1923 in film


1923 in film


This is an overview of 1923 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top eight films released in 1923 by U.S. gross are as follows:

Events

  • April 4 – Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. incorporated in the United States.
  • April 15 – Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.
  • Henry Roussel's Les Opprimés is released, introducing mattes (painted by W. Percy Day) to French cinema.
  • October 16 – Brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney establish Disney Brothers Studio (later to be known as Walt Disney Productions).

Notable films released in 1923

American films unless stated otherwise

A

  • Adam's Rib, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  • The Ancient Law (Das alte Gesetz), directed by E. A. Dupont, starring Henny Porten – (Germany)
  • Ashes of Vengeance, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Norma Talmadge and Wallace Beery
  • The Audacious Mr. Squire, directed by Edwin Greenwood, starring Jack Buchanan – (GB)

B

  • The Balloonatic, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
  • Barsoum Looking for a Job, directed by Mohammed Bayoumi, starring Bishara Wakim – (Egypt)
  • The Bells, directed by Edwin Greenwood, based on the 1867 play The Polish Jew by Erckmann-Chatrian – (GB)
  • The Bishop of the Ozarks (lost), directed by Finis Fox
  • Black Oxen, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Corinne Griffith
  • The Blizzard (lost), directed by Mauritz Stiller – (Sweden)
  • Blood and Soul (Chi to Rei), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
  • The Blue Lagoon (lost), directed by William Bowden and Dick Cruikshanks, starring Molly Adair and Arthur Pusey - (GB / South Africa)
  • Bonnie Prince Charlie (lost), directed by Charles Calvert, starring Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper – (GB)
  • The Brass Bottle (lost), directed by Maurice Tourneur

C

  • Cameo Kirby, directed by John Ford, starring John Gilbert
  • Circus Days, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
  • Cœur fidèle (Faithful Heart), directed by Jean Epstein – (France)
  • The Covered Wagon, directed by James Cruze, starring J. Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson

D

  • The Daring Years (lost), directed by Kenneth Webb, starring Mildred Harris and Clara Bow
  • The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning (Der Puppenmacher von Kiang-Ning), directed by Robert Wiene, starring Werner Krauss – (Germany)
  • Drakula halála (Dracula's Death) (lost), directed by Károly Lajthay – (Hungary)
  • The Drums of Jeopardy, directed by Edward Dillon, starring Elaine Hammerstein and Wallace Beery, based on the 1920 novel by Harold MacGrath

E

  • The Extra Girl, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Mabel Normand

F

  • Faust, directed by Bertram Phillips, based on the 1808 play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – (GB)
  • Frozen Hearts, directed by J. A. Howe, starring Stan Laurel

G

  • The Gold Diggers (lost), directed by Harry Beaumont
  • The Grub-Stake, directed by Bert Van Tuyle, starring Nell Shipman

H

  • The Harbour Lights, directed by Tom Terriss, starring Tom Moore and Isobel Elsom – (GB)
  • Hoy o Nuca, Bésame, directed by José Nepomuceno – (Philippines)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller and Norman Kerry, based on the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo

I

  • I Will Repay, directed by Henry Kolker, starring Holmes Herbert and Flora Le Breton – (GB)
  • I.N.R.I., directed by Robert Wiene – (Germany)
  • The Isle of Lost Ships (lost), directed by Maurice Tourneur
  • Itching Palms, directed by James W. Horne, based on the play When Jerry Comes Home by Roy Briant

L

  • The Lady Owner, directed by Walter West – (GB)
  • The Last Moment (lost), directed by J. Parker Read Jr., starring Henry Hull, Doris Kenyon and Louis Wolheim
  • Little Old New York, directed by Sidney Olcott, starring Marion Davies
  • The Lost Soul, directed by Hugo Werner-Kahle – (Austria)
  • The Love Nest, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
  • The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Denison Clift, starring Fay Compton – (GB)

