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Overview of the events of 1913 in film
1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917 .
The year was one where filmmakers of several countries made great artistic advancements, producing notable pioneering masterpieces such as The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye), Suspense (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber), Atlantis (August Blom), Raja Harischandra (D. G. Phalke), Juve contre Fantomas (Louis Feuillade), Quo Vadis? (Enrico Guazzoni), Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjöström), The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith), Ma l’amor mio non muore! (Mario Caserini), L’enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret), and Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Yevgenii Bauer).
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
Films released in 1913
Addio giovinezza!
The Adventures of Kathlyn , (serial ), starring Kathlyn Williams
American Born
Article 47, L'
Antony and Cleopatra , directed by Enrico Guazzoni
Arizona
At Midnight
Atlantis , directed by August Blom , a second assistant to the director Michael Curtiz ; the first Danish feature film.
The Bangville Police , starring Mabel Normand and The Keystone Cops
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life , starring Mabel Normand , Mack Sennett , Ford Sterling , The Keystone Cops , and American race car driver Barney Oldfield .
The Bartered Bride
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish
Beautiful Bismark
The Caged Bird
Calamity Anne's Beauty
Calamity Anne's Dream
The Battle of Gettysburg
Calamity Anne's Inheritance
Calamity Anne's Vanity
Calamity Anne, Heroine
Caprice
The Cub Reporter's Temptation
David Copperfield
David Garrick
A Desperate Chance
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Eighty Million Women Want -?
L'Enfant de Paris
Evidence of the Film
The Face at the Window
Fantômas , a film serial (with parts four and five released in 1914):
À l'ombre de la guillotine
Juve contre Fantômas
Le Mort qui tue
The Fire Coward
The Flirt and the Bandit
For Her Boy's Sake
For the Crown
For the Flag
For the Peace of Bear Valley
A Forest Romance
The Game Warden
The Girl and the Greaser
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Greater Love
The Gusher , directed by Mack Sennett , starring Mabel Normand , Ford Sterling , Charles Inslee , and The Keystone Cops
Hamlet
The Haunted House
The Heart of a Fool
Her Big Story
Her Gallant Knights
Hinemoa
His Wife's Child
The House in the Tree
The Idol of Bonanza Camp
In the Bishop's Carriage
In the Firelight
In the Mountains of Virginia
The Influence of a Child
Ingeborg Holm , once described as the first "realistic" feature film
Ivanhoe
Justice of the Wild
The Lady Killer
The Last Days of Pompeii , directed by Mario Caserini and Eleuterio Rodolfi (One of the early blockbusters in cinema. One of the earliest feature films.)
Mabel's Awful Mistakes , starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett
Mabel's Dramatic Career , starring Mack Sennett , Ford Sterling , and The Keystone Cops ; contains early usage of film-within-a-film
Mabel's New Hero , directed by Mack Sennett , starring Mabel Normand , Fatty Arbuckle , and The Keystone Cops
The Mirror
A Mix-Up in Pedigrees
Moondyne
The Mothering Heart , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Lillian Gish
Mrs. Carter's Campaign
The New Conductor
The Night Before Christmas
Nursery Favorites
The Oath of Pierre
de [The Other (1913 film) ; The Other (Der Andere) ]
The Oath of Tsuru San
Our Wives
Personal Magnetism
The Proof of the Man
The Pursuit of the Smugglers
Quicksands
Raja Harishchandra , often listed as the first Indian feature film
The Reformers, or the Lost Art of Minding One's Own Business , directed by D. W. Griffith
Rick's Redemption
The Rose of San Juan
A Sawmill Hazard
Scrooge
The Sea Wolf , based on the novel by Jack London
The Scimitar of the Prophet
The Shoemaker and the Doll
The Shriner's Daughter
Il sire di Vincigliata
Some Fools There Were
The Speed Kings , starring Mabel Normand , Fatty Arbuckle , Ford Sterling and American race car drivers Teddy Tetzlaff , Earl Cooper and Barney Oldfield .
The Speed Queen , starring Mabel Normand
The Spender
The Student of Prague , starring Paul Wegener
Suspense , directed by Lois Weber ; contains early usage of split-screen
The Tale of the Ticker
Through the Neighbor's Window
Through the Sluice Gates
Traffic in Souls , directed by George Loane Tucker (One of the earliest American feature film.)
Transported
Trapped in a Forest Fire
Truth in the Wilderness
Twilight of a Woman's Soul
Unto the Third Generation
The Unwelcome Guest
The Werewolf
When Lincoln Paid
While There's Life
Woman's Honor
Zhuangzi Tests His Wife , the earliest feature film of Hong Kong cinema
Short film series
Births
January 2 - Anna Lee , actress (died 2004 )
January 6 - Loretta Young , actress (died 2000 )
January 15 - Lloyd Bridges , actor (died 1998 )
January 18 - Danny Kaye , actor (died 1987 )
January 29 - Victor Mature , actor (died 1999 )
February 8 - Betty Field , actress (died 1973 )
February 10 - Douglas Slocombe , cinematographer (died 2016 )
February 25
March 3 - Charlotte Henry , actress (died 1980 )
March 4 - John Garfield , actor (died 1952 )
March 15 - MacDonald Carey , actor (died 1994 )
March 18 - René Clément , director (died 1996 )
April 16 - Les Tremayne , English-American actor (d. 2003)
May 6 - Stewart Granger , actor (died 1993 )
May 8 - Sid James , actor and comedian (died 1976 )
May 26 - Peter Cushing , actor (died 1994)
May 27 - Linden Travers , actress (died 2001 )
July 10 - Joan Marsh , actress (died 2000)
July 18
July 29 - Gale Page , actress (died 1983 )
August 10 - Noah Beery Jr. , actor (died 1994)
August 13 - Rita Johnson , actress (died 1965 )
August 24 - Dorothy Comingore , actress (died 1971 )
September 3 - Alan Ladd , actor (died 1964 )
September 7 - Anthony Quayle , actor (died 1989)
September 19 - Frances Farmer , actress (died 1970 )
September 29
September 30 - Bill Walsh , producer, writer (died 1975 )
November 2 - Burt Lancaster , actor (died 1994)
November 4 - Gig Young , actor (died 1978 )
November 5 - Vivien Leigh , actress (died 1967 )
November 9 - Hedy Lamarr , actress (died 2000)
November 13 - Alexander Scourby , American actor (died 1985)
November 20 - Judy Canova , actress (died 1983)
November 24
December 1 - Mary Martin , actress (died 1990)
December 14 - Dan Dailey , actor (died 1978)
December 18 - Lynn Bari , actress (died 1989)
December 25 - Tony Martin , singer, actor (died 2012 )
Deaths
Film debuts
References