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Overview of the events of 1915 in film
Overview of the events of 1915 in film
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Highest-grossing films of 1915
Rank
Title
Gross
1
The Birth of a Nation $10,000,000[ 2]
2
Carmen $147,600
3
The Cheat $137,364 [ 3]
4
Temptation $102,437
5
The Girl of the Golden West $102,224
6
The Warrens of Virginia $85,770
7
The Golden Chance $83,504
8
Chimmie Fadden $78,944
9
Chimmie Fadden Out West $72,036
10
The Arab $66,036
Notable films released in 1915
All following films are American , except where stated.
Are You a Mason? Thomas N. Heffron , starring John Barrymore Assunta Spina Francesca Bertini – (Italy )Barnaby Rudge Thomas Bentley (Britain )The Birth of a Nation D. W. Griffith , starring Lillian Gish The Caprices of Kitty Phillips Smalley , starring Elsie Janis Carmen Cecil B. DeMille , starring Geraldine Farrar Carmen Raoul Walsh , starring Theda Bara The Champion Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance The Cheat Cecil B. DeMille , starring Fannie Ward and Sessue Hayakawa The Crazy Clock Maker Double Trouble Douglas Fairbanks Enoch Arden Lillian Gish Fatty's Spooning Days Fatty Arbuckle , Mabel Normand , and The Keystone Cops Filibus Italy )A Fool There Was Theda Bara Four Feathers A Gentleman of Leisure George Melford , starring Wallace Eddinger The Golden Chance Cecil B. DeMille , starring Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid The Golem Der Golem und Wie auf de Welt Kam (German/ Deutsche-Bioscop), directed by Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen , starring Paul Wegener and Lyda Salmonova (Germany )[ 4] The Immigrant Inspiration The Italian The Lamb Douglas Fairbanks Madame Butterfly Sidney Olcott , starring Mary Pickford The Man Who Stayed at Home GB )Martyrs of the Alamo The Prisoner of Zenda Henry Ainley and Gerald Ames (GB )The Raven Regeneration Raoul Walsh , starring Rockliffe Fellowes and Anna Q. Nilsson Sagebrush Tom, starring Tom Mix
The Senator The Soul of Broadway The Tramp Charles Chaplin Le traquenard Irène Bordoni – (France )The Two Orphans Theda Bara Work 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 (died 2018 )
April 10 – Harry Morgan , American 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 )
September 29 – Brenda Marshall , American actress (died 1992 )
October 29 – Evi Rauer , Estonian actress (died 2004)
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 , Bunny's Little Brother , Bunny Backslides
June 5 – John C. Rice , 58, 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
^ "The Metro Corporation" . Motography . Retrieved May 12, 2018 .^ 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
^ Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. Page 65. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6 .
