Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top six 1919 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1919 Rank Title Studio Domestic rentals 1 Male and Female Paramount $1,256,267 2 Daddy-Long-Legs First National $1,250,000 3 The Miracle Man Paramount $1,000,000 4 Broken Blossoms United Artists $600,000 5 Don't Change Your Husband Paramount $292,394 6 For Better, for Worse $256,072
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 . September 25 – Dalagang Bukid (The Country Maiden), the first Filipino feature-length film made in the Philippines, released. 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 . November 23 – Cecil B. DeMille 's Male and Female is released and grosses $1,256,226.59, establishing Gloria Swanson as a worldwide star. 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 B C D Daddy-Long-Legs , starring Mary Pickford Damaged Goods , directed by Alexander Butler – (GB ) Dance of Death / Totentanz (German) written by Fritz Lang , directed by Otto Rippert , starring Werner Krauss The Dark Star , directed by Allan Dwan ; starring Marion Davies and Norman Kerry The Delicious Little Devil , starring Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino The Devil's Locksmith (Austrian) directed by Franz Ferdinand, starring Ferdinand and Herr Ruibar 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 H The Haunted Bedroom (aka The Ghost of Whispering Oaks ) directed by Fred Niblo for Thomas H. Ince , starring Enid Bennett (Niblo's wife) and Dorcas Matthews Haunting Shadows , directed by Henry King , starring H. B. Warner and Edward Peil Sr. , based on the 1906 novel The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson Hawthorne of the U.S.A. directed by James Cruze , starring Wallace Reid Heart o' the Hills directed by Sidney Franklin , starring Mary Pickford Here Comes the Bride directed by John S. Robertson , starring John Barrymore , Faire Binney His Majesty, the American , starring Douglas Fairbanks The Homesteader , directed by Oscar Micheaux , starring Evelyn Preer I J K L M Madame DuBarry , directed by Ernst Lubitsch , starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings – (Germany ) Madness / Wahnsinn (German) produced and directed by Conrad Veidt , who also starred in the film; adapted from a novel by Kurt Muenzner 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) The Monkey's Paw (British) lost film based on the story by W. W. Jacobs first published by 1902, and the related one-act stage play written by Louis N. Parker in 1907 My Lady's Garter , directed by Maurice Tourneur My Wife, the Movie Star , directed by Ernst Lubitsch (Germany) N Nabeshima Neko Sodo (Japanese) a ghost-cat film produced by Nikkatsu Films, starring Matsunosuke Onoe , based on the Kabuki play by Joko Segawa III Okazaki Kaibyo-den (Japanese) starring Matsunosuke Onoe, another ghost-cat movie based on an early 1820s Japanese novel (which was adapted as a Kabuki play in 1827) O P R S T The Test of Honor , directed by John S. Robertson , starring John Barrymore , and Constance Binney The Thirteenth Chair , directed by Leonce Perret , starring Yvonne Delva and Creighton Hale , based on a play by Bayard Veiller ; this film was later remade by Tod Browning in 1929 with sound To Let (British) short ghost film directed by James Reardon , starring Reardon and Peggy Patterson The Trembling Hour , directed by George Siegmann for Universal Films, starring Kenneth Harlan and Helen Jerome Eddy ; parts of this film were shot in San Quentin State Prison in California True Heart Susie , starring Lillian Gish and Bobby Harron The Twin Pawns (aka The Curse of Greed ) written and directed by Leonce Perret, starring Mae Murray (playing twins) and Warner Oland , based on the Wilkie Collins novel The Woman in White V W Y Comedy film series
Only the films of the series released in 1919 are collected.
Buster Keaton (1917–1941) Films starring Roscoe Arbuckle , featuring Buster Keaton released in 1919:
Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923) 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) 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:
Births
January 1 – Carole Landis , American actress (died 1948 ) January 5 – Douglas Henderson , American actor (died 1978 ) January 7 – Huang Feng , Hong Kong film director January 10 – Amzie Strickland , American character actress (died 2006 ) January 11 – Mort Mills , American actor (died 1993 ) January 13 – Robert Stack , actor (died 2003 ) January 14 – Joe Seneca , American actor and singer (died 1996 ) 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 February 11 – Eva Gabor , actress (died 1995 ) February 12 – Forrest Tucker , actor (died 1986 ) February 17 – Kathleen Freeman , actress (died 2001 ) February 18 – Jack Palance , actor (died 2006 ) March 2 – Jennifer Jones , actress (died 2009 ) March 15 - Lawrence Tierney , actor (died 2002 ) March 25 – Jeanne Cagney , actress (died 1984 ) March 26 – Strother Martin , actor (died 1980 ) March 29 – Eileen Heckart , actress (died 2001 ) April 2 – Maxwell Reed , Northern Irish actor (died 1974 ) April 6 – Caren Marsh Doll , American former actress April 12 – Ivor Barry , Welsh actor (died 2006 ) 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 11 – Richard Todd , actor (died 2009 ) June 12 – Uta Hagen , actress (died 2004) June 14 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 12 – Vera Ralston , figure skater, actress (died 2003 ) July 19 – Patricia Medina , actress (died 2012 ) July 26 – Virginia Gilmore , actress (died 1986 ) August 2 – Nehemiah Persoff , actor (died 2022 ) 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 7 – Howard Morris , American actor, comedian and director (died 2005 ) September 9 – Jacques Marin , French actor (died 2001 ) 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 ) October 5 – Donald Pleasence , actor (died 1995 ) October 18 – Orlando Drummond , Brazilian actor and comedian (died 2021) October 20 – Lia Origoni , Italian actress and singer (died 2022 ) October 28 – Ezz El-Dine Zulficar , Egyptian director and producer (died 1963 ) November 2 – Warren Stevens , American actor (died 2012 ) November 4 November 13 November 15 – Nova Pilbeam , actress (died 2015 ) November 19 November 20 – Phyllis Thaxter , American actress (died 2012) December 5 – Guido Gorgatti , Italian-born Argentine actor (died 2023 ) December 7 – Lis Løwert , Danish actress (died 2009 ) December 11 – Marie Windsor , American actress (died 2000 ) December 18 – Lynn Bari , American actress (died 1989 ) December 21 Deaths January 14 – Shelley Hull , 34, American stage & film actor, husband of Josephine Hull , brother of Henry Hull January 31 – Nat Goodwin , 59, veteran stage star & silent film actor February 3 – Mary Moore, 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 , Her Sister's Rival, 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 August 27 – Clifford Bruce , 34, American silent film actor November 24 – William Stowell , 34, American silent film star Film debuts See also References External links
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