1915

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Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1915 4 Short film series 5 Film debuts 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
• The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
• The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.

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

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Awakening
2.	La Banda della cifre
3.	The Birth of a Nation, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, and Blanche Sweet	$1,000,000
4.	Burlesque on Carmen
5.	Carmen, starring Theda Bara
6.	The Cheat
7.	David Harum
8.	Der Golem, starring Paul Wegener
9.	The Eternal City
10.	Fatty's Tintype Tangle, starring and directed by 'Fatty' Arbuckle
11.	La Folie du Docteur Tube
12.	A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara
13.	His New Job
14.	Honeymoon for Three
15.	Inspiration
16.	The Italian
17.	Martyrs of the Alamo by D.W Griffith
18.	The Morals of Marcus, starring Marie Doro
19.	Regeneration
20.	The Tramp
21.	Les Vampires, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora and Édouard Mathé

[edit] Films released in 1915

• Broken Hearts, starring Mary Pickford
• The Commanding Officer, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Marshall Neilan
• Fanchon, the Cricket, directed by James Kirkwood, starring Mary Pickford, Lottie Pickford and Jack Pickford
• Four Feathers, directed by J. Searle Dawley
• A Girl of Yesterday, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Mary Pickford and Jack Pickford
• The Lamb
• Little Pal
• The Love Route, directed by Allan Dwan, starring Harold Lockwood
• Madame Butterfly
• Mistress Nell
• The Pretty Sister of Jose, directed by Allan Dwan
• Rags

[edit] Short film series

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

[edit] Film debuts

• Edna Purviance
• W.C. Fields
• Fannie Ward
• Pauline Frederick
• Mary Boland
• Valeska Suratt
• Marie Doro
• Laura Hope Crews
• Donald Brian
• Geraldine Farrar
• Charlotte Walker
• Douglas Fairbanks
• Elliott Dexter
• Charlotte Greenwood
• Erich Von Stroheim

[edit] Deaths

• January 10 - Marshall P. Wilder, diminutive stage and screen actor, age 55.
• April 26 – John Bunny, silent film comedian
• June 16 - Elmer Booth, silent screen actor brother of film editor Margaret Booth.
• October 31 - Blanche Walsh, stage actress appeared in Zukor's 3 reel feature "Resurrection" 1912