical Tenant)
The Doctor's Secret
Le papillon fantastique
Others
The Airship Destroyer .
The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose
The Airship Destroyer (originally titled Der Luftkrieg Der Zukunft , also titled "The Aerial Torpedo", "The Battle of the Clouds" {UK} and "The Battle in the Clouds" {US}), directed by Walter R. Booth
The Cowboy Millionaire , directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner
Entrevista de los Presidentes Díaz-Taft (Mexico), a documentary directed by the Alva Brothers
The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight
Les Joyeux microbes , directed by Émile Cohl
Macbeth , directed by André Calmettes
Mr. Flip , directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
Nerone , directed by Luigi Maggi
Teddy Roosevelt in Africa , directed by Cherry Kearton
Births
January 1 - Dana Andrews , actor (died 1992 )
January 3 - Victor Borge , musician, actor (died 2000 )
January 8
January 15 - Gene Krupa , musician, actor (died 1973 )
January 22 - Ann Sothern , actress (died 2001 )
January 24 - Ann Todd , actress (died 1993 )
February 2 - Frank Albertson , actor (died 1964 )
February 6 - Aino Talvi , Estonian actress (d. 1992 )
February 9
February 11
February 16 - Jeffrey Lynn , actor (died 1995 )
March 19 - Louis Hayward , actor (died 1995)
March 26 - Chips Rafferty , actor (died 1971 )
April 4 - Bobby Connelly , child actor (died 1922 )
April 29 - Tom Ewell , actor (died 1994 )
May 15 - James Mason , actor (died 1984 )
May 16 - Margaret Sullavan , actress (died 1960 )
May 30 - Benny Goodman , musician, actor (died 1986)
June 7 - Jessica Tandy , actress (died 1994)
June 8 - Robert Carson , actor (died 1979 )
June 14 - Burl Ives , actor (died 1995)
June 20 - Errol Flynn , actor (died 1959)
July 1 - Madge Evans , actress (died 1981 )
July 12 - Curly Joe DeRita , actor (died 1993)
August 18 - Marcel Carné , director (died 1996 )
August 22 - Lucille Ricksen , actress (died 1925 )
August 25
September 7 - Elia Kazan , director (died 2003 )
October 6 - Robert Carson , screenwriter (died 1983 )
October 20 - Carla Laemmle , actress (died 2014)
November 11 - Robert Ryan , actor (died 1973)
November 26 - Frances Dee , actress (died 2004 )
December 9 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , actor (died 2000)
December 12 - Karen Morley , actress (died 2003)
December 20 - Diane Ellis , actress (died 1930 )
Deaths
January 27 - Benoît-Constant Coquelin , actor, Cyrano de Bergerac (born 1841)
September 4 - Clyde Fitch , author & playwright whose works have been adapted into films. (born 1865)
Film debuts