M

  • Main Street (lost), directed by Harry Beaumont
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske), directed by Max Glass – (Germany)
  • The Merchant of Venice (Der Kaufmann von Venedig), directed by Peter Paul Felner, starring Werner Krauss and Henny Porten – (Germany)
  • Merry-Go-Round, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry
  • Miss Suwanna of Siam (Nang Sao Suwan) (lost), directed by Henry MacRae
  • The Monkey's Paw, directed by Manning Haynes, based on the 1902 short story by W. W. Jacobs – (GB)
  • Mysteries of a Barbershop (Mysterien eines Friseursalons), directed by Erich Engel – (Germany)
  • The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, 15-part serial directed by A. E. Coleby – (GB)

O

  • Our Hospitality, directed by John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton
  • Out to Win, directed by Denison Clift, starring Catherine Calvert and Clive Brook – (GB)

P

  • Paddy the Next Best Thing (lost), directed by Graham Cutts, starring Mae Marsh – (GB)
  • The Pilgrim, a Charlie Chaplin film
  • Puritan Passions (lost), directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Glenn Hunter and Mary Astor, based on the 1908 play The Scarecrow by Percy MacKaye
  • The Purple Highway (lost), directed by Henry Kolker, starring Madge Kennedy

R

  • Raskolnikow, directed by Robert Wiene – (Germany)
  • The Red Inn (L'auberge rouge), directed by Jean Epstein, based on the 1831 short story by Honoré de Balzac (remade in 1951) – (France)
  • Red Lights, directed by Clarence G. Badger, starring Marie Prevost, based on the play The Rear Car by Edward Everett Rose
  • Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason), directed by Man Ray – (France)
  • Rosita, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Mary Pickford
  • La Roue (The Wheel), directed by Abel Gance – (France)
  • Rupert of Hentzau (lost), directed by Victor Heerman

S

  • Safety Last!, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Salomé, directed by Charles Bryant, starring Alla Nazimova
  • Scaramouche, directed by Rex Ingram, Starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry and Lewis Stone
  • Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (Shadows - a Nocturnal Hallucination), directed by Arthur Robison – (Germany)
  • The Shock, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starring Lon Chaney
  • The Shriek of Araby, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Ben Turpin
  • The Sign of Four, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Eille Norwood, based on the 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle – (GB)
  • Slave of Desire, directed by George D. Baker, starring Bessie Love, based on the 1831 novel La Peau de chagrin by Honoré de Balzac
  • Souls for Sale, directed by Rupert Hughes, starring Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch and Richard Dix
  • A Spectre Haunts Europe, directed by Vladimir Gardin, based on the 1842 short story The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Squibs M.P., directed by George Pearson, starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
  • The Street (Die Straße), directed by Karl Grune – (Germany)
  • Suzanna, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Mabel Normand

T

  • The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts
  • This Freedom, directed by Denison Clift, starring Fay Compton and Clive Brook – (GB)
  • Three Ages, directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton, starring Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery
  • Three Wise Fools, directed by King Vidor
  • Through Fire and Water, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Clive Brook and Flora Le Breton – (GB)
  • Tiger Rose, directed by Sidney Franklin (director), starring Lenore Ulric
  • The Treasure (Der Schatz), directed by G. W. Pabst – (Germany)
  • Trilby, directed by James Young, based on the 1894 novel by George du Maurier
  • Tut-Tut and his Terrible Tomb, directed by Bertram Phillips – (GB)

U

  • Under the Red Robe, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Robert B. Mantell
  • The Unknown Tomorrow (Das unbekannte Morgen), directed by Alexander Korda, starring Werner Krauss – (Germany)

W

  • While Paris Sleeps (lost), directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Lon Chaney and John Gilbert, based on a novelThe Glory of Love by Leslie Beresford
  • The White Shadow, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB)
  • The White Sister, directed by Henry King, starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman
  • Why Worry?, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
  • Wild Bill Hickok, directed by Clifford Smith, starring William S. Hart
  • Within the Law, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Norma Talmadge
  • A Woman of Paris, written and directed by Charles Chaplin, starring Edna Purviance
  • Woman to Woman (lost), directed by Graham Cutts, starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook – (GB)

