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Overview of the events of 1911 in film
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Overview of the events of 1911 in film
The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.
Events Films released in 1911 Aerial Anarchists Alkali Ike's Auto Bronco Billy Anderson Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen Georges Melies Baseball and Bloomers The Battle D. W. Griffith The Black Arrow Brown of Harvard The Buddhist Priestess Cally's Comet The Coffin Ship The Colonel and the King Courting Across the Court The Cowboy and the Lady David Copperfield Defence of Sevastopol The Diabolical Church Window , directed by Georges Melies The Dream Thomas H. Ince , starring Mary Pickford Enoch Arden D. W. Griffith The Fall Of Troy , directed by Giovanni Pastrone First Indy 500 (First year footage from the auto race. Filmed on May 30, 1911.)Flames and Fortune For Her Sake His Trust D. W. Griffith His Trust Fulfilled D. W. Griffith . The sequel to Griffith's earlier 1911 short film "His Trust"Her Crowning Glory The Inferno (L'Inferno) Dante Alighieri 's Divine Comedy The Odyssey (L'Odissea) Little Nemo The Higher Law The Lonedale Operator D. W. Griffith , starring Blanche Sweet The Miser's Heart D. W. Griffith Der Müller und sein Kind The Pasha's Daughter Princess Clementina The Railroad Builder The Scarlet Letter She Marguerite Snow The Smuggler Sweet Memories Swords and Hearts D. W. Griffith A Tale of Two Cities That's Happiness What Shall We Do with Our Old? Winsor McCay And His Animated Pictures Won by Wireless Births January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont , actor (died 2001 )
January 7 – Butterfly McQueen , actress (died 1995 )
January 22 – Mary Hayley Bell , actress, writer and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (d 2005 )
January 31 – Eddie Byrne , actor (died 1981 )
February 6 – Ronald Reagan , actor, United States President (died 2004 )
February 9 – Gypsy Rose Lee , actress and burlesque dancer (died 1970 )
February 14 – Florence Rice , actress (died 1974 )
February 19 – Merle Oberon , actress (died 1979 )
February 28 – Ishirō Honda , director (died 1993 )
March 3 – Jean Harlow , actress (died 1937 )
March 18 – Smiley Burnette , actor, musician (died 1967 )
April 23 – Ronald Neame , cinematographer, producer and director (died 2010 )
May 11
May 17 – Maureen O'Sullivan , actress (died 1998 )
May 18 – Sigrid Gurie , actress (died 1969 )
May 27 – Vincent Price , actor (died 1993 )
June 3 – Ellen Corby , actress (died 1999 )
June 20 – Gail Patrick (died 1980 )
June 29 – Bernard Hermann , composer (died 1975 )
July 6 – Laverne Andrews , singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters (died 1967 )
July 14 – Terry-Thomas , actor (died 1990 )
July 16 – Ginger Rogers , actress, dancer (died 1995 )
July 18 – Hume Cronyn , actor (died 2003 )
August 3 – Alex McCrindle , British actor (died 1990 )
August 5 – Robert Taylor , actor (died 1969 )
August 6 – Lucille Ball , actress (died 1989 )
August 7 – Nicholas Ray , director (died 1979 )
August 12 – Cantinflas , actor (died 1993 )
September 2 – Erwin Hillier , cinematographer (died 2005 )
September 10 – Renée Simonot , actress, voice artist, mother of Catherine Deneuve
October 13 – Ashok Kumar , actor, India (died 2001 )
October 20 – Will Rogers, Jr. , actor (died 1993 )
October 27 – Leif Erickson , actor (died 1986 )
November 5
November 10 – Harry Andrews , actor (died 1989 )
December 8 – Lee J. Cobb , actor (died 1976 )
December 9 – Broderick Crawford , actor (died 1986 )
December 30 – Jeanette Nolan , actress (died 1998 ) Deaths January 18 – Arthur Marvin , cinematographer, (born 1859)
May 29 – W. S. Gilbert , producer of musicals, half of the team of Gilbert and Sullivan , (born 1836)
July 18 – Genevieve Lantelme , actress, (born 1883)
August 11 – Verner Clarges , actor, (born 1846)
October 27 – Francis Boggs , director, (born 1870)
November 2 – Kyrle Bellew , actor , (born 1855)
December 22 – Wright Lorimer , stage actor, screenwriter, (born 1874)
Unknown – Woodville Latham , producer and exhibitor whose desire to shoot an entire boxing match on a single reel of film led to the invention of the Latham loop (born 1837) Debuts
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