1919 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Movies released 4 Short film series 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists
• Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.
• Harold Lloyd begins holding test screenings of his films and modifying them based on audience feedback, a technique which is still used today.

Top grossing films

Movies released

Movies released in 1919 include:

• Back Stage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Blind Husbands, directed by Erich von Stroheim.
• Bolshevism on Trial, directed by Harley Knoles and backed by Lewis J. Selznick.
• Broken Blossoms starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess; directed by D.W. Griffith.
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt.
• Daddy-Long-Legs, starring Mary Pickford.
• A Day's Pleasure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• Different From the Others, starring Conrad Veidt; directed by Richard Oswald.
• The Homesteader
• Madame DuBarry, starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings.
• Male and Female, starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
• The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic (documentary)
• Sunnyside, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Sentimental Bloke, a feature-length Australian film.
• True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish.

Short film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923)
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)

Births

• January 1 - Carole Landis, actress († 1948)
• January 13 - Robert Stack, actor († 2003)
• January 21 - Jinx Falkenburg, model, actress († 2003)
• January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor († 1962)
• February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
• February 5 - Tim Holt, actor († 1973)
• February 11 - Eva Gabor, actress († 1995)
• February 18 - Jack Palance, actor
• March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
• March 29 - Eileen Heckart, actress († 2001)
• April 13 - Howard Keel, actor
• April 29 - Celeste Holm, actress
• May 8 - Lex Barker, actor († 1973)
• May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress
• June 12 - Uta Hagen, actress († 2004)
• June 14 - Sam Wanamaker, director, actor († 1993)
• June 19 - Pauline Kael, film critic († 2001)
• June 19 - Louis Jourdan, actor
• June 29 - Slim Pickens, actor († 1983)
• July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor († 1996)
• July 26 - Virginia Gilmore, actress († 1986)
• August 2 - Nehemiah Persoff, actor
• August 8 - Dino De Laurentiis, producer
• September 18 - Diana Lewis, actress († 1997)
• September 26 - Barbara Britton, actress († 1980)
• October 5 - Donald Pleasence, actor († 1995)
• November 13 - Mary Beth Hughes, actress († 1995)
• November 14 - Veronica Lake, actress († 1973)
• November 15 - Nova Pilbeam, actress
• November 20 - Evelyn Keyes, actress

Deaths

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