1910 in film

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The year 1910 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• March 18 - The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the United States by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features (unbilled) actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
• May 6 - The newsreel footage of the funeral of Edward VII is shot in Kinemacolor, making it the first color newsreel.
• A Danish melodrama, Den Hvide Slavehandel, marks the first time film is used to study prostitution.
• Kalem Studios director Sidney Olcott becomes the first American to make a motion picture outside of the United States.
• Florence Lawrence becomes America's first publicly named motion picture actress; she is generally regarded as the first true movie star.

Films released in 1910

• 1812
• Abraham Lincoln's Clemency
• The Abyss (Afgrunden), starring Asta Nielsen
• Aeroplane Flight And Wreck
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Der Alpenjager
• Am Abend, one of the earliest works of hardcore pornography
• As It Is In Life, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• Bebe
• The Blue Bird
• A Christmas Carol
• A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner, produced by Charles Urban
• The Family Doctor
• Frankenstein
• The Fugitive, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Funeral Of Edward VII
• The House with Closed Shutters, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Den Hvide Slavehandel
• In Old California, directed by D. W. Griffith. First Hollywood film in cinema.
• In the Border States, directed by D. W. Griffith
• The Johnson-Jeffries Fight
• A Lad from Old Ireland, directed by Sidney Olcott
• Making Christmas Crackers
• New York of Today, produced by Edison Studios
• Ramona, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• Teddy Roosevelt Returns From Africa
• Slippery Jim, directed by Ferdinand Zecca
• Thunderbolt
• Twelfth Night
• The Unchanging Sea, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Le Vitrail Diabolique, directed by Georges Melies
• Im Wannseebad
• What the Daisy Said, starring Mary Pickford
• White Fawn's Devotion, directed by James Young Deer the first Native American Director
• Wilful Peggy, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Births

Month	Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January	3	John Sturges	Director	1992
	12	Luise Rainer	Actress	2014
February	8	Steffi Duna		1992
	10	Joyce Grenfell		1979
	27	Joan Bennett		1990
March	1	David Niven	Actor	1983
	8	Claire Trevor	Actress	2000
	17	Sari Maritza		1987
	23	Akira Kurosawa	Director	1998
April	23	Simone Simon	Actress	2005
May	11	Johnnie Davis	Actor, singer	1983
	15	Constance Cummings	Actress	2005
	23	Scatman Crothers	Actor	1986
June	3	Paulette Goddard	Actress	1990
	7	Arthur Gardner	Producer, actor	2014
	13	Mary Wickes	Actress	1995
	16	Ilona Massey		1974
	24	Martha Sleeper		1987
July	4	Gloria Stuart		2010
	27	Lupita Tovar		2016
August	4	Anita Page		2008
	6	Charles Crichton	Director	1999
	8	Sylvia Sidney	Actress
	12	Jane Wyatt		2006
	16	Mae Clarke		1992
	22	Lucille Ricksen		1925
	25	Ruby Keeler	singer actress	1993
September	9	Kitty Carlisle	Actress	2007
	19	Margaret Lindsay		1981
	29	Virginia Bruce		1982
December	7	Louis Prima	Bandleader, voice actor	1978
	13	Lillian Roth	Actress	1980
	31	Roy Rowland	Director	1995

Deaths

Day	Name	Profession	Year of birth
April 21	Mark Twain	humorist, writer, born Samuel L. Clemons.	1835
November 20	Leo Tolstoy	Russian novelist	1828

Debuts

• Leah Baird - Jean and the Waif
• Carlyle Blackwell - Uncle Tom's Cabin (short)
• Eleanor Caines - The New Boss of Bar X Ranch (short)
• Grace Cunard - The Duke's Plan (short)
• Margarita Fischer - There, Little Girl, Don't Cry (short)
• Helen Gardner - How She Won Him (short)
• Alice Joyce - The Deacon's Daughter (short)
• J. Warren Kerrigan - A Voice from the Fireplace (short)
• Mae Marsh - Ramona (short)
• Asta Nielsen - The Woman Always Pays (short)
• Mabel Normand - Indiscretions of Betty
• Wallace Reid - The Phoenix (short)
• Marin Sais - Twelfth Night (short)
• Norma Talmadge - The Household Pest
• Pearl White - The Missing Bridegroom (short)