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Overview of the events of 1915 in film
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Rank
Title
Gross
1.
The Birth of a Nation , directed by D.W. Griffith , starring Lillian Gish , Sam De Grasse , Mae Marsh ,
Robert Harron , Wallace Reid , and Blanche Sweet
$10,000,000[ 1]
2.
Burlesque on Carmen
3.
Carmen , starring Theda Bara
4.
The Cheat
$137,364 [ 2]
5.
David Harum
6.
Der Golem , starring Paul Wegener
7.
The Eternal City
8.
Fatty's Tintype Tangle , starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
9.
La Folie du Docteur Tube
10.
A Fool There Was , starring Theda Bara
11.
His New Job
12.
Honeymoon for Three , directed by Maurice Elvey
13.
Inspiration
14.
The Italian
15.
Martyrs of the Alamo , produced by D. W. Griffith
16.
The Morals of Marcus , starring Marie Doro
17.
Regeneration
18.
The Tramp
19.
Les Vampires , directed by Louis Feuillade , starring Musidora and Édouard Mathé
Notable films released in 1915
All following films are American , except where stated.
Assunta Spina , starring Francesca Bertini - (Italy )
The Birth of a Nation , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Lillian Gish
Carmen , directed by Cecil B. DeMille , starring Geraldine Farrar
Carmen , directed by Raoul Walsh , starring Theda Bara
The Champion , starring Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance
The Cheat , directed by Cecil B. DeMille , starring Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa
The Crazy Clock Maker
Double Trouble , starring Douglas Fairbanks
Enoch Arden , starring Lillian Gish
Fatty's Spooning Days , starring Fatty Arbuckle , Mabel Normand , and The Keystone Cops
A Fool There Was , starring Theda Bara
Four Feathers
The Golden Chance , directed by Cecil B. DeMille , starring Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid
The Golem (Der Golem), directed by and starring Paul Wegener - (Germany )
The Immigrant
Inspiration
The Italian
The Lamb , starring Douglas Fairbanks
Madame Butterfly , directed by Sidney Olcott , starring Mary Pickford
The Man Who Stayed at Home - (GB )
Martyrs of the Alamo
The Raven
Regeneration , directed by Raoul Walsh , starring Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson
The Senator , directed by Joseph A. Golden
The Soul of Broadway
The Tramp , directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
Le traquenard , starring Irène Bordoni - (France )
The Two Orphans , starring Theda Bara
Work , directed by & starring Charles Chaplin
Short film series
Births
January 9
January 11 - Veda Ann Borg , actress (died 1973 )
January 26 - William Hopper , actor; son of Hedda Hopper (died 1970)
January 29 - Bill Peet , Disney author and illustrator (died 2002 )
January 30 - Dorothy Dell , actress (died 1934 )
February 7 - Eddie Bracken , actor (died 2002 )
February 12 - Lorne Greene , actor (died 1987 )
February 21 - Ann Sheridan , actress (died 1967 )
February 23 - Jon Hall , actor (died 1979 )
February 28 - Zero Mostel , actor (died 1977 )
March 2 - Lona Andre , actress (died 1992 )
March 17 - Henry Bumstead , art director (died 2006 )
March 19 - Patricia Morison , actress
April 10 - Harry Morgan , United States actor (died 2011 )
April 21 - Anthony Quinn , actor (died 2001 )
May 5 - Alice Faye , actress, (died 1998 )
May 6 - Orson Welles , actor, director (died 1985 )
May 8 - John Archer , American actor (died 1999 )
May 19 - Renée Asherson , actress, (died 2014 )
June 12 - Priscilla Lane , singer, actress (died 1995 )
August 2 - Gary Merrill , actor (died 1990)
August 15 - Signe Hasso , (died 2002)
August 29 - Ingrid Bergman , actress (died 1982)
September 5 - Jack Buetel , actor (died 1989 )
September 10 - Edmond O'Brien , actor (died 1985)
September 14 - Douglas Kennedy , actor (died 1973 )
December 7 - Eli Wallach , actor (died 2014)
December 12 - Frank Sinatra , singer, actor (died 1998)
December 13 - Curd Jürgens , actor (died 1982)
December 14 - Dan Dailey , actor (died 1978)
Deaths
January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder , 55, American diminutive stage and screen actor
April 26 – John Bunny , 51, American silent film comedian, A Strand of Blond Hair (short) , Bunny's Little Brother (short) , Bunny Backslides (short)
June 5 - John C. Rice , stage and film actor, The Kiss
June 16 - Elmer Booth , 32, American silent screen actor, brother of film editor Margaret Booth , The Musketeers of Pig Alley , The Narrow Road , An Unseen Enemy
October 31 - Blanche Walsh , 42, American stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912
Film debuts
References
^ Rucker, Walter C.; Upton, James N., eds. (2007). Encyclopedia of American race riots . Greenwood Publishing Group . p. 35 . ISBN 978-0-313-33301-9 . ...earning more than $10 million at the box office in 1915. By 1949, it had earned $50 million
^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004), Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 19, ISBN 0-8131-2324-0
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