Short film series

  • Charlie Chaplin (1914–23)
  • Buster Keaton (1917–41)
  • Laurel and Hardy (1921–43)
  • Our Gang (1922–44)

Animated short film series

  • Felix the Cat (1919–36)
  • Koko the Clown (1919–34)
  • Aesop's Film Fables (1921–34)
  • Alice Comedies
    • Alice's Wonderland
  • The Red Head Comedies (1923).

Births

  • January 1 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (died 2019)
  • January 3 - Bud Tingwell, Australian actor (died 2009)
  • January 5 - Boris Leskin, Soviet-American actor (died 2020)
  • January 7 – Pinkas Braun, Swiss actor, director (died 2008)
  • January 8 – Larry Storch, American actor (died 2022)
  • January 17 - Carol Raye, British-born Australian actress, comedian and singer (died 2022)
  • January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (died 2013)
  • January 22 - Diana Douglas, American actress (died 2015)
  • January 23 – Silvano Campeggi, Italian poster designer (died 2018)
  • January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress (died 2017)
  • January 29 – Paddy Chayefsky, American screenwriter (died 1981)
  • February 2 – Bonita Granville, American actress (died 1988)
  • February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director (died 2019)
  • February 18 - Allan Melvin, American actor and impressionist (died 2008)
  • February 21 – Lola Flores, Spanish actress (died 1995)
  • February 28 – Charles Durning, American actor (died 2012)
  • March 10 – Dolores Fuller, American actress (died 2011)
  • March 12 - Vladek Sheybal, Polish character actor, singer and director (died 1992)
  • March 19 – Pamela Britton, American actress (died 1974)
  • March 24 - Murray Hamilton, American actor (died 1986)
  • April 2 – Gloria Henry, American actress (died 2021)
  • April 4
    • Gene Reynolds, American actor, producer (died 2020)
    • Peter Vaughan, English character actor (died 2016)
  • April 5 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)
  • April 6 - Chang Feng, Chinese actor (died 2022)
  • April 12 – Ann Miller, American dancer, singer, actress (died 2004)
  • April 13 - Don Adams, American actor, comedian and director (died 2005)
  • April 17
    • Lindsay Anderson, British director and actor (died 1994)
    • Lon McCallister, American actor (died 2005)
  • April 28 – Adele Mara, American actress (died 2010)
  • April 29 - Irvin Kershner, American director, actor and producer (died 2010)
  • May 4 – Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian (died 2012)
  • May 7 – Anne Baxter, actress (died 1985)
  • May 14 – Mrinal Sen, Bengali director (died 2018)
  • May 20 – Edith Fellows, American actress (died 2011)
  • May 26
    • James Arness, American actor (died 2011)
    • Roy Dotrice, British actor (died 2017)
  • May 30 - Jimmy Lydon, American actor and producer (died 2022)
  • June 5 - Peggy Stewart, American actress (died 2019)
  • June 8 – Peggy Maley, American actress (died 2007)
  • June 12 – Herta Elviste, Estonian actress (died 2015)
  • June 18 - Robert Ellenstein, American actor (died 2010)
  • June 20 - Jerzy Nowak, Polish actor (died 2013)
  • June 28 - Ray Boyle, American actor (died 2022)
  • July 6 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (died 1970)
  • July 8 - Val Bettin, American actor (died 2021)
  • July 14 – Dale Robertson, American actor (died 2013)
  • July 18 – Michael Medwin, English actor and producer (died 2020)
  • July 22 – Mukesh, Indian singer (died 1976)
  • July 25
    • Estelle Getty, American actress and comedian (died 2008)
    • Allan Lurie, American voice actor (died 2015)
  • August 3 – Jean Hagen, American actress (died 1977)
  • August 9 - John Stephenson, American actor (died 2015)
  • August 10
    • Rhonda Fleming, American actress (died 2020)
    • Vernon Washington, American character actor (died 1988)
  • August 14 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (died 2007)
  • August 15 – Rose Marie, American actress, singer (died 2017)
  • August 24 - June Dayton, American actress (died 1994)
  • August 28 - Alexander Doré, British actor, director and screenwriter (died 2002)
  • August 29 – Richard Attenborough, English actor and director (died 2014)
  • August 31 - Ed Grady, American actor (died 2012)
  • September 7 – Peter Lawford, British-American actor (died 1984)
  • September 9 - Cliff Robertson, American actor (died 2011)
  • September 11 - Betsy Drake, American actress, writer (died 2015)
  • September 23
    • Margaret Pellegrini, American actress (died 2013)
    • Jimmy Weldon, American actor, ventriloquist and television host (died 2023)
  • September 27
    • Tony Giorgio, American actor (died 2012)
    • Mary McCarty, American actress (died 1980)
  • September 28 - William Windom, American actor (died 2012)
  • October 1 – Kim Yaroshevskaya, Russian-born Canadian actress
  • October 4 – Charlton Heston, American actor (died 2008)
  • October 5 – Glynis Johns, British actress (died 2024)
  • October 10 - Patrick Jordan, British actor (died 2020)
  • October 16 – Linda Darnell, American actress (died 1965)
  • October 23 - Frank Sutton, American actor (died 1974)
  • November 12 - Richard Venture, American actor (died 2017)
  • November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (died 2011)
  • November 21 - Helen Horton, American actress (died 2007)
  • November 28
    • Gloria Grahame, American actress (died 1981)
    • James Karen, American actor (died 2018)
  • December 10 – Harold Gould, American actor (died 2010)
  • December 11 – Betsy Blair, American actress (died 2009)
  • December 12 - Bob Barker, American retired television game show host (died 2023)
  • December 29
    • Dina Merrill, American actress (died 2017)
    • Mike Nussbaum, American actor and director (died 2023)

Deaths

  • January 18 – Wallace Reid, American actor (born 1892)
  • March 3 – Dante Testa, Italian actor and director (born 1861)
  • March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (born 1844)
  • May 21 – Charles Kent, veteran actor and director (born 1852)
  • June 11 – Porter Strong, American silent film actor
  • June 17 – Macey Harlam, screen actor (born 1873)
  • July 12 – Harry Lonsdale, stage and screen actor (born 1865)
  • July 30 – Charles Hawtrey, veteran British actor (born 1858)
  • August 29 – Bernard Durning, American actor and director, (born 1893)
  • September 11 – Siegmund Lubin, American motion picture pioneer (born 1851)
  • September 26 – Jerome Patrick, Broadway stage and silent film leading man (born 1883)
  • October 28 – Joe Roberts, American actor (born 1871)
  • November 20 – Allen Holubar, American actor and director (born 1888)
  • November 30 – Martha Mansfield, American actress (born 1899)
  • December 28 – Frank Hayes, American actor and comedian (born 1871)

Film debuts

  • Jean Arthur – Cameo Kirby
  • Mary Carlisle – Long Live the King
  • Marlene Dietrich – The Little Napoleon
  • Charles Farrell – The Cheat
  • Leslie Fenton – Gentle Julia
  • James Hall – Man Alone
  • Carmencita Johnson – The Courtship of Miles Standish
  • Helen Mack – Success
  • June Marlowe – Fighting Blood
  • Ken Maynard – Brass Commandments
  • Donald Meek – Six Cylinder Love
  • Thomas Mitchell – Six Cylinder Love
  • Jack Oakie – His Children's Children
  • Marjorie Reynolds – Trilby
  • Stanley Ridges – Success
  • Erika von Thellmann – The Stone Rider

References

External links

  • List of 1923 films at IMDb
  • List of 1923 deaths at IMDb
  • List of 1923 births at IMDb

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