From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Overview of the events of 1917 in film
Overview of the events of 1917 in film
This article is about the film industry during the year 1917. For the 2019 film titled '1917', see
1917 (2019 film) .
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913 .
Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood" .
Events
January – Panthea is released, the first film from the company that Joseph Schenck formed with his wife, Norma Talmadge , after leaving Loew's Consolidated Enterprises .
February – Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man.
April 9 – Supreme Court of the United States rule in Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co. which ends the Motion Picture Patents Company appeal and results in the end of the company.
April 23 – Release in the United States of the short The Butcher Boy Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle 's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Buster Keaton 's film debut.
April 25 – Thomas Lincoln Tally , in a meeting in New York, co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit.[ 1] [ 2]
June – Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett leave Triangle Film Corporation following Stephen Andrew Lynch taking control.
September 13 – Release in the United States of The Gulf Between Technicolor System 1, a two-color process.
November 9 – World's first feature-length animated film is made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani (El Apóstol
December 18 – Foundation of Universum Film AG (UƒA), as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.
Movette, another revision of the 17.5 mm film format, is made available.
Notable films released in 1917
United States unless stated
January 8 – Great Expectations Jack Pickford
January 22 – Easy Street Charlie Chaplin , Edna Purviance
January 22 – Her Right to Live Paul Scardon , starring Peggy Hyland , Antonio Moreno , Mae Costello , John S. Robertson
January 29 – A Man There Was Victor Sjöström – (Sweden )
February 2 – The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach Rudolf Biebrach , starring Henny Porten , Emil Jannings – (Germany )
February 18 – The Bad Boy Robert Harron , Mildred Harris , Colleen Moore
March 3 – The Tornado John Ford (his debut)
March 5 – The Poor Little Rich Girl Mary Pickford
March 7 – The Torture of Silence Abel Gance – (France )
April 15 – Teddy at the Throttle Gloria Swanson
April 16 – The Cure Charlie Chaplin short.
April 23 – The Butcher Boy "Fatty" Arbuckle with Buster Keaton
May 7 – Kidnapped Alan Crosland , starring Raymond McKee , Joseph Burke, and Ray Hallor
May 14 – A Romance of the Redwoods Cecil B. DeMille , starring Mary Pickford
May 19 – One Law for Both Ivan Abramson
May 20 – Souls Triumphant Lillian Gish
May 21 – A Reckless Romeo 'Fatty' Arbuckle short.
May – Frank Hansen's Fortune Viggo Larsen – (Germany )
June 17 – The Immigrant Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance
June 24 – Wild and Woolly Douglas Fairbanks
June 25 – A Kentucky Cinderella Ruth Clifford
June 25 – The Rough House 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
June – The Labour Leader Thomas Bentley , starring Owen Nares , Fay Compton – (GB )
July 5 – Big Timber
July – The Picture of Dorian Gray Germany )
August 12 – Golden Rule Kate Louise Glaum
August 20 – His Wedding Night 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
August 27 – The Little American Mary Pickford ; directed by Cecil B. DeMille .
August 27 – Straight Shooting John Ford
August 28 – Brcko in Zagreb Croatia )
August – The Gay Lord Quex Maurice Elvey and starring Ben Webster and Irene Vanbrugh – (GB )
September 13 – The Gulf Between color movie. Advertisement, August 1917 Theda Bara as CleopatraOctober 14 – Cleopatra Theda Bara
October 21 – Satan Triumphant U.S.S.R. )
October 22 – The Adventurer Charlie Chaplin short.
