1914

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Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1914 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1914 4 Short film series 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Film Debuts

[edit] Events

• The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City.
• February 2 - Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
• May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed.
• Filteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma

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

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Million Dollar Mystery	$1,500,000
2.	The Spoilers
3.	The Squaw Man
4.	Tillie's Punctured Romance

1906

[edit] Films released in 1914

• A Little Madonna
• Assunta Spina
• The Avenging Conscience
• The Aztec Treasure
• A Bathing Beauty
• Cabiria
• Child of the Big City
• The Exploits of Elaine
• Gertie the Dinosaur, animated
• The Million Dollar Mystery, (serial), starring Florence La Badie
• The Hazards of Helen, (serial) starring Helen Holmes
• The Magic Cloak of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
• His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, starring Mildred Harris
• In the Land of the Head Hunters
• Judith of Bethulia
• Kid Auto Races at Venice
• The Last Egyptian
• Mabel at the Wheel
• Mabel's Strange Predicament
• Making a Living
• My Official Wife, starring Clara Kimball Young
• O Mimi San, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• The Perils of Pauline, (serial) starring Pearl White
• Salomy Jane
• Il sacco di Roma
• The Squaw Man, starring Dustin Farnum
• The Stain, starring Theda Bara
• A Study in Scarlet directed by George Pearson
• Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
• The Wishing Ring
• The Wrath of Gods, starring Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage

[edit] Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910-1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923)

[edit] Births

• October 26 - Jackie Coogan, actor (d. 1984)
• December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (d. 1996)

[edit] Deaths

• Charles J. Hite, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation

[edit] Film Debuts

• Ethel Barrymore
• Charlie Chaplin
• Marguerite Clark
• Beatriz Michelena
• Milton Berle
• Theda Bara
• Hazel Dawn
• Gaby Deslys
• Thomas Meighan
• Milton Sills