1919 in film

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The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)[]

The top three 1919 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1919
Rank Title Studio Box office gross rental
1 Daddy-Long-Legs First National Pictures $1,250,000[1]
2 The Miracle Man Paramount Pictures $1,000,000[1]
3 Broken Blossoms
Male and Female 		United Artists
Paramount Pictures 		$600,000[2][3]

Events[]

  • February 5 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
  • March – Oscar Micheaux premieres The Homesteader, the first feature-length race film, starring pioneering African American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African American to produce and direct a motion picture.
  • May 13 – D. W. Griffith's first film to be released by United Artists, Broken Blossoms, has its premiere in New York City.
  • August 29 – The Miracle Man displayed Lon Chaney's talent for make-up and made him famous as a character actor.
  • September 1 – United Artists release their first film, His Majesty, the American starring Douglas Fairbanks.
  • September 18 – Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin opens rebuilt as a permanent cinema with the première of Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry.[4][5]
  • September 25 - Dalagang Bukid (The Country Maiden), the first Filipino feature-length film made in the Philippines, released.[6]
  • October 24 - The Capitol Theatre in New York City becomes one of the largest cinemas in the world with 4,000 seats.
  • November 16 – Constance Talmadge becomes a star with the release of A Virtuous Vamp.[7]
  • Harold Lloyd begins holding test screenings of his films and modifying them based on audience feedback, a technique which continues in use.
  • Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology is developed by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt (engineer), and Joseph Massole; however, the era of sound films is over 6 years away.

Notable films released in 1919 around the world[]

A[]

  • Anne of Green Gables, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Mary Miles Minter and Paul Kelly
  • The Avalanche directed by George Fitzmaurice starring Elsie Ferguson

B[]

  • The Beetle, directed by Alexander Butler – (GB)
  • The Belle of New York, directed by Julius Steger; starring Marion Davies
  • The Better 'Ole – (GB)
  • Blind Husbands, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim
  • Bolshevism on Trial, directed by Harley Knoles
  • The Boy in Blue (Knabe in Blau), directed by F.W. Murnau – (Germany)
  • Broken Blossoms, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
  • Bumping into Broadway, starring Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels

C[]

D[]

  • Daddy-Long-Legs, starring Mary Pickford
  • Damaged Goods, directed by Alexander Butler – (GB)
  • The Dark Star, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Marion Davies and Norman Kerry
  • The Delicious Little Devil, starring Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino
  • Different from the Others, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt �� (Germany)
  • The Doll, directed by Ernst Lubitsch – (Germany)
  • Don't Change Your Husband, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gloria Swanson

E[]

F[]

G[]

  • Getting Mary Married, directed by Allan Dwan; starring Marion Davies and Matt Moore
  • The Grim Game, starring Harry Houdini

H[]

I[]

  • Intoxication, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Asta Nielsen (Germany)

J[]

K[]

L[]

M[]

  • Madame DuBarry, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings – (Germany)
  • Male and Female, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gloria Swanson and Thomas Meighan
  • The Master Mystery, (serial), starring Harry Houdini
  • The Miracle Man, starring Thomas Meighan, Lon Chaney and Betty Compson
  • The Mistress of the World, directed by Joe May (Weimar Republic)
  • My Lady's Garter, directed by Maurice Tourneur
  • My Wife, the Movie Star, directed by Ernst Lubitsch (Germany)

O[]

  • The Oyster Princess (Die Austerprinzessin) – (Germany)

R[]

  • Ravished Armenia – directed by Oscar Apfel, starring Aurora Mardiganian
  • The Roaring Road, directed by James Cruze, starring Wallace Reid

S[]

  • Sahara, starring Louise Glaum, written by C. Gardner Sullivan
  • The Sentimental Bloke – (Australia)
  • Sir Arne's Treasure (Herr Arnes pengar), directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Richard Lund – (Sweden)
  • A Society Exile directed by George Fitzmaurice starring Elsie Ferguson
  • Sons of Ingmar (Ingmarssönerna), directed by Victor Sjöström – (Sweden)
  • South (documentary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition), filmed by Frank Hurley – (GB)

T[]

V[]

  • The Valley of the Giants, directed by James Cruze, starring Wallace Reid
  • Victory, directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Lon Chaney, Seena Owen, Wallace Beery, Jack Holt

W[]

Y[]

  • Yankee Doodle in Berlin, directed by F. Richard Jones, starring Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling, Marie Prevost, produced by Mack Sennett
  • You're Fired, directed by James Cruze, starring Wallace Reid & Wanda Hawley

Comedy film series[]

Only the films of the series released in 1919 are collected.

Buster Keaton (1917–1941)[]

Main article: Buster Keaton filmography

Films starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton released in 1919:

Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)[]

Main article: Charlie Chaplin filmography

Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, and starred in 9 films for his own production company between 1918 and 1923. These films were distributed by First National. Below the movies filmed in 1919:

Score composed for 1973 re-release

Uncompleted and unreleased films
  • The Professor as Professor Bosco, Slated as a two-reeler, but never issued

Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)[]

Main article: Harold Lloyd filmography

Glasses character ("The Boy"):

Animated short film series[]

Out of the Inkwell.

Koko the Clown (1919–1934)[]

Koko the Clown was the first animated movie cartoon series. Below list of short films released in 1919:

  • The Tantalizing Fly
  • The Clown's Pups
  • Out of the Inkwell
  • Slides
  • Experiment No. 2
  • Experiment No. 3
  • Out of the Inkwell

Felix the Cat (1919–1936)[]

Felix the cat in his first cartoon Feline Follies.

Below list of Felix the Cat short films released in 1919:

November 9: Feline Follies
November 16: The Musical Mews
December 14: The Adventures of Felix

Births[]

  • January 1 – Carole Landis, actress (died 1948)
  • January 7 – Huang Feng, Hong Kong film director
  • January 13 – Robert Stack, actor (died 2003)
  • January 21 – Jinx Falkenburg, model, actress (died 2003)
  • January 23 – Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor (died 1962)
  • January 24 – Coleman Francis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)
  • February 4 – Janet Waldo, actress (died 2016)
  • February 5
    • Red Buttons, actor (died 2006)
    • Tim Holt, actor (died 1973)
  • February 11 – Eva Gabor, actress (died 1995)
  • February 18 – Jack Palance, actor (died 2006)
  • March 2 – Jennifer Jones, actress (died 2009)
  • March 25 – Jeanne Cagney, actress (died 1984)
  • March 29 – Eileen Heckart, actress (died 2001)
  • April 6 - Caren Marsh Doll, American former actress
  • April 13 – Howard Keel, actor (died 2004)
  • April 18 – Vondell Darr, child actress (died 2012)
  • April 18 – Virginia O'Brien, American actress (died 2001)
  • May 8 – Lex Barker, actor (died 1973)
  • May 23 – Betty Garrett, actress (died 2011)
  • June 12 – Uta Hagen, actress (died 2004)
  • June 14
    • June Spencer, English actress
    • Sam Wanamaker, director, actor (died 1993)
  • June 19 – Pauline Kael, film critic (died 2001)
  • June 24 – Al Molinaro, actor (died 2015)
  • June 29 – Slim Pickens, actor (died 1983)
  • July 7 – Jon Pertwee, actor (died 1996)
  • July 26 – Virginia Gilmore, actress (died 1986)
  • August 2 – Nehemiah Persoff, actor
  • August 7 – Bertha Moss, Argentine-Mexican actress (died 2008)
  • August 8 – Dino De Laurentiis, producer (died 2010)
  • September 2 – Marge Champion, dancer, actress, choreographer (died 2020)
  • September 17 - Helmut Ashley, Austrian cinematographer and director (died 2021)
  • September 18 – Diana Lewis, actress (died 1997)
  • September 24 – Rick Vallin, Russian-born actor (died 1977)
  • September 26 – Barbara Britton, actress (died 1980)
  • October 5 – Donald Pleasence, actor (died 1995)
  • October 20 - Lia Origoni, Italian actress and singer
  • November 4
    • Shirley Mitchell, actress (died 2013)
    • Martin Balsam, actor (died 1996)
  • November 13
    • Mary Beth Hughes, actress (died 1995)
    • Amelia Bence, actress (died 2016)
  • November 15 – Nova Pilbeam, actress (died 2015)
  • November 19 – Alan Young, actor (died 2016)
  • December 5 - Guido Gorgatti, Italian-born Argentine actor
  • December 7 – Lis Løwert, Danish actress (d. 2009)
  • December 21 – Ove Sprogøe, Danish actor (d. 2004)

Deaths[]

  • January 14 – Shelley Hull, 34, American stage & film actor, husband of Josephine Hull, brother of Henry Hull
  • January 31 – Nat C. Goodwin, 59, veteran stage star & silent film actor
  • February 3 – Mary Moore (actress), 29, Irish actress, sister of Joe, Matt, Owen and Tom Moore A Million a Minute
  • February 17 – Vera Kholodnaya, 25, Russian silent film actress, A Corpse Living, The Woman Who Invented Love, , Song of Triumphant Love
  • April 9 – Sidney Drew, 55, American stage & film actor A Florida Enchantment
  • May 3 – Daniel Gilfether, 70, American actor of stage & screen
  • May 21 – Lamar Johnstone, 34, American silent film actor
  • November 24 – William Stowell, 34, American silent film star

Film debuts[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 (1938) p 942 accessed January 28, 2017
  2. ^ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-23004-3.p30-31
  3. ^ Fragias, Leonidas (2017). Annual US Top Film Rentals 1912 - 1979 (Kindle ed.). Leonidas Fragias.
  4. ^ Kreimeier, Klaus (1996). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. University of California Press. p. 56. premiere of Passion.
  5. ^ Silberman, Marc (1995). German Cinema: Texts in Context. Detroit: Wayne State University. p. 3. ISBN 978-0814325605.
  6. ^ "Dalagang Bukid (1919)". imdb.com.
  7. ^ "Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles". Library of Congress. Retrieved May 27, 2018.

See also[]

  • List of American films of 1919
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