October 29 – Coney Island 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
November 9 – El Apóstol Quirino Cristiani – (Argentina )
November 11 – A Little Princess Marshall Neilan , starring Mary Pickford , Norman Kerry , ZaSu Pitts
November 12 – Harrison and Barrison Alexander Korda , starring Márton Rátkai – (Hungary )
November 25 – All Aboard Harold Lloyd short
November 26 – The Silent Man William S. Hart
December 10 – Tom Sawyer Jack Pickford
December 24 – Bucking Broadway John Ford , starring Harry Carey
December – Raffles the Amateur Cracksman John Barrymore
Bestia Pola Negri – (Poland )The Colonel Michael Curtiz , starring Bela Lugosi – (Hungary )Dombey and Son Maurice Elvey and starring Hayford Hobbs – (GB )Le Cygne (film) (Umirayushchii Lebed) – (U.S.S.R. )Der Magische Gürtel ("The Magic Girdle") (Germany )The Man Without a Country Florence La Badie Mothers of Men, starring Dorothy Davenport Runaway Romany , directed by George Lederer ; starring Marion Davies and Matt Moore Thaïs Italy )U-Boote Heraus! ("U-Boat Release") (Germany )
Comedy film series
Births
January 2 – Vera Zorina , dancer, actress (died 2003 )
January 5 – Jane Wyman , actress (died 2007 )
January 10 – Hilde Krahl , actress (died 1999 )
January 21 – Lally Bowers , English actress and singer (died 1984 )
January 24 – Ernest Borgnine , actor (died 2012 )
February 6 – Zsa Zsa Gabor , actress (died 2016 )
February 21 – Lucille Bremer , actress (died 1996 )
February 25 – Brenda Joyce , American actress (died 2009 )
March 2 – Desi Arnaz , actor (died 1986 )
March 12 – Googie Withers , actress (died 2011 )
March 22 – Virginia Grey , actress (died 2004 )
April 14 – Valerie Hobson , actress (died 1998 )
April 29
May 1 – Danielle Darrieux , actress (died 2017 )
May 10 – Margo , actress (died 1985 )
May 16 – George Gaynes , actor (died 2016 )
May 21 – Raymond Burr , actor (died 1993 )
May 25 – Steve Cochran , actor (died 1965 )
June 3 – Leo Gorcey , actor, comedian (died 1969 )
June 7 – Dean Martin , singer, actor (died 1995 )
June 30
July 1 – Virginia Dale , American actress (died 1994 )
July 8 – Faye Emerson , actress (died 1983 )
July 17 – Phyllis Diller , comedian, actress (died 2012)
July 26 – Lorna Gray , actress (died 2017)
August 6 – Robert Mitchum , actor (died 1997 )
August 8 – Earl Cameron , actor (died 2020 )
August 25 – Mel Ferrer , actor (died 2008 )
September 9 – Rolf Wenkhaus , actor (died 1942 )
September 11 – Herbert Lom , actor (died 2012)
September 17 - June Foray , American voice actress (died 2017)
October 7
October 16 – Alice Pearce , actress (died 1966 )
October 17 – Marsha Hunt , U.S. actress
October 22 – Joan Fontaine , actress (died 2013 )
November 2 – Ann Rutherford , actress (died 2012)
November 4 – Virginia Field , actress (died 1992 )
December 7 – Hurd Hatfield , actor (died 1998)
December 12 – Margaret Marquis , actress (died 1993)
December 18 - Ossie Davis , American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author and civil rights activist (died 2005 )
December 22 – Frankie Darro , actor (died 1976 )
Deaths
February 21 – Fred Mace , 38, American actor & comedian, What Happened to Jones His Last Scent , A Lover's Might, The Love Comet
March 6 – Valdemar Psilander , 32, Danish actor, Rytterstatuen , Lykken , Lydia Klovnen , Favoriten In Defense of a Nation , John Redmond, the Evangelist
July 2 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree , 64, English stage & screen actor, Beerbohm Tree, The Great English Actor ; Henry VIII Macbeth Trilby The Old Folks at Home
October 13 – Florence La Badie , 29, American actress, The Man Without a Country War and the Woman , The Woman in White When Love Was Blind
October 25 – Jack Standing , 31, English actor, With Hoops of Steel , The Curse of Eve , The Innocent Sinner , The Price of Her Soul , One Touch of Sin
November 5 – Howell Hansel , 46, American actor and director
November 18 – Nino Oxilia , 28, Italian director, Rapsodia satanica Blue Blood
December 20 – Eric Campbell , 38, Scottish actor, The Immigrant Behind the Screen The Count , Easy Street The Adventurer (short) , The Cure (short)
Film debuts
References
