1919

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Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1919 4 Short film series 5 Animated short film series 6 Film Debuts 7 Deaths

[edit] 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.
• Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology is developed by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole; however, the era of sound films is over 6 years away.
• Ken Hill and Kenny Hill launch Coplin Artists

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

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	The Miracle Man
2.	Daddy-Long-Legs
3.	Madame DuBarry
4.	Roaring Road
5.	When the Clouds Roll By
6.	Hawthorne of the USA
7.	Broken Blossoms

[edit] Films released in 1919

• Anne of Green Gables, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Mary Miles Minter and Paul Kelly
• Back Stage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Barrabas
• 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.
• Cinema Week (Kino-nedelya)
• Daddy-Long-Legs, starring Mary Pickford.
• A Day's Pleasure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Delicious Little Devil, starring Mae Murray and Rudolph Valentino.
• Different from the Others, starring Conrad Veidt; directed by Richard Oswald.
• The Doll, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
• The Garage, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• The Grim Game, starring Harry Houdini
• Heart o' the Hills, starring Mary Pickford
• The Homesteader, starring Evelyn Preer; directed by Oscar Micheaux.
• J'accuse
• Leaves from Satan's Book
• Lightning Bryce, a series of 15 "chapters", starring Jack Hoxie and Ann Little.
• The Lost Battalion
• Love's Prisoner, starring Olive Thomas.
• Madame DuBarry, starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings.
• Male and Female, starring Gloria Swanson; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
• The Miracle Man, starring Thomas Meighan
• The Oyster Princess (Die Austerprinzessin), starring Ossi Oswalda
• The Sentimental Bloke, a feature-length Australian film.
• Shackleton's Expedition to the Antarctic (documentary)
• Sons of Ingmar (Ingmarssönerna)
• Sunnyside, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• Test of Honor starring John Barrymore in his first dramatic movie role.
• True Heart Susie, starring Lillian Gish and Bobby Harron.
• Unheimliche Geschichten the original silent film version
• When the Clouds Roll By, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Witness For The Defense starring Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland.

[edit] Short film series

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

[edit] Animated short film series

• Koko the Clown (1919-1934) (first animated movie cartoon series)
• Felix the Cat (1919-1936)

[edit] Film Debuts

• Shemp Howard
• Boris Karloff
• Fritz Lang

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 - Shelly Hull, stage & film actor, husband of Josephine Hull, brother of Henry Hull.
• January 31 - Nat C. Goodwin, veteran stage star & silent film actor.
• February 17 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian silent film actress
• April 9 - Sidney Drew, stage & film actor
• May 21 - Lamar Johnstone, American silent film actor
• November 24 - William Stowell, American silent film star