1919 in film

The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.

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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
RankTitleStudioBox 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

Notable films released in 1919 around the world

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  • Nabeshima Neko Sodo (Japanese) a ghost-cat film produced by Nikkatsu Films, starring Matsumosuke Onoe, based on the Kabuki play by Joko Segawa III[11]
  • 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)[11]

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  • The Phantom Honeymoon, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley (who directed the 1910 Thomas Edison Frankenstein), starring Leon Dadmun and Marguerite Marsh
  • The Plague in Florence / Die Pest in Florenz (German) written by Fritz Lang, directed by Otto Rippert, starring Otto Mannstaedt and Anders Wikman; this was Fritz Lang's adaptation of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

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  • 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 [12]
  • To Let (British) short ghost film directed by James Reardon, starring Reardon and Peggy Patterson[13]
  • The Trembling Hour, directed by George Siegmann for Universal Films, starring Kenneth Harlan and Helen Eddy; parts odf this film were shot in San Quentin State Prison in California[13]
  • 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[13]

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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

Deaths

Film debuts

References
  1. 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.
  8. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  9. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  10. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  11. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  12. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  13. